Sherrod Brown Doubles Down on His Godwin’s Law Campaign Strategy
While Mandel was busy reforming the Treasurer’s office by slashing the budget, earning Standard and Poor’s highest credit rating for the state, and beefing up the state’s investment portfolio, Ohio’s mainstream media outlets, the left-wing bloggers, and Sherrod Brown’s team went to work to paint Mandel as the “Big Lie” candidate, knowing that he would indeed be a threat to their Leftist hero. And so an insidious narrative was hatched.
The excellent site Ohio Watchdog has documented how extensively PolitifactOhio, allegedly a neutral fact-checking organization, has targeted Mandel with their biased ratings:
Earlier this year, most news stories about the Ohio U.S. Senate race … included a reference to Mandel’s supposed troubles with honesty or his specific troubles with PolitiFact, the national fact-checking news organization. … The whole Mandel’s-a-liar narrative traces directly back to the insidious work of PolitiFact Ohio — the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s franchise of the national fact-checking operation — and in particular to the Plain Dealer’s reporter Tom Feran. Feran doesn’t hide his anti-Republican bias, calling Republicans “wingnuts” and “yahoos” on Twitter, cheering President Obama, and sending out a link to an article on “the Cancer of Conservatism.” It’s Feran’s work that supplies the central point of this latest TV attack ad on Mandel: “Campaign Attacks Give Josh Mandel Pants on Fire Crown,” Feran’s July 29 Cleveland Plain Dealer article in which Feran reports on rulings Feran himself made for PolitiFact Ohio. The ostensible point of the ad is that Mandel had been slapped with PolitiFact’s worst rating — Pants on Fire — more frequently than any other politician. Three other articles mentioned in the ad make the same point, that PolitiFact Ohio has often found fault with Mandel. The idea that PolitiFact can tell you that somebody “told the most lies” has been called “meaningless” by PolitiFact’s national editor.
It’s probably helpful to note that Sherrod Brown’s wife, Connie Schultz, was a columnist for the Plain Dealer until she was caught performing campaign-style activities (videotaping Mandel at a Tea Party rally) while covering a story for her employer this past September.
Newspapers and TV stations across the state repeatedly cite PolitiFact as the final arbiter of truth anytime Brown calls foul and sometimes when Mandel’s name is mentioned. The narrative that Mandel is a serial liar shows up again and again in letters to the editor (not to mention the constant drum beat on the leftist blogs, which aren’t even worth linking to).
The NBC news affiliate out of Columbus does its part to help perpetuate the myth in a story so biased it almost seems like satire, describing Mandel as “wallowing in the mud” and “smarmy.”
[Note: The original video from the TV station is unavailable. This clip includes captions from a Brown supporter.]
Have you seen any evidence of (vigorous) support for Mandel from the state and national republican party?
Got a phonecall last night from Freedomworks touting Mandel. And I’m in Toledo.
I’m on the email lists of most of the pols in Ohio. As to Mandel: Kasich has been silent. Boehner has been silent. Portman has been silent. My local state senator & rep, both Republicans, have been silent. It’s like they’re not on the same team. I thought this seat was supposed to be important.
They’re not. Mandel is an actual conservative, while the others are Republicans.
You’ll not see any support from this group of losers. Mandel is Tea Party and the Tea Party is loathed in Ohio here too. Here is SW Ohio the Mandel signs are coming out in full force.
Josh is not liked because he is ‘Tea Party’. That makes him accountable to the people, not to the party. It’s the same in Florida with Allen West. The national party wants members who are ‘loyal’ to the party, just as the dems want loyalty. Strange, I thought the Politicians Loyalty was supposed to be to the country, and the people who put them in office.
There are a lot of RINOs in Ohio. I think they want Mandel to lose. And I wouldn’t be surprised that many of those Republicans In Name Only want Romney to lose. It’s almost October and all those RINOs (Kasich, Portman, etc.) are sitting on their collective asses and not helping Mandel and Romney. IMHO.
Sherrod Brown is a half-bright Public-Administration major, and lying coward, who will never be half the MAN that Josh Mandel, his junior, clearly is. Mandel represents the best of all possible models for America’s youth. He is honest; he is brave; he has LIVED self-sacrifice and service to his country. Sherrod Brown needs to be smartly booted from office. He is a college-trained bureaucrat, a puss, and a disgrace to basic democratic-republic American principles.
