DuPage County Spokesman Makes Up Obama Fallacy

When did Republicans get so whiney?

Dan Curry, blindly partisan worrywart and spokesman for DuPage County elections, in a post breathlessly entitled “MSM in Alaska dumpsters, leaves ‘O’ alone” claims he got an “off the record” email from some anonymous reporter admitting that the media is “in the tank” for Obama even as his/her/its colleagues was going dumpster diving in Alaska.

Right.

That explains why George Stephanopolous infamously asked questions that Mr. Curry’s fellow conservative spin-meister Sean Hannity told him to ask during ABC’s Dem primary debate between Clinton and Obama.

It also explains why MSNBC and (of course) Fox all carefully edited recent comments from Bill Clinton praising Sen. Obama to make it sound as if Pres. Clinton was actually negative on him. MSNBC even did it throughout the day with multiple on-air personalities.

And it really does explain quite clearly why the “hometown” papers like the Tribune and Sun-Times have been so totally, absolutely, amazingly ignoring Rezko and Ayers and even arugula. Not.

It even explains why CBS, as early as January of 2007, was digging into Obama’s state Senate career to harp on votes they thought his critics would exploit. (Why would his critics have to do that when CBS News already was?)

Sure it does.

Why again is Mr. Curry being paid by the taxpayers of DuPage County (many of whom are Dems and many more of whom are likely to vote for Obama for President)? Sure, what he does on his own free time is up to him… but with such a bitter and sycophant partisan slant you’d think the taxpayer-funded DuPage County elections commission would steer clear of the spinster.

In other words, if Mr. Curry has proven himself so adept at completely ignoring the facts when it comes to his whining spin on Obama, what is he ignoring when it comes to talking to the media about elections in famously-red-but-now-purple DuPage County?

“Leaves ‘O’ Alone” my foot…

(As an aside, given his concern over Internet anonymity and his chumminess with conservative schiesters from DuPage County I’m sure our GOPUSA ILLINOIS editor davediersen will leave his house, which is built on a pile of poop, to immediately investigate the whereabouts, identity, and full biography of Mr. Curry’s anonymous source and get to the bottom of just who this anonymous entity is that is telling Mr. Curry what to say.)

McCain fails while GOPs whine

The House Republicans killed today’s vote on the Wall Street recovery package. No matter whether you were for or against this bill, enough Dems and Republicans were for it that leaders of both parties were counting their chickens before they hatched.

Indeed, both Speaker Pelosi and John McCain (the guy that Republicans up and down the dial were saying ‘came back to Washington to personally rescue the bailout package‘) claimed victory this morning — clearly prematurely.

In the end, a slew of GOPs apparently changed their mind and the vote failed in the House…

Why’d they change their mind and vote no? They’re blaming a floor speech by Nancy Pelosi, whining that it was too partisan.

Are they in kindergarten? “But mom, I had to throw all the cookies on the floor because you told me to stop taking them out of the cookie jar!”

They spent the entire month of August revving up a partisan claxon over oil, wailing to all who would listen, about how we just had to drill in every American’s backyard instead of investing in sustainable, clean energy. The Dems didn’t shut down any votes because of it. Instead, they went to work on bipartisan legislation that is ongoing. Do GOPs think only they are allowed to be “partisan”?

Sad as this episode is, it highlights for all to see two major points: the conservatives in the House are whiney flip-floppers who go back on their word and then blame the first person they can think of and John “Our Wall Street Bailout Savior” McCain has zero leadership skills, let alone any acumen when it comes to persuading legislators how to vote.

If McCain really spent the past four days working the phones to get this deal passed — as he and his campaign have been boasting ad infinitum — why did he fail to deliver on the promised GOP votes?

Ditto

I’ve been quiet lately, so ditto what SCAM said — save the craven outsourcing shenanigans. (Obviously, SCAM was in need of a major tax break for his international blogging business empire. I personally wouldn’t be surprised if he was blogging from DuPage County … by way of an off-shore account incorporated in the Bahamas.)

I do have a stack of mailers that I keep hoping to have time to scan in for those who enjoy “Inside Baseball” … but the pile is growing too large to get through them all so I may cut it back to the ones that are making waves.

Besides, the campaign season comedy has been writing itself anyway. No, really.

Teh Suck

Q: What happens when you cross a New York tabloid with an advertorial?

