Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Walker Backer FAIL, #1

Aaron Rodriguez, or A-Rod, as he likes to refer to himself, is at it again. In his fear of a pro-Milwaukee County group, Milwaukee County First, of which I am chair, he reaches new heights of desperation and hilarity as he tries to support his gubernatorial choice, Scott Walker.

First, he takes umbrage with a post from one of my colleagues, Jason Haas, regarding Walker's questionable decision to appear at a recent anti-health care, anti-Obama rally. Rodriguez feels that this was a wholesome thing for Walker to do, even though there were people with inappropriate and nutty signs like the classic Obama=Hitler signs as evidence in the video on Dan Cody's site.

But the funny part is when Rodriguez writes this (emphasis mine):

The above quote from Milwaukee County First shows they are willing to use a "run first and check later" philosophy when utilizing sources, especially when it means taking a swipe at Scott Walker. And this isn't the first time that MCF has done this. There petition drive for saving Milwaukee County programs was predicated upon an alleged cut to the county's EMS funding. This, of course, was based upon "leaked" information that the county might withhold $3 million from the county's paramedic program. Without wasting time, MCF drew up a petition stating that people in Milwaukee County would not receive paramedic services for medical services if the funding were cut. What happened? Well, Scott Walker committed to fund the EMS program, and MCF has yet to remove these scare tactics from their petition.

The "leaked" information was for anyone to see in this article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

Milwaukee County, which contributed $3 million this year toward providing paramedic services throughout the county, has made its initial funding proposal for paramedic services for 2010.

The amount: zero.

Apparently this rumor was so secret that the municipal mayors and village presidents felt compelled to pass a resolution asking for the restoration of this funding.

In a second post trying to diminish the growing group that Rodriguez had said would never get off the ground, he tries an old right wing trick with a new twist. Often, right wing bloggers will link to each other's opinion pieces to prove that their own opinion is valid. Rodriguez, apparently unable to find anyone else to agree with, links to his own opinion piece to verify his opinions. It's sort of like, "I said so, so it must be true," type of rationalization.

When Rodriguez wrote the post which he cites, I questioned him on how he would align two opposing statements from Walker. The exchange looked like this:



As you can see, I asked him if he thought Walker would use the money from the federal government to preserve routes or to build his dedicated line for a school that would probably never be built. Rodriguez admitted that it was "probably the latter."

The question now is: Is Rodriguez calling himself a liar when he says that Walker won't cut routes. You can see why he likes Walker so much. They have the same problem of not being able to remain consistent.

Rodriguez makes one more point worth noting. He questions why we didn't cite Supervisor Rice in his press release commending Walker for his dedication to mental health services. What Rodriguez fails to tell his reader is that I had addressed it. The reason I didn't address it at MCF, is unlike Rodriguez, we don't publish false propaganda.

2 comments:

  1. Capper,

    That's pretty weak.

    Do me a favor. Take a look at my past analysis of your MCF articles. When this is done, you might be better equipped to confute arguments more properly.

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  2. Aaron, I have read all over your "analyses" of MCF. That is including how people from all over the state commented on them, correcting your inaccuracies and out right untruths.

    You've been discredited enough that your criticisms are only observed for the laughs.

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