Nemitz goes to bat against LePage - strikes out

What would you expect from a "journalist" that posts under a fake name on Daily Kos.

Does he?

What about the classic method for dropping an unsubstantiated claim:

"I'm told that a reporter at yet another press conference that day, in Bangor, "

Not "so and so told me," or anything else specific.

I knew a government Project Mgr that loved to taunt us that way: "I've been told that...." Or if you asserted something to him, "that's not what I've been told....."

The question, Billy, is what haven't you been told?

By the way, from personal experience having been called by Billy for one of his columns a while back, I don't give him an ounce of credit for ethics or integrity.

Yes Tom, I remember people posting in here about how some of his articles were linked into Kos and people on there saying they were friends of his, etc.

Nemitz can't even deny there was swearing by reporters, but questions the cause and effect. Weak on his part.

I've been told that Libby Mitchell claims she has been working for more than 30 years to make Maine a better place.

Why don't you run that one to ground, Billy-boy?

From Mitchell's Senate bio:

"During her time in the legislature she has been a tireless advocate for education; successfully championing legislation to improve Maine’s K-12 and higher education systems and sponsoring first in the nation legislation that used state funding to expand the Head Start program."

"by calling on everyone, regardless of party, to work together to increase opportunity for Maine people by creating jobs,"

And from her campaign web site:

"And my vision for Maine is a place we all want to call home, a place where health insurance is affordable, a place where capital is available, and a place where regulation is understandable and predictable."

Nothing about jobs, but even still, she and the rest of the majority's lifetime legislators have spent their time in office doing exactly the opposite.

Could you find time to look into this, please, Billy?

Compared to his last column, I thought that the one this morning was a bit over the top - almost bordering on the hysterical. As previous posters have, I believe, correctively noted, this will further stiffen the resolve of the LePage backers. I also believe that the average Mainer has some sense of fair play, and will also see that this effort has reached the stage of piling on. Obviously the Mitchell and Cutler supporters will continue to chortle in agreement. Certainly the Rasmussen poll would indicate that at this point that little damage has been done. Based on conversations with many of my democrat friends, I think Cutler is doing far more damage to Mitchell - especially in the greater Portland suburbs.

Intersting comment Mr. Magoo. I heard the opposite may be happening, or may happen at election time that the 'intellegent democrats' may vote for Mitchell. Confusion in the enemy camps? Including the media.

Lepage is out raising Culter by a significant margin of almost 4 to 1.

He has had over 2235 contributors to his campaign, raising over $737,000. Contributions have been mad from every county in the State.

Culters contributions come primarily from himself and from out-of-staters. Seventy-three percent of the contributions have come from himself and non-Maine addresses, including seven from overseas locations.

It begs the question of whom will Culter represent, when only 33% of his supporters, and 27% of the money raised are from Maine?

If Lepage runs state government like he runs his campaign, Maine is in good hands. Since the race began he has spend $303,000 and has $522,000 left in the bank.

Even in Culter's home territory of Cape Elizabeth, South Portland, Scarborough without any fundraisers Lepage has only two less donors and the raised same amount of money since the July 20th report $19,000.

Mitchell of course is spending tax-payer money.

As of the end of the reporting period 9/21/2010 cash and loan balances were as follows:

Mitchell: $578,380
Lepage: $522,727
Culter: $91,228

Both Cutler and Lepage had loans outstanding of $440,000 and $86,000 respectively.

It is surmised by insiders that both Cutler and Mitchell have been spending primarily on TV adds, and buying for the upcoming sprint to the finish.

The poll numbers not-with-standing, I am encouraged, but it ain't over 'til the fat-lady (Mitchell) and fatuous man (Cutler) sing. Er, I mean cry....boohoo, boohoo! LOL.

Compared to his last column, I thought that the one this morning was a bit over the top - almost bordering on the hysterical.

It was hysterical all right. He places the bar pretty low - "Not a truth stretcher. Not an exaggerator. Not a fact twister." Then Nemitz, himself, manages to trip over it.

He should fact-check what Arden Manning is feeding him.

Doesn't he know by now that Manning is probably a tea-party plant?

LTTE

Posted: October 9

Another View: Columnist should give the governor more respect
Bill Nemitz's latest open letter to Gov. LePage makes a mockery of political debate.

...snip

Dear Mr. Nemitz: Have you ever shown respect for anyone whose opinion or ideology may differ from yours?
..snip

From the moment he was elected, you have been insulting, condescending and downright rude. ... some of your readers may enjoy the slander and garbage... but frankly it has become very boring. Your writing skills need to be tempered with an appreciation for all who read your column.

.....

- Barbara T. Ladner, Wayne.

Source

*********

Naturally, the Cavalcade of Harpies is in full swing.

At a recent large fair, the PPH had a table. I told the guy that I get the paper but that I didn't really like Nemitz's hysterical anti Republican obsession. The guy admitted that he hears that all the time and that the guy isn't well liked, even among people at the PPH. He said that his basic goal is to bring attention to himself. This from a person promoting the PPH.

Posted: December 22

Bill Nemitz: Hark, the Herald’s avenging angel s(t)ings

‘Twas the week before Christmas and all over Maine,

The poor folk were mired in holiday pain.

They’d spent the past year making minimum wage

And getting called names by a guy named LePage.

Read the rest here, if you can stand it -- keep the Tums handy.

**************

More like Nemitz' "Avenging Angel Stin(k)s." What a fetid load of old codswallop. It's not even good "purple prose."

