Comments on: The press avalanche against Bob McDonnell.

By: Waldo Jaquith

Waldo Jaquith — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 14:35:35 +0000

Joelidad, if you have some information that would put this to rest, I’d love to hear about it.

By: Joelidad

Joelidad — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 14:31:39 +0000

Too many people are allowing themselves to be misguided by the media!! This crap that is being thrown around about McDonnell is incorrect and a cheap attempt to jeopardize his credibility. I urge everyone to be very careful what they believe.

By: Waldo Jaquith

Waldo Jaquith — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 16:28:16 +0000

Stop pushing the headlines? There’s been no news until this morning, the bulk of which I spent on the roof. I’m two sentences into a brief blog entry on the topic.

The SBE did precisely what I said they’d have to do — refer the case to the Richmond commonweath’s attorney.

By: edward money

edward money — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 16:10:11 +0000

Waldo – why’d you stop pushing the headlines? There are several balanced stories this morning that lay out what action the SBE took against the RSLC – I wonder if the RSLC was notified or not? If not, me thinkst i smells a rat – and it’s name be politics. Probably because the only thing that’s happened here is that Dickey and Creigh smell defeat…their own. Panic in the streets!

By: SoccerMom

SoccerMom — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 03:46:17 +0000

I think we need to get busy folks and give Creigh an assist. Can you imagine what it will be like with a guy like McDonnell for the next four years? He needs to be stopped.

I don’t know what Not Larry Sabato’s problem is. I heard he wanted Creigh’s scarf. NLS — If Creigh sends you his scarf will you ask Bob McDonnell to ‘fess up and tell where his money is coming from? And will you ask him why he can’t remember whether he has ever had oral sex and with whom or what he can’t remember having it? Duh….can’t remember where the money comes from? Can’t remember who or what gave you a blow job….c’mon Bob ….what have you not been smoking and not inhaling? Bet you can’t remember, right?

By: mc

mc — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 12:56:19 +0000

get? give? woman? man? well, i’m not here to be puerile but to thank you for doing god’s work, waldo. unfortunately, according to “not larry sabato”’s interpretation of mason-dixon, mcdonell is administering a good old fashioned whuppin’ http://notlarrysabato.typepad.com/doh/2005/10/attorney_genera.html. the good news is that only one poll really counts.

By: Maxine

Maxine — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:20:17 +0000

McDonnell’s memory loss about oral sex (or whatever else passes for sodomy under Virginia law) should be disqualifying. Imagine his wife and former girlfreind’s reactions to this. It’s a little awkward to campaign on, but what kind of person can’t remember these lovely moments? Is this the kind of person that anyone would want to have in a position of authority. Of course, his saying that he couldn’t remeber whether he had committed sodomy was a dodge, offered in a moment when he was trying to avoid the obvious hypocrisy of his opposition to modernizing Virginia’s criminal code. But there are only two explanations and both should take him right out of the running. Either his memory for sexual activity is just horrible or he is a deeply hypocritical poseur. No Virginia of either party should be able to vote for someone like this.

By: SoccerMom

SoccerMom — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 13:25:03 +0000

Mike Shear at the WaPo prefers to report about food instead of doing the serious work of an investigative reporter and attempting to “follow the money.”

Imagine for a moment, what you and Bob Gibson could accomplish were you to have the access and cachet the WaPo brings.

I do not understand why the major media people appear to be on catatonic auto-pilot while covering this campaign. Are they secretly angry that they don’t get to report on the national media? BUT, WAAAAIIIITTTT……were they to seriously report on this campaign, they would usurp page one, above the fold from the folks simply following the news….”he said, she said, they said, nobody said.”

If the WaPo news pages actually did some digging, then the editorial page might have more to comment on than simply what they “know” on their guts.

Ahhh….I get it now, full circle. I s’pose it all depends on what a newspaper reporter actually hungers for, eh? Eat up, Mike.

By: Waldo Jaquith

Waldo Jaquith — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 01:29:03 +0000

Looks like a lot of us did. :) Commonwealth Conservative, One Man’s Trash, and Raising Kaine. Very cool.

By: Jeff Baker

Jeff Baker — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 01:13:50 +0000

Did you notice that you made today’s blogometer at The National Journal?

http://blogometer.nationaljournal.com/

Congrats.