On Monday, Foster’s Daily Democrat in New Hampshire published a blistering op-ed piece attacking Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) by former House Speaker Marshall Cobleigh.
“As is usual with poll-driven politicians, Jeanne Shaheen is running television commercials and writing op-ed pieces addressing the dominant problem facing America — skyrocketing gasoline prices — but providing no real solutions,” the piece began. “Evan worse, anyone who knows her history also knows that during her entire career she has been a big part of the problem.”
There was an unusual wrinkle: Cobleigh died in February 2009. The op-ed was actually a reprint of when it was first published in July 3, 2008.
Brown, of course, is the former senator from Massachusetts now challenging Shaheen in the New Hampshire race for U.S. Senate.
Read the whole piece here.
The TPM Polltracker average finds Shaheen with a 1.8 point lead over Brown.
How is this even remotely to be considered journalism? 'Well, the NH Republican Party handed us this 6 year old partisan screed written by a man who has since died and is entirely irrelevant and they demanded that we publish it…so we did…because something something unbiased news." Next up: Foster’s Daily Democrat publishes Scott Brown’s latest used toilet paper smears because his campaign provided them, told them to publish it and claims you can see Jesus in them.
One of the most interesting and socially ruinous aspects of the Inca civilization was their worship of the dead and the continuing political and social influence exerted by dead leaders…I hope our righties aren’t heading in this direction.
Last I saw gasoline prices are falling precipitously. I saw 2.63 in NJ this week.
That’s genius: they didn’t just plagiarize, they plagiarized FROM A DEAD GUY!
An op-ed from a guy without life to help the campaign of a guy without a soul. Sounds about right.