Patrick Howley
The Daily Caller
1/10/2014
Michael Whouley, founding partner of the strategy group tied to Hillary Clinton’s budding 2016 presidential effort, orchestrated a traffic jam to help his client Al Gore win the 2000 New Hampshire primary against Bill Bradley.
Gore campaign manager Bob Shrum wrote in his memoirs about Whouley’s last-minute gambit to use the Gore motorcade to suppress the vote on primary day, as Slate’s David Weigel noted on Wednesday.
“Michael Whouley came up with a last-ditch scheme: Send Gore into areas of southern New Hampshire where there was a lot of Bradley support among upscale voters and commuters who worked across the border in Massachusetts. Many of them cast their ballots late in the day after driving home. Gore’s motorcade — candidate, press, Secret Service, and police — could snarl traffic and keep some of the commuters from ever getting to their polling places or even trying to,” Shrum wrote…
The article continues, with video, at The Daily Caller.
Related: Why didn’t press apply ‘Dershowitz standard’ to Barack Obama?
…While many gun owners are suspicious of Christie, who governs a state with some of the strictest gun laws in the country, many also suspect he is getting far different treatment than the press has given President Obama over the deadly Fast and Furious scandal…
…[Rudy] Giuliani noted, about Christie’s political future – he was being touted as a possible Republican candidate for president in 2016 – that “the Democrats are going to use it but every time they use it all you have to do is contrast it with Benghazi, the IRS scandal; the way they obfuscate, the way they hide, the way they never have press conferences. I have yet to see the president or Hillary Clinton have a press conference explaining what happened about Benghazi. People died and they don’t answer any questions about it.”
And what about Operation Fast and Furious? Border Patrol agent Brian Terry died because of that operation. People are still dying because of it, as this column noted last week. If the Dershowitz principle applied here, could it be argued that President Obama was also “willfully negligent?”…
Also, Why the Media Attack Christie, Protect Obama
…according to Scott Whitlock of the Media Research Center, “In less than 24 hours, the three networks have devoted 17 times more coverage to a traffic scandal involving Chris Christie than they’ve allowed in the last six months to Barack Obama’s Internal Revenue Service controversy.”
Why? Oh, come on, you know why…
Update: Video: Judge Jeanine’s furious feds are on ‘Bridge-gate’ in 24 hours; Obama’s scandals, still waiting
…In her opening statement, Pirro played clips of the president pledging immediate investigations of the Benghazi and IRS targeting scandals. Benghazi is 16 months old, and the IRS scandal came to light eight months ago — but still nothing.
“Enter Chris Christie and the George Washington Bridge,” she said, before playing a short clip from his “mea culpa” press conference Thursday.
“Kind of refreshing, isn’t it?” Pirro said. “A chief executive having at least the balls to get out there, face the music, hold people accountable, fire them, apologize and take responsibility.”
But the real shocker, she said, came within 24 hours of Christie’s press conference, when the Obama administration finally announced a federal probe of a scandal — but not its own. This probe is directed at Christie.
“Mr. President, you’re kidding, right?” Pirro asked…
Warning: IRS about to quietly adopt new rules that will legally muzzle tea party groups
…The laundry list of provisions the IRS proposes that 501(c)(4) organizations must comply with includes…
