LOUISVILLE, Ky. — It appears Senator Mitch McConnell may have misled WHAS11 News when he told us nobody on his staff had anything to do with an effort to dig into the background of a 12-year-old boy.
An aide to McConnell has admitted he sent an e-mail to Washington reporters, urging them to look into Graeme Frost, the boy who urged Congress to override the president’s veto of an expanded child health care bill. He’s been a target of conservative bloggers ever since.
How Rusty Limbaugh Takes Care of Things:
I’ve had journalists tell me this. “Well, we’re journalists.” Why are you immune? Why are you immune to the same kind of destructive reporting and behavior that you dish out? You know, we have practiced — I’ve practiced it once. I am not going to tell you the story because I’m don’t want to give it away, and I would have to mention names, and I’m not going to mention names. But there was a cover story on me coming out of one of the big news magazines, and it was going to totally mischaracterize me and what I do and how I do it. And we found out who was writing it and made a couple phone calls to the person writing it. And we said, “You know what? We’re going to find out where your kids go to school. We’re going to find out who you knocked up in high school. We’re going to find out what drugs you used. We’re going to find out where you go to drink and do — we’re gonna find out how you paid for your house. We’re going to do — and we’re going to do exact — and we’re going to say that, you know what? You are no different than Al Goldstein. You both masturbate. You’re no different than Al Goldstein, and you’re both journalists, and so forth.”
And the guy started screaming on the phone, just went — “You can’t do that.” We said, “Watch us.” And it changed the tone of the story by about 60 percent, I would say, from what it was going to be. But nobody does that to these people. Nobody does it to them. And that would be so much fun. But I’d need to be wearing body armor every day. Oh, no question, these people are playing for keeps.
I wonder how this guy paid for his house, where he drinks, where his kids go to school:
Don Stewart, an aide to McConnell, admits he sent an e-mail to Washington reporters.
Any reason why he shouldn’t have his countertops scrutinized? And I wish someone would deliver the goods on the Mr “talent on loan from Viagra.”