Hate to say I told ya so, but I told ya so.
Seems our composite of Liz Crothers--the same one that torqued-up a few professional journalists--is dead-on. And in short, that is that she's a very accomplished GOP operative with one professional objective: take out a big-time Dem. I really can't fault her for that, because that's who she is and what she does. She realizes all this and realizes NGD realizes this. And I imagine she's OK with that, right Liz? Because her joke is on everybody else.
So her most recent operation-- a mass mailing financed by another right wing group on behalf of Paul Newell--isn't terribly surprising. To us. We've been saying here for quite a while that Newell would dance with Dick Cheney to get elected, and that Crothers and her GOP confederates would oblige him. But what's surprising is the stubborn stupor of the MSM. Because this isn't exactly an impenetrably complex meme here.
Principal case in point, Crothers (again) has the Village Voice's Roy Edroso sucking down more dissimulation around her right-wing benefactor Dan Perrin:
We asked Crothers about this. She says she knew of Perrin's involvement with the Coalition, and that he had in fact been the one who approached her about funding the mailer. "I guess he saw the story in the Times," she says. But Crothers also says that Perrin had told her he had "no agenda" but to get her story before the public, and she believed him.
Wake up, Roy. That you infer that you might actually believe this is kind of frightening. But think about it. Why are you the only MSM person she's directly talking to about this?
Crothers spins on to Edroso:
"I didn't really do intense research" on Perrin or the Common Sense Coalition, Crothers tells us, though she did learn he had co-written a book, America's Health Care Crisis Solved: Money-Saving Solutions, Coverage for Everyone, and that it was "pretty much what you'd expect." (The book was endorsed by formerly Bush senior health policy advisor Roy Ramthun.) She took that in stride, and asked Perrin if CSC "had been involved in really controversial issues, and he said no."
"She took that in stride, and asked Perrin if CSC 'had been involved in really controversial issues, and he said no.'" This may constitute the howler of the year, folks. It's also a near verbatim re-run of how Liz expressed shock and ignorance back in July--to Odroso no less--that blogger Carl Brinker would even deign to ask if she and Newell are mixed up with the Free Republic--another hardcore right octopus-operation with sights on taking down Dem big shots:
"In regards to your July 15 post, you are correct that the anti-Newell site is entirely off-base," said Crothers in an e-mail. "I have never contributed to the 'Free Republic' website and strongly disagree with absolutely everything that site espouses."
Just like Liz don't know Dan Perrin from Dom Perrignon. The guy that took out the governor of the state where Liz makes her living as a GOP political consultant. And she don't know anything about an "agenda." That anyone would actually print this horseshit is simply astounding.
Now if only Liz and Edroso can get the Free Republic to cleanse itself of a poster named "Liz" with an intense preoccupation with New York political sex scandals, lousy immigrants and take-down-Shelly-Silver manifestos. Then nobody has to get all huffy anymore. Then maybe they can get Google to not present the above link (on page one) when "elizabeth crothers" "michael boxley" is typed into the little white space Google provides. But don't take my word for it, just hit this link and chart the name of the game for "Liz" there. It seems to be taking down NY Dems like Shelly Silver. Or any other target of opportunity. (Today it's Charlie Rangel.)
But who knows? Maybe there's another hard-core righty named "Liz" from California that's obsessed with New York Dems like Silver.
It's also astounding that Newell claims separation from the current Crothers op. Just as he did with Crother's initial involvement in his campaign. But Newell's campaign manager, Evan, blew Newell's cover in July by defending Liz, with Edroso's assistance, from that nasty Carl Brinker's questions on her Free Republic involvement:
Newell's campaign manager, Evan Hutchison, also responded to us. He called Ms. Crothers "courageous" and DaBrinker Report "despicable."
And it's my guess that Evan and/or Newell initiated today's Crothers puff-piece from useful-idiot Edroso. And therein lies the smoking gun. Insofar as Newell's political future, at least as a Democrat, is concerned.
Maybe Brinker can ask Evan and Edroso about all this coordination stuff.
