A longtime campaign operative of Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. resigned his state job yesterday after admitting he had been spreading rumors on the Internet about the personal life of Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley.
Joseph Steffen, 45, said he gave the governor his resignation after questions about his postings on www.FreeRepublic.com, a well-known conservative Web site. The postings discussed O'Malley's marriage.
"The governor had no idea," Steffen said. "I don't even think he knows where the Web site is. If anyone is guilty, it is me. There was no outside influence. It was all me."
This article was written by who, about who? Oh, by the MSM, about a REPUBLICAN. I can see where you'd get that impression from the article's slant. But that's not what the man did at all. He said:
"If anyone is guilty, it is me."
That is a conditional statement. He might have said "If anyone is Spiderman, it is me." Would that make him Spiderman? The man's denied it here, and stated that he did not post any rumor but discussed them. The impression I get is that he's jumping on a grenade, not tossing one and THEN jumping on it.
I think you meant to say, "It sounds like the Baltimore Sun."
Why don't you read NCPAC's actual posts on the subject (they're right here on this thread, so it won't be too much trouble) before automatically believing a crap paper like the Sun?