Rogers is becoming the Bizarro Boy Fogle: where McLovin' whined that the Grown Up Media discovered FOIA requests and- once having the file on the "So Gay" scoop Fogle hoped would vaunt him into The Show aced him right out of one of the two "scoops" he claimed when he was still "transforming SC politics" (the other was his legendary Vice President Kaine scoop), Rogers is the gay activist who sulks that SC senator Jake Knotts has sucked all the oxygen out of his righteous, Andre-Bauer-is-gay-claim and made it into a Luv Guv dirty tricks team story.
Two problems are emerging from Rogers' Bauer claim:
1) he doesn't have that impressive a track record in terms of numbers. Most of the people he's outed have been congressional staffers, and when he's bagged a big dog, he's had more proof: Larry Craig, there was a cop's report; Ed Shrock, there was voice recordings; Mark Foley, there was email. In the Bauer story, all Rogers has offered so far is, trust me, I've always been right in the past. And the trouble with actual evidence, as Boy Fogle found with the FOIA requests on "So Gay", is that once the Grown up Media have their own sources they don't need some blogger trying to dole out the dope in order to earn some media.
2) it's just hard to take him seriously when Bauer doubles down and says "prove it" and Rogers responds with this:
Friday, September 04, 2009
"I'm just a girl who can't say no"
So Bauer is directly asked by a reporter... The goodness starts at the 2 minute 24 second mark. As expected it's a non-denial.
...and then runs a photo montage of....cats.
For a blogger who claims to be devoted to truth, it's odd you can't search Blog Active or link to specific posts.
It reminds Waldo of the two-centuries-old controversy over Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: did he or didn't he?
A couple of issues with your blog posting:
ReplyDelete1. With regards to Larry Craig, MR didn't actually prove anything until the infamous bathroom airport incident. That speaks more to vindication.
2. It was someone else who got Mark Foley, not MR. At best, again, he could claim vindication.
3. Ed Schrock - It's my understanding that it was actually another blogger who learned about Ed but he couldn't do anything with it because of personal baggage.
As for Bauer, it's rather astonishing that a guy who keeps boasting of his one hundred percent record would step in it as big as he has - not knowing that Bauer is making national news calling for Governor Sanford's resignation.