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| "One of the kings I met even gave me his crown. Great burgers too by the way." |
The Massachusetts Republican made the comment during an interview Thursday on WTKK-FM, after being asked if it was time to move beyond questions about Democratic rival Elizabeth Warren’s claims of Native American heritage to discuss other issues. Brown renewed his criticism of Warren, but also defended his work as a senator.
“Each and every day that I’ve been a United States senator, I’ve been either discussing issues, meeting on issues, in secret meetings and with kings and queens and prime ministers and business leaders and military leaders, talking, voting, working on issues every single day,” Brown said.
When asked for further explanation about the secret meetings, a campaign spokesman said Brown was “referring generally to private meetings with foreign and domestic leaders.”
“He misspoke when he said kings and queens,” Brown campaign aide Colin Reed said. The head of the state Democratic Party called on Brown to release a list of his secret meetings.
“If Scott Brown rests the substance of his campaign on meeting with royalty, he should tell the people of Massachusetts who he met with and what they talked about,” said Massachusetts Democratic Party Chairman John Walsh.
Hey it's a simple mistake. You meet a guy with a name that you can't pronounce, who speaks in an accent you can't understand, of COURSE your going to assume that he is the king of “Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan" or some other place that Herman Cain could not remember, right?
After all it's NOT like he said this over an over again, or anything.
Oh, okay well THAT'S embarrassing. Can you believe this buffoon now holds Teddy Kennedy's old Senate seat?
So Massachusetts, ready to elect a COMPETENT Senator now?
It should not even be a contest.
(H/T to the Political Carnival.)
Update: By the way, for those who are not sure about how this race is going, there is a LOT of support for Warren, and her campaign contribution numbers are the best in the country:
Since September, she has hauled in nearly $16 million, more than any of the 1,613 candidates officially running for Congress on the March deadline, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
Things are looking pretty good for just about EVERYBODY'S favorite candidate for the Senate.
I was just shocked that the voters of Mass thought this guy was fit to take the set of Senator Kennedy. How embarrassing for Mass. And how shameful.
ReplyDeleteIt is embarrassing that so many were duped by his barn jacket and pickup truck schtick, and it didn't help that his opponent ran an awful campaign. But complacent no more, we are ready to get rid of this buffoon!
DeleteIt wasn't that he was so good, it was that Martha Coakley (sp?) presented herself as such a bad candidate.
DeleteOTOH, ANYONE woulda been better than Brown.
The only "king" he met was the Burger King guy. He should go back to posing for men's magazines. The repobs. really scrape the bottom of the barrel when it comes to intelligent candidates, don't they?
ReplyDeleteWhat about this?
ReplyDeleteWas the special election that sent Scott Brown to the Senate fixed? Jonathan Simon can’t say for sure. He has no proof. Documentation on the tally is hard to come by, since the companies that provide and maintain the voting machines keep the ballots, software and programming secret.
But Simon, executive director of Election Defense Alliance, has some numbers he says raise suspicions about the 2010 election to fill the seat of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy.
The election, pitting Democrat Martha Coakley against Republican Scott Brown, attracted intense national attention because the balance of power, or at least the ability of Republicans to mount a Senate filibuster, rested on it. It would certainly be an attractive target for political trouble-makers.
In the special election, 97 percent of the ballots cast were tallied by optical scanning machines. Those were programmable computers made by the two companies that control 80 percent of the national market. Most of them were programmed, distributed and serviced by what Simon calls the “highly secretive” LHS Corporation of Methuen.
But 3 percent of the ballots were counted by hand, in 71 of the state’s smallest communities. If someone was meddling with the computer tally, Simon hypothesized in an August 2010 report, it might be evident by comparing those results with the percentages for the computer-counted ballots.
Simon established a baseline by looking at the previous two Senate races, where Kennedy and Sen. John Kerry defeated little-known opponents by wide margins. In 2008, the margin by which Kerry won in the optical scan ballots was almost identical to his margin on the hand-counted ballots – a disparity of just 1 percent. For the 2006 results, the numbers were similar, with Kennedy taking 69.5 percent of the vote on the opscan ballots and 68.9 percent in the hand-count communities.
