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NLS Sabotages Deeds Campaign
By Greg L | 12 August 2009 | Virginia Politics, Blogs | 7 Comments
Not Larry Sabato makes the claim that a Bob McDonnell booth at a Virginia gun show included a confederate flag. Creigh Deed’s campaign manager starts promoting the story. The the Washington Post figures out, quite obviously that the flag was in the next booth and the whole “let’s make Bob McDonnell look like he said ‘macacca’” ploy falls entirely apart, with NLS and Deeds looking pretty silly, at best, in the end. My, it is amusing when an ostensibly friendly blogger can manage to cause a gubernatorial campaign to run off the rails for a day or so and look like a bunch of rank amateurs.
The best coverage of this laughable gaffe is from Bart Hinkle at the Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Yesterday Creigh Deeds’ campaign embarrassed itself by promoting a partisan blog’s hatchet-work—work that turned out to be incorrect.
In brief, Deeds’ campaign manager sent out a Twitter tweet directing attention to a photo posted on Not Larry Sabato purporting to show a Confederate flag in a McDonnell-for-Governor booth.
But as it turns out, the flag was in a nearby booth, not McDonnell’s. The organizer of the Virginia Outdoor Sportsman Show says so, and explains how the McDonnell crew ended up in the booth near the flag. You can read a blow-by-blow account by Washington Post staffers here.
Bart offers the best concise run-down of this hilarious story, with all the links you need to follow it. Go and enjoy.
UPDATE: TQ is saying the Deeds campaign is undergoing a shakeup, and the source is none other than Larry Sabato (the real one), and now Political Wire. Fascinating to see such a rapid impact…
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Maybe Jeanette Rishell could have used the same defense on the used condom in toilet pic. “It wasn’t on MY campaign Manager’s Facebook, it was on the Campaign Manager’s Facebook that was next to MY campaign manager’s Facebook”… What? It MIGHT work.
Deeds best strategy would be to avoid any more endorsements from the idiot-in-chief. That may not work so well anymore in Fairfax/Alexandria/Arlington.
Funny how the Dems did not have a problem with Jim Webb having wrote “Born Fighting”(which I think is a great book), and with Deeds having had a Battle Flag on the wall growing up along with a picture of Robert E. Lee. I don’t see an issue whatsoever with any of that and in fact would like to see more of our elected officials with such a historical appreciation of our Confederate Heritage and History here in the Commonwealth, I just think it is funny that Deeds is now trying to use this as in issue in his race.
Be nice. I’m sure that Benji had a gay old time writing that story!
Deeds’ best strategy would be to avoid taking any further tips from NLS. Like they say, there comes a time when you go to the well once too often.
NLS is a little twit…but maybe that’s a complement, come to think of it…
Look at it this way: If you were a reasonable person at that show and saw what looked like a Confederate flag near a McDonnell booth, what would you do? Probably get closer to confirm whose flag it really is (and maybe even ask someone). The photographer in question probably did get a closer look, and THEN deliberately took the photo from an angle to make it ambiguous and/or possibly embarassing for McDonnell. It is more clear that NLS, being at best a willing dupe, ran it uncritically. (What? No one asked if the photographer got that closer look? I mean, how hard would that have been?) It is rather poetic how this stunt has blown up in their faces.
C’mon Creigh, ISSUES. What do you have to hide?