Bob McEwen’s Unholy Alliances–The R-Rated Whistleblower, Part 3
Go here for Part 1.
Go here for Part 2.
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Warning: Some readers might find the material covered in this post offensive, though every attempt has been made to keep it at a PG-13 level. Click on links provided to the R-Rated Whisteblower at your own risk.
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Not only has Bob McEwen willing associated himself with a publisher and a group whose concerns about opponent Jean Schmidt’s safety are at a minimum cavalier, he has associated himself with someone who has made frequent crude and borderline pornographic references to his opponent.
When Jean Schmidt made her trip to Iraq, the R-Rated Whistleblower posted the following (for those not as “well-educated” as the R-Rated Whistleblower, as I wasn’t, “Camel Toe” is a crude reference to the female genital area):
From the January 12 issue –
If you think receiving a pre-recorded over-taxed payer funded telephone call at supper time from Congresswoman “Mean Jean” Schmidt, off on an over-taxpayer funded campaign trip (designated by the Department of Defense as Operation Camel Toe) in Iraq, would be outrageous, just check your mailbox to see “Mean Jean’s” glossy, full-color political self-promoting puff piece, prepared, published, and paid for by the over-taxed payers too. Postage rates just went up for ordinary Americans. But the franking privilege still allows multi-millionaires in Congress to send out their political puffery for free.From the January 13 issue –
“Mean Jean” Schmidt’s bad luck continues. First, on her over-taxed payer funded campaign trip to Iraq, folks hearing about “Operation Camel Toe” couldn’t stop laughing about how she showed up wearing her “I Love Cameltoes” T-Shirt. No wonder the press wasn’t allowed on this trip. At least she didn’t ask how they liked their Hummers. What’s next, will she be trashed on the Tigris? Booed in Baghdad?From the January 14 issue –
Friday in Iraq, on “Mean Jean” Schmidt’s over-taxed payer funded campaign trip to the Middle East, the news blackout continued about what the sergeant said when “Mean Jean” asked the troops, “Why do they call it Operation Camel Toe?”
When the Blower published his celebratory April 27 issue on the results of the day’s festivities at the Ohio Election Commission, the title of the issue was “Clusterf*** in Columbus” (spelled with a letter missing, I suppose to avoid the spam filters).
Many more examples could be provided, but I think that’s quite enough.
The evangelicals listed at Bob McEwen’s Endorsements page ought to ask him how associating with the lewd, crude, and borderline pornographic material described here is consistent with the tenets of the Christian faith he allegedly holds so dear.
At a more worldly level, voters in The Second District have to wonder what in the heck the relationship is between what has been described in this post and the previous one, and the idea of “Restoring Honor and Dignity,” and why someone who doesn’t seem to understand the obvious contradictions is deserving of their vote.
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UPDATE: In the interest of space, these posts haven’t even attempted to chronicle The Blower’s other areas of attack on Schmidt (her height, her female attributes, her husband, her daughter’s wedding, her twin sister, etc., etc.), all of which should have been repudiated by the McEwen camp if its claim all along that the campaign should be about “the issues” had even the slightest bit of credibility to it. It again shows the candidate’s own contention to Bill Cunningham on April 20 that he had not been engaging (or by inference sanctioning) negative campaigning is, and has been, a pile of Camel do-do.
UPDATE 2, May 5: As if confirmation of the association were necessary, the Enquirer’s Politics Extra blog took note of the McEwen Election Night Party Wake attendees (HT to a frequent e-mailer):
Bob Schuler, Ohio state senator
Mark Quarry, Silverton city councilman
Russ Jackson, Anderson Township trustee
Jeff Hardin, vice chairman of the Clermont County Republican Club
Rick Brian, former mayor of Blue Ash
Bob Semple, former Adams County commissioner
Linda Rieg of Warren County, who started the Women for McEwen group
Jim Schifrin, author of the e-mail newsletter The Whistleblower
Bob road to his Jack Kemp fundraiser with Shifrin (the Whistleblower). What a great group of Christian folks…
Bob also told the Union Twp. Central Committee that he did not know who COAST was, nor did he take any money from them.
