The partisan hackery of the left

Friends of mine who are smarter than I have suggested that I should not even acknowledge the presence of Colorado Media Matters, the "gang that can't shoot straight" wing of the leftist netroots here in our state.

The lead hack over there, Bill Menezes, sees fit to repeatedly comment on my postings here, trying to parse every sentence and claiming "misinformation" as if he's some source of The Truth.

His comment to my last article (about Obama's new ad being hypocritical) was par for Menezes' shoddy course.  While I was considering not responding at all, I decided I would, and I'm going to post my response here as its own posting where it might get more views than as a reply to a comment on an earlier article.  Here goes:

People shouldn't forget that Bill Menezes is paid to criticize anyone who isn't left enough for MoveOn.org, George Soros, and friends.

He is entirely dishonest, as is his organization.

Regarding Al Gore, he is quoted as having said: "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."

Yes, it was taken out of context by the media and he most probably didn't mean to sound like he was claiming credit for the Internet.

But I bet if you ask 100 Americans (who pay some attention to politics) to name a few things about Al Gore, far more than half would name "he said he invented the Internet".

Indeed, as someone who likes to parse sentences to death, Mr. Menezes should note that I didn't say simply "Al Gore claimed to invent the Internet". What I said was that I was one of many who thinks of Gore that way. There's an important difference.

More important than "inventing the Internet" was the point about Gore's incredible hypocrisy on global warming, flying around the world in his private jets, telling us all to pay more for gas or live in the dark and cold, while he implements "energy savings" projects at his own house which somehow cause his energy use to rise dramatically. But he doesn't care, because he's gotten rich and is getting richer by fleecing the gullible American public and media about the hoax of man-made global warming. I notice, Mr. Menezes, that you didn't address the issue of Gore's hypocrisy...the same sort of hypocrisy we're seeing from Obama, in my view. Apparent discount on a house because of a relationship with a criminal, and then a suspiciously good deal on a mortgage to buy that house!

So, my bigger point is that I'm coming to believe people should (and I hope they will) start to think of Obama the same way they think of Gore, i.e. as a liar and as someone who gets rich while talking about the dignity of being poor...and trying to keep us all in such "dignity".

Mr. Menezes, you are a bought-and-paid-for leftist hack. You may call people names but you're probably just jealous of Gunny Bob's reach and of my participation on this site and others.

You remind me of a guy I was briefly in business with many years ago. He thought everyone was lying to him because he was lying to everyone. Almost nothing you say is true, and the 2% of things you say which aren't a lie are irrelevant.

So even though the Denver Post might not agree with me on some positions, at least they know I am not a stooge for some large organization with political motivations which override any interest in facts.

As far as your suggesting I should be tossed from this blog, it reminds me of the Dems support for the "Fairness Doctrine": Liberals support free speech except when those speaking don't support liberals. Otherwise, they want to muzzle people, whether small fish like me, or big fish like Rush Limbaugh. On this July 4th, I'm ashamed that America includes so many people like you. The difference between us is that I support your right to say whatever you like, even (or maybe especially) because every time you write you make yourself look ridiculous.

As far as my series about Bob Schaffer, please show me anything I've written that you can prove is untrue. Again, your reaction to those articles is simply because you're paid to support leftists, where my writing those articles is done without any pay, without expectation of anything except the satisfaction of doing the right thing and defending an honorable man with the truth, as best I can determine it based on dozens of hours of research.

Liberals can and should disagree on policy with Schaffer if that's how the feel. But the idea that this race will be based on a big lie (about Abramoff) and twisting Schaffer's prior employment with a medium-sized oil company into some sort of negative, is reprehensible. It just shows that there's nothing positive to say about Udall's policy positions. Really, what are you going to say that's positive about your candidate? That he supports high taxes, a "Department of Peace", surrender in Iraq, and that he opposes allowing America to reach its own natural gas and oil resources? Udall may win, given how terrible a year it certainly will be for Republicans and given how the CNMI/Ambramoff lie has been effectively spread. But he's a far worse candidate on the issues. Still, you don't see the sort of outrageous lies and smears coming from conservatives towards Udall that you see from worthless groups like yours toward Schaffer.

It says a lot about the character of "liberals" these days: You'll do or say absolutely anything to win, just like liberals of old such as Joe Stalin or Pol Pot. As I said, in a way I don't blame you for attacking Schaffer given how little positive there is to say about Mark Udall other than that he's a very nice guy (which I hear is absolutely true). It's just troubling that the attacks are almost all lies. But as Goebbels said, and as you've clearly taken to heart, if you tell a big lie often enough, people will come to believe it.

I repeat, Mr. Menezes, you and your organization are worthless professional hacks who shouldn't be thought of as anything more than hired guns for MoveOn.org. Luckily you can't shoot straight.

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