Right-Wing Media Blasts Politico For Accurately Quoting Scott Walker

Posted by | May 28, 2015 14:00 | Filed under: Contributors Media/Show Business News Behaving Badly Politics Tommy Christopher

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Wisconsin Governor and Republican presidential co-frontrunner Scott Walker caused a viral stir this week when comments he made to conservative media star Dana Loesch went viral. Walker was defending the mandatory ultrasound law he signed in 2013 on the basis that ultrasounds are “lovely” and “a cool thing”:(transcript via Dana Loesch, video via Digitas Daily)

“I’ve passed prolife legislation, we defunded Planned Parentiood signed a law that requires an ultrasound, um, which, think about that, the media tried to make that sound like it’s a crazy idea. Most people I talk to, whether they’re prolife or not, I find people all the time will get out their iphone and show me a picture of their grandkids’s ultrasound and how excited they are. That’s a lovely thing. My sons are 19 and 20, we still have theur ultrasound picture, it’s a cool thing out there.”

Now, Loesch is leading a conservative media campaign against Politico, and other outlets, over their coverage of Walker’s remarks. At issue are headlines like Politico‘s “Scott Walker on Mandatory Ultrasounds: ‘It’s just a cool thing out there,” or TPM’s “Scott Walker: Mandatory Ultrasounds Are ‘Just A Cool Thing’ For Women.”

What’s the problem, you ask? Walker’s basis for defending mandatory ultrasounds is clearly that they are “lovely” and “a cool thing,” so how are these headlines “smears?” Here’s Loesch’s explanation…READ MORE

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By: Tommy Christopher

Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.

14 responses to Right-Wing Media Blasts Politico For Accurately Quoting Scott Walker

  1. allison1050 May 28th, 2015 at 14:28

    Someone that’s been raped wouldn’t be interested in a mandatory ultrasound no matter who signed the bill or what their personal opinion is.

  2. Suzanne McFly May 28th, 2015 at 14:50

    They need to be angry at the leaders in their party for being so stupid, not the media for reporting their stupidity.

    • Larry Schmitt May 28th, 2015 at 15:30

      How dare they use his actual words against him!

  3. EnuffBull May 28th, 2015 at 14:56

    Dana Loesch vs. Nails On Chalkboard vs. Wilhelm Scream.

    (Rolls chamber, sticks barrel to head…)

  4. bpollen May 28th, 2015 at 15:40

    Another example of the “gotcha” media… almost as bad as asking “What do you read?”

  5. arc99 May 28th, 2015 at 16:36

    Remember, this is the crowd that incessantly parrots

    “You did not build that”

    “What difference does it make”

    completely out of context to fit their delusional visions.

    Once again, the right wing squeals like spoiled brats when they think someone dares to treat them exactly the way they treat others.

  6. majii May 28th, 2015 at 19:37

    Loesch and her right-wing buddies can cloak for Walker as much as they want, but I think that his real nature will eventually be revealed. He’s an opportunist who will do/say anything for attention and approval. If he wins the GOP nod, this rousing endorsement of mandatory vaginal ultrasounds before a woman can have an abortion will come back to haunt him. He’s having a good time now, saying all kinds of offensive sh*t. His problem is that he’s a short-term operator/thinker. It hasn’t entered his mind that most women don’t think men requiring a woman to have a trans-vaginal ultrasound (a procedure they’ll never go through) before obtaining an abortion is so enjoyable, or that we view it as an unnecessary invasion of privacy.

  7. Obewon May 28th, 2015 at 21:02

    Moonie Loesch and RWNJ’s are such errant bubbleheads, they don’t even know Politico is their own Right Wing media!

  8. frambley1 May 28th, 2015 at 22:22

    Party of freedom. My Ass.

  9. rg9rts May 29th, 2015 at 06:38

    Dana just wants a vaginal probe

    • allison1050 May 29th, 2015 at 07:57

      That may be as close to getting “any” as she’s ever gotten.

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