True, true. However, this is the prototypical case where a duel is the only just solution. Andy Jackson might’ve been slandered a few times, but not by anybody who wasn’t ready to defend his life. This cuts ‘way down on your critics. When the Constitution was ratified, duelling was still legal in some places, and practiced everywhere. There also existed causes of action for libel and slander, as well as legal punishment for criminal libel. Gradually, duelling has been abolished (when haven’t cowards outnumbered brave men?), and the Supreme Court has effectively abolished libel and slander actions for anyone not living in wilderness Idaho. Result: both cowards protected from physical harm, and honest men left defenseless against liars. Whatever else it is, it isn’t the greatest country ever — it’s not even as good as it used to be.
“Dark Money”, an obvious racist dog whistle…
The anti-semitic blood libel is one which will never die. It is a sickness unto death.
While there are those who are wedded to it due to diseased minds, there are others who use it to further their careers. In fact, to be anti-semitic is to win votes from the left, regardless of their religion or race. Therefore, it makes inordinate political to sense to do what they did, despite its odiousness.
That being said, the left must be beaten back, for the above reason and for so much more. And, Jews who are part of the left machine are the same vile creatures as the rest of them.
See – /2012/06/27/anti-semitism-anti-zionism-takes-center-stage-in-nyc-democratic-primary-race-heres-the-results-commentary-by-adina-kutnickii-2/
/2012/07/01/leftist-dogma-the-same-world-over-freedom-loving-people-beware-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki-32-2/
/2012/07/20/non-quenchable-jew-hatred-jewish-justice-necessitates-revenge-the-more-punishing-the-better-nothing-less-will-suffice-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki-152/
It goes without saying, to blood libel Jews is the most acceptable ‘value’ among the leftist media and their rabid surrogates. But to talk about Muslim jihad, or any other ‘protected’ group (gays, Blacks etc) is to get your head bitten off, and thrown to the wolves, even after it is separated from ones shoulders!
As stated, a sickness unto death.
This is what it means to be a leftist in today’s world.
In SW Ohio I have seen many Mandel signs. Literally the only Brown sign was in front of the union hall.
I live in SW Ohio in the suburbs. It is a pocket that is rabidly anti-Obama and very conservative. It is easy to get lulled into a false sense of security about how elections are going. Lots of Mandel and Romney signs but head into the bigger cities and you may see more Brown and Obama signs. Around my area I have only seen one Brown sign and it was at a union head quarters. Obama signs are few and far between this year in Cincinnati and they were everywhere in 2008.
“…outside spending against Brown has dwarfed that against Mandel (a mere $2.2 against Brown vs. $4.2 million against Mandel)”
I think the names are switched somewhere, as it looks like the spending against Mandel has dwarfed that against Brown.
Thanks for catching that, Eric. It has been corrected to reflect that Brown has the outside spending advantage.
” He is honest; he is brave; he has LIVED self-sacrifice and service to his country.”
In short, everything that is repulsive to today’s Democrat party.
Correct. They are the Taker party now. And if you tote in foreign affairs, they are the Taker/Bower party. And the fact that they have the alphabet/MSM media in their back pocket (as well as Hollywood and Academia) means that THEY are the Establishment party — the party of The Man — the party whose Authority needs to be stridently questioned.
Oh, I’ll just bet Brown hates this guy.
Go ahead, Schmuck (that’s Jewish for something, I don’t EXACTLY recall what, but it ain’t good*). You’re about to find out just how smart some Jews are. Not the dolts who vote for you, though. They’re what are called “cultural jews”, and they are just the most self obsessed, scummy schoolteachers, civil servants and social workers who ever existed. God would disown them, and probably has. Goebbels was a “cultural jew”, as I understand it. They all vote socialist, er, I mean Democrat.
Then we have religious Jews, who, no matter what their sect or their garb, really love God, and respect Him. Cultural jews ever fail to understand how evangelical Christians can find common cause with their Elder Brethren. To that, I have but one thing to say:
These liberal, cultural jews are the same faction who molded the Golden Calf.
“Nuff said. What else COULD be said?
Yeah, my favorite part of Cecil B. DeMille’s “The Ten Commandments” is where the Red Sea parts to reveal a nice hard escape-path to the Sinai, hedged on either side by colossal roiling walls of sea water. And all of Moses people pass through unharmed, while the pursuing Egyptians of Pharaoh are swallowed and destroyed. And then, later on, and I’m not quite sure how much time was supposed to have passed, but whatever, an astoundingly large portion of the Lost People of Israel turn their backs on the God who rescued them from bloody annihilation — who parted the very sea that stood between them and freedom — and decide to prostrate themselves before Aaron’s golden calf idol. And whenever I view that scene, I always ask, how could anyone ever forget the miracle of the Red Sea passage and follow the “easy solution” call of false prophets? I just cannot wrap my head around that. But now I think I understand. The idolators of that ancient time were the original Democrats: not too bright, hedonistic, weak-willed, selfish, and acutely forgetful of the past.
