Inside Info: Is Larry Sabato a partisan in disguise?
self | 09-27-06 | WL-Law
Posted on 09/27/2006 11:53:22 AM CDT by WL-law
Many are questioning whether Larry Sabato's issued, then modified, then somewhat-withdrawn accusations against Sen. Allen amount to Sabato unmasking himself as a democrat partisan, posing as an impartial observer.
I can add one new fact that I have personal knowledge of, one that is somewhat curious, and potentially relevant.
Here it is: the person that Allen referred to as "Macaca", the person who was stalking the Allen campaign, is one of Sabato's students, in Sabato's class at UVA. I don't know whether this fact has been disclosed anywhere.
Hmmmmmmm.............
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1709355/posts
If he's a professor, he's a partisan hack. With the exception of Walter Williams, you can take this to the bank.
He is a HACK!
I enjoyed Newt's response to Alan Colmes when posed this question yesterday. After calling Sabato a lefty, Colmes said "No he isn't." Newt said "So, then why did you ask me the question?!"
I vote-political hack.
Sabata has lost all credibility with his uncorroborated attacks on George Allen.
Potent potables for $200 dollars please.
Is it that hard to sue the pants off of some reporter for slander or libel? If the report is only based on heresay and gossip, then to print it should be considered libel. Basically, no publication in this land should be allowed to print information that could be considred libelous unless they cite first person witnesses or accounts. Otherwise, there should be a minimum fine,at the least, and the opportunity for the harmed individual to take the publication to the cleaners. If this were the case, the NYTs would have been out of business years ago.
What little credibility he MAY have had after the '04 election cycle is totally gone........
Never thought he was anything but a hack.
From www.libertycall.us
A political analyst turns partisan hack. Why is this coming up now?
A noted political scientist joined one of Sen. George Allen's former college football teammates in claiming the senator used a racial slur to refer to blacks in the early 1970s, a claim Allen dismisses as ''ludicrously false.''
Larry J. Sabato, one of Virginia's most-quoted political science professors and a classmate of Allen's in the early 1970s, said in a televised interview Monday that Allen used the epithet. – AP
What gives with Sabato? He is a well-respected political analyst, known for his unbiased and honest scrutiny of issues, campaigns, and candidates. Has he sold out? Has he succumbed to his own bias in favor of one candidate over the other? Why has he chosen this moment to recall an unfavorable incident regarding Senator George Allen – five weeks before the election?
It isn’t like Allen is an unknown newcomer to the political process. According to Allen’s biography, Allen ran for Congress in 1991 in a special election, then for governor in 1993, then for the Senate in 2000. Why didn’t Sabato bring up his accusation during one of those campaigns? Why is Sabato just now vaguely remembering an incident that happened thirty years ago? Is Sabato overtly or covertly trying to undermine Allen in order to help opponent James Webb? Did Webb’s campaign put Sabato up to this?
I don’t know what Sabato’s motivation is in trying to smear Allen with an alleged racial slur that might have occurred back when Sabato and Allen were in college. But this whole incident has the stench of gutter-level politics, the kind of attacks that evidence a severe lack of intelligent issues on which to promote your favorite candidate. I don’t know if Webb’s campaign put Sabato up to this, or even if Webb is aware of any deliberate attempt to smear Allen. But if Webb has any scruples, he will distance himself quickly and loudly from Sabato’s intemperate remarks.
And Sabato can say goodbye to his reputation as an honest, unbiased, respected political analyst. -- L
The UVA Political Science Dept takes itself waay too seriously. Well, most PolySci depts do, but this one is especially aggressive.
PolySci attempts theoretical "models" of history and politics that can predict outcomes. It is on its face a conceit, as no one can "model" the world, much less the weather, climates, or the next election. Political Science is built on the idea that it can figure it all out.
That the Dept can be involved in actual REAL politics is too much temptation. Whoever this guy is, and whatever his motivation, just seeing his name in the news is reason enough.
Sabato usually provides fair commentary, but on his Allen indictment, he has become a partisan with a personal agenda. As far as I am concerned, once you compromise your integrity for personal gratification, you are history.
Goodbye Sabato.