WaPo Blogger Accuses 'Conservative Media Machine' of Not Jumping on Liberal Dead Cat Story

Newsbusters ^ | January 25, 2012 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

Washington Post blogger, Erik Wemple, has accused certain media outlets of declining to report on a potentially big political scandal that recently broke. Obviously Wemple must be referring to the arrest last week of Zachary Edwards, the former Obama staffer and member of a prominent Democrat campaign consulting firm who was accused of attempting to steal the identity of the Republican Secretary of State of Iowa in an attempt to falsely smear him. Neither Wemple's Washington Post nor any of the other major media outlets with the exception of the Des Moines Register which attempted to place a positive spin on the story (Political consultants quickly fire arrested man) reported on the political details of this arrest.

Oops! Wrong scandal. What Wemple was referring to was a dead cat found in the yard of a Democrat congressional campaign manager in Arkansas with the word "LIBERAL" neatly painted (airbrushed?) on it. And here is Wemple hopping atop his moral high horse to make his accusation:

[BfloGuy]

I wonder if it was an IWATA airbrush.

Well, they'll simply have to outlaw them then. I do hope we find out who did this. Something tells me it will just drop out of sight.

[Peet]

Twenty-one posts and this hasn't showed up?

    Dead cat, dead rat.
    Did you see what they were at.
    Fat cat in a top hat.
    Thinks he's an aristocrat.
      -- Jim Morrison / Doors