Indeed, the DNC2012 is a “Golden Calf” moment, and not just for our Jewish population. The question for all pastors, priests, rabbis, Imams and those who minister to congregations is, “are your loyalties to a political party more important than those to the tenets of your faith?” How do these religious leaders rationalize their positions on state sponsored gay marriage, state subsidized abortion, taxation vs. charity, HHS mandated healthcare rationing (recall the squabble over limiting Mammograms), state subsidized birth control, etc.? While I understand both sides of the argument for each of these issues, they are clearly not condoned in the Torah, Bible, or Quran. The DNC platform seems to stand against both Constitutional and biblical foundations. How do religious leaders reconcile this with their congregations?
Dr. Lippenheimer, Yes, the Scriptures describe over and over how the “sheep” kept going astray,(they abandoded God and made their own “god”) and then God sent Jesus, the Good Shepherd to love and care for the “sheep” (the remnant), those who hear and listen for the voice of the gentle shepherd. Only a remnant will be found in any “culture” who will quietly listen to the voice of God. People are the same today as in the days of Moses, and it is easy to separate the sheep from the goats if you watch them closely.
Jews, like any other large population, are not monolithic. They too have different personal histories, values and priorities, and many are not well-learned in the thorough tenets and meaning of the Torah. The same can be said of Christians and Muslims, as well.
Also, “schmuck” is a Yiddish reference to penis, and frequently refers to someone who acts out of selfish, animal instincts rather than thoughtfulness.
A Republican Jew who went to OSU and a vet? I didn’t know. We’re such a small group.
Thanks Paula for posting this. I will send a donation to his campaign shortly.
I’ll take a veteran Marine over a 30-year political hack any day of the week.
I’m a Newark Ohio Buckeye… and Brown can rot in Hell with the rest of his media liars.. Their hack “fact” checkers are always quoted by the left wing one party state TV and press outlets..
I never read the Ohio papers.. the Dispatch is a joke.. the Newark Advocate a party organ for Brown.. the Ohio democrat party is as bad as the National.. sometimes even more vicious if that’s possible..
I’m pushing everyone I know to vote for the honest young war hero..
Is there some kind of Jew rule where you gotta tell everyone you are a Jew? Republicans and Democrats alike throw the term Big Lie around, by the way, the first big lie, according to Hitler, is that the Jews are just like everyone else.
Since we never seem to get to the part where we find out what he is supposed to be lying about, this piece seems suspicious to me.
“..according to Hitler”
You’re revealing yourself. Thanks for the heads up.
“Some kind of Jew rule”. This snippet tells me all I ever want to know about you. There are 10 “Jew rules”. You would do well to learn them and live by them.
His use of the noun “Jew” in place of the adjective “Jewish” didn’t tell you already?
I’m one of those who believes the Democrats have no chance this election. First of all, why re-elect a Senate Democrat who refused to help the Republicans get a budget passed? The Republicans couldn’t get a budget passed on their own, yet no Democrat came forward to say it should be done. How do they get away with that? They get away with it because we have a morally bankrupt media in this country who have refused to point that out. Republicans need to bring this up day in and day out. Even though the Republicans have a leadership deficit, with Mitch McConnell in the Minority Leaders chair, they have to potential to retake the Senate and install new leadership that will actually deal with the problems instead of doing business as usual.
My hope is Republicans figure this out.
A link is provided above to Ohio Watchdog, where you can see numerous examples of “lies” Mandel and his campaign have allegedly told. In one case, PolitiFact rated a statement as a “half truth” even though they admitted it was “literally true.” Politifact also claimed Mandel was lying when he referred to Obamacare as a government takeover of health care, saying:
“PolitiFact national recognized it as the 2010 “Lie of the Year.” FactCheck.org called it “nonsensical” and a “whopper,” saying the reform plan is neither “government-run” nor a “government takeover.” The Washington Post Fact Checker classified it as myth.
“It is true that the law does significantly increase government regulation of health insurers. But it is a system that relies on private companies and the free market. Contrary to the claim, more people will get private health coverage. The law does not include the public option, a government-run insurance plan that would have competed with private insurers.”
Politi”Fact” is nothing more than editorializing masquerading as fact-checking. Sherrod Brown has used them to create a mythical “Big Lie Candidate” and has run one of the dirtiest campaigns I’ve ever seen in Ohio.
