Via George, there’s this odd thing at Buckey Politics.
I now know why Sherrod Brown hasn’t accepted our invitation to Meet The Bloggers. What he really wanted was to get slurped by out of state media on his own payroll.
This interview at MyDD is one of the most incredible pieces of chutzpah I’ve ever seen a candidate engage in. MyDD, an incorporated media property owned by Jerome Armstrong, who is on Sherrod Brown’s payroll, has a kid in California (who presumably is on Jerome’s payroll, who knows, that’s not transparent, although this seems to indicate a paid relationship) interview Sherrod on the phone with such hard hitting questions as “What other local issues will you be bringing to the table in this election cycle?”, which I guess the kid has to ask because he’s in California. It’s like George W. Bush hiring Bill O’Reilly to be his consultant, and then giving O’Reilly’s replacement an interview on Fox News, only worse, as O’Reilly doesn’t actually own Fox…Armstrong owns MyDD.
Until I see something from Brown on this matter, I’m taking down the link to his campaign website. Meet The Bloggers is a great local voice for candidates, and avoiding it doesn’t look good.