Comments (0) I agree with the Cato Institute:
We will not get federal spending under control unless we begin a national discussion about specific cuts. And we won’t get that discussion unless enough members of Congress start pushing for specific cuts.
I’ve created a page to keep track of that conversation online.
Let the conversation begin.
Without comment:
The Pjamasphere is a-Twitter with the news that the MSM failed to show Christine O’Donnell’s 30-minute ad–twice–something that would tick me off if it were true. But the claim doesn’t appear to be, at least based on the sources I’ve read.
I found the story on Instapundit, who linked to the Classical Values blog, which based its story on a short piece on The AtlanticWire, which ran with the reporting of one Philip Rucker of The Washington Post. Let’s start with Rucker. He writes, in the relevant part (all emphasis in this post is mine unless otherwise noted):
The source, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive campaign operations, said the station “forgot to air [O’Donnell’s documentary]” [on Sunday as planned].
So far, so good. But farther down in the piece, Rucker quotes Tim Qualls, executive producer at Delaware Channel 28, a public access station, hardly what you’d call the MSM (okay, that’s not counting MSMBC, whose viewership approximates the population of Delaware):
Tim Qualls, executive producer at Channel 28, said in an interview the ad did not air because O’Donnell’s campaign did not bring a tape to the production studio by the agreed upon deadline. She reserved the time on Thursday, for $2,500, and agreed to bring a tape by Friday at 5 p.m., Qualls said.
“I did not receive a tape until Sunday night at one of my employees’ houses,” Qualls said. “It has nothing to do with us refusing to air it. I just didn’t get the tape by my deadline.”
Qualls added: “It was all their people’s fault.”
He said he is a Republican and had planned to vote for O’Donnell, but the tape situation changed his mind. “She’s lost my vote,” Qualls said.
In short, there was apparently no forgetting involved–unless Qualls is lying, and we have no evidence for that. In fact, the only source in Rucker’s story for the proposition that the station forgot to run the story is an unnamed source who Rucker ties loosely to O’Donnell’s campaign:
The source, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive campaign operations, said the station “forgot to air it.”
The AtlanticWire basically ran with Rucker’s story, minus all of the messy details that contradict the premise captured in The AtlanticWire’s bolded headline for the story:
TV Station ‘Forgets’ to Air O’Donnell’s 30-Minute Ad
So what did Classical Values do with the story? It ran with the station did it meme. Under the bolded headline The Insanestream Media, it reported:
In today’s “the MSM is worse than you thought possible” news, one media outlet is caught on tape plotting to tie Joe Miller to child molesters, while another “forgets” to run Christine O’Donnell’s big 30-minute ad… twice. The day before the election.
In turn, Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit linked to Classical Values and offered a typical brief comment:
Truth is stranger than fiction. And, where the nexus between “mainstream” media and political corruption is concerned, it’s worse than would be considered believable in fiction.
Now, I understand that there is some reason to be skeptical of the station’s side of the story, but from the facts/quotes at hand, the O’Donnell campaign’s side of the story doesn’t hold up. For that matter, neither does the reporting of the Pjamasphere–at least on this one.
Full disclosure: I don’t vote in Delaware, but if I could, I would vote O’Donnell simply because I’m in a throw-the-bums-out mood, even if that means a few bad bums take the their recently (tomorrow!) vacant seats. Oh, and I’m a big-C Conservative.
This guy has good stuff:
This guy doesn’t:
I prefer the guy who knows where the plate is.
Well, that was quick. The young man who apparently set the fires I mentioned earlier, is now in custody. Given that he has already admitted to setting the fires, we’ll soon know why.
Because I’ve had it on repeat today as I grade, I naturally assumed that others would want to listen to Gustav Holst’s “The Planets Op. 32 Jupiter.” As you listen, think of a Saturn rocket lifting off from Cape Canaveral, a scene out of “The Right Stuff.” That’s what I imagine.
According to Reason TV, this campaign season is absolutely sugar and spice compared to some we’ve had in the past.
This is troublesome. More troubling, however, is the possibility that these two fires could be the second and third steps in a trend of violence against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints–the Mormons.
Two weeks ago on the back or east side of Timpanogos and just above Sundance.
To the southeast from near the same spot. What a beautiful Saturday morning.
Timp now, October 28, 2010, from the west. Winter’s coming. And so is an election.
I wonder if we’ll see as big a change in Washington.
You all know the story. A shepherd boy gets bored with his duties and craves something more exciting than watching a herd of sheep graze, so he cries “Wolf!” and the townspeople come running. That ruse worked so well that he tries it again and again and again, each time bringing the townspeople to his rescue.
Then one day a real wolf actually shows up, but when the shepherd boy cries “Wolf!” the townspeople don’t respond. Been there, done that, not doing it again, they say.
Do you think those on the left side of the isle have heard that story? I don’t.
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