You may think this conversation is happening, but in my reality, it may not be.
Shifty Walker is at it again—I mean this guy is truly unbelievable (pun intended). His aides appear to have forced a Heritage Foundation scholar who supports some immigration reforms, Stephen Moore, to retract his assertion that he had spoken to Walker on the phone about immigration. From the
New York Times report last week:
Mr. Moore said he had become concerned about Mr. Walker’s stance in recent weeks, but was reassured after a phone call with the Wisconsin governor.
“He said, ‘I’m not going nativist; I’m pro-immigration,’” Mr. Moore recalled of the conversation.
Actually, on second thought, that phone call never happened. Moore
contacted reporter Jonathan Martin this week to say he totally misremembered the phone call, which happened only "three or four weeks" earlier. What? How could it be?
Mr. Walker’s advisers contacted Mr. Moore about his comments in The Times article that afternoon, one of them said the following day. Walker aides were also apparently receiving inquiries from the conservative Breitbart News website, which on Friday night posted an article in which Mr. Moore recanted his account of the conversation with Mr. Walker.
But it was not until Sunday afternoon that Mr. Moore emailed this reporter to say he had “miscommunicated something to you in our interview.”
“The conversation that Scott Walker had on immigration wasn’t with me but one of the principals of our Committee to Unleash Prosperity,” Mr. Moore wrote. “In that conversation it became clear that as I said ‘he is not going in a nativist position on immigration.’ ”
Oh, now we get it. Walker aides contacted Moore because they were getting heat from conservative news sources and suddenly—poof!—Moore never even had that conversation with Walker.
Martin notes this is "the second time this year" that ol' Shifty Walker reportedly told someone something about immigration privately that his aides later denied.