I mean, lead us not into temptation, and all that, but is it true that this guy was the one GOP schmuck who was an advocate for medicaid expansion and they wanted to get rid of him with a bit of shame-n-blame?
I read that in the first thread on this topic. Link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1017&pid=185760
The poster is new to the board so there's no built up reputation to rely upon. The link provided is to a bloggy thing that discusses the issue:
Today, the nation learned that freshman Congressman Vance McAllister (R- Duck Dynasty) is, in fact, a quack. Last November, McAllister stunned the Louisiana political commentariat and soundly defeated State Senator Neil Riser, a victory that many attribute to the support he received from Phil and Willie Robertson from the hit reality television show “Duck Dynasty.” McAllister, who ran on a family values platform, emphasizing his Christian faith and his disdain for Washington politicians, was caught, on camera, cheating on his wife with one of his staffers, a woman named Melissa Peacock.
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...With all due respect to John Bresnahan and Jake Sherman, the two Politico journalists who broke the story nationally, it defies logic that they somehow randomly stumbled on a story published on a website that even most Louisianians have never heard of and verified the authenticity and provenance of a blurry surveillance video (which, by the way, was behind a paywall) all within a span of 90 minutes. No, this leak was coordinated and planned, and more than likely, considering it was recorded nearly four months ago, it had been in the works for a long time.
Notably, The Ouachita Citizen strongly supported State Senator Neil Riser, calling Mr. McAllister a “liberal” in a bizarre, apoplectic rant, which, ostensibly was an endorsement of Riser but reads more like a scathing attack against McAllister for supporting Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act. In its report on the McAllister video, The Ouachita Citizen claims to have received the video from an “anonymous” source, but somehow, inexplicably, they were able to verify the video’s provenance. The Ouachita Citizen, in my opinion, bordered on recklessness in their reporting, publishing Mrs. Peacock’s home address and implying, without any evidence whatsoever, that she may have never actually married her own husband. It seemed, to me, nasty and personal, motivated by more than a mere desire to inform the public.
I think our new poster might be right--that this is a Right Wing Hit Job.
After all, we know that POLITICO is owned by a member of the wingnutty Albritton clan, and they're somewhat to the right of Attila the Hun. They insist that they don't display bias at their site, but I've seen plenty of "slant" at that shitty web address. They haven't changed at all in their perspective since they managed to push Bill Maher's old POLITICALLY INCORRECT show off the air post - Nahn Wun Wun.
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