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		<title>By: Editor</title>
		<link>http://www.journal14.com/2012/06/01/on-wisconsin/comment-page-1/#comment-33954</link>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 23:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mr Hitchcock wrote:

&lt;blockquote&gt;The “love child’s” mother declared Governor Walker is not the baby daddy. And did so after the story came out that he was. And it only took about an hour of honest work to debunk the desperate Democrat/Union lies about Walker (which were distractions from the truth: Walker’s work took WI out of red ink and into stability, while reducing WI taxes and providing the biggest improvement in economic forecast of any of the 57 states).&lt;/blockquote&gt;

And that raises yet another point.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://bpl.umn.edu/labmembers/gillick/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dr Bernadette Gillick&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a 2010 nominee for the National Institute of Health&#039;s Early Investigator Award, allowed a story which bore no investigative traits at all, to be presented in a manner which allowed for very little time for investigation and corroboration, or debunking, before the recall election of the man she slandered, and violated the privacy of her former roommate and her family.

&lt;i&gt;If&lt;/i&gt; Scott Walker was the biological father of &quot;Ruth&#039;s&quot; child, &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; &quot;Ruth&quot; had wanted that information made public, it should have been up to &quot;Ruth&quot; herself, not a one-year roommate from her freshman year in college.  That &quot;Ruth&quot; chose not to make such public means that either Dr Gillick&#039;s story is not true, or, if it is true, &quot;Ruth&quot; was choosing to keep the matter private.  In either case, Dr Gillick is in the wrong.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mr Hitchcock wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p>The “love child’s” mother declared Governor Walker is not the baby daddy. And did so after the story came out that he was. And it only took about an hour of honest work to debunk the desperate Democrat/Union lies about Walker (which were distractions from the truth: Walker’s work took WI out of red ink and into stability, while reducing WI taxes and providing the biggest improvement in economic forecast of any of the 57 states).</p></blockquote>
<p>And that raises yet another point.  <a href="http://bpl.umn.edu/labmembers/gillick/" rel="nofollow"><strong>Dr Bernadette Gillick</strong></a>, a 2010 nominee for the National Institute of Health&#8217;s Early Investigator Award, allowed a story which bore no investigative traits at all, to be presented in a manner which allowed for very little time for investigation and corroboration, or debunking, before the recall election of the man she slandered, and violated the privacy of her former roommate and her family.</p>
<p><i>If</i> Scott Walker was the biological father of &#8220;Ruth&#8217;s&#8221; child, <i>and</i> &#8220;Ruth&#8221; had wanted that information made public, it should have been up to &#8220;Ruth&#8221; herself, not a one-year roommate from her freshman year in college.  That &#8220;Ruth&#8221; chose not to make such public means that either Dr Gillick&#8217;s story is not true, or, if it is true, &#8220;Ruth&#8221; was choosing to keep the matter private.  In either case, Dr Gillick is in the wrong.</p>
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		<title>By: Editor</title>
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		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 20:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>WW wrote:

&lt;blockquote&gt;Moreover, Bernadette’s revelation timing does not seem politically motivated to me, rather, emotionally motivated. She was greatly angered by the utter lie by Walker which she perceived, based on her own first hand knowledge of a friend, “Ruth”.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Assuming for the sake of argument that the woman making the charge actually believed it, why would her emotional motivation not have occurred earlier than two days before the recall, or even before Mr walker&#039;s election in 2010?

It&#039;s easy enough to see: just substitute Barack Obama for Scott Walker, and you&#039;d have been denouncing this as an unverifiable clap-trap story designed to deny Mr Obama re-election.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WW wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p>Moreover, Bernadette’s revelation timing does not seem politically motivated to me, rather, emotionally motivated. She was greatly angered by the utter lie by Walker which she perceived, based on her own first hand knowledge of a friend, “Ruth”.</p></blockquote>
<p>Assuming for the sake of argument that the woman making the charge actually believed it, why would her emotional motivation not have occurred earlier than two days before the recall, or even before Mr walker&#8217;s election in 2010?</p>
<p>It&#8217;s easy enough to see: just substitute Barack Obama for Scott Walker, and you&#8217;d have been denouncing this as an unverifiable clap-trap story designed to deny Mr Obama re-election.</p>
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		<title>By: Eric</title>
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		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 18:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;
I know you will assume that my politics influences my view of this revelation about Walker, but I don’t think so. The story, although not corroborated independently, rings perfectly true to me.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
 

