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The other day I was reading Redstate (as I do several times a day) and noticed this little diddy in the RedHot section. Well I thought it was kind of funny, and worthy of a short post on MyManMitt.
Little did I know the brouhaha that would result
A little later Eye on 08’s Soren Dayton posted this:
People say that a picture is worth a thousand words. I would assume that a moving picture is worth even more. But that does not stop “My Man Mitt” Jason Bonham from dishonestly misquoting one of the YouTubes that I took of John McCain this weekend in New Hampshire
Just dishonest. Shameful. And this is not the first time…
Well. It didn’t end there, a sort of email battle erupted between Soren and I that only served to strengthen each sides opinion. It definitely did nothing to serve anyone or any cause.
Well apparently Matt Lewis at Townhall took note and wrote a post in our defense:
In my view, Soren is being too hard on MyManMitt. Yes, technically McCain was misquoted — but not misrepresented. It is clear that McCain agrees with the courts — that’s why he is quoting them. In my view, this is a matter of semantics (and not worth flaming somebody over).
But that’s not the end of it. Soren goes on to add:
Just dishonest. Shameful. And this is not the first time. This is the way the Romney campaign which MyManMitt (and Evangelicals for Mitt, also liars) is a talking mouth for behaves.
Among other complaints, Soren also adds that Romney’s team “lied about Sam Brownback.”
But, as far as I can tell, Romney’s team was correct about Brownback when they wrote: “When Brownback was elected to office that is when he also had a conversion and voted with the pro-life movement.”
In fact, back in January, I wrote a piece detailing how Sam Brownback was once pro-Choice. My piece is well-sourced, and includes quotes from the former GOP Chairman, as well as the former director of development for Kansans for Life.
Thank you Matt. When I posted it I thought people would watch the short video and see it for what it is, a funny little thing, nothing to think too much about. I really don’t think this is anything to deter someone from McCain who already likes him. And I don’t think McCain is all bad, actually I think right now he has become my second choice, distant, but still second.
I offered to change the post to Soren’s liking if he was willing to fix his post that improperly implies James Bopp Jr. is paid by Romney. You see I have emailed several sources to Soren, including an email from Bopp himself, that clearly prove Bopp is an unpaid endorser/advisor. Soren to this day refuses to change his post or acknowledge that contrary information exists.
When he refused to bargain I almost considered putting a picture up of someone mooning the readers for Soren’s readers coming to our site. But I figured that would have been a little too much.
The moral of the story? Hat tip Amanda B. Carpenter next time. And us bloggers need to calm down a little (myself included).
Soren I am sorry, and hope after this we can get on a better footing.
March 28th, 2007 at 8:47 am
The funny thing is his site misquotes Romney and mis-states his positions repeatedly. I got tire of reading and posting there and left. Look how angry he has gotten. You are “liar” and they are “liars!” Sheesh… What a waste of time that site is…
March 28th, 2007 at 9:19 am
Funny, I thought that was this Jason. I once asked Jason if he was affiliated with the Romney camp[aign and he said no.
March 28th, 2007 at 10:03 am
BROWNBACK pro-choice?
Perhaps pro-lifers should ask themselves why most pro-life GOP politicians were pro-choice at the beginning of their political careers. Just perhaps because reasonable, intelligent, successful people tend to think an actual person’s right to life trumps a clump of cells that is a potential person, that is currently inside the actual person’s body?
Again, if you made exceptions for the early weeks, you’d get a whole lot more converts, since most of us are against abortion after that.
March 28th, 2007 at 10:06 am
So that was a provocative statement, but let’s go back to the question: If abortion is so obviously murder, WHY do even PRO-LIFE GOP CANDIDATES mostly start out as pro-choice?!?
March 28th, 2007 at 10:41 am
I think the problem was that the pro-life movement carried with it a lot of historical baggage. Today, I think they’ve done a masterful job of shedding themselves of the extreme and unpleasant parts of the movement.
For example:
* Mass pray-outs in front of planned parenthood outfits
* 20-ft high pictures of aborted fetuses
* Shooting and killing abortion doctors
* Defending the shooting and killing of abortion doctors.
These extreme fringes of the movement are still there… but they are mostly marginalized – which wasn’t the case in past decades. The movement quickly came to realize that all movements are caricatured by the extremes which is why many candidates had a difficult time saying I’m “pro-life”.
Today, thankfully, things have changed.
March 28th, 2007 at 11:05 am
http://www.irs.gov/file/article/0,,id=100729,00.html
March 28th, 2007 at 11:09 am
OOPS, SORRY that was an error.. The page went down and I did’nt see that…. I meant to paste a comment I wrote in another section before..will post in a few
March 28th, 2007 at 11:18 am
I’ve been to many a McCain website, some of which I’m rather fond of. But Soren’s blog is the worst I’ve been to, bar none. The regular misquoting, misrepresentation, and hysterical personal insults are unbelievable. Maybe it’s a cry for help. In any case, it’s a black eye on the quality of this site’s blogroll, which includes quite a few great McCain & Giuliani blogs.
March 28th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
Kt,
I am not affiliated with the campaign. I think his post was meant to make that fact look murky.
April 3rd, 2007 at 10:19 pm
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