The O'Malley Affair- NCPAC, MD4Bush, Ehrlich, & more

various FR links & stories | 02-13-05 | the heavy equipment guy

[backhoe]

In the Blogosphere, Lightning Strikes Thrice

 

 O'Malley Blames GOP Plot For Rumors (MD GOVERNOR'S AID FIRED FOR FREE REPUBLIC POSTS)

 

 No Bids but Lots of Bite at Budget Panel Hearing (NCPAC Mentioned)

 

 Ehrlich: "Rogue Operation" (free republic/Gov. Ehrlich story about Mayor O'Malley's cheating)

 click here for more info back story licks there as well as better discussion :)

 Jim Robinson's short and cryptic reply re what really happened in the Md Gov mess and Free Republic:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1341174/posts?page=20#20

 MD4Bush posted, "Yeah, he cheats on his wife. I heard that he is not allowed in the house and is living in some new high-rise near city hall." link

 NCPAC posted that no one can figure out how he was outed. link

 What we do know-- MD4Bush was the source of some FR mails the WP got. You can see that from his gloating posts on 02/08/2005. link Looking back at his posts now he was a provacatuer and is from MD. link. The only reasonable surmise is that this was a Democratic partisan in the area. Nobody outside the MD area is going to be interested in something like this. At the time of the threads on O'Mally we had several new posters commenting on it and they have not been back. link

 

 Freerepublic and "MD4BUSH" mentioned on WBAL now!

 

 Web 'Privacy' Spurs Acts of Deceit (NCPAC mentioned)

 

 Baltimore Mayor in Spotlight Over Remarks (O'Malley)

 

 Governor Says He Would Welcome Rumor Probe

 

 Md. Lawmakers to Probe Firings

 

Today, apology drains regret of responsibility(FR mention)

 

 Fired Staffer Called Ehrlich's 'Hatchet Man' (WaPo Lurking; FR Mentioned)

 

 Baltimore Mayor Denounces State Aide's Rumors About Affair (NYT Lurking; FR Mentioned)

 

 Ehrlich associate targeted O'Malley (FreeRepublic Mentioned)

 

 When is a Scandal Downgraded to an Uproar? When The Washington Post Changes the Headline (NCPAC)

 

 Steffen Apologizes, Ehrlich Launches Investigation

 

 O'Malley Rumours

 

Web has changed the shape of 'reporting' (Free Republic)

 

 The Law of the Blogger -- This is why I switched from legacy media to the web as my primary news source. You cannot get away with inaccuracies, spin, or even a mild manipulation of readers like this without someone immediately taking you to task. This is why the Blogisphere is so much more reliable than the legacy media.

[nunya bidness]

You rock backhoe. Next time I get down your way the fishing's on me.

[Cold Heat]

Yup, they are!

What strikes me, is that many of them are heavily invested in Internet outlets. They have discussion boards, chat rooms and everything they are criticizing!

Kinda contorted logic.

[ArmyBratproud]

BALTIMORE SUN HAS PROVED ITS OWN LIBERAL BIAS-

"Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry was having an affair. But when the mainstream media began chasing that story, it proved groundless."

--There were several sources out there stating that they knew about the affair. Mainstream media did not chase the story. They only stated what Kerry and the Girl stated.


"Rumors of O'Malley's alleged infidelity have long circulated in Baltimore but were not printed in such daily newspapers as The Sun or The Washington Post. "

--Why has the Baltimore Sun and the Washington Post refused to look into the "rumors". Shouldn't they post accountings of their investigative reporting and research on the issue....

[Lancey Howard]

BUMP
Thanks for your efforts.
Bookmarked.

[MonitorMaid]

Thanks for the recap. The longer the suspense, the greater the fall!

[backhoe]

Managing a rumor [O'Malley "had cheated on his wife"] quietly, then openly

[backhoe]

Next time I get down your way the fishing's on me.

The light is always on for you.