A: It’s a new day at the Chicago Tribune.

The big, bold “Trib” would’ve made a better masthead than the stacked, cramped thing they’re using now… And maybe the reason they now feel a need to include a header bar for navigation is because everything’s mucked up — you can’t tell articles from ads…

Which is it: Suspended Animation

Either McCain wants to suspend his campaign in order to avoid debating Obama or he doesn’t…

Hey… wait a minute. Perhaps there’s a third possibility… Maybe, just maybe, Camp McCain is lying and making up excuses even though their talking points try to sound all high and mighty.

McCain’s mild confusion on geo-politics continues

Weeks back, Sen. McCain kept confusing folks with talk of the “Soviet Union” and “Czechoslovakia” (neither of which exist anymore after Communism’s fall led to their break-ups). Reporters barely noticed, let alone reported on it.

Yesterday, he confused Spain with its 19th century territory, Mexico, while speaking with a Spanish reporter about the President of Spain. John at AmericBlog tries to find a logical explanation: “A reader [at Josh Marshall's TPM] suggested something that Josh had already considered, that perhaps McCain thought the reporter was talking about the Zapatistas in Mexico, the guerilla group. But that’s not possible as the reporter clearly said she was talking about Spain and Spain’s leader, Zapatero.” (emphasis added)

This leads one to wonder what would happen during the first few weeks of a McCain presidency…

Dateline: February, 2009 –

When asked why he opened the “football” and pushed the red button multiple times, destroying most of Russia and half of China in nuclear annihilation and launching World War III, Pres. McCain told the press pool gathered in the White House’s underground nuke-proof bunker that he was just trying to flip channels during halftime of the Super Bowl because he was bored watching the same Budweiser Clydesdale commercial for the fourth time. What’s left of Washington, DC, was still burning above.

Vice President Palin, speaking through a Naval officer using Morse Code from her undisclosed location, released a brief statement: “Heckuvajob, Johnny”. She is thought to be sequestered either in the Mountain West near NORAD or perhaps in Alaska in an ANWR oil rig.

Our current Republican president once choked on pretzels while watching football in the West Wing… Think about it.

Lord, Help Us.

(h/t ArchPundit)

Anti-Obama blogger “dancurry” is now for cronyism after being against it

My how quickly Republican spin artist Dan Curry changes his tune when a candidate has that “(R)” after their name. It’s a good thing he admits his posts are spin or we might have to worry that he may suffer from chronic whiplash.

You see, earlier this evening Mr. Curry complained about this weekend’s fact-based NY Times article which points out that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has given plum state agency jobs to her high school friends despite their lack of qualifications (ie, shades of ‘heckuva job Brownie’); has pursued personal vendettas against those whom she does not like; and, has involved her spouse — the “First Dude of Alaska” (I like that nickname) — in secret backroom deals despite the fact he’s neither a state employee nor a member of her administration.

Mr. Curry whines:

In its desperation to destroy Sarah Palin before she takes hold as a feminist busting role model, the New York Times today runs a lengthy front page profile on her that barely is more journalistically sound than an extended comment on a liberal blog.

Titled, “Once elected, Palin hired friends and lashed foes,” the story is one that could be written on exactly every major public official. All it takes is to find a few critics, shake the words around and voila—another serious piece of journalism from the world’s greatest newspaper.

Funny, Mr. Curry Used. To. Be. Against. Cronyism. by governors. I wonder what ever could’ve changed that he’s now suddenly ok with it. He even used to be against spousal involvement in the state’s business (and most folks still remember the early 90s, when conservative partisans went ballistic because then-First Lady Hillary Clinton was hosting meetings on healthcare reform). If Patti Blagojevich shouldn’t be getting herself into ethical pickles then neither should Todd “First Dude” Palin.

Now he’s suddenly pooh-poohing this article because it describes just such cronyism about a Republican with whom he’s enamored. Me? I agree with Mr. Curry that our own governor is a punk. I’ve even called him a 6-year-old before.

But the difference is I call a spade a spade — if it’s considered unethical, corrupt and crony-style politics in Illinois then it’s the same thing even in Alaska and even if the governor up there is a Republican.

But as for Dan “Sir Spins A Lot” Curry, the “times” they are a-changin’.

