Andy Martin: What makes Mark Kirk “run?”

Andy Martin says Mark’s Kirk’s “escape from the media” on Monday afternoon raises new questions about Kirk’s election strategy.


Andy Martin continues “Kirk Week” with analysis of Mark Kirk’s latest bizarre behavior

Mark Kirk’s flight from the media on Monday creates a new dynamic in the senate race

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Andy Martin says the Illinois U. S. Senate race is catching up with South Carolina

Why did Mark Kirk run from the media on Monday?

How long does Kirk think he can keep pulling Tom Cruise-style escapes from reporters?

(CHICAGO)(June 22, 2010) Monday morning I finished a column on Mark Kirk and the way his antics are now raising questions in the national media. Afterwards, I headed for lunch and ordered my usual (whole wheat bread, roast beef and Swiss, mayo and mustard, lettuce and tomato). By the time I finished my sandwich Kirk has created another campaign incident.

After speaking to a crowd of 1,000 people, Kirk attempted to flee from the event in downtown Chicago. Kirk was pursued by screaming media calling out his name. Kirk ran through kitchens and back doors, to a waiting SUV that drove off into the traffic.

Weird.

Just about all of Chicago’s media had staked out the MPC event, and all media are reporting on Kirk’s “escape.” The best video is provided by WLS-TV Channel 7:

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/
politics&id=7511629

And, again, national media are following Kirk’s peculiar behavior:
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/

So what does all this mean? Even I’m starting to get stumped.

Kirk can’t evade the media indefinitely. Up to a month ago, the media were Kirk’s base. People like Charles Thomas and Andy Shaw were his attack dogs. The Chicago Tribune’s editorial board was Kirk’s cheerleading squad.

A month later, Kirk’s personal life is in chaos, his campaign is in a shambles. Kirk’s inflated military career has become a liability and embarrassment. Even Kirk’s “teaching” experience turned out to be illusory. He was even dumped on by his former nursery school.

Kirk has made his bad situation much worse. The word “misremembered” is probably going to be in dictionaries before long.

Why did Kirk run on Monday? How long does he think he can keep escaping from reporters? Beats me.

Later in the afternoon, I got a call from the Pentagon in response to my Freedom of Information (FOIA) request for all of Kirk’s military records. In the coming days the Department of Defense is going to do a “document dump” and sink “Commander Kirk.”

On and on it goes. Who is advising Kirk? With 45 years of experience in Illinois politics I have never seen a worse statewide campaign. The worst thing Kirk could have done Monday was to run, and he ran. Now every event he attends is going to become a “run” until Kirk is caught. Kirk might think he can explain himself to a friendly audience such as the morons at the Tribune editorial board, but there is no assurance even those gullible bozos will want to coddle Kirk any longer (full disclosure: I am not welcome in the Tribune editorial board room).

The Tribune and Sun-Times and all of Chicago’s mainstream media have egg on their face. Rick Pearson, the Tribune’s creepy reporter who accosted me outside the Union League Club in January, will have to go back to hanging around. Maybe he and Kirk can look for a new nursery school together.

Kirk lied for years. He lied about every aspect of his life, even when there was no need to lie. The media did nothing to check out the facts even after I broadcast statewide ads exposing Kirk as a military imposter and I posted an actual document from the Pentagon confirming that accusation. What more did they want for a starting lead? Still, the media slept.

And the jokes keep coming. Everyone has been laughing at Alvin Greene, the South Carolina Democrat who won a primary under questionable circumstances. But we have our own Alvin Greene here in Illinois.

LeAlan Jones is a U. S. Senate candidate who says on his web site he abandoned the “pressurized world of high finance” at JP Morgan Chase Bank to become a Chicago high school football coach. What does he think the U. S. Senate is if not a “pressurized world?” Mr. Jones has no political experience but he is ready to enter the “world” he already rejected. Mr. Jones may not be quite as inarticulate as Alvin Greene but when asked Monday about future planning in the Chicago metro area all Jones could talk about was the ghetto today. Of course, goofy voters elected Barack Obama, so Jones’ lack of seasoning and experience may not be a handicap. Hey, it’s Illinois.

Something crazy and silly is happening in our national life. We have men and women dying in Afghanistan. We have a Gulf that is saturated with muck. But Democrats are attacking BP executives for going sailing, while our own President Obama is off golfing and attending baseball games. Why is it all right for Obama and Biden to play golf, but not all right for British executives to relax?

Obama knows nothing about the military, and nothing about crisis management. It turns out there really is “no drama” in “no drama Obama.” In fact, there’s nothing at all inside Obama, no drama no nuttin’. [Sales pitch: read my book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask,” that predicted his meltdown.] Obama is the paper maché president. In a crisis, a commander doesn’t take a vacation every weekend, he or she goes down to the Gulf and takes command.

But Obama’s “Commander-in-Chief” credentials aren’t any more authentic than Mark Kirk’s. And so America and Illinois continue to suffer under the yoke of incompetent and fraudulent leadership.

In the midst of all of this negative energy we have Mark Kirk, who gloats he has “clean” military efficiency reports even though he has been admonished for engaging in political activity while in uniform. Who scrubbed Kirk’s personnel files? There is much, much more to come in the Kirk-Navy scandal.

What’s Kirk’s next escape plan? Hide out with Osama? Lay up in Kandahar until election day? Inshallah.

Stay Tuned for the 2010 version of Mark Kirk’s “Pentagon Papers.”

“Kirk Week” continues. And so does the “no drama” drama. Golf, anyone? Or the Gulf?

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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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