[Zacs Mom]

SHAMELESS RHETORIC OF THE DAY: MARTIN O'MALLEY By Michelle Malkin   ·   February 09, 2005 01:48 PM

snip... On a separate note, O'Malley was caught up in this very unpleasant story involving a conservative activist/aide to Maryland Gov. Bob Ehrlich who apparently spread rumors of infidelity by O'Malley in e-mails and on FreeRepublic.com, where other posters were engaging in speculation about O'Malley's private affairs. Gov. Ehrlich deserves credit for immediately firing the rumor-mongerer (who posts on FreeRepublic today here). Some GOP insiders are complaining about the timing of the story and seem to be justifying the rumor-spreading on the Internet by noting that the rumors have been floating around the capitol for a while. That doesn't make the whisper campaign right. I feel very badly for O'Malley's wife and kids, who reportedly have had to face these ugly rumors at school. O'Malley's to blame, his critics will say. Maybe so, but it's the O'Malley family's own damned business, and no one else's.

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from "Show Biz Ireland"

And just to show just how much of a desirable place Dublin is for musicians The Mayor of Baltimore - the much tipped future President of The USA (yes you heard it here first), Martin O'Malley brought his bulging biceps and rockin' tunes to Eamon Dorans to show there is still some soul in politics... Good Man yerself!

Lawyer Martin O'Malley, Balitmore's youngest ever Mayor, also leads O'Malley's March, an Irish folk rock band which has played in town pubs for the last 12 years.

[backhoe]

Thanks!

[Quilla]

The forged Guard documents and the captured GI Joe story are two excellent examples of FR ferreting out the truth.

I've followed many of these O'Malley threads (many with 100's of posts) and have concluded that MD4Bush was a democrat plant who baited NCPAC to comment on his (MD4Bush's) salacious post about the affair. MD4Bush then released them to the Sun and the Post.

Because of the thousands of posts on the subject the truth is not easily found by visitors to FR - apparently since Michelle Malkin doesn't get it yet. Mort Kondrake on the Beltway Boys briefly mentioned the story - only the part about an aid to Ehrlich having to resign for spreading rumors about O'Malley.

Maybe the problem lies in our adhering to published article's titles. A visitor to FR may not take the time to read hundreds of posts to discover the facts freepers have uncovered. We certainly need a way to boldly draw attention to theses facts.

[Iowa Granny]

marking for reference

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

On might suspect that liberal hopes for "gay marriage" in Maryland (Washington suburbs) are fueling The Washington Post's rather newly-discovered fascination with Maryland politics.

[Molly Pitcher]

Thanks for bring this all together, backhoe!

[Zacs Mom]

I was surprised, too, that Michelle Malkin seemed to have missed the real story .... that this was a setup to nail NCPAC, to deflect attention off O'Malley's love life and (I think) to discredit the Internet in general and FR in particular.

[NonValueAdded]

Kinda looks like AlGore on Bowflex, doesn't it?

[backhoe]

Quilla, you raise a point that has occurred to me many times in reading and linking the stuff we uncover here- we do get to the truth, but sometimes it's hard to find it buried among all the replies. I'm not sure what the solution is to that.

[backhoe]

My kind regards to you, Miss Molly-

[Molly Pitcher]

LOL! That's cute!

[backhoe]

Our FRiend Fiddlestix gave me that one, and a another Tipping Hat graphic:

[Howlin]

The positive of this is that the Wash comPost sees itself in a battle for survival with a website that is made up of ordinary folk commenting and dissecting the 'news'.

Twice in two or three days Howie Kurtz has had a column LOADED with snarkiness about the "blogosphere."

In the Blogosphere, Lightning Strikes Thrice"

is one and there is another one about Eason Jordan that I can't locate right now.

In the one I can't located, he actually said that the story would have "fizzled out" if not for the internet, implying it was driven needlessly farther than it needed to be.

It's sounding more and more like Howie's beginning to get the picture that WE don't need HIM to tell us what's "what" with the press anymore.

It's only going to get more frantic with these people are they realize how irrelevant they are becoming.

His show today should be really interesting.