Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire!

Last Monday I did a piece on how the AP has joined the local media in the Twin Cities in enabling a certain paid Republican operative and blogger named Michael Brodkorb, treating him as respectfully as they do Matt Drudge, even though (like Drudge) he's known for spewing bogosities.

And like the national press, the Twin Cities press isn't as forelock-tuggingly deferent to non-conservative bloggers; the same media that cites Brodkorb by name as an honest and "independent" source seem to suffer memory lapses where the contributions of lefty bloggers are concerned.

For example: Last week, a local lefty blogger attended a GOP presscon. The presscon was held to hand out the latest Al-Franken-bashing talking points (the first versions of which, mentioned in my earlier post, were being pushed by Brodkorb) to the ever-compliant local media. The blogger tried questioning Minnesota Republican Party Chair Ron Carey about the party's FEC fines and other nasty things. However, the StarTribune did its darnedest not to use the guy's name, even though his question gave Strib scribes Pat Doyle and Dan Browning a page B1 (and teased on the front page) story in its May 8, 2008 edition:

A left-leaning blogger tried to ask Carey about the party’s FEC reports at a news conference the GOP called last week to highlight Franken’s problems. Carey dismissed him, saying the press briefing “is something for our credentialed media here.”

Carey did not respond this week to Star Tribune requests for an interview about the FEC filings.

“Just like any political entity, the Republican Party of Minnesota continues to work with the FEC to make certain our filings are in compliance,” party spokesman Mark Drake said in an e-mail Tuesday.

For the record, Two-Putt Tommy is the blogger in question. Here's the question he wanted to ask Ron Carey:

Mark Salter of the McCain campaign is all afluster that use of the term "losing his bearings" by Barack Obama is an ageist insult against his candidate.

Commenter cinnamonape:

Now we know why McCain almost flunked out of Annapolis. How can a third-generation Navy man not know that this is a NAVAL TERM that means an individual has lost sight of their navigational standards. It has nothing to do with AGE…Navy men and those that used this slogan were ALWAYS referring to people who had become sidetracked away from their presumed course. Young captains could “lose their bearings” as well as old ones.

Sad that McCain doesn’t even know Naval Terminology!

Would he rather we use the term "out of touch?" Okay, happy to oblige.

I finally got to see Martin Scorsese’s concert film of the Rolling Stones, Shine A Light, last weekend. I’m sick of people talking about the Rolling Stones being old, looking old, whatever. Anyone should look so good at their age. In fact, most snipers probably should look so good ever in their lives.

Mick can still shake his hips like a youngin’ and remains one of the finest peacocks in Rock, even delivering on songs he’s delivered on a gazillion times.

Keith still looks like the epitome of rock and roll to me: a rough around the edges elegance with a glint in his eye that he’s lived a little bit dangerously. In fact he’s such a style icon that I’ve noticed that there is a Keith Richards in every town. This local doppelganger is usually a musician, drug gofer, or both, who looks more like a combination of Keith Richards and Ratso Rizzo. A Keith Rizzo if you will. They all wanna be Keith.

So enough of the wisecracks. All the boys- Mick, Keith, Ron, and Charlie, still pulling it off after all these years looking cool, trim, and like they can definitely still get laid.