Inside Info: Is Larry Sabato a partisan in disguise?

self | 09-27-06 | WL-Law

[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Many are questioning whether Larry Sabato's issued, then modified, then somewhat-withdrawn accusations against Sen.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.............

[wideawake]

Sabato's mask was ripped off in the runup to the 2004 election.

[Mo1]

ping

[onyx]

WOW!

[musikman]

Disguise, my foot.

[RexBeach]

I disclosed it on FR quite a while ago...others may have as well.

Sabato requires students seeking to get into one of his senior courses to write an essay as a condition for entrance.

Sabato received one essay one day that was quite short: "I am Macaca."

That got the young man into Sabato's course.

[pgkdan]

I don't think Sabato's wearing any disguise. He's always been left of center. I don't consider him to be a real left wing moonbat but he's a partisan.

[Perdogg]

He worked a liberal democrat's campaign in the 70s per Mark Levin.

http://marklevinfan.com/?p=1505

[wastoute]

Even before. Sabato wasn't exactly "impartial" during the Impeachment of Bubba. Think back on it.

[onyx]

This is dynamite. Sabado never mentioned he knew this guy, yet he talks about George Allen's campaign.

[CharlesWayneCT]

We need to do one of those "whos-who" networks to put this all together.

We have Doug Thompson as close friends with Steve Jarding the Webb spokesperson. We know Mudcat Saunders has connections in North Carolina where Dr. "deer head" shelton lives. We think Larry sabato calls both Shelton and Taylor friends who he knew in college.

We have Larry teaching Sidarth (did he recommend Siddarth to the Webb campaign this summer?)

We have Shelton's wife saying "they told us not to talk to Fox". Who is "they", Shelton was supposed to be operating on his own.

[onyx]

We need you on the George Allen for Senate threads.

I am stunned by the duplicity.

[small voice in the wilderness]

Larry Saboteur is a transparent hack for the dems. This too will blow up in their ignorant faces.

[maggief]

Larry Sabato, an oft-quoted political commentator who teaches a small seminar on campaigns and elections, said he asked students to write an essay as part of the admission process.

Eighty people applied for the course, including Sidarth. His essay was three words, but it was enough to clinch one of the 20 coveted spots in the class.

"I am Macaca," he wrote.


http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003226858_student26.html

[slowhand520]

I guess we must laugh at the "republican pollster" notion

[Moose4]

To folks who live in Virginia, Sabato's mask was ripped off looooong before that. When he was at VCU he was leaning pretty far left in his predictions and analysis, and that was many years ago (back in the Doug Wilder days, I think). I wasn't even that politically active when I lived here 10-15 years ago, and I knew even back then that Sabato was a liberal and slanted things accordingly. I was rather surprised to hear that he'd moved up to UVa and had become a media "go-to" guy on politics, considering his track record here was never all that great.

}:-)4

[roses of sharon]

If he is on TV commenting on politics and being introduced as an "expert", a "Professor", or an author of some study, then he is a Dem.

[twigs]

He was an undergraduate star at UVA. I'm not surprised in the least that he went back. They probably courted him to return.

[WL-law]

Well, per your post I guess the connection has been publicized -- I didn't know that. Nonetheless, it's curious that "Macaca", and now Sabato, are both trying to submarine the Allen campaign.

[Dems_R_Losers]

More investigatng going on in this thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1709245/posts?page=101,22

[LibLieSlayer]

He is a gay liberal.

LLS

[jla]

fyi

[NCPAC]

I was of the impression Sabato's "disguise" was torn from his face years ago. This, however, should prove the stake through the heart of Sabato's supposed impartiality.

[daybreakcoming]

The only campaign donation I could find on Sabato was $500 in '99 for a democrat running for Congress. Real researchers could perhaps find more.

[onyx]

Hey, that's excellent research!

[mystery-ak]

Ol Larry needs to go down......has anyone contacted Rush or Hannity?

[onyx]

Not that I know of.

[CFC__VRWC]

Rush is taking Larry to the woodshed even as I type. :)

[Quilla]

Some disguise.

[onyx]

Such duplicity.

[mystery-ak]

I belong to Rush's 24/7...I just sent him a private e-mail and a link to this thread.....

[onyx]

OK -- excellent.

[gridlock]

Has anybody ever been in doubt where Larry Sabato's sympathies lie? If he has, he hasn't been paying attention.

[mrsmith]

Who at Fox do we complain to?

Sabato can't be part of their "fair and balanced" reporting.

It makes a mockery of the term.

They can have Larry on when they want a Dem operative to push the Dem viewpoint.

[freespirited]

Larry Sabato has jumped the shark.

As an academic, he should have known better to say anything about George Allen and the n-word unless he had knowledge of how Allen's opponent rates on the same variable. If Chris Matthews were not such a biased windbag, he would have asked him "What about Jim Webb?" Sabato would have been forced to admit that for all he knew, Jim Webb's record is as bad or worse than what is being alleged about George Allen on this topic.

Sabato really owes an apology to the Allen campaign (and his colleagues) for his lapse of objectivity.

[Miss Marple]

Guys, I thought you needed to see CharlesWayneCT's comment in #11 on this thread. I don't know if you have this information.

[Howlin]

Doug Thompson, THE Doug Thompson??

[Howlin]

Is that the Doug Thompson we know?

[Miss Marple]

I don't know. If it is the one we all know and love, the ham-handedness and thuggishness of this attack is easy to understand.

[Howlin]

Doug Thompson, the DOCUMENTED liar?

[Miss Marple]

I think I will ping kcvl, who is much better than I am at searching.

I am going to go see what I can find out.

[Miss Marple]

Here they are, pictured together, as leaders of a seminar on campaign management. Jarding is the one without the beard.

Washington Center for Politics and Journalism, September 2006

[Miss Marple]

Here's Doug Thompson bragging about being an old friend of Steve Jarding.

Doug Thompson's self-important web site

[Miss Marple]

Steve Jardin and Dave "Mudcat" Saunders have co-authored a book:

[Darnright]

>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<

"Larry!! Larry?? Come out of the Democrat closet!!!

[Enchante]

"...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."

DING DING.... we have a winner..... when will the DBM bother to research Sabato's student, Doug Thompson, Sabato himself...... this sounds like a real "Borking" (or even worse) by the libs.

[Enchante]

[DOUG THOMPSON]: "Each year at this time I make the trek to DC for an appearance at The Washington Center for Politics and Journalism. Terry Michael, who runs the program, is an old friend as is Steve Jarding, an "adjunct lecturer in public policy" for the Kennedy School at Harvard who also ran Mark Warner's successful campaign for governor a few years back. Steve and I have been doing this road show for the center to talk about political campaign management to a group of interns for Washington-based media and news organizations with bureaus in the city."

[CharlesWayneCT]

UNfortunately, I don't know if he was a student before this fall. He got into Larry's class this fall because of the macaca incident.

[A Citizen Reporter]

Not Doug Thompson again. If there a dirty smear campaign, Doug Thompson will be part of it. He's the new Terry Lenzer.

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

I'll never forget Sabato and that moron Gene Cox on WWBT during one election (I forget which) where the Republicans were doing well. I thought those two were going to start blubbering on camera!