And, finally...
Dear Washington Post, Baltimore Sun: Bite me.
glad I wound you up this morning....(G) you respond very well to praise..LOL
The real story there should have been "Opponents of Governor Illegally Leak Aide's Email."
Remember the GOPer who leaked the Dems' "Estrada must be opposed because he is Hispanic" (paraphrase) Senate memo? The leaker of the memo was fired, even though it was on an unsecured server. The guy who wrote the memo was not fired. In that case, the Post story was "there's a terrible leak," not "here's what the memo says."
In that Senate memo case, there was no crime. Here it is likely that the leaking of NCPAC's email was a crime. The GOPer always gets the axe and always is the villain to the press.
Maybe the media or the O'Malley people timed this story about a FReepers' stolen email to distract from the outrageous O'Malley comparison of President Bush to the Sept 11 hijackers per below thread. Post ran below on page A5, but ran the NCPAC story on the front page.
O'Malley Likens Bush's Proposed Cuts to Sept. 11 Attacks
Washington Post ^ | Wednesday, February 9, 2005 | By Lori Montgomery
Posted on 02/09/2005 11:21:14 AM PST by sure_fine
Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley yesterday compared President Bush's proposed budget cuts to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, saying that Bush, like the al Qaeda hijackers who crashed planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, has launched an assault on America's cities.
"These cuts, ladies and gentlemen, are sad. Irresponsible. They are also dishonest," O'Malley (D) told a packed news conference at the National Press Club, where mayors and area officials had gathered to decry Bush's plan to slash spending on community development programs by $2 billion.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
The original post on FR, not by NCPAC, simply was trying to figure out what the truth was.
The Post and the media now has NCPAC feeding the rumor, but the facts of the Post story do NOT support that conclusion. Instead, NCPAC commented on the rumor and said that a lot of effort was made to float the story.
That effort to float the story could easily have been from Dem opponents of O'Malley or corporate lobbyists with non-ideological non-party reasons for opposing O'Malley.
NCPAC even praised a prior post that shredded the credibility of the rumor.
You can read the original thread itself by clicking here, but below are two posts that made it crystal-clear that NCPAC was NOT feeding the rumors. Otherwise, why would he praise velmacruther's highly skeptical post?
To: ElkiejgThis rumor has been around for over three years ... and the identities of the anchorwoman (and the affiliate) AND the alleged father change every few months. At least seven anchorwomen in Baltimore have supposedly had the mayor's kids, or a police commissioner's kid, or a local professional athlete's kids ... too bad "The X Files" was cancelled ... Spooky Mulder was probably the only one who'd pay any attention ...
10 posted on 08/13/2004 10:17:17 AM PDT by VelmaCrutherTo: VelmaCrutherWelcome to FR, VC.
Nice first post.