Of course: Walker’s opponent launches attack ad on debunked ‘criminal scheme’ controversy

http://hotair.com/archives/2014/06/27/surprise-walkers-opponent-launches-attack-ad-on-bogus-criminal-scheme-controversy/ ^

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Of course she did. The entire point of last week’s willfully dishonest media frenzy was to tee up this sort of ‘swirling allegations’ attack for Walker’s political adversaries. The press buried — or outright ignored — the crucial context that “new” anti-Walker “revelations” were actually old, twice-rejected legal theories from a secret investigation that had been ordered halted by two different judges. But the egregiously misleading, present-tense headlines didn’t have to be remotely accurate to serve their intended purpose:

Not only was Walker never charged or indicted — let alone convicted — he wasn’t even served with a single subpoena. The Burke ad is garbage, and she knows it — yet her camp is aggressively refusing to pull it off the air, as demanded by Team Walker: “Scott Walker may not like that he is alleged by prosecutors to be at the center of a nationwide criminal scheme that is the subject of an ongoing investigation…but the facts speak for themselves This ad will stay on the air,” the Burke campaign sneered in a press release. Of course, the actual “facts” do speak for themselves, and they’re nowhere to be found in the commercial. Also, the investigation is not “ongoing,” but whatever. The true villain in all of this is not an opportunistic Democratic campaign capitalizing on journalistic malpractice; the villains are the lazy, biased journalists who passed Burke the ball for an easy layup. When this non-story dropped last Friday, Wisconsin’s largest newspaper devoted its entire above-the-fold front page to blaring coverage. The fact that the prosecutors’ allegations being trumpeted had been thrown out of state and federal court months earlier did not appear on said front page. The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel’s editors have defended their horrible coverage in a thoroughly unconvincing manner:

Meanwhile, the Washington Post and New York Times each showcased last week’s Walker “bombshell” in front page stories. Today? Zilch on the Post’s front page, while the New York Times features this fine-print gem at the very bottom of A1:

Wisconsin Inquiry is Halted: A prosecutor said he was unsure that he had enough evidence to charge the governor in fund-raising case.

The bolded bit would have been an accurate update several months ago. The three-line explanation fails to mention that perhaps the prosecutor was “unsure that he had enough evidence to charge the governor” because two courts have ruled that he did not, and because the governor wasn’t a target of the investigation.

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A prosecutor said he was unsure that he had enough evidence to charge the governor in fund-raising case.

Typical braindead "lawyer" drivel. Come Skippy, either you have the evidence or you don't. There isn't going to be any of this halfway, lawyer bull****.

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Liberal America’s corrupt and utterly dishonest Ministry of Propaganda lying their *sses off.

Again.

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The local lib rag (The La Crosse Tribune) and the local tv stations predictably played up the non news big time. When it was revealed (again) that there was no story and that Walker was not being charged with anything, that news was not played up. The media is shameless.