Of COURSE it rings true to you, you political extremist! If some kook reported that Walker sacrificed virgins at midnight while drinking their blood, you’d believe that too. That’s because you’re a political extremist motivated by hate for any Republican.</description>
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I know you will assume that my politics influences my view of this revelation about Walker, but I don’t think so. The story, although not corroborated independently, rings perfectly true to me.</p></blockquote>
<p>Of COURSE it rings true to you, you political extremist! If some kook reported that Walker sacrificed virgins at midnight while drinking their blood, you’d believe that too. That’s because you’re a political extremist motivated by hate for any Republican.</p>
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		<title>By: Eric</title>
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		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 18:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;I know you will assume that my politics influences my view of this revelation about Walker, but I don’t think so. The story, although not corroborated independently, rings perfectly true to me.
&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;


Of COURSE it rings true to you, you political extremist! If some kook reported that Walker sacrificed virgins at midnight while drinking their blood, you&#039;d believe that too. That&#039;s because you&#039;re a political extremist motivated by hate for any Republican.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>I know you will assume that my politics influences my view of this revelation about Walker, but I don’t think so. The story, although not corroborated independently, rings perfectly true to me.
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<p>Of COURSE it rings true to you, you political extremist! If some kook reported that Walker sacrificed virgins at midnight while drinking their blood, you&#8217;d believe that too. That&#8217;s because you&#8217;re a political extremist motivated by hate for any Republican.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>By: Eric</title>
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		<dc:creator>Eric</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 18:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;* Dictator Walker’s goal is to finish the 80 year war which the GOP has waged against rights of the working person’s unions.&lt;/blockquote&gt;


Thus does extremist Perry smear his political enemies. And &quot;Enemy&quot; is the operant term, contrary to his claims of wanting &quot;Compromise&quot; and of &quot;Bridging the Gap&quot;, extremist Perry wants nothing less than Total War on Republicans, even to the point of using discredited sex smears against them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>* Dictator Walker’s goal is to finish the 80 year war which the GOP has waged against rights of the working person’s unions.</p></blockquote>
<p>Thus does extremist Perry smear his political enemies. And &#8220;Enemy&#8221; is the operant term, contrary to his claims of wanting &#8220;Compromise&#8221; and of &#8220;Bridging the Gap&#8221;, extremist Perry wants nothing less than Total War on Republicans, even to the point of using discredited sex smears against them.</p>
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		<title>By: ropelight</title>
		<link>http://www.journal14.com/2012/06/01/on-wisconsin/comment-page-1/#comment-33886</link>
		<dc:creator>ropelight</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 17:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>For those who decline to click on Koolo&#039;s link, and you know who you are, here&#039;s the money quote: (bold added)

&lt;blockquote&gt;How sad and desperate. Wisconsin Democrats should be embarrassed. It took one call and about an hour to refute the bogus report.

The Daily Kos, not exactly a bastion of conservatism, reported on the developments.

&lt;blockquote&gt;The story that Scott Walker abandoned his pregnant girlfriend in college (dKos diary link) failed the first test of verification by a professional reporter. Daniel Bice, the “Watchdog” reporter of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Online interviewed the anonymous woman who had the baby, but she adamantly denied that Scott Walker was the father according to a comment by Daniel Bice to the linked story.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For those who decline to click on Koolo&#8217;s link, and you know who you are, here&#8217;s the money quote: (bold added)</p>
<blockquote><p>How sad and desperate. Wisconsin Democrats should be embarrassed. It took one call and about an hour to refute the bogus report.</p>
<p>The Daily Kos, not exactly a bastion of conservatism, reported on the developments.</p>
<blockquote><p>The story that Scott Walker abandoned his pregnant girlfriend in college (dKos diary link) failed the first test of verification by a professional reporter. Daniel Bice, the “Watchdog” reporter of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Online interviewed the anonymous woman who had the baby, but she adamantly denied that Scott Walker was the father according to a comment by Daniel Bice to the linked story.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>By: John Hitchcock</title>
		<link>http://www.journal14.com/2012/06/01/on-wisconsin/comment-page-1/#comment-33885</link>
		<dc:creator>John Hitchcock</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 17:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Koolo&#039;s link, which goes to the honest and truthful Conservative site Gateway Pundit, links The Lost Kos for its source of investigative journalism.  That&#039;s right, boys and girls, a reporter did his due diligence and posted it at The Lost Kos!  The Lost Kos debunked its own dishonest myth.