PS: I wonder if Dave Diersen is going to inquire as to why “dancurry” chooses to write anonymously… I also wonder if Mr. Diersen’s comrade George Kocan will explain to us that he thinks most Americans are too stupid to know that “dancurry” is actually “Dan Curry”…

Hmmm…

PPS: Why does Dan Curry have a job funded by the taxpayers of DuPage County to act as the spokesperson for that county’s election commission? Shouldn’t that be a non-partisan role or, at the very least, bi-partisan?

I wonder how all the Dems and Obama supporters in DuPage County feel about Mr. Curry — an ardent, highly partisan foe of Dems and Obama alike — being paid with their tax dollars to represent them as the spokesperson for their election commission.

Another Hmmm…

UPDATE: Confusedly, Mr. Diersen links … and conspiracy theorizes.

Mark Walker for State Rep launches TV ad

Dem Mark Walker is running for the 66th district’s open seat (Rep. Carolyn Krause is retiring). His opponent is Republican Chris Prochno, an Elk Grove Village trustee.

In recent weeks he’s opened his campaign office in downtown Mt. Prospect, relaunched his website with more info, and this past week started airing commercials on local tv. Take a gander at his site and tv ad. The ad is a brief bio and issues piece, noting his experience as an accomplished executive and also a veteran of the Vietnam war.

Full disclosure: I’ve known Mark for a few years now and am supporting him by volunteering. He’ll do a bang-up job butting heads with Madigan down in Springfield when he needs to stand his ground (he already has been in this campaign).

Still anonymous? Just checking. Updated.

At least we now know why the so-not-anonymous existentialist editor of GOP-USA Illinois, David John Diersen, is such a scheister:

An outstanding restored historic large luxury home at 619 Frazier Court in my Wheaton precinct just went on the market for $1,349,000. I am proud that 155 of the 431 registered voters in the precinct cast Republican ballots on February 5, 2008. Needless-to-say, I hope that a Republican family buys the home. The home overlooks the beautiful home that Joe Keim build as his personal residence [...]. I learned in 1985 that the land that Keim sold me in 1984 and built my home on in 1984 served until about 1950 as part of the septic field for 619 Frazier Court and for another historic home at 924 Golf Lane.

And you thought I was going to bring up his job shoveling elephant poop again, didn’t you?

Needless-to-say, I hope whoever buys the home isn’t anonymous. That would suck. They’d be invisible. And you wouldn’t know what their names were. And, even worse, they might like to tell the truth.

…In other news, Mr. Diersen is supporting John McCain, a guy who doesn’t think we should warn kids about would-be child molesters. That’s even more scary than the thought of anonymous people moving in next door. In fact, it’s downright perverted. Then again, Mr. Diersen does seem fascinated with things he calls perverted. He seems obsessed with them in fact, writing on and on about them every day as if he can’t get his mind off them.

Those neighbors better be careful. Maybe Mr. Diersen is really the Anonymous One. He is supporting a guy who wants to make things easier for would-be molesters after all. Eek.

And again, Mr. Diersen proves independent voters’ worst fears about just how bizarre some extremist partisan conservatives really are… He is the base of the formerly “Grand” Old Party and it’s this sort of irrationality that has led our amazing nation to the state it’s in now.

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Yes, fair readers, this would be what’s known as a bit of an inside joke seeing as how your GOP-USA Illinois Editor David John Diersen thinks I’m somehow anonymous despite the fact every one of my posts on this blog carries my name. Methinks the problem is actually that he/she/it simply hasn’t yet figured out how to read. (And do we really know for sure that the picture depicted on his/her/its website is of him/her/it and not some random web picture yanked from an old Sears Portrait Studio? …Think about it.)

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Update: Who the heck is this “Bob” fellow?

‘No one expects the Alaskan Imposition’

FOX News can have their “American Woman”…  (Is that really the best title they found in the hat they pulled it from?)

Palin for Prez…

(h/t S-CAM)

VERY DENSE: Diersen Demonizes Not-So-Anonymous Blogger With Sad Silliness

DIERSEN HEADLINE:

VERY SAD: “robnesvacil” anonymously demonizes and denigrates Diersen and continues to claim that he/she is not hiding behind anonymity

Mr. Diersen proves independent voters’ worst fears about just how wacky some extremist partisan conservatives can be… Keep in mind folks, this is the sort of fellow that drives the modern Republican Party given his many roles both within and outside the party.

What’s next? Is he going to complain that I’m speaking in Czech because he doesn’t understand “Nesvacil”?

