As a follow up to this, yesterday or maybe the day before, the NH Journal (NHJ), New Hampshire’s prominent internet news source if the news is whatever Hynes communications is being paid to call news, decided to float a lie called pin the conservative blogger to Jack Kimball. Someone the NH Journal staff knew would stir the pot was fingered as Kimball’s communications director if he won the job as GOP State party chairman, even though no one–including Kimball and the blogger–knew anything about it until after the digital ink was dry.
The goal for Hynes and Millerick, (owner and editor respectively at NHJ) appear to have been to send the RINO’s into a mad stampede. RINO’s stampede easy so it worked. Some RINO’s were so miffed, and wanting so badly for just such a story to jump on, they picked up the lie and ran with it. (Just like a progressive if that’s not too provocative a statement to make.)
There was a bit of damage control but once it’s out there, it is out there, no different than when CNN or MSNBC does it. But the story did not end there.
Today, we found more dirty work, this time on Facebook, where someone (who is as likely to be connected to Hynes as anyone) put up an ad on facebook to give the impression that Bill Binnie–wealthy moderate and former candidate for the US Senate–was part of the Kimball circle. That part is true enough in the proper context. Binnie can raise money and Jack picked him for that reason, but the ad was meant to connect them in ways that would piss off the libertarians and tie it back to GraniteGrok.com the ads so-called ‘sponsor.’ The problem was that GraniteGrok did not sponsor the ad, and knew nothing about it until someone happened upon it and sent an email.
What ties these stories together is that the lie about the blogger pegged for Kimball’s communications director, is the blogger who owns and runs GraniteGrok.
That’s just too convenient to be a coincidence.
So this looks like a daisy chain of planned fingers in the eye, rolled out in the days before the vote (this Saturday) to peel enough voting members away from Kimball on both sides of his support base, to ensure his opponent Juliana Bergeron, the anointed GOP insider and favorite daughter of the party elites, will win.
Will she win? Too close to call. Would she be a good chairman? I think she would, but she’s a bit old school and I think we need some fresh blood. If she does win she’ll get the same support or haranguing from me as Jack would because I’m not picky about pointing out when I think someone screwed up. But given her support base, (the more connected Republican insiders and first families of the Granite State) whoever is buying up rumors at NHJ has it out for the Grok, which does not tolerate RINO’s or moderate republicans lightly.
Having said all that, let us now consider this.
What the hell is wrong with Bergeron? Why is it necessary for her republican supporters to act like progressives and trash her opponent days before the vote? We should all ask that. And we should ask who paid Pat Hynes to use NH Journal to spread lies for the Bergeron cause? Unless he did it for free.
In either case, you should make a mental note the next time you read something (or worse link to something) by one of NH Journals (or should I say NH Jo-Whore-nal’s) bi-partisan editors or contributors. It could be news, it could be opinion, or it might be a calculated hit piece with no basis in truth whatsoever. How exactly are you meant to know the difference? You are not. That’s the point. You are just a mule with an ass full of cocaine. If you go down they’ll just find some other sucker to carry the lies for them.
There are plenty of suckers. Maybe you should consider not being one of them.