Simon checked a third lopsided race, the attorney general contest Coakley won in 2006 and, again, the hand-counted electorate matched up closely to the optically scanned electorate. The disparity in results in that race was just .8 percent.
So it turns out that the small towns that still count ballots by hand are a diverse group, including liberal enclaves like Provincetown, Wellfleet, Wendell and West Stockbridge as well as more conservative towns like Hudson, Millville and Shirley. Added together, they almost exactly match the political profile of the rest of the state. By voter registration, the hand-counted towns run more heavily Republican.
But 2010 was a different story. In hand-count communities, Coakley won, 51.4 percent to 48.6 percent. On the optically scanned ballots, Brown won, 52.6 percent to 47.4 percent for Coakley. That adds up to a disparity of 8 percent.
That disparity “stands as an unexplained anomaly of dramatic numerical proportions,” Simon writes. It raises questions he can’t answer, but he concedes it proves nothing. It certainly doesn’t prove anyone falsified the tallies made by computer.
But it is curious enough to make you wish someone was double-checking the results. Unfortunately, Simon says, there was no systematic audit of the vote-count, and no spot checks were made to see if the results generated by the machines matched the ballots fed in. The voting machine companies don’t permit officials to examine the ballots in the machines, the memory cards inserted in them, or the computer codes that run the system.
Another election is just months away, and again Massachusetts voters may determine the balance of power in the Senate. Can we trust the computers, and the private contractors who control them, to give us an honest vote-count?
Rick Holmes, opinion editor for the Daily News, blogs at Holmes & Co. (http://blogs.wickedlocal.com/holmesandco). He can be reached at rholmes@wickedlocal.com.
And this is exactly the kind of thing that scares the life out of me in regard to November's election.
DeleteThe right has corrupted the system, learned how to excel in fraud, and gamed the process so that they cannot be exposed. And if those steps fail, they have their activist judges on the local, state and Supreme Court benches to give them the outcome they want.
The video is hilarious.
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of Palin claiming fireign policy credential due to Canada border AK and that Russian land can be seen from a place in AK.
I thought, guess I am an international diplomat like all cruise line passengers seeing or near foreign land...wait...we actually set foot in foreign soil.
Nothing says "crazy" like that Palin quote or shouts unfit for office or heading up a bake sale!
I just wish I lived in MA so I could go door-to-door for EW and stand on street corners telling the truth about their village idiot,SB. I would love to have a Senator of her caliber. But, I have to suffer with the likes of Alexander and Corker - yuk!
ReplyDeleteOh, my!
DeleteBless your heart! At least I have Claire-bear, even if she is cancelled out by Barf Blunt.
And the voting machine gremlins are undoubtedly busy getting ready for November. I have no confidence in those machines.
ReplyDeleteSomebody needs to tell him that the kings and queens he meets at the poker table don't count.
ReplyDeleteGryphen's got a girlfriend....
ReplyDeleteShe's cute, too. And wicked smart.
Oh, yeah, and Scott Brown's a doofus.
He's certainly not the sharpest tool in the shed.
ReplyDeleteWatch the video!
ReplyDeleteThat ad kicks ass!
Warren 2012!
OMG that ad is painfully brilliant! Talk about skewered! What an incompetent Brown is.
DeleteLynnrockets did a song about this:
ReplyDeletehttp://lynnrockets.wordpress.com/2012/06/22/scott-senator-centerfold-brown-gets-a-royal-flush/
Sounds like one of the BILDERBERG clan...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/31/bilderberg-2012-global-le_n_1558788.html
Not to beat a dead horse,but just compare Elizabeth Warren's (or, for that matter, Martha Coakley's)
ReplyDeletebackground and education to Sarah Louise Palin's.
Warren did not come from money, worked her way through college and law school, practiced law from her kitchen table for a while --- but is SMART, so she persevered. She has some children, whom I vaguely remember are grown and doing well, but -- they don't have reality shows of their own! They don't have illegitimate children! They don't complain that the world has done them wrong!