“Very sad” indeed.

If he needs to know who is denigrating him, Mr. Diersen needs only to look in a mirror at his/her/its angelic face.

(…As an aside that Diersen will never in a million years understand …Somewhere upstairs Botterman is laughing his Irish fanny off.)

PS – For those unfamiliar, Mr. Diersen got this bizarre malarkey-making-merriment underway in Saturday’s edition of his daily denigrating and demonizing screed against those fine patriots he dislikes and disputes. (Fair readers will note Mr. Diersen is himself as “un-anonymous” as I am…)

“That’s what change is.”

Presidential candidate Barack Obama spoke with folks at a town hall meeting in Terre Haute, Indiana earlier today…

Note the introduction explaining the clear as day hypocrisy of Sen. John McCain claiming he’s going to tell Washington lobbyists that “change is coming.” Mac won’t have to go far to mouth those words to his campaign staff his lobbyist friends, several of whom are still doing lobbying work (cough, Charlie Black, cough, cough) while on the campaign bus and one of whom (sniffle, sniffle, Randy Scheunemann, sniffle) is co-owner of a lobbying firm that raked in a $200,000 payout from the nation of Georgia as McCain was simultaneously ramping up “his” heated rhetoric about Russia and Georgia.

The question on November 4th is simple: Should the West Wing be filled to the brim with staff people who draw a paycheck from foreign governments and special interests or with staff people who are smart enough to bring about a change to the lobbyist-culture entrenched in Washington?

In other words, where do you want the West Wing’s sympathies to lie with we the American people or with foreign governments, international corporations, and moneyed special interests?

Anonymously Yours

Oddly, your GOPUSA-ILLINOIS Editor, David John Diersen, alerts us to some anonymous punk named “Rob Nesvacil” who is apparently hiding “behind anonymity”:

ILLINOIS REASON
– DIERSEN HEADLINE: “Robnesvacil,” someone who hides behind anonymity, blasts Dan Curry

Sadly, your GOPUSA-ILLINOIS Editor David John Diersen needs a dictionary, among other things.

Say, if this guy “Rob Nesvacil” is so “anonymous” why are Mr. Diersen’s fellow con partisans calling his office to check up on him?

Even more curious, pointing out a few facts about Dan “Republican Spin Artiste” Curry is now considered out of bounds by angry, whiney, petulant, childish partisans with nothing to do now that Queenie the Elephant isn’t pooping on the streets of Wheaton.

Debunking Mr. Curry’s hollow spin is hardly “blasting” him, nor is pointing out that Mr. Diersen must be an aficionado of 17th C. playwright George Ruggle.

(…Somehow, I don’t think this is what Sen. McCain meant when he told his followers he wanted to end the partisan rancor and that they should “stand up and fight.”)

If they can’t keep protesters out

Of course, we all have a right to free speech — whether Code Pink, Iraq Vets Against the War, or Sen. John McCain. But, an acceptance speech is designed to put your candidate in the best possible light and unwittingly allowing protesters to interrupt that singular moment, several times, interferes with that image and raises bigger questions.

Just as with the Republicans’ 2006 Mark Foley scandal in which GOP Congressional leaders proved unable (whether deliberately or unwittingly) to protect young House pages from Rep. Foley’s lewd advances in which Americans wondered, ‘If they can’t keep these pages safe, how’re they going to keep us safe?’… so too do we now have to wonder, ‘If Republicans can’t keep several protesters out of their own national convention during their candidate’s acceptance speech, how’re they going to protect America from those who would seek to do real harm?’

…And Dan Curry’s Reversal of Fortune-telling

In his bizarre revue of just why Gov. Sarah Palin ought to just be left alone despite the fact she’s running for the second most important job in the country, Dan Curry also put on his GOP-colored glasses to take ArchPundit to task for his posts related to the after-the-fact request to have currently public divorce records sealed by the Palins’ former business partner.

This, of course, means the Republican spin artiste was apparently for the Fourth Estate investigating rumors before he was against it.

Then again, Dan Curry is now complaining that the press is doing its job after months of complaining that they weren’t (even though they have been, sorta).

As I’ve said before, at least Mr. Curry admits he’s spinning when he lets loose with his angry whines like this. Must be hard typing while dizzy though.

(I posted on some of Mr. Curry’s other Friday evening ranting earlier.)