{"id":1513,"date":"2015-03-20T20:50:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T20:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2014\/06\/19\/scott-walker-takes-on-categorically-false-media-feeding-frenzy-about-alleged-criminal-scheme\/"},"modified":"2015-03-20T20:50:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T20:50:10","slug":"scott-walker-takes-on-media-feeding-frenzy-about-alleged-criminalscheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/1513","title":{"rendered":"Scott Walker takes on media feeding frenzy about alleged ‘criminal&nbsp;scheme’"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FED PROSECUTORS CLOSE IN ON SCOTT WALKER \nOK, THEY WERE STATE \nI MEAN COUNTY \n&amp; THE CHARGES WERE DISMISSED \n&amp; REDISMISSED ON APPEAL\nKTHXBAI<\/p>&mdash; David Burge (@iowahawkblog) <a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/iowahawkblog\/status\/479718027026788352'>June 19, 2014<\/a>\n<p>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.” <\/p>\n<p>Here’s a sampling of how the frenzy spread, and many didn’t of course even bother to fully explain the background or circumstances:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/samsteinhp\/status\/479681107663650816\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/LukeRussert\/status\/479677199784493057\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/politico\/status\/479686332684718080\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/markos\/status\/479681617959473152\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Walker took to Twitter this evening to explain his side of the story:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ScottWalker\/status\/479758864049790976\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ScottWalker\/status\/479759180279320576\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ScottWalker\/status\/479759336567484416\n<p>Here’s a detail about the Wisconsin investigation you might not read about in some MSM reports:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/GrayerDreams\/status\/479699658415947776\n<p>“Politically motivated” frivolousness sounds about right:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/seanmdav\/status\/479761876608241665\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The lefty feeding frenzy over the latest Scott Walker non-story might best be summed up this way:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Matthops82\/status\/479700722062475264\n<p>That appears to be the case. <\/p><p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2014\/06\/19\/scott-walker-takes-on-categorically-false-media-feeding-frenzy-about-alleged-criminal-scheme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2014\/06\/19\/scott-walker-takes-on-categorically-false-media-feeding-frenzy-about-alleged-criminal-scheme\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FED PROSECUTORS CLOSE IN ON SCOTT WALKER OK, THEY WERE STATE I MEAN COUNTY &amp; THE CHARGES WERE DISMISSED &amp; REDISMISSED ON APPEAL KTHXBAI&mdash; 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.” &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/1513\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scott Walker takes on media feeding frenzy about alleged ‘criminal&nbsp;scheme’<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1514,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[781],"tags":[783,785,309,782,786,784],"class_list":["post-1513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime-justice","tag-criminal-scheme","tag-feeding-frenzy","tag-politics-government","tag-scott-walker","tag-walker","tag-wisconsin-gov"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/14268234182163-scott-walker.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}