[Diogenesis]

“And The Most Irresponsible Journalist Award Goes to The Politico’s Jonathan Martin!
So tell me, how do you write a “news” story about an organization paying for a speaker when you don’t even know if the organization is paying for the speaker?
Ask “journalist” Jonathan Martin. He knows all about it.
You see, Jonny wrote a piss poor story the other day about how the Iowa Family Policy Center will be paying a large speaker fee if Sarah Palin comes to Iowa to keynote the IFPC’s fall funderaiser.
The only problem is that Jonny has no sources confirming that any exorbitant fee is being charged or paid.
Jonny also got some inside info from David Kochel, who was a top aide to former (and future) presidential candidate, Mitt Romney.
Hey Dave, didn’t I just read a story about how Mitt Romney tried to buy off the Iowa Christian Alliance?
I heard you helped facilitate that little scheme. And somehow you are shocked at the thought of a well-known political figure (who very likely isn’t running for president) getting paid a speaker’s fee for (gasp) a public speaking appearance? ..
and then we’ve got Tim Albrecht quoted. He was the Iowa spokesman for Romney’s 2008 caucus campaign.”
And it always seemed like, whenever the Romney people had rumors they wanted to start about other candidates,
Jonny was their go-to guy to get those rumors in writing in front of a national audience.

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[lentulusgracchus]

I liked this post from your linked-and-cited thread; it's succinct and somehow captures all the .....aroma .... wafting over from Willard's info operations aka Jonny Martin writing at Politico. Who, I discover on reading the thread, had a lot to do with my much-admired man, Fred Thompson, getting "clubbed" in the 2008 Iowa caucuses. Little things like, spreading "reports" that Fred was going to "drop out after Iowa" when in fact he wasn't planning anything of the sort. Smooth move, Ex-Lax.

To: JRochelle

No surprise here. Politico is just a liberal whorehouse, a bunch of WaPo sluts who decided to kick their pimp and freelance.

6 posted on Friday, October 30, 2009 6:04:57 PM by hinckley buzzard (Truth--The liberal's Kryptonite)