Prove it, Scoopy. The ghosts AND that he hasn't read it. You said it's true, so it must be, right? So it'll be easy to prove.

Boy Fogle's at it again, conflating miniscule sums of money into a big scandal. Now's he's slagging off RNC Chair Michael Steele for giving party money- $20,000- to the GOP in some Pacific territories that don't get a vote in Congress but do get to vote for RNC chair.


Fogle adds nothing to the story other than that he agrees with its source that the payment looks like payoff for supporting Steel for RNC chair. The bit he left out from the Hotline story- tellingly-- was this- Lawn Jockey Party honorary chair Massa Katon Dawson- he of the all-white country club, considered making a deal till, apparently, he discovered the supplicants were all little brown people:

Traditionally, the islands vote as a bloc, and in early rounds of voting, that bloc mostly backed ex-MI GOP chair Saul Anuzis. But Anuzis dropped out after 5 ballots, and representatives of the island bloc met with both remaining candidates -- Steele and ex-SC GOP chair Katon Dawson -- to seek a deal.

Insiders said the islands sought a financial commitment from the eventual chair; Dawson refused, and the island votes went to Steele. Steele advisors have denied a deal was cut.

Fogle then adds an unsourced, unsupported dig:

Coincidentally, the news of Steele’s Saipan Sweetener came on the same day he released his new book, “A 12-Step Program For Defeating The Obama Agenda.”

Interestingly, the Hotline story he cribbed says the title is "Right Now." Which, if nothing else, underscores sometime Columbia SC arts (as in defending "the artisans")-critic Fogle's confession, 

I haven’t read the book — 

-after which he adds, 

-and I’m betting Steele hasn’t either — but his ghostwriters probably should have picked “Don’t act like the Democrats” as step one.