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September 05, 2014 08:29 AM UTC
24 Comments
iokiyar
Smacks of desperation.
"I'll lie, cheat or dishonor the military to get what I want."
Right, He should just be like Udal and lie.
Or like himself and betray his honor by breaking rules set forth by the military in which he serves. Not addressing that. More proof you've got nothing.
Suck it, pipsqueak. You and your party are the liars, and everyone but you evil bastards recognizes it.
If Romanoff's campaign doesn't call him out on this one they're doing themselves a disservice.
They should leave it to supporting groups and the Dept of Defense to call him out. You don't want anything that smacks of bashing a military man by someone with no military experience in an "I approved this message" official candidate campaign ad in CD6. Re-configuring hasn't changed that.
HD38 is in CD6, both old and new, and one of the main things that got moderate Dem Joe Rice elected as the our first Dem House Rep in something like 35 years and the first ever to be re-elected was his stellar military record as a serving Army Reserve officer and support from local vet groups usually supportive of the R candidate.
That said, Joe's campaign always obeyed the rules. He didn't appear in uniform at events or in his campaign lit. This is a crystal clear violation that needs to be addressed and corrected, not, as I'm sure modster would have it, a case of manufactured bashing over nothing.
One would think that the Mainstream Media would pick up on it but Chuck probably doesn't see anything newsworthy in this violation of military policy.
The Post obviously isn't going to even publish the letters to the editor questioning Plunkett's fitness to be a fair political editor that I know some ColPol participants sent in. You can bet none of BWB's wacko conspiracy theory rants will appear in the paper either and don't bet on any mention of this Coffman violation.
As long as Plunkett is the political editor, nothing too embarrassing to any GOTP candidate will see the light of day in the Denver Post. It's now the official mouthpiece for Plunkett's GOTP advocacy.
Agreed — since the Denver Post won't publish my letter, I'll give the exclusive to Pols as the new information source of record that the Post has forfeited:
Several years ago the Denver Post published a letter of mine beginning with the statement "Opinions are like — well, you know — everybody has one. Journalism, on the other hand, is hard work." Today I fear the hard work of journalists at the Denver Post may be for naught if the admitted conservative bias of its political editor truly colors the paper's coverage of the news. As I said in my earlier letter, the danger lies in "… the ease with which some would dismiss objectively reporting facts for the chance to express their opinion in the guise of truth."
Please do not allow one editor to undercut your paper's mission to provide unbiased coverage. Your readers deserve to have all the facts with which to form their own opinions.
They may not publish letters critical of their blatantly biased political editor but we can all post the video and a request to contact the Post on our facebook pages, along with a warning that any political news they may read in the Denver Post is highly suspect since the political editor, Chuck Plunkett, actively engages in tilting the news, not opinion pieces but the suppposedly objective news, to favor the election of his fellow ultra conservative and exclusively Republican candidates via editing and suppression.
We can all call the Editor. The following is available on the Denver Post contact page but I'll save those interested the trouble. No doubt Plunkett will not be removed but we should still do what we can to warn people and to annoy the hell out of Moore while he sticks with Plunkett.
We could also try to get this onto as many national media sources and blogs as possible. Some of our participants do get published on blogs with a wider audience. The kind that cable news sometimes picks stories from.
You can demand Moore remove Plunkett from his position as political editor at:
Perhaps Plunkett got the message (or Greg Moore suggested a little more balance) because I just read this BlogSpot post by Lynn Bartels — not much commentary but a huge dose of unedited content from the Udall campaign:
http://blogs.denverpost.com/thespot/2014/09/05/talk-fighting-words-mark-udall-campaign-memo-blisters-cory-gardner/112271/
On second thought, you're right, BC. But there ought to be enough Friends of Romanoff to put out an ad or two. not questioning his service but his willingness to obey military regulations and directives. "if we can't trust him to do that, can we trust him to represent our district?"
This got out of plkace in the queue. It was in response to BC's comment on my original post above.
Romanoff is too busy organizing illegal aliens on chalking sidewalks activities.
They had to toss the first version of Coffman's mailer — the photo had him in Cynthia's clothes — the uniform was a second choice.
See AC, my jokes are a LOT funnier than yours 😉
Lame joke yet more proof you've got nothing, Piss Ant. Coffman's guilty of breaking the very unambiguous rules, putting political advantage above his duty as a military member. Period. Doesn't have a thing to do with anything anyone else, including Udall or Romanoff, may or may not have done. "Look over there", "joke" or not, means you know we've got you dead to rights.
You got nothin,' punk. NOTHIN.' You're going down…
What makes it much much worse Rich Boy is that Coffman publically criticized a soldier for showing up at a Tea Party rally in uniform so he can't claim that he didn't know of these regulations that he is bound by. He can't claim ignorance or that he misspoke. Big big difference with being friends of the most reviled in our society by the likes of you. Coffman deliberately broke rules that he knew existed. What a dishonorable soldier. It's like Air Force Academy cadets cheating.
Trust me, officers know the regulations. So it seems pretty cynical. He must have known he'd get called on it but it would be worth it to get that image out there.
Ac, let me paraphrase that for you:
There's no defense for the indefensible.
"We HAVE to lie, and cheat, and steal. It's in our DNA. How else you ever expect us to win?" — The GOTP
Dishonesty in defense of extremism is no vice, my friend.
Klingenschmit was and t is guilty of the same offense – he still has himself in his Navy chaplains uniform on his religious websites and youtube channel, where he has overtly political campaign interviews, and has been known to plug his own candidacy, as he did with his whole "apology to Dems with no sense of humor" schtick.
He really doesn't like the whole "separation of church and state" thing.
It is, by the way, why he was court-martialled from the Navy – he insisted on wearing his uniform to political events against his commanding officer's orders.
Coffman and Klingenschmitt are two peas in a pod as far as conservative views and hypocritical use of their military cred in the Springs.