FED PROSECUTORS CLOSE IN ON SCOTT WALKER OK, THEY WERE STATE I MEAN COUNTY & THE CHARGES WERE DISMISSED & REDISMISSED ON APPEAL KTHXBAI
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) June 19, 2014The MSM and others were off and running today with a story about Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, which some have reported as a “criminal scheme.”
Here’s a sampling of how the frenzy spread, and many didn’t of course even bother to fully explain the background or circumstances:
http://twitter.com/#!/samsteinhp/status/479681107663650816 http://twitter.com/#!/LukeRussert/status/479677199784493057 http://twitter.com/#!/politico/status/479686332684718080 http://twitter.com/#!/markos/status/479681617959473152Judging only from those kinds of stories, you might think that Scott Walker was going to be perp-walked as soon as tonight. But, as usual, there’s a lot more to it.
Walker took to Twitter this evening to explain his side of the story:
http://twitter.com/#!/ScottWalker/status/479758864049790976 http://twitter.com/#!/ScottWalker/status/479759180279320576 http://twitter.com/#!/ScottWalker/status/479759336567484416Here’s a detail about the Wisconsin investigation you might not read about in some MSM reports:
http://twitter.com/#!/GrayerDreams/status/479699658415947776“Politically motivated” frivolousness sounds about right:
http://twitter.com/#!/seanmdav/status/479761876608241665Now there’s an item we’d be reading a lot more in news reports if Walker were a Democrat and the DA’s office was full of Republicans.
The lefty feeding frenzy over the latest Scott Walker non-story might best be summed up this way:
http://twitter.com/#!/Matthops82/status/479700722062475264That appears to be the case.
