Fake Walpin “Scandal” Fizzles

11:09 am EST July 6th, 2009 | News | 7 Comments

The Gerald Walpin inspector general firing is the latest conservative fake scandal to bite the big one. Why? Because like all the other accusations from the right – secret muslim, birth certificate, poor people caused the meltdown, republican car dealers getting shut down – there’s no “there” there. The conservative blogosphere really wants to be taken seriously but beyond the stale 5 year old fumes of the Dan Rather memos, they’ve got nothing – not even the Schiavo memo.

The Republican party is still tied into its top-down structure and seems uninterested at best in listening to them, and their most ravenous elements can’t help but to beat themselves into a frenzy over non-scandals that they hype to the moon.

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7 Responses to “Fake Walpin “Scandal” Fizzles”

  1. Quaker in a Basement says:
    July 6, 2009 at 2:51 pm

    Well, I’m sure all those folks now realize they were wrong about the Walpin firing and will examine the facts more thoroughly from now on.

  2. sammy says:
    July 6, 2009 at 3:36 pm

    It did not fizzle yet you dope

  3. C.S.Strowbridge says:
    July 6, 2009 at 4:34 pm

    QiaB: “Well, I’m sure all those folks now realize they were wrong about the Walpin firing and will examine the facts more thoroughly from now on.”

    That level of sarcasm can cause instability in the fabric of time-space.

    On a serious note, I think this could help Democrats. The more the Republicans freak out… the more they ‘cry wolf’*, the less effective their attacks will become. If / when a real scandal breaks, people will pay less attention to them.

    * – More projection from the right. Dennis the Bigot et al complain that me seeing racism in the GOP is ‘crying wolf’, which is a joke by itself. Combined with the huge number of fake scandals shows it to be projection.

  4. Quaker in a Basement says:
    July 6, 2009 at 4:37 pm

    A little bit of hopeless optimism always brightens my day, CS.

  5. LongHairedWeirdo says:
    July 6, 2009 at 7:19 pm

    I have to say, the Walpin controversy was good in that sense. He *clearly* screwed up. You can’t look at the job he did and say he was faultless. And it’s not like he’s someone special; any good investigative attorney could do the same job, *without* skipping the audit, making overblown accusations, blabbing to the press during an election, withholding exculpatory evidence, etc..

    If you want to know who’s looking at reality, and who’s willing to fling mud in hopes it’ll stick, the Walpin case will be a good touchstone.

  6. Adam Herman says:
    July 7, 2009 at 3:42 am

    This post is ironic coming from a guy who made a huge deal out of every negative story about Bush, true or not. Remember the fake turkey?

  7. Tom Farrow says:
    July 7, 2009 at 12:59 pm

    The entire liberal agenda is ironic. If all the liberals are so concerned about the “global warming” myth, why don’t they all have windmills to generate their own power. Because IT COSTS TOO MUCH! They want everybody else to pay for it. It’s only good when they don’t have to pay.