Posted on 07/03/2015 7:29:05 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
A conversation about immigration between Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and the Heritage Foundation’s Stephen Moore, reported on by the New York Times this week, never happened.
“We have spoken with Stephen Moore and the conversation that was reported did not happen and he will tell you that. I would recommend you reach out to him,” Walker spokeswoman AshLee Strong told Breitbart News on Thursday in response to an article by Jonathan Martin and Maggie Haberman.
On Thursday, the reporters wrote: “Stephen Moore, a conservative scholar at the Heritage Foundation who backs an immigration overhaul, called Mr. Walker’s embrace of a border-security-first approach ‘A lurch to the right and probably something very popular among Iowa conservative voters.’”
“But Mr. Moore also said he was not convinced that Mr. Walker was quite the immigration hawk as he may appear now,” the Times added. “Rather, he called the governor’s positioning ‘a work in progress.’”
Then the newspaper wrote: “Mr. Moore said he had become concerned about Mr. Walker’s stance [on immigration] in recent weeks, but was reassured after a phone call with the Wisconsin governor,” then quoted Moore himself recounting what Walker supposedly said.
“He said, ‘I’m not going nativist; I’m pro-immigration,’” Moore said Gov. Walker said.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Exclusive–New York Times Debunked: Scott Walker’s ‘I’m Not Going Nativist’ Conversation Never Happened
Read the whole thing.
NY Times caught lying again about Walker?
FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.
You can’t believe anything you read in the Slimes. They’re just a DNC mouthpiece.
“NY Times caught lying again about Walker?”
Caught lying again, period.
Slimes being slimes.
It never ends with the slimes.
I’ve never STOPPED being a Nativist, and proud of it!
Paper of record! 8-track cassettes that is.
From what I read it was also Steve Moore of the Heritage Foundation lying as well.
This whole thing reeks of Carl Rove’s feet.
Trying to damage a candidate that’s close to Jeb in the polls, and will probably beat him in IA.
I’m a Walker guy, but this isn’t how Trump would handle this.
Trump would SUE those lyin’ sacks o’ shit.
I don’t want to link to the NYT.
Is the whole story yet another vicious lie?
MSM are sure afraid of “yet to announce” GOV WALKER!!!!
p i n g
I can’t wait until we pour water on to these witches.
I’m right there with you!
What upsets me about Walker is his anti-conservative campaign hires. I’m starting to think of him as an establishment phony.
Someday they won’t be able to fix their messes. The bottom line is, most people don’t want, what they want. All their victories, have come through arm twisting.
I read the entire article but it was like reading in circles.
Denials are now being issued but the whole thing is as clear as mud and they all sound like they are in cya mode.
No one seems to know exactly what was said. Only Walker and the guy he was having an “off the record” meeting knows for sure. And it seems he kinda sorta told someone else that they had nothing to worry about with Walker.
Walker hasn’t been very stable with his immigration comments and this sounds like just more of the same.
I think we will just have to wait until he announces and clarifies his immigration stance. He can’t hide from it forever.
The NYT is scum but I think there is something there but they can’t confirm the story and everyone is denying it but they went with it anyway. They should have spoken to the Walker campaign and this Moore guy before going ahead with the story. Instead they put a title on the article that doesn’t really match the story. If there was one.
My gut feeling is that the reason Walker is so non-committal about immigration is that he really is in support of a pathway to citizenship for illegals but knows it will hurt his campaign to admit it. I don’t think he is trustworthy on this issue.
Focus on the candidate, forget about the people behind the scenes.
That doesn’t sound like Scott Walkers manner of speaking anyway. “Going Nativist” Who talks like that in normal conversation?
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