Not Larry Sabato levels accusations at Bearing Drift
By JR Hoeft | Monday, March 29th, 2010 | Catch-AllPersonally, I was deeply wounded today when I read the following on NLS:
Bearing Drift is one of the biggest Republican blogs in Virginia and top GOP officials from Bob McDonnell to Ken Cuccinelli to the Congressional and General Assembly delegations regularly do podcasts with them. Which is why I was surprised to get an email late last night suggesting that I listen to the intro of the latest podcast with Congressman Randy Forbes.
You mean you don’t visit Bearing Drift, Tribbett?
Your political analysis is so keen you don’t bother to read what one of the “biggest Republican blogs in Virginia” writes on a daily baisis?
You relied on an “email” to find out about our podcast, yet you style yourself as a “new media” consultant?
Well, to help you out Ben, here is our RSS feed for our podcast:
http://bearingdrift.com/category/podcasts/feed/
What you do, is you take that feed and you can either put it in iTunes or another podcatcher, or something like Google Reader, and you will automatically get our podcast every time it’s posted.
Had I known you had to rely on email to get our posts, I also would have suggested earlier that you sign-up for our daily email updates, that you can subscribe to here.
E-mail? Really? Welcome to the 1990′s. Hey, Ben: “You’ve got mail!”
A more substantive post on the subject of political violence and rhetoric – and the lack of condemnation of it from the left – will be up later.
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Conservative to the core; liberal with his opinion! J.R. has been involved in politics for over a decade and has worked on several campaigns in Hampton Roads. He has served on the Executive Committee of the Republican Party of Chesapeake and the Central Committee of the Republican Party of Virginia. He is also the director of “Blogs United” in Virginia. E-mail J.R.. Follow J.R. on Twitter.
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5 Responses to "Not Larry Sabato levels accusations at Bearing Drift"
Do VA Dems do podcasts on NLS? Is this podcast jealousy I see – hehe
I can see why he is so upset. I mean if someone shot at a Dem’s office and someone else was arrested for plotting to kill a Dem, I would go on and on about Conservatives too.
Wait, what? It was CANTOR they went after? It was the GOP Minority Whip that was the target? Oh… well that ruins their claim of ‘crazy right wing provocation of violence’. That has to be frustrating for mindless Libs…
Well, Dems can still claim racism if you disagree with Obama, though, right?
Brian, as a black sheep republican among my siblings, one of whom was also a 3 year uva student president and is liberal like Professor Sabato, many discussions ensued as to why the main thrust behind the democrats power elite for supporting a less experienced Obama over more experienced Clinton was stealth exploitation of the candidates race. Disagree with their ethnic minority leader and bear the consequences of being branded a racist politician labeled by their allies in the main stream media.
Professor Sabato, I am an admirer of your historical capacity to accurately predict outcomes of elections.. what say your crystal ball?
Couple this with Blue Virginia’s lukewarm condemnation of the Cantor death threat (followed closely by a littany of alleged GOP-infused attacks against Democrats), and you can see that there is no doubt a double standard in our friends in the lefty blogosphere.
Alleged shouts at a rally while members of Congress walk by, and it is time for high outrage.
Shout “baby killer” in the House chamber, and there must be a call for civility — or at the very least, a press conference from Steny Hoyer pretty much blaming all Republicans anywhere for whatever some idiot might have said.
And then, bring on the bullet that shattered the window at Eric Cantor’s office in downtown Richmond. Witness the lefty blogosphere itself in knots to demonstrate that it wasn’t nearly as bad as when people were yelling things (words hurt, don’t you know?). The police report was such that it seemed that it wasn’t fired intentionally. Hardly definitive. Suddenly, every lefty blogger was a ballistics expert.
Regardless, a bullet had penetrated a window of an office of a sitting member of Congress. So, our friends on the left would be suitably outraged, right?
After all, it is an improbable coincidence that a bullet fired into the air would find its way into the window of an elected member of Congress.
They would be outraged if such a random bullet found its way into the window of a Democrat member, right?
Umm.
Arguments abounded. It was the police report. Cantor lied. Cantor had no real office there (no, only his fundraising arm, his consultants, and the place where he, himself sits to make fundraising calls.) Other than that, he had no connection to the place.
All of that was to be disregarded. CANTOR LIED! Because the police conjectured that it was a random bullet.
So … exactly what separates Cantor’s situation with the likes of Democrat politicians who felt themselves in peril in the last few days?
Well, there’s this: the FBI has actually arrested someone who threatened Cantor and his family and he is facing 15 years.
These other threats that Democrats have alleged? How are those investigations proceedings? Any arrests imminent?
And from Lowell, Ben, et al?
Crickets.
Well, sure, let us now denounce all “hate speech.” So long as a supposed Republican is the suspect.
Pathetic.
I don’t get what you’re so upset about, big guy…really. Reaading Bearing Drift probably depresses the hell out of him. Your blog and opinions actually matter, and he, well…doesn’t.
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