C-J follows up on McConnell’s LIE to WHAS
Joe Sonka October 17th, 2007
(crossposted at BlueGrassRoots)
How’s this for a headline and subtitle:
McConnell knew of emails about boy
TV interview included denial
James Carroll follows up on the story that is now spreading like wildfire throughout the internet. Mitch McConnell knowingly LIED to Mark Herbert last Friday when asked if anyone on his staff was sending the Frost lies to reporters.
WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell knew last week — at a time when he was denying it — that his staff had sent e-mails encouraging reporters to look into the background of a 12-year-old boy used by Democrats to support expansion of a health-care program.
In an interview Friday with WHAS-TV reporter Mark Hebert, the Kentucky Republican said his staff had not been involved in trying to push reporters to look into the financial situation of the boy’s family.
But McConnell’s communications director, Don Stewart, said in an interview Monday with The Courier-Journal that he had told McConnell about the Oct. 8 e-mails sometime around Thursday, the day before the interview with Hebert.
Stewart also said, however, that he had told the senator he had sent follow-up e-mails within a matter of hours warning reporters off of the story because “the family is legit.”
McConnell declined to comment on the matter last night.
Declined comment? Why don’t you just go ahead and lie again like you did Friday to Mark Herbert? Don’t tell me you’ve grown a sense of decency over the weekend, Mitch?
This story is NOT going away, no matter how much McConnell and Stewart try to spin, lie and deceive. The only possible way out of this clusterfuck is for Stewart to resign and McConnell to publicly apologize for lying to Herbert and his constituents. Don’t hold your breath waiting for that to happen.
- Frostgate , Graeme Frost , Mitch McConnell , SCHIP
- Comments(4)
You beat me to it, Joe! Kudos for diligent coverage of this matter. Comments on the article seem to be quite critical of McConnell. Earth to McConnell: Fire Stewart and issue a statement if you want to hold onto any semblance of not being a huge lying a-hole politician! Where on earth have you been for the last week!?!?!
click on the story. left side of the page(McConnell aware of e-mails )
keep that up on the Courier’s home page for as long as possible.
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/10/17/92939/438
I could see this ‘apology’ coming from old Mitch:
“look, folks, I’m sorry for what happened, I was just helping out my staffer to be able to tell his side of the story. Please remember that none of this would ever have happened IF the Democrats had not put that child on the radio to tell his story about SCIP.
So, while I may be at fault for helping my poor staffer out, none of this would have happened except the Democrats decided to use this child for their political agenda on SCHIP”
Old Ditch Mitch’s lying problem didn’t just happen this week, it’s been continuous now for decades, it’s just that now they are being exposed and he doesn’t what to do about it or how to handle it.
I know old Mitch is feeling like his political tactics are unraveling right now it’s not only this, but Senator Larry Craig hasn’t resigned either like Mitch said he would and set up the whole scenario, and almost daily now, it’s drip, drip, drip, what’s he to do now?
There’s a discussion about this over at The Paducah Sun’s blog. That organization needs a few more liberal viewpoints; head over there and add your two cents!