Remember when legendary Wisconsin progressive blogger Chris "Capper" Liebenthal uncovered the Scott Walker War on Christmas? Well, Capper is back with another Walker email that he brought to the attention of the readers of Cognitive Dissidence, the blog that Capper is the lead author of. This time, Walker sent out an email, in which Walker went full Sarah Palin and whined about the corporate news media in this country, which is, as a whole, conservative-leaning, asking him actual questions about important political issues and political controversies in which Walker is involved in, through his state campaign committee in Wisconsin.
You can read the Walker email here, I'll quote the relevant part of it on here for those of you who don't want to read anything published by Scott Walker's campaign operation:
And he refuses to be distracted by the small, petty, and pale ideas that the "gotcha" writers for the Liberal Media want to talk about. He refuses to be drawn into the sideshow of answering pointless questions about whether or not President Obama loves our country. To Governor Walker, what matters are ideas, issues, his record, and results...
When you have a record like President Obama and the Democrats', the last thing you want to talk about are results. That is why their defenders in the mainstream media love to distract the public. That is why they sensationalize the news, promote Democrat propaganda, and criticize Republicans.
It's 100% clear to me that Scott Walker thinks that the corporate media in this country should kiss his ass and force far-right political propaganda down the throats of the American people, something I strongly disagree with. Outside of FOX News, right-wing talk radio, and other obviously far-right media outlets, many in the corporate news media are at least occassionally willing to ask politicians hardball questions about important political issues and serious controversies, and it's clear to me that Walker thinks that he shouldn't be questioned by anybody. Walker's claim that the corporate news media in this country is only interested in promoting Democratic propaganda is absolute hogwash, as, if the corporate news media in this country was actually in the tank for the Democratic Party (something which I despise just as much as the media being in the tank for the Republicans), Walker would have never been elected Governor of Wisconsin. People like Ruth Conniff, Rebecca Kemble (who, by the way,
is the progressive candidate in the 18th Madison, Wisconsin city council district race in April), John Nichols, and John "Sly" Sylvester, who are all part of an actual left-wing media in Wisconsin, don't have the reach that the right-wing media in Wisconsin, which includes right-wing shock jocks like Charlie Sykes and Mark Belling and right-wing propaganda outfits like Right Wisconsin, Media Trackers, and Wisconsin Reporter, have, since the traditional newspapers and local TV news programs in Wisconsin will repeat the right-wing media's lies without presenting any kind of left-wing perspective on a story. While there is quite a bit of sensationalism in the corporate news media in this country, nearly all of it benefits Republicans electorally.
If Walker wants to talk about his ideas, issues, record, and results, he's one of the worst state governors in American history by that metric. Walker promised that his far-right agenda of, among other things, driving down wages, busting unions, infringing on the rights of workers, women, voters, and people, gutting and privatizing public education, and giving out corporate welfare to his campaign donors would provide at least 250,000 new jobs and a ton of prosperity for the people of the State of Wisconsin by the start of this year, and Walker didn't even come close to meeting that goal, in fact, his agenda has caused the Wisconsin economy to grow at a slower rate than the national economy as a whole over the first four years Walker was in office. Now, Walker wants to, among other things, implement wage theft (i.e., right-to-work-for-less) legislation that many local business organizations in Wisconsin refuse to publicly support and gut the public university system in Wisconsin, both of which would severely hurt Wisconsin's economy.
Now, Walker wants to be president so that he, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, and the rest of the far-right Republicans in Washington, D.C. can, among other things, drive down wages, bust unions nationwide, fast-track the proposed Keystone XL pipeline in order to make America less energy secure, start more wars in third-world countries, take away health insurance from millions of Americans, infringe on the right of women to make their own reproductive health care decisions, install right-wing activist federal judges that would implement a far-right political agenda against the will of the American people, enact more free-trade agreements to ship more American jobs overseas, and allow Wall Street to destroy the American economy again. While Walker will claim to be a moderate and mislead the American people in his likely presidential campaign, we know what the real Walker-Boehner-McConnell agenda is, and if Walker appears on a general election ballot in my home state of Illinois, I would walk through fire if that's what I have to do to get to the polls in order to vote for the Democratic opponent to him.