Liar, Liar.
Comment by Anon — April 30, 2006 @ 4:54 pm
#1, I am so NOT surprised.
Comment by TBlumer — April 30, 2006 @ 5:04 pm
Tom, while the Blower is certainly far more rude in language concerning Schmidt, I definitely do not find the accusations he makes any different in substance than the often hyperbolic accounts you provide in regard to McEwen.
Your own words could be fairly applied to your position. You could rewrite the following passage from part 1 as follows:
“You, see the (Bizzyblogger) really, really, REALLY doesn’t like (Bob McEwen). I would say he hates (him), but hate is too mild a word. Whatever it is that drives the cadre of (McEwen)-bashers bananas, the (Bizzyblogger) has multiplied by 10.”
Comment by Lawshark — May 1, 2006 @ 10:22 am
#3, The difference in tone is night and day, and if you can’t see that, you’re willfully blind in one eye and refuse to see out of the other. I do not hate Bob McEwen, but I do despise his candidacy. The same cannot be said of the other side’s feelings about or treatment of Schmidt.
Comment by TBlumer — May 1, 2006 @ 10:30 am
Ah, that infamous local political pornographer who hates everyone in the whole world except Tom Brinkman and temporarily Bob McEwen. Thank you, Biz, for highlighting Jim Schifrin’s hand-in-glove association with Bob McEwen throughout this campaign. I don’t think I know of a better example in public life of a talented, knowledgable person who squanders his considerable skills in the most puerile, sophomoric manner, lampooning, ridiculing, demeaning, insulting and attempting to embarrass others. The man has no shame, and he revels in it. He’s the Scurrilous Sultan of Scatology. It takes an overweening hubris to write the derisive drivel he churns out day after day. But his glaring lack of self-respect must be an oppressive burden for him to bear. He seems to be the kind of person who constantly seeks to build himself up by tearing others down. If his work weren’t so repugnant, I’d feel sorry for him. And I know for certain that there are many others in the Greater Cincinnati area who feel as I do about the Scurrilous Sultan of Scatology, Jim Schifrin.
Comment by Starship Trooper — May 1, 2006 @ 11:04 am
Tom,
If it makes you feel better about my verbiage, I have no problem replacing “far more rude” with “immensely more rude”…The Blower can be very funny…but he’s certainly a “bit” over the top with his language…I clearly said the tone was very different.
However…wasn’t it you who said that a vote for McEwen is not “morally defensible” or somesuch? I’d say the substance of such a charge is not particularly different in kind than the Blower’s charges…he just says it with off-color language.
Comment by Lawshark — May 1, 2006 @ 2:46 pm
#6 Shark, I delayed clearing your comment because I knew I would not have time to comment, and your comment didn’t deserve to be posted without an immediate reponse accompanying it.
Follow me closely here:
- Voting in Ohio when you don’t have a residence of your own and you use the residence of someone else as your address is illegal. I spoke to the Highland BOE (have you?), and they said that their governing criterion, with guidance from the SOS at the time, was answering the question “where do they go at night to sleep?” The answer was NOT Mrs. Lyle’s house.
- If you know that a candidate voted illegally for several years (with his wife and two of his kids no less) until the BOE caught on to him, you know that he committed those illegals acts for at least a few years.
- The fact that the statute of lims has passed doesn’t change the fact that the acts of voting without a valid Ohio residential address were illegal acts at the time.
- There has been nothing from Mr. McEwen even resembling a responsive defense in this matter.
IF you believe in the sanctity of the voting process, and IF you know beyond reasonable doubt that your guy violated its sanctity several times, and you still vote for him, you are making a morally bankrupt choice.
If you don’t care about these things, I don’t know what to say. I do.
Comment by TBlumer — May 1, 2006 @ 10:49 pm