The &quot;love child&#039;s&quot; mother declared Governor Walker is not the baby daddy.  And did so after the story came out that he was.  And it only took about an hour of honest work to debunk the desperate Democrat/Union lies about Walker (which were distractions from the truth: Walker&#039;s work took WI out of red ink and into stability, while reducing WI taxes and providing the biggest improvement in economic forecast of any of the 57 states).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Koolo&#8217;s link, which goes to the honest and truthful Conservative site Gateway Pundit, links The Lost Kos for its source of investigative journalism.  That&#8217;s right, boys and girls, a reporter did his due diligence and posted it at The Lost Kos!  The Lost Kos debunked its own dishonest myth.</p>
<p>The &#8220;love child&#8217;s&#8221; mother declared Governor Walker is not the baby daddy.  And did so after the story came out that he was.  And it only took about an hour of honest work to debunk the desperate Democrat/Union lies about Walker (which were distractions from the truth: Walker&#8217;s work took WI out of red ink and into stability, while reducing WI taxes and providing the biggest improvement in economic forecast of any of the 57 states).</p>
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		<title>By: Koolo</title>
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		<dc:creator>Koolo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 17:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/06/bummer-democrats-walker-love-child-story-falls-apart-in-a-little-over-an-hour/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Bummer. Democrat’s Walker Love Child Story Falls Apart… In About an Hour.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/06/bummer-democrats-walker-love-child-story-falls-apart-in-a-little-over-an-hour/" rel="nofollow"><b>Bummer. Democrat’s Walker Love Child Story Falls Apart… In About an Hour.</b></a></p>
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		<title>By: Editor</title>
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		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 15:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>WW wrote:

&lt;blockquote&gt;I don’t see it as an act of desperation regarding political considerations. Here is what strikes me regarding Bernadette’s comment which was:

    &lt;blockquote&gt;“Over the phone, Bernadette recounted how she watched a recent televised debate between Scott Walker and Tom Barrett. As he talked about his “lifelong integrity” her anger grew. This was a man who had abandoned his pregnant young girlfriend — completely turned his back on her at the most fragile point in her life. She notes his “now-convenient ‘pro-life’ proclamations” after burying his past “indiscretion.” Says Bernadette, “I cannot listen to his lies anymore … I cannot dream of how anyone would support such an evil man. Once a man shows that he has no soul, there is nothing more.””&lt;/blockquote&gt;

I suggest, were you in Bernadette’s shoes, having witnessed what she did, that you, in spite of your politics, would feel exactly the same way that she feels. True?&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;i&gt;If&lt;/i&gt; her story is true, you&#039;d be right.  But, quite frankly, I don&#039;t believe it is true.  If it were true, she should have come out months ago, if not during the 2010 election, and provide the time to get the story verified.  By holding onto it until two days before the election, by trying to make it an &lt;strike&gt;October&lt;/strike&gt; June surprise, she made it unverifiable.

Scott Walker is a public figure, facing an important election: it is wholly irresponsible -- at best -- to have that kind of information, and deliberately hold onto it until two days before the election.  She has turned a story that even if true, into an unbelievable smear.

The woman who related the story is (supposedly) a college professor now; she cannot not know about evidence and verification.  She &lt;i&gt;had to know&lt;/i&gt; that her story, released when it was, couldn&#039;t be either verified or refuted before the election.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WW wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p>I don’t see it as an act of desperation regarding political considerations. Here is what strikes me regarding Bernadette’s comment which was:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Over the phone, Bernadette recounted how she watched a recent televised debate between Scott Walker and Tom Barrett. As he talked about his “lifelong integrity” her anger grew. This was a man who had abandoned his pregnant young girlfriend — completely turned his back on her at the most fragile point in her life. She notes his “now-convenient ‘pro-life’ proclamations” after burying his past “indiscretion.” Says Bernadette, “I cannot listen to his lies anymore … I cannot dream of how anyone would support such an evil man. Once a man shows that he has no soul, there is nothing more.””</p></blockquote>
<p>I suggest, were you in Bernadette’s shoes, having witnessed what she did, that you, in spite of your politics, would feel exactly the same way that she feels. True?</p></blockquote>
<p><i>If</i> her story is true, you&#8217;d be right.  But, quite frankly, I don&#8217;t believe it is true.  If it were true, she should have come out months ago, if not during the 2010 election, and provide the time to get the story verified.  By holding onto it until two days before the election, by trying to make it an <strike>October</strike> June surprise, she made it unverifiable.</p>
<p>Scott Walker is a public figure, facing an important election: it is wholly irresponsible &#8212; at best &#8212; to have that kind of information, and deliberately hold onto it until two days before the election.  She has turned a story that even if true, into an unbelievable smear.</p>
<p>The woman who related the story is (supposedly) a college professor now; she cannot not know about evidence and verification.  She <i>had to know</i> that her story, released when it was, couldn&#8217;t be either verified or refuted before the election.</p>
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		<title>By: ropelight</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 15:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Forget yesterday&#039;s ugly smear. Wisconsin Democrats are now out to inject fear and intimidate voters in their get-out-the-vote campaign. Madeleine Morgensters at &lt;em&gt;The Blaze&lt;/em&gt; posted her report 6/2/12. Excerpt follows. (bold added)