Sorry, this comment was in response to #11, Ozzy, above.
Read your bio, Paula. Thanks for all you do. Wish we had more in America like you.
I’m far away from Ohio. Reading this sickened me, but it is not unique. I’ve watched good people in politics trashed by a complicit media and hatemongers what seems like my entire adult life, my first real memory Robert Bork.
But it has been my experience that these kinds of insidious lies are not allowed to go on forever. And when the eyes are finally opened, the blowback is something to behold. Let us pray the eyes are opened quickly.
Thanks for the detailed article about this travesty in Ohio politics….Mr. Mandel sounds like precisely the kind of person we so desperately need in leadership roles of the Senate today. I am donating to his campaign today.
Also: O/T—Please see the movie ’2016′, if you haven’t already. If you have, please encourage open minded family and friends to see it. I think it is written just perfectly for independents.
If a decent, capable, and bright young man such as Josh Mandel is destroyed by a loathsome hack like Sherrod Brown as a result of the thoroughly corrupted media liars whom we have unfortunately entrusted with the responsibility of providing us with accurate information and the ignorant sheep-like dolts who may well comprise the majority of the electorate then all is lost for America. Unfortunately, I fear that I have just described the team that has the potential to destroy not just our great nation but freedom-loving civilization in its entirety. The saddest part is that the “dolt” faction of the team may include many of our otherwise best liked friends, co-workers, neighbors, and family members. What we are up against is akin to being in a battle in which your fellow soldier may be just stupid enough to shoot you in the back. We shall soon learn just how bright the average Ohio voter is.
The so called Big Lie is just culture. Every society has to have a set of core principles. Primitive societies have their mythology. Because it is invented as you go it gives the local population a unique identity. More advanced societies with a scientific basis have to invent some type of fiction or novel belief. By accepting it you identify yourself as a member of the group. That, really, is the so called Big Lie. Because the Nazis wanted to invent culture, internal to the party itself, they ended up explaining what they were doing. That was the basis for their Big Lie, the common beliefs that everybody had to pay lip service to.
Democrats have screwed things up so bad, I think they all must have a mental illness.
I would not trust them to walk my dog let alone run the country.
Sherod Brown voted for obama care; I am voting aginstBron and Sutton
It was Sutton who gave us ” cash for clunkers” a misguided and stupid waste of our reasorses.
We can not afford to pay for their constent and everlasting mistakes.
The “Big Lie” strategy, by that name, goes back at least as far as Lenin.
I doubt the guy said ‘Big Lie’ thinking that Mandel was Jewish and that he was repeating Nazi lines.
To Ozzy, our Obamaniac above, ‘Jew-rule’ number one is, “Don’t be an idiot.”
You’ve already been marked down one demerit and the exam has just started.
Since Governor Romney released his 2011 returns and the low esteemed Senator Reid will not. Why not a campaign to get the public servant, most of his life, like the mysterious Senator Reid, Senator Brown release tax returns? Anger for the American public needs to be directed at the career politicians that create no wealth by common principles dating back to early civilization but they end up wealthy like the Senators that have been jumping out of the U.S. Senate. It is time for Senator Sherrod to do what is best for his personal fortune, jump out and remember to pull the rip cord. People that serve our country with no delusions of wealth need our support.
Where is the dog whistler, Chris Matthews? I suggest we rename the dem senator Sherwood Brownshirt and ask for a demonstration of the goose step or whatever they called it.
Brown has yet to run a single positive ad touting his credentials and/or achievements as a legislator. I personally find his 100% negative campaign to be obnoxious.
Similarly, Obama’s campaign has yet to run a positive ad. Not one! What does this say about these two politicians? They should both be run out of office on a rail, as far as I am concerned.
I think practically no one who accuses their political rivals of using big lies know what they’re doing. They have the impression that Hitler was commending the big lie as a tactic for Nazis when he was condemning it as the kind of thing that Jews and Marxists used. They are unwittingly using a Nazi argument when they are trying to insinuate that their opponents are Nazi-ish.
Use of the big lie argument is probably more a symptom of ignorance of its precise anti-semetic (and anti-Marxist) context then it is evidence of anti-Semitism. Google “big lie” on pjmedia.com and you’ll find many many people, who would rather stick needles in their eye then be anti-Semitic making the “big lie” accusation.
…..Jews, Marxists and….the British. Apparently the British got name-checked by the Nazis as by lie specialists. Maybe these people were going for an anti-british angle?