The Stupidity Astounds Us
We've been weighing whether to comment on the June 17 Wausau Daily Herald story about the previous income of Nick Reid and Jeff Tyberg. To us, it is a non-story that was clearly planted by the Obey machine here in the 7th district to somehow make the Republican candidates look unworthy of the position of United States Congressman. In fact, we think the story is so unworthy, we are not going to link to it here.
Ironically last week, the House of Representatives dealt with the issue of allowing their COLA to take effect. We at Obey Out have no problem with the salary of Congressman and have no problem with the COLA taking effect.
However, if this reporter Brian Tumulty, who by the way is in their Washington, DC office, so he is clearly in tight with Obey and his press staff, is so concerned with pay, why didn't he talk to Obey about the pay raise vote? If he thought $168,000 sounded like so much money for our Congressman to make next year as a Republican, did he ask Dave Obey if he would be donating his raise to charity?
Did he ask Dave Obey about his $1 million house in Arlington, Virginia (in a quite nicely appointed suburban DC neighborhood)? Did he ask Obey how he's afforded a condo and a retirement home in Wisconsin and one in Arizona? Did he ask him if he thought his six figure pension sounded reasonable to the people of Wisconsin?
We could actually care less if he asked those questions, except that he made such a big deal out of the Republican candidates' earnings.
And here's the kicker in our opinion about the story, Dave Obey has never held a real job in his life. Oh, we're sure he worked somewhere while he was going to school, but then he started running for office. He's been living off the taxpayers his whole life. Not that it's inherently wrong, but this story makes it sound like Reid or Tyberg are undeserving of the same career track Obey has been on.
We could go on and on, but in summation, we think this story to be ridiculous and just plain stupid. It is just another example of the love affair the press seems to have with their liberal poster child, Dave Obey.
We do however, have one question that's since come to mind: Mr. Tumulty we ask you, when are you going to join Obey's staff officially rather than just shilling for him as a "reporter"?
Ironically last week, the House of Representatives dealt with the issue of allowing their COLA to take effect. We at Obey Out have no problem with the salary of Congressman and have no problem with the COLA taking effect.
However, if this reporter Brian Tumulty, who by the way is in their Washington, DC office, so he is clearly in tight with Obey and his press staff, is so concerned with pay, why didn't he talk to Obey about the pay raise vote? If he thought $168,000 sounded like so much money for our Congressman to make next year as a Republican, did he ask Dave Obey if he would be donating his raise to charity?
Did he ask Dave Obey about his $1 million house in Arlington, Virginia (in a quite nicely appointed suburban DC neighborhood)? Did he ask Obey how he's afforded a condo and a retirement home in Wisconsin and one in Arizona? Did he ask him if he thought his six figure pension sounded reasonable to the people of Wisconsin?
We could actually care less if he asked those questions, except that he made such a big deal out of the Republican candidates' earnings.
And here's the kicker in our opinion about the story, Dave Obey has never held a real job in his life. Oh, we're sure he worked somewhere while he was going to school, but then he started running for office. He's been living off the taxpayers his whole life. Not that it's inherently wrong, but this story makes it sound like Reid or Tyberg are undeserving of the same career track Obey has been on.
We could go on and on, but in summation, we think this story to be ridiculous and just plain stupid. It is just another example of the love affair the press seems to have with their liberal poster child, Dave Obey.
We do however, have one question that's since come to mind: Mr. Tumulty we ask you, when are you going to join Obey's staff officially rather than just shilling for him as a "reporter"?
posted by ObeyOut2006 at 8:59 AM
4 Comments:
I noticed you didn't say that you were stunned to read such a story from our newspapers, because they've been Obey's lapdogs for years.
I'm glad this was pointed out on this site. This story in the Herald was just dirty. The headline was a personal shot on Reid, by claiming that he is running for office for a pay increase. And then a couple of paragraphs done they claimed Tyberg is being supported by his wife. Both are cheap shots, and I bet neither is true.
Speaking of newspapers that suck, The Daily Telegram in Superior (where I'm from) didn't even write a story about Ed Meese coming to Superior to speak for Reid. From what I hear, they didn't even show up to the event (though I wasn't there personally to confirm this). You'd think that the former attorney general of the United States endorsing a native of Superior for Congress would be news, but I guess the Daily Telegram thought otherwise. What a joke.
I prefer to call it the Daily Paragraph. If you would like to try and change that you should go to the Reid HQ on Tower Avenue and ask about letters to the editor (for Mark Green, too). They will provide a lot of very useful information to include in an editorial. And would you like to join the county Republican party?...they can tell you how to get ahold of me to do that...
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