&lt;strong&gt;Liberal Wis. Group Sends Voters Names and Addresses of Their Neighbors to Shame Them Into Voting in Recall&lt;/strong&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;A liberal Wisconsin group is apparently circulating mailers to registered voters with the &lt;strong&gt;names and voting histories of their neighbors&lt;/strong&gt; to get them to turn out in Tuesday’s recall election against Republican Gov. Scott Walker.

“Scott Walker won in 2010 because too many people stayed home!” reads the letter from the Greater Wisconsin Political Fund, which was obtained by The Blaze. The group is the political spending arm of the Greater Wisconsin Committee and is not affiliated with any candidate. The Greater Wisconsin Committee describes itself as engaging in “grassroots lobbying on critical Wisconsin issues to promote a progressive public policy agenda.”

“The chart shows the names of some of your neighbors, showing which have voted in the past,” the mailer states. &lt;strong&gt;“Look at the list below; are there neighbors on this list you know? Call them or knock on their door before Election Day, and ask them to go vote on Tuesday, June 5th.”&lt;/strong&gt;

&lt;strong&gt;It adds in a somewhat ominous tone, “After the June 5th election, public records will tell everyone who voted and who didn’t.”&lt;/strong&gt;

...According to the Associated Press, the Greater Wisconsin Political Fund has spent $4.8 million on the recall effort.

Ann Althouse, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin, wrote on her blog Friday that she’d received the same mailing from the group at her Madison home.

&lt;strong&gt;“This is an effort to shame and pressure people about voting, and it is truly despicable,” Althouse wrote. “Your vote is private, you have a right not to vote, and anyone who tries to shame and an harass you about it is violating your privacy, and the assumption that I will become active in shaming and pressuring my neighbors is repugnant.”&lt;/strong&gt;

An emailed request for comment to the Greater Wisconsin Political Fund was not immediately returned.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Forget yesterday&#8217;s ugly smear. Wisconsin Democrats are now out to inject fear and intimidate voters in their get-out-the-vote campaign. Madeleine Morgensters at <em>The Blaze</em> posted her report 6/2/12. Excerpt follows. (bold added)</p>
<p><strong>Liberal Wis. Group Sends Voters Names and Addresses of Their Neighbors to Shame Them Into Voting in Recall</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>A liberal Wisconsin group is apparently circulating mailers to registered voters with the <strong>names and voting histories of their neighbors</strong> to get them to turn out in Tuesday’s recall election against Republican Gov. Scott Walker.</p>
<p>“Scott Walker won in 2010 because too many people stayed home!” reads the letter from the Greater Wisconsin Political Fund, which was obtained by The Blaze. The group is the political spending arm of the Greater Wisconsin Committee and is not affiliated with any candidate. The Greater Wisconsin Committee describes itself as engaging in “grassroots lobbying on critical Wisconsin issues to promote a progressive public policy agenda.”</p>
<p>“The chart shows the names of some of your neighbors, showing which have voted in the past,” the mailer states. <strong>“Look at the list below; are there neighbors on this list you know? Call them or knock on their door before Election Day, and ask them to go vote on Tuesday, June 5th.”</strong></p>
<p><strong>It adds in a somewhat ominous tone, “After the June 5th election, public records will tell everyone who voted and who didn’t.”</strong></p>
<p>&#8230;According to the Associated Press, the Greater Wisconsin Political Fund has spent $4.8 million on the recall effort.</p>
<p>Ann Althouse, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin, wrote on her blog Friday that she’d received the same mailing from the group at her Madison home.</p>
<p><strong>“This is an effort to shame and pressure people about voting, and it is truly despicable,” Althouse wrote. “Your vote is private, you have a right not to vote, and anyone who tries to shame and an harass you about it is violating your privacy, and the assumption that I will become active in shaming and pressuring my neighbors is repugnant.”</strong></p>
<p>An emailed request for comment to the Greater Wisconsin Political Fund was not immediately returned.</p></blockquote>
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