The Sun Finally Asks-Who Is MD4BUSH

WBAL Radio ^ | February 15, 2005 | Chip Franklin

[Pablo64]

"Chip Franklin is a TALK show host, not a professional writer."

After trying to read that article, I'd say he's not even up to speed as an amateur writer. ;-)

[Guillermo]

Settle down, trigger.

If one cannot speak and/or write properly in Public, they should expect to be called out on it.

I'm not from the "2+2=5 because it feels good" school of math.

Chip Franklin and WBAL are LAZY.

[RebelBanker]

Lets try to keep him on our side.

Having listened to him a bit, I am not really sure whose "side" he is on. While I am willing to cut him some slack because I happen to agree with him on this issue, the article reads like a transcript of one of his monologues. I have had to turn his show off several times because he got on my nerves with some of his schtick.

[randog]

This article is about as coherent as a troll post.

Glad to hear someone say that; I thought I had come down with a bad case of dyslexia.

[Jean S]

Thanks for posting this. I'm glad someone is keeping this story alive. The dems are doing everything they can to bury it.

[Fierce Allegiance]

You can thank Dog - you don't have dylsexia!

[Area51]

Okay how about someone diagraming this out for us learning impaired.

Otherwise I ask you WTF is this all about?

[RebelBanker]

This is about a lot of political maneuvering between Republican Maryland Governor Bob Ehrlich, Democrat Baltimore City Mayor Martin O'Malley, Democrat Prince Georges County Executive Doug Duncan, left-wing alleged newspaper "The Baltimore Sun" (which supports O.Malley), and one of Ehrlich's aides who was a FReeper.

If you are not in Maryland and/or follow Maryland politics closely, this whole situation would take a very long time to explain.

[maica]

This comment [below] was also on Chip Franklin's WBAL webpage and may explain a bit more of the situation. It reveals how a stranger to Free Republic would attempt to explain to his listeners what had occured here on a thread discussing rumors of infidelity by Baltimore's mayor.

It was posted before the one linked at the top of this thread.

http://wbal.com/stories/templates/commentary_franklin.asp?articleid=28290
 


Chip Franklin's Commentary
MD4BUSH...Who Are You?
Tuesday, February 15, 2005


Time to Turn The Question
The question was; what did Ehrlich know about Steffen, now the question is; when did O’Malley and the Democrats know?

You know the story. The Washington Post broke it last week. An Ehrlich aide had been spreading rumors about O’Malley’s alleged infidelity. O’Malley and his wife held a press conference at city hall and talked about how these rumors had affected their family. It was moving. How could the Governor do such a thing? Ehrlich refused to apologize, despite demands from many, including myself. But that’s just part of the story.

Joe Steffen, the aide, is a longtime associate of Governor Ehrlich. He was fired when this story broke. Last fall, he was posting at Freerepublic.com, a conservative web site, speculating on rumors that O’Malley was having and had had affairs. Sometime between last summer and last Tuesday, someone brought this to the attention of the Washington Post. (pt 1). Also while Steffen was posting, someone appeared on the site, MD4BUSH, who pushed and prodded to Steffen to tell more. Steffen and MD4Bush spoke in a private room (pt2) and exchanged thoughts about O’Malley and again MD4Bush pushed and prodded Steffen. Who was MD4Bush?

Jump ahead to November when O’Malley referred to rumors about himself. (pt3). The media didn’t bite, since apparently no one except the Post knew about Steffen’s postings. But Rob Douglas and I received a tip that the Post was going to print with a damaging story about Ehrlich. It came from a Democratic insider. (pt4). And in the hours before the story broke, more tips that it was coming. It was going to really damage Ehrlich, said the source.

And then the story broke. Followed up ridiculous accusations that Ehrlich lied about ever hearing rumors, no one is asking the important question.
1-Who gave the story to the Post? It could only be Steffen, The free Republic, very unlikely, or MD4Bush.
2-Who is MD4Bush? If the Democrats knew about this as far back as August, when did O’Malley know? How could the mayor have not been informed of Steffen’s actions back last fall? Why doesn’t someone ask him?
3-and what if MD4BUSh is a Democrat with ties to O’Malley? What does that say about the timing of his heart-pulling press conference? Where is the press on this?

[topher]

The Sun, still smarting from yesterday’s loss-the court essentially ruling that Ehrlich’s ban is not unconstitutional,

What was the Baltimore Sun loss yesterday in court? Is there a Freeper article [www.freerepublic.com] article?

[Anti-Bubba182]

Judge acts to dismiss Sun case against Ehrlich

[Anti-Bubba182]

Judge acts to dismiss Sun case against Ehrlich(on FR)

[topher]

Thanks for the link. Maybe the article should be posted under sarcasm on Freerepublic -- because of how the Sun wrote it as a pouting child might.

[BillF]

This comment by Franklin attacking BS probably led to the BS attack on Franklin that I pinged to you just a few minutes back.

[Danae]

Well, whom ever translated this out of it's original sandscrit should be commended for it's appearance of english, whilst lacking completely in coherence. Oh dam that Bill Gates and his auto translators.