PS - fun sidebar - I posted the following comment on the page. It was removed, because Nemitz or someone whined to the moderators. lol

---------------------

"Dear Mr. Nemitz - Merry Christmas; and here's a really valuable hint - never, never hit the "good" eggnog before hitting "send."

"Dear Mr. Nemitz - Merry Christmas; and here's a really valuable hint - never, never hit the "good" eggnog before hitting "send."

lol. A little to close to home, perhaps.

I've noticed on both the PPH and BDN comments sections that conservative posts might be deleted if there are too many "likes."

Rep. McKane,

I read about 50 reader comments below the Nemitz column. I implore you and your colleagues to implement the necessary policies to take the unemployment rate to zero as it is clear that too many Mainers have too much time on their hands.

P.S. This column would get an "A" if it were the work of a junior high student. For an allegedly accomplished writer it deserves a "P" for Pathetic.

Naran, If that comment merits removal, that message trumps anything Nimwitz says on his own.

I'm going to ponder this and try to come up with something from the 'creative economy.'

Like:

Roses are red, violets are blue;
Tulips shut up, why can't you?

There is a hidden message behind Nemitz's cowpie of a poem, though.

On his trip to MSHA on the 20th, during which he reportedly had a private interview with Dale McCormick, and then sat through the board meeting, complete with a detailed discussion of the debacle in Norway that reflects badly on MSHA and Avesta Housing, he saw only things that would indict the reigning D ruling class over the last 30 plus years, and cast unwelcome sunshine upon MSHA, their stewardship of billions in taxpayer funding over the years, and their oversight of Maine's taxpayer subsidized housing stock. Not to mention the hackorama behind the scenes.

And the almost made it $314,000 Elm Street 'affordable units,' and the less than gracious treatment of visitors hoping to attend the 'public meeting.'

In stead of an 'embarrassment of riches,' the MSHA landscape is providing 'riches of embarrassment.'

In other words, any reporting he did on the meeting would have to be counter to his standard narrative and template, and so he had no choice but to resort to juvenile, strident offerings. Especially since others were there, video recording the meeting. Billy would have a problem making his biases stick to the wall, given the facts that unfolded.

Unless we hear otherwise in the next few days, consider his poem a backdoor 'admission that the efforts of Bruce Poliquin, Peter Anastos, and the other new MSHA board members was long overdue, and is paying off. And a major embarrassment for the status quo of recent decades. Which makes it an embarrassment for Bully Billy and the other paragons of objectivity and government watchdogginess.

But for you, Dale, you can consider the poem a Christmas kiss from Billy, in a similar backdoor fashion

I posted links to the Norway issue on another thread.

Start imagining MSHA times 20 or more, and you might begin to get a mental picture of the incompetence, complacency, and 'what, me worry?' pathology that infects government in Maine. Now multiply that by 1,000 or more, and imagine that as your federal government.

Boy, do we have a great future!

Thank you, Mel, FLNext, and Rep. McKane.

I liked it.

You liked what -- Nimwitz poem?

How sad it is that an issue cannot be dealt with some objectivity over how any concerns are being raised!
That is the problem , it is no longer how MSHA does anything ,it is because the administration is questioning a function of goverment!

I must admit I recently had a new temptation placed before me!
That would be seeing BN walking across a dark parking lot at night at Trader Joes' !!!!!!
Mrs. Libby advised not w/ her car!!!!

Mid-Coast Mainer said: "I liked it."

Apparently Maine's Mid- coast is a hotbed of liberal ideology. No amount of facts will overcome a closed mind. Apparently, Mid-Coast Mainer longs to return to the glory days of the Baldacci administration when all the state agencies were models of efficiency.

Maybe MCM just likes really, really bad poetry.

Is there any other kind?

Try this:

Sonnet #43, from the Portland News

By Billy Barrett Nemitz

How do I hate thee? Let me tell you LePage.
I hate thee to the depth and breadth and rage
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal scorn.
I hate thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I hate thee freely, as men strive for left;
I hate thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I hate thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's spite.
I hate thee with a bile I seemed to lose
With my lost saints!---I hate thee with the breath,
Smirks, tears, of all my life!---and, if God choose,
I shall but hate thee better after death.

Naran wrote:
"Dear Mr. Nemitz - Merry Christmas; and here's a really valuable hint - never, never hit the "good" eggnog before hitting "send."

Tom C wrote:
lol. A little to close to home, perhaps.

----------------------------

So it would seem, Tom. Three days later, and the PPH Reader Comment Gestapo is still deleting any comments from me that are the least bit critical of Susan Cover, Diane Russell, the Olbermann "award" to Governor LePage, Vladacci,* or anything remotely connected to pro-conservative causes.

Maybe Nemitz is moonlighting as a moderator, for the Christmas money.
lol

Either way, I hope Santa brought them some new dermis for Christmas, because their own supply seems to be getting mighty thin.

**********************

* (Vladacci = Baldacci).

Melvin Udall - the Bard of AMG!

I shall but hate thee better after death.

lol!

"We know that he has, more than any other man, the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought."

Good one, werf.

Thanks, MELVIN. That was Winston Churchill's characterization of the speaking style of Ramsey MacDonald. the famously prolix first Labour P.M.

Melvin - I would entreat you submit said "Sonnet" to the PPH, that it might be more widely shared amongst our brethren.

In fairness, if such lines be deemed "fair game" for their pages when emanating from Nemitzes, surely the PPH wouldst be generous in making other such offerings available, to All and Sundry.

:)