Deborah Orin has this to say about Mark Warner’s choice for an internet guru!
IMAGINE the out rage, especially from the Left, if President Bush were to hire an Internet guru who had a past as a Web shill for a worthless dot-com stock.
Nope, Bush hasn’t – but “un-Hillary” 2008 Democratic prospect Mark Warner did just that when he hired Jerome Armstrong and has no plans to fire him, despite new revelations about his past.The Post’s Roddy Boyd recently reported that after a Securities and Exchange Commission probe, Armstrong agreed to a December 2003 SEC settlement that permanently bans him from stock-touting.
Armstrong also signed a court agreement with the SEC that he can’t deny – or let anyone else deny – “any allegation in the complaint” that accused him of touting worthless stock for pay.
But Warner spokeswoman Ellen Qualls said he’s keeping his $5,000- a-month job: “This is a private matter between Jerome and the SEC relating to activities years ago.”
She declined to say if Warner disclosed Armstrong’s SEC woes or if Armstrong, 42, meets the ethical standards required for, say, a White House job, saying Warner isn’t now a candidate.
Dems are madly wooing left-wing bloggers – Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton just hired one and Warner spent $50,000 to dish up sushi and a chocolate fountain for 1,000 at the Yearly Kos blogger convention.
Some Dems suspect Warner fears ditching Armstrong would spark rage from his ex-business partner, Markos Moulitsas-Zuniga of the Daily Kos Web site, who’s had nice things to say about Warner so far.
Armstrong and Kos are often touted as Internet wunderkinds in the 2004 Howard Dean campaign – but Dean campaign manager Joe Trippi and top aide Kate O’Connor say it ain’t so.
Trippi said Armstrong’s role was “mostly to help placing our blog ads for $3,000 a month” and “Markos had almost nothing to do with the campaign.”
Both Trippi and O’Connor – while often at odds in the Dean campaign – agreed that contrary to the Kos myth, Dean’s real Internet stars were Nicco Malley, Mat Gross and Zephyr Teachout.
Trippi also said that Armstrong never disclosed his SEC woes when he was hired in June 2003 – when the SEC probe was well under way, saying: “It was never disclosed to me.”
Several Dem activists were startled that Warner would risk his own image to keep Armstrong.
“Anyone can hire someone who turns out to be a bad seed or problem. The question is what you do about it and what that shows about your own standards as a leader,” said a veteran Dem fund-raiser who had been considering Warner for 2008.
Here is a copy of the SEC Complaint
But…but…It is the Republican “Culture of Corruption” that is the problem!
Please. These is weak.
A non-issue.
haha…ebonics slip up. THIS is weak. A non-issue.
If a Republican was involved, this would be the lead MSM news story for a week. The mapgpies would be screeching “Republican Culture of Corruption!”. It would be huge (to them).
You know this is the truth, SFL. Why don’t you just acknowledge it?
I don’t agree.
What you don’t seem to understand is that the media makes a fuss about Republican “misfortunes” more than others because YOU PEOPLE PRETEND TO BE SO PIOUS, MORAL and ETHICALLY CLEAN.
Your side DESERVES to be taken down a notch or two because you think so highly about yourselves and you look down on others too easily. You have no conservative version of “liberal guilt”.
Your team is overly arrogant and those are the best types of people to expose as frauds or hypocrites.
People LOVE to read about republicans getting in trouble more than democrats because people like to see hypocrites exposed and or put in their place.
I guess they just expect this from the democrats?
You see, the SF Liberal will not even acknowledge the obvious.
#5 What you don’t seem to understand…
…is most everything you post about.
Glad to see the boards working again.
Now regardig the topic, IT’S THE REPUBLICAN CULTURE OF CORRUPTION!
Oh, wait, it’s a Democrite…Well then, it’s okay, there’s nothing amiss, move along, nothing to see here…
“…the media makes a fuss about Republican “misfortunes”more than others because YOU PEOPLE PRETEND TO BE SO PIOUS, MORAL and ETHICALLY CLEAN.”
Really? You mean for the last year the Republican have been hollering about a culture of corruption? Really? Is that what you are saying?
Your posts read like something out of the novel “1984″. Doublespeak/Doublethink. You turn everything upside down.
Have a good weekend and 4th of July. And I just hope you remember on the 4th that it was traditional, Conservative American values that made America great.
“#5 What you don’t seem to understand…is most everything you post about.”
Yeah, that’s REAL mature!
Are you 12?
Of course a Democrat being corrupt is a non issue. They’ve been involved in the vast majority of the corruption cases throughout the last 50 years. Hell I remember the local Democratic Congressman Wayne L. Hayes (D, Oh-18th district) being busted back in the mid 70s. The morons still reelected him. It took a Democratic Congress kicking him out to remove him from Congress. Do you know what Mom said about it? “Well we all knew he was cheating on his second wife with his secretary. He was cheating on his first wife with his secretary before he divorced his first wife to marry his secretary.” He had a secretary on the payroll who blatantly admitted that she did no typing, filing, or any other office duties. All she did was sleep with him, as well as collect paychecks for sleeping with another congressman as well. After being booted from Congress, he then ran and was elected to the Ohio state house of representatives for one term.
Their big war hero John Murtha was an unindicted coconspirator in Abscam years ago. He was only unindicted because he told the undercover agent that he wasn’t interested in a $50,000 bribe AT THAT TIME, thereby indicating that he would be interested in such an arrangement in the future.