The QC Examiner notices some pro-Phil Hare shenanigans going down at the Illinois, quad cities’ completely objective, non-partisan, and totally neutral Phil Hare Argus, a.k.a. the Quad Cities Online.
Hare, if you remember, is the Illinois Democrat congressional candidate who:
a) thinks the deficit is a myth
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b) doesn’t care about the Constitution
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the Hare-Dispatch jumps into the fray with multiple pro-Hare, anti-Schilling “reporting”.
The front page headline shrieks:
ANTI-SCHILLING GROUP PROTESTS AT EAST MOLINE CAMPAIGN OFFICE
There is an accompanying photo of an elderly woman who looks like one of those geezers the Democrats drag out of nursing homes to “vote” Democrat. She’s holding a sign that the H-D makes pains to point out is “homemade” rather than the usual union mass-produced signs that show up at these events.
Even though only 35 people showed up at Schilling’s campaign office, this is big front-page news at the H-D. And these aren’t grassroots activists, oh no, these people from MoveOn.org.
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Hmmm, I don’t remember any of these people protesting the nearly $1 million Obama got from Goldman Sachs in ’08, but hypocrisy on the left is hardly worth mentioning these days.
The real hoot comes at the very end of the “report” when we discover Quincy’s own Roger K. Davis was one of the protesters. He says both Hare and Schilling take special interest money, while nobody at all will give him money, which is why he has to horn in on these freebie media events–or something.
A favorite excerpt from the QCO:
A group of Bobby Schilling’s opponents brought their grievances to the Republican congressional candidate’s doorstep Tuesday.
About 35 protestors, led by MoveOn.org, gathered outside Mr. Schilling’s East Moline campaign headquarters to denounce the unlimited amounts of cash the group contends is being spent by corporations on Mr. Schilling’s behalf in the 17th Congressional District race.
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An example of such money, Mr. Jacobs asserted, is the $500,000 being spent by American Future Fund of Des Moines on television ads in opposition of U.S. Rep. Phil Hare, D-Rock Island — Mr. Schilling’s incumbent opponent.
AFF, a non-profit conservative advocacy group, and similar organizations do not have to disclose where its contributions come from.
After running the graphs through the , a machine invented by Retracto to aid in stripping useless partisan rhetoric from statements so the public can discover the truth, we got this:
About 35 protesters funded by big corporate interest George Soros gathered outside Mr. Schilling’s East Moline campaign headquarters to denounce the alleged unlimited amounts of cash sent by corporations that are not Mr. Soros’s corporations on Mr. Schilling’s behalf in the 17th Congressional District Race.
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An example of such money, Soros employee Mr. Jacobs asserted, is the $500,000 being spent by American Future Fund of Des Moines on television ads in opposition of U.S. Rep. Phil Hare, D-Rock Island. We here at QCO forgot to ask Mr. Jacobs how much of Mr. Soros’s cash they received for organizing a protest against a candidate and private businesses who, it can be credibly argued, pose a threat to Mr. Soros’s bottom line, thus creating a corrupt premise for protest. It was also not asked whether or not any corporations donated to Mr. Hare’s race in the same manner as they do to MoveOn.org.
Let me understand this correctly – a group funded by a lefty corporatist is angry that private citizens who own private businesses pool their resources together to help fund candidates who stand for open market principles?
The bigger news is that there exist a group of people living in the United States who seem to think that Mother Russia’s law extends all the way across the pond to Illinois – or that a publication considers answering paparazzi calls and copying and pasting from press releases to be solid content. Fascinating phenomenon.
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