Let the bamboozlement begin!
This just out from The Hill …
The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) is planning a public-relations offensive tying leading Democrats to lobbyist Jack Abramoff in an effort to neutralize accusations that Republicans have been embroiled in a âculture of corruption.â
This is choice stuff. But as we saw with the recent example of a Washingtonpost.com editor intentionally distorting a scandal story to make it more ‘balanced’, there’s a real appetite for this sort of mumbojumbo among a lot of reporters and editors.
So it’ll make sense for everyone to keep their eyes open.
And as long as we’re on the subject. Lobbyists give money to lots of people. They only commit crimes with some of them. If this is such a non-partisan thing, why is it that the only members of Congress targetted by the Abramoff investigation just happen to be Republicans? And that from a Republican led Justice Department?
Hmmm.