Illinois crime-fighter and anti-corruption political crusader Andy Martin says the Mark Kirk military fiasco is becoming the biggest political disaster in Illinois history. Martin says the Kirk collapse is unfolding in “slow motion” because Chicago media are so heavily invested in Kirk’s earlier lies.
Tea Party “Terminator” Andy Martin says Mark Kirk is about to become the biggest political fiasco in Illinois history
Andy says the Illinois Republican Party’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy about Mark Kirk’s flawed character will end in disaster
Martin says the Chicago Tribune and Sun-Times are playing “leapfrog” with their stories exposing Kirk as a phony
The Decatur Republican Party office that removed its Kirk poster will not be the last
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Andy Martin says the political “crash” of Mark Kirk is unfolding in slow motion due to the fact that Chicago media and “Combine” Republicans are so heavily invested in Kirk’s candidacy
(CHICAGO)(June 13, 2010) Mark Kirk is becoming the biggest political catastrophe in Illinois political history. Bigger than the Jack Ryan meltdown in 2004. Bigger than Adlai Stevenson’s collapse in 1986. But, unlike Ryan’s fall from grace, Kirk’s implosion is unfolding in slow motion. Why?
Kirk’s demise is a slow-motion video because the local media are so heavily invested in Kirk. During the February primary, media effectively “locked out” other candidates and covered only Kirk. The local media bias and moral corruption was despicable. WLS' "Don and Roma," for example, invited only Kirk on the air. Constantly. Now Don and Roma look like the jerks they really are. Even Channel 7, which provided a debate for senate candidates, used the debate to attack the one candidate running truthful ads exposing Kirk’s maladies (yours truly).
Republican Party leaders were bribed with $50,000 of Kirk's cash. Sleazy Kirk stooge Pat Brady defended Kirk from the truth.
The truth about Kirk was too toxic for media to report and too devastating for Republicans to believe in February.
Now the truth about Kirk is now becoming lethal to Kirk himself.
On Thursday, the Chicago Sun-Times picked up a story from a blog which contained actual Department of Defense documents exposing Kirk for misusing his military uniform to conduct “partisan activity.” Those documents are the proverbial “smoking gun.” I will be surprised if the documents do not become a devastating ad. They are documents convicting Kirk. DOD documents.
Scooped by the Sun-Times, the Tribune is firing back today with a major story that Kirk’s “deployments,” which he brazenly trumpeted for years, were all imaginary. The Pentagon does not consider weekend warriors “deployed” when they activate briefly for training periods:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/elections/
ct-met-senate-kirk-giannoulias-20100612,0,2203077.story
Of course, none of this “news” is “new.” I disclosed all of it in what I called “Bunker Buster” ads in January. But politicians and reporters thought they could get away with perpetrating the biggest fraud in political history: Mark Kirk as the “great warrior.” They pretended not to hear my ads or see my documents. Instead, their primary election reporting parroted Kirk’s “misremembrances.”
Now the same media are destroying Kirk. Republicans are holding back, but not for long.
A sign of the times: a Decatur Republican headquarters pulled Kirk’s poster:
http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?
show=localnews&pnpID=469&NewsID=981648&CategoryID=569&on=1
Finally, the war in Afghanistan is not going well. I will have more to say about that in later columns. As a candidate, I opposed the expansion in Afghanistan. I knew what was coming. Unlike Kirk, I had actually been in harm's way in Afghanistan. I have the experience Kirk only dreams about.
Republicans, with Kirk at the front of the parade, were enthusiastic cheerleaders for the misadventure in Afghanistan. He has not even begun to pay the price for that bad judgment.
When the public finally wakes up and realizes what a disaster Afghanistan has become, Kirk and Obama will ride into the sunset together.
“Veterans” have just begun to mobilize against Kirk. Kirk’s supporters are slowly slipping away, silently in the night. Their own campaigns are endangered by any visible backing for Kirk. Kirk is a disgrace. Ordinary, rank-and-file Republicans are slowly realizing their colossal error in nominating Kirk.
“Don’t ask, don’t tell” may be the prevailing “Republican Party” wisdom about the Kirkster today. But the Decatur Republican headquarters’ missing sign is a telling indication of what Illinois republicans have in their future. It ain’t pretty.
Why do I claim Kirk is going to be the biggest disaster? Bigger than Ryan, etc? Because Kirk could drag down the Republican Party’s statewide ticket with him, in a year when Republicans nationally are winning. You heard it here, first.
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Andy Martin is a legendary Chicago muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of broadcasting background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He is currently promoting his best-selling book, Obama: The Man Behind The Mask and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of www.ContrarianCommentary.com. Martin comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York.
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