Scott Walker takes on media feeding frenzy about alleged ‘criminal scheme’

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, 2014

The 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/479681617959473152

Judging 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/479759336567484416

Here’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/479761876608241665

Now 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/479700722062475264

That appears to be the case.

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/06/19/scott-walker-takes-on-categorically-false-media-feeding-frenzy-about-alleged-criminal-scheme/