By Glenn Cutler published June 14, 2009
Liberal Media Debauchery - COVERING FOR LIAR CHRIS DODD
The people of Connecticut are wising up. Recent polls show entrenched 5-term Democrat Senator Chris Dodd trailing Republican Rob Simmons. Some reports reveal Dodd as having trouble raising campaign contributions in his own state. To their credit, the citizens of Connecticut are tired of being duped by a chronic liar.
With elections some 17 months away, the politics are far from over. Last month President Obama publically stated he intended to help Dodd in his quest for a 6th consecutive term. The strategy has already begun with Dodd taking lead roles in several legislative initiatives including the recently passed credit card and tobacco reform bills. The next step - releasing a 30-second commerical spot featuring Dodd's years of service, bolstered by speecherific kudos from Obama.
Now the political PR spin-machine shifts into higher hear. The call has gone out for liberal media artillery and the first shell has been launched. The New York Times (Slutrag) has brought out first-responder Gail Collins to minimize Dodd's history of lies, deceit and disservice to the American public. Her task, to paint a new canvas lauding the glorious undertakings Dodd has suddenly tackled and to erase negative public memories of Dodd's lies and wrongdoings. Polls do show recent improvement in Dodd's numbers.
Collin's job as first salvo is to soft-peddle the concept of having voters re-accept Dodd. In her June 13 Op/Ed she carefully understates his egregious behaviors and makes no mention of his prominent role in promoting aggresive lending and protecting Fannie Mae alongside his cohorts Barney Frank and Maxine Waters. In other words, Dodd's ties to and responsibility for the financial crisis was not mentioned. Yet here is Dodd, defending the strength of Fannie Mae as recently as July/2008 as the financial crisis was still unfolding (view clip).
The intellectual dishonesty of the Collins essay surfaces clearly with her ommission of the endless string of lies Dodd has pulled on the American people. Not important according to Collins.
She quickly glosses over what she calls "a string of ethical issues" and dismisses all of it as OK ➜ since he is not one of the wealthiest members of the Senate. So let's rewind that - in other words, according to Collins, his breaches of ethics are accecptable because he is not high up the wealth ladder from a pool of 100 U.S. Senators. That's quite an interesting standard for morals and ethics.... though it sounds about right given the cognitive limitations of the writers on Slutrag's payroll.
She does, however, perform a little Mexican Hat Dance around the AIG saga, where Dodd was caught red-handed on-camera in a bold faced lie. He had profusely denied having anything to do with authoring language in the now failing $787 billion stimulus package, that protected contractually obligated bonuses, which exempted AIG executives. Later it turned out that the construct to enable that clause was called 'The Dodd Amendment" Ooohh Chris, bad idea to lie about something with your name attached to it.... a 5-termer in the Senate ought to know that!
But wait... I don't see any spelling out of Dodd being the single largest recipient of campaign contributions from Fannie Mae over a 20-year period. Oh that's right, Collins' job is not to remind anyone of these facts, contrarily, it is to help folks forget them. It's like stimulus shovel-ready, call in the asphalt pavers and start rolling the old roadway of lies and deception.
Now get this! Collins not only skips over Dodd's disturbing misdeeds and violations of public trust, she flips it entirely the other way. Collins claims that "the A.I.G. charge was so unfair that we can only hope he (Dodd) did something really, really bad at some point in his previous career and got away with it, thus balancing the scales of justice."
Wow! - Can you believe that one! Uh, don't worry Gail, I think Old Yeller has gotten away with at least one or two injustices somewhere down the line. Collins now becomes an interesting candidate for my next STUPID versus SMART Op/Ed Showdown (last month Maureen Dowd of Slutrag easily earned the crown of Miss Stupid in my side-by-side compare against Thomas Sowell with articles about the use of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques).
The Collins distortion is only the beginning of the liberal media's rewrite of the Connecticut Senator's history of greed and power. Her piece is light on substance, sort of a Dowdification of Dodd in this campaign to sway voters back to Connecticut's Habitual Liar Senator Chris Dodd (see my 5-26-09 Op/Ed). The real heavy artillary, Slutrag's prostitute-in-chief, Frank Rich, will be lugged out either closer to the election or at a point when it appears all is lost and one last ditch heave-ho of grandiose fabrication and liberal snort is called upon.
Today with her intelligence-insulting article, Gail Collins essentially called the fine people of Connecticut 'stupid'. Rest assured, when Frank Rich shows up for Dodd, his insults to residents of the Constitution State will be far more direct, a sugar-coated 'knocking-up' of Connecticut voters bundled up in pander and disrespect -- perhaps free passes to Letterman and tickets to a Yankee game (not the Connecticut Yankees) where he will personally introduce your daughter (or son) to Alex Rodiguez for some (wink-wink) seventh-inning-stretch gymnastics.
The world doesn't care a whit what miss-nothing-of-any-noteworthy-accomplishment Gail Collins has to say.... and Connecticut voters shouldn't care either. Dodd must go.