Andy Martin: national media begin to question Mark Kirk’s sanity

Illinois corruption fighter Andy Martin says the implosion of Mark Kirk’s campaign will be one of the major stories of the 2010 election cycle. Chicago media have imposed a cordon sanitaire on negative coverage of Mark Kirk, seeking to rescue the delusional congressman from his own mendacity. But media outside Illinois are coming to another conclusion: Mark Kirk has mental problems. A Washington Monthly blogger suggests Kirk has a “problem.” Kirk’s misrepresentations and exaggerations continue. Leftists give Kirk a new campaign theme: “The Great Pretender.”


Andy Martin continues with “Kirk Week”

A blogger for the Washington Monthly has breached the media membrane: Mark Kirk may have mental problems

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Washington Monthly blogger Steve Benen suggests U. S. Senate candidate Mark Kirk has a [“mental”?] “problem”

Kirk apparently exaggerates Giannoulias “goon” video

Leftists assign a theme song to Kirk: “The Great Pretender”

Where was Dan Seals?

(CHICAGO)(June 21, 2010) The Mark Kirk credibility dam has burst. The first out-of-state blogger has published a column concerning Mark Kirk’s [“mental?”] “problem:”

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/
individual/2010_06/024340.php

It was just a year ago that my senate campaign started questioning Mark Kirk’s credibility. We launched a massive research and investigation operation looking into the Kirkster’s past. The result was a blog with actual documents showing U. S. Senate candidate Kirk was a liar about his military service: www.MarkKirk.us. We ran statewide radio commercials exposing Kirk as a fraud:

http://www.andyforussenator.com/andys_ads.htm

In response to my documentary evidence that Kirk was a military fraud, the Illinois Republican Party announced that it remained “united” behind the military mountebank:

http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/
2010/01/il-republicans-unified-behind-mark-kirk-
chairman-brady-tells-reporters-.html?cid=6a00d834515c5469e2013484ae057a970c

Even after the primary we kept digging, filing Freedom of Information Act requests. And while local media continue to minimize or ignore Kirk’s lies, national media have become fascinated with Kirk’s lies. In less than a month Kirk has gone from a frontrunner to a joke.

Last week the New York Times demolished Kirk’s “teaching career” and showed his “experience” was nothing but another Kirk fib:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/19/us/
politics/19kirk.html?scp=3&sq=%22Mark%20Kirk%22&st=cse

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/17/us/
politics/17kirk.html?scp=1&sq=%22Mark%20Kirk%22&st=cse

Saturday I held a news conference and disclosed Kirk’s “teaching” in London violated United Kingdom law. He was acting as an “illegal alien.”

And over the weekend Steve Benen, a blogger for Washington Monthly (see above), breached the dam and suggested Kirk’s exaggerations rise to the level of a mental problem. I have not had any contact with Benen, and have no idea who he is. But I have been posting claims for some time that Kirk has a personality disorder.

Now that the issue of Kirk’s sanity has been raised by an out-of-state writer, Kirk is doomed. The implosion of his campaign will be one of the most bizarre stories of the 2010 election campaign cycle. In 45 years of political involvement I have never seen anything like Kirk’s record of lies and delusional claims. People outside Chicago have begun to notice.

My mother used to be a speech teacher at the University of Illinois, and is now a retired speech professor. She always told her students that ridicule is one of the most powerful forms of rhetoric. Kirk has now become the target of ridicule. He is doomed.

In the meantime hard left blogger Ellen Gill has provided a campaign song for Kirk: “The Great Pretender:

http://ellenofthetenth.blogspot.com/2010/06/
kirk-campaign-theme-song.html

Kirk’s exaggerations keep catching up with him. His latest claim, that his campaign was attacked by an Alexi Giannoulias “goon,” appears to have been another act of dissembling and exaggeration:

http://republicannewswatch.com/wp/?p=6668

Finally, Democrats are now wondering about their own man who is running to replace Kirk, Dan Seals. Seal ran against Kirk in 2006 and 2008, and never uncovered any of Kirk’s lies and exaggerations. How did Seals spend tons of cash, and never develop a research capacity to expose Kirk? Seals would have four years of congressional seniority behind him if he had run a competent campaign against Kirk. Seals is now the Democratic candidate in Kirk’s old congressional district for the third time. In Illinois, nothing succeeds. Like failure.

Stay tuned: “Kirk Week” continues; and “The Kirkster” continues to churn out new lies and exaggerations.
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Andy Martin is the legendary New York and Chicago-based 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." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative 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 (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

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