This is your brain on CRG

Charlie Sykes likes to say that liberals think conservatives are evil. But that's not necessarily true! I myself think some -- not all, but quite a few -- conservatives are, in fact, idiots. 

Case in point, Chris Kliesmet, president of the Scott Walker bootlicker bund known as the CRG.

Chris was on the Charlie Sykes show last week talking up the CRG's witch hunt against Capper, accusing Milwaukee's leading Scott Walker critic of blogging while on County time (Cap is a social worker). It's an amusing listen (it starts about a minute into this podcast).

He talks officiously about "computer records" (uh, that'd be time stamps, which aren't really computer records) showing that  ol Capper may have been blogging during work hours.

"The times and dates speak for themselves!" he told Charlie. Of course the times and dates the CRG has produced were during furlough or vacation days for ol Cap. 

Does Kliesmet believe in the case brought by the CRG? One wonders, given in the course of the interview with Sykes he says "if the allegations hold," an odd bit of qualifying language when you're accusing someone of a crime. (He adds that they provided the DA "with what we thought was proof," a not wholehearted endorsement of their vetting).

He also says that the DA, after receiving the "proof," wrote back that they were going to seize the computer. Did the DA in fact say this? If the DA did in fact say this to the CRG does this in anyway cross a line given that the office is extremely closemouthed about investigations when asked about them?

Finally, Kliesmet says whether the mainstream media, which covered the scandalette of a Walker appointee commenting on blogs during work hours, covers the persecution of capper is a litmus test of their fairness. Shouldn't he be caring more about responsible government than about Scott Walker?

Comments

[folkbum]

A significant difference between this case and the Wink case is that when Bice called Wink, she admitted to doing the deed, making it not only a legitimate news story but also a legitimate employment question.

I have no idea if someone like Bice has contacted Chris, or simply taken a cue from his public statement, but clearly there's been no admission to his having done what CRG's accusing him of. And, given the work that I and others have done to decimate CRG's accusations--and the non-responses reporters are getting from the DA's office--there is a hell of a lot less "there" there to this story than to Wink's.

What will be a real litmus test will be how the traditionally CRG-friendly print media treat CRG for making a complaint to the DA on such specious grounds once it's dismissed.