Neither does Eliz. Warren: when she sees problems, she looks for and works for and thinks about SOLUTIONS. That's what separates the Palins from those who succeed. WORK.
This guy is as nutty as they come. I would also hate to be his daughter. What a fool.
ReplyDeleteI actually met the President of Ireland some years ago - and have a photo to prove it. Does that mean I'm qualified for his job???
ReplyDeleteSeriously, the fact that this is even a close race, according to the polls, is am embarrassment to MA and to the rest of the country.
Wake up, people!!!
Kings and Queens? Has Scotty been hanging around with Sarah? Or at a drag club? Or is just a delusional GOP whack job? And it is VERY interesting that the results of his election were sealed so no one could go back and check the results. Sounds a bit Rovian to me. Come on, Liz! All of America is rooting for you!
ReplyDeleteIn that last picture, is Elisabeth measuring something she saw in a magazine?
ReplyDeleteHA HA HA!
DeleteIf so, Liz is being extremely generous, I'm sure.
Ever since I saw Scott Brown on the stage beside Mitt Romney during the Coakley vs. Brown campaigns, I have thought Brown looked more like Mitt than Mitt's own boys do and I still think that. I know, I know, stupid thing to say but put their photos side by side. He shares some of Mitt's personality quirks: ego, lies, pretense of "I'm just a regular, truck-driving guy".
ReplyDeleteAfter MA elects Elizabeth Warren, Mr. Brown can go back to driving a truck.
DeleteMassachusetts, what did Brown do for you?
In that photo of EW,is she telling us something that, perhaps, we don't know. (We already know he's a dick.)
ReplyDeleteAttention Mass. voters!!! Do not make the same mistake John McCain made in 2008 by choosing an inferior person because of good looks/sex appeal. Oh yeah, you already chose Scott Brown once. But, remember, this time you have the wonderful opportunity to elect a GEM in Elizabeth Warren! True, Brown has some good instincts BUT he is really kind of dumb, don't you think? No, he's not exactly a male version of Sarah Palin but he HAS made a fool of himself far too often despite the fact that's he's real nice to look at! Those of us who don't live in Mass. envy you folks in so many ways... but NOT because you have a sorta hot Senator.
ReplyDeleteI'll have to watch for Scott Brown this coming weekend I guess at the 3 Gay Pride parades in my city - The Trans March, The Dyke March and the Pride Parade -- yes, we have 3 marches/parades.
ReplyDeleteSo possibly Brown will show his mug sometime within the 10 day Pride celebration as it can then be said he 'spoke to Kings and Queens!!!!'
I don't use drugs, but I tell ya ~wink~ I'd like to try whatever hallucinogen he's been using. LMAO
ReplyDeleteMeeting with kings and queens MY ASS... gimme soma that!
I thought he meant that he met the King of Queens, Kevin James.
DeleteI really dislike that word. "Misspoke".
ReplyDelete"To speak inaccurately". Long way of saying LIED.
I love all the "other times" speaking to Kings & Queens too. . .
ReplyDeleteSOFTWARE-PRIVATE CONTRACTORS-PROGRAMMING. . .looks like the "secret" program code for vote tally for Martha Coakley could have just been a mathematical MINUS 3 and for Scott Brown could have been a PLUS 4. . .(or thereabouts mathematically)there was an excellent political documentary (Netflix) about coding/programming software tallies. . .YIKES cannot remember the name right now!
He's such an idiot. Remember when he "auctioned off" his daughters during his acceptance speech? AWKWARD, just like Mittens.
ReplyDeleteI love Liz, she's sharp as a tack, quick on her feet, and she has a knack for explaining the complex in terms everyone can understand.
secret meetings with Kings and Queens bwahaha!
Yeah, he looks like the type to have a secret meeting with King Friday.
Practiced law from her kitchen table for a while --- but is SMART.and have a photo to prove it.
ReplyDeleteTo be fair, all of the queens that Scott Brown visited were merely guys in drag.
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