Remember when some girlfriend beating blogger accused Republican gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley of adultery but offered ZERO proof, the media ran with the story front and center. And you thought the media didn’t trust the blogosphere. Ha. It seems that bloggers are only dubious when they say something bad about liberals.
Now, after Democrats in South Carolina voted for a man in the primary they knew nothing about (no website, no campaign, no fundraising) and woke up the next day to discover that their candidate is woefully unprepared to face Senator Jim Demint in the general election and likely facing felony charges for showing pornographic images to a college student, the Democrats and the media have found someone to blame – the GOP.
After unsuccessfully attempting to push him out of the race Democrats are now accusing Republicans of planting Alvin Greene on them.
Did Republicans force Democrats to vote for this guy in the primary? No. But completely without evidence, the media is running with the story on the GOP planting Greene as a candidate. CNN, New York Times, MSNBC, among others are following the story because Senator Jim Clyburn suggested (WITH ZERO EVIDENCE!) that it was so. And let’s please remember that election fraud is a pretty serious accusation to make without evidence.
The question they point to is where did Greene got the $10,000 it costs to register a candidacy. Who knows. But there’s absolutely not one stitch of evidence saying the Republicans did it. (It’s possible (but unlikely) they might have but the media has no evidence.)
Greene insists the money was his own.
So far 82 news stories have been written on this, according to my Google News Search using the terms “Alvin Greene” and “Republican plant.” I expect that number to continue growing throughout the day.
So just to get this straight – South Carolina Democrat voters nominate a man who has no shot at winning because he’s completely unprepared and likely has a felony indictment coming his way. And whose fault is it, according to the media and the Democrats? Republicans of course.
Expect all this to get a lot worse the closer we get to November.
Update: Jim Geraghty has a lot more on this story.
June 11, 2010 at 3:16 pm
He's OBVIOUSLY an Eddie Murphy fan: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104114/
June 11, 2010 at 3:30 pm
Of course the GOP did it. They were worried that DeMint would only win by 40% if someone who wasn't an accused felon was running.
June 11, 2010 at 3:35 pm
Gosh, you don't really mean to imply that the mainstream American media is a tool (gasp!) of the Democratic (Socialist) Party under its esteemed. derriere-fixated leader. Do you? I mean beyond five decades of recorded print and electronic evidence, what else can you show?
June 11, 2010 at 4:16 pm
What did Forrest Gump say about this? It's not about the box of chocolates. It's the other thing… that Obama does all the time.
June 11, 2010 at 4:16 pm
I'm more fascinated at the way it's the GOP's fault. "The GOP gave Greene the money to put his name on the list…and so we were FORCED to vote for him!"
I think the most likely reason is a name recognition/association. Greene is a common name; you have Al Green the gospel singer, Al Green the Dem from Texas, and the Green party.
All the more reason that we should have a poll test of "what positions do these candidates hold?"
June 11, 2010 at 4:33 pm
Hey, leave the dems alone! They have to divert attention from the real issues here; (1) dems will vote for a black man, no matter what his record might be, and (2)is every black dem pol a crook or just most of them? Greene? Look at his logic. Dem candidates who step aside at the request of the White House are offered good alternative gumment jobs. For a $10,000 buy in, Greene willget a good, lifetime gumment job.
June 11, 2010 at 6:52 pm
Wow. This is South Carolina. My state. First there was the l'affaire Sanford, then l'affaire Haley, and now this. And the word is, oil from the BP oil spill could be off of South Carolina's coast by next month. The hits just keep coming.
June 11, 2010 at 7:46 pm
The Prophet Gump spoke to this issue, i.e., "Stupid is as stupid does."
June 11, 2010 at 8:46 pm
Bush did it!
June 11, 2010 at 10:22 pm
It was asked-at the linked site- how anyone knew Al Greene was a black man, since he hadn't appeared at campaign events and there had been no posters put up showing pictures. Someone wrote in and said it was obvious to voters from their names that Alvin Greene was a black man and Vic Rawls a white man. How? I know several Greens and Greenes who are white.
I am just curious about this comment. I couldn't comment at the other site, so I am hoping someone here can enlighten me.
Susan Peterson
June 12, 2010 at 12:08 am
Don't forget those bizzare, "Do we want another raghead," comments, Niall. SC has had a very good political month, blog wise.
June 12, 2010 at 2:25 am
How about the clueless dopes who pulled the levers and voted for him? Any responsibility there? Did they know anything at all about who they were voting for?? Anything?