Eric Massa: Dirtbag or Evil PR Genius?
Eric Massa, the Dem congressperson that went off on a satisfying–if you’re opposed to ObamaCare–rant yesterday: is he a victim of Dem duplicity, a PR genius or a lying weasel?
Bob Lonsberry asks if he can vote more than once.
From ERIC MASSA DUPES THE CONSERVATIVES:
But for the record, a few facts.
The first is that over the space of five days Eric Massa gave three completely different explanations for why he was leaving the House of Representatives. Each was passionately delivered, each was earnestly intoned, and each was mutually exclusive.
That means they can’t all be true.
For example, on Wednesday, he announced that he would not seek re-election. He said it was because his cancer was back. He implied that he was dying and that his doctor had told him that his workload was killing him.
By Friday, however, it wasn’t cancer anymore, and it wasn’t just no re-election. It was resignation. He said he had to “own this reality,” acknowledged that he had done something that made him unworthy of office, and that his background contained events that congressional investigators would uncover if they looked into him.
Let’s review. Wednesday it was cancer, Friday it was personal failing.
And Sunday it was a conspiracy.
Lonsberry thinks that Massa is “duping” conservatives. Since Rush Limbaugh, Drudge, Glenn Beck and Fox News publicized Massa’s story and by doing so, they’ve been hoodwinked by the guy.
Massa appears to be a dirtbag–but does that invalidate some of what he’s saying? By that logic, police would never believe the informant and the FBI and CIA would never get good intelligence unless the person from whom they got information was squeaky clean.
The USA tried that once–during the Clinton years, intelligence agencies couldn’t deal with info sources that were unsavory–and we know how that turned out.
It doesn’t take an Einstein to figure out that Massa has his own agenda, the Democrats and Obama have their own and conservatives have still another.
Massa’s resigned, so he’s no longer trying to save his electoral skin, though he is trying to save his personal reputation, such as it is.
Massa has motivation to spin unpleasant news his way: he’s a politician. Just like the CIA informants, his unsavory actions don’t invalidate using him as an intelligence source.
Limbaugh, Beck, Drudge and others are right to repeat his charges–and his troubles. Not reporting on Massa makes New Media no better than Old Media: just another bunch of hacks trying to control the flow of information because we think we know what’s best.
Listening to Eric Massa’s spin doesn’t mean buying his whole story. Old Media doesn’t think readers/viewers can handle unpleasant truths–especially truths that are unpleasant to Progressives–so they spike stories and don’t report them.
Listening to a Democrat spill on the corrupt, rotten process that has become ObamaCare does not make one a “dupe.” A better word would be “informed.”
ALSO: Video: Beck, Michelle Malkin go toe to toe over Massa interview
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