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Walshgate II: The coverup

By adamg on Tue, 08/17/2010 - 12:24pm

Back in March, during the Rachel Maddow for Senate micro-boomlet, Mass. Democratic honcho John Walsh tweeted a request to somebody about running against Scott Brown in 2012. At the time, Walsh refused to say if his inadvertent public tweet was meant for Maddow or somebody else - but swore he'd reveal all when he reached 1,000 Twitter followers.

Sometime in the last couple of weeks, Walsh reached 1,000 followers (he was at 1,064 this morning). Now, maybe Walsh has been too busy thinking up ways of calling Charlie Baker a Nazi or something, but he's yet to dish. Crack reporter Gin Dumcius caught up with Walsh after yesterday's debate and reports that when he asked Walsh whom the tweet was for, "he says he isn't saying."

Walsh and his tweetWalsh: Tweets aren't worth the electrons they're written on?

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By chrismatth on Tue, 08/17/2010 - 5:33pm.

One of his supporters wore a shirt saying OBAMA = HITLER, and the Baker campaign posted the picture. Walsh isn't making this stuff up...

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/201...

By adamg on Tue, 08/17/2010 - 5:53pm.

And, yeah, we are talking about a gubernatorial candidate palling around with a wacko birther these days. But Walsh should really seek some advice from somebody who does understand how bulk uploading works on Flickr before saying something like:

While everyone is entitled to their views, a picture of a swastika and a comparison between our president and Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler brings the political discourse to a level of complete absurdity, and if Baker is to preserve any credibility whatsoever in this campaign, he should explain how this photo was approved, apologize, and remove the photo from his website immediately.

Sadly for Walsh, the Baker campaign apologized and removed the photo from their Flickr site immediately.

By chrismatth on Tue, 08/17/2010 - 6:15pm.

What am I missing? How is the campaign not responsible for the picture showing up?

By adamg on Tue, 08/17/2010 - 6:28pm.

Of supporters and you bulk upload them. Maybe you're tired or careless or both and fail to notice that one photo.

As soon as the Baker campaign learned about the photo (no doubt from a Globe reporter tipped off by somebody with a D after his name), they took the photo down.

So they goofed. And then they fixed the mistake.

If Walsh really wants to go after Baker for being an extremist, he should concentrate on the Hudak angle -- ol' CB himself yukking it up with the guy. Unless Walsh realizes people will get tired of the whining about the same exact issue.

By Anonymous on Tue, 08/17/2010 - 6:53pm.

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