Comments on: Media Matters doing what Media Matters does

By: David Marcoe

David Marcoe — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:26:59 +0000

correction: far fewer

By: David Marcoe

David Marcoe — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:07:03 +0000

You didn’t do anything wrong, obviously. I’m just saying that detail in the initial report didn’t sound quite right. It wasn’t and you corrected it. No big deal. If nothing else, the fact that you were getting run over at the time sort of absolves you of anything, but it was a perfectly honest mistake to begin with.

As a general matter, though, law enforcement undeservedly gets second-hand splatter from all the crap spilled by politicians. Whether an honest mistake where due diligence was done, as in your case, or cynical exploitation, the first impression has the deepest impact, with far likely to hear the correction than the initial report. That’s just the way of the world.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:47:44 +0000

Good luck, Jim. When I was having trouble with blood clots a couple of years back, I was under doctor’s orders to strictly avoid grreen vegetables, but that alcohol was fine. I managed to follow that program perfectly.

(I can give you my doctor’s number, if you want.)

Knee injuries are awful things, though.

I know it’s trite to say it, but it could have been so much worse.

By: Raoul Ortega

Raoul Ortega — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:12:08 +0000

Good luck in getting both the truth and some cash to pay for the injuries and time.

You may have to settle for having this arrogant Mario Andretti wannabe being temporarily reassigned to a gardenspot like Searchlight, Nev. for a few months as punishment. (And then getting a new assignment with a higher pay grade…)

By: Floyd

Floyd — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:34:26 +0000

I don’t think he was blaming you at all… just saying that it didn’t sound like Secret Service.

That being said… having been a lawyer for a State (not State Dept.) bureaucracy I can tell you that the federal gov’t is an ass-covering institution. Good luck in getting both the truth and some cash to pay for the injuries and time.

By: Jim Treacher

Jim Treacher — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:27:31 +0000

“I thought it was a little off when he said it was the Secret Service.”

That’s what I was told. When I received new information, I posted it.

If you choose to blame me, instead of the State Dept. employee who drove around making illegal left turns and failing to identify himself, I can’t stop you.

By: David Marcoe

David Marcoe — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:19:37 +0000

A few years back, there was an accusation leveled at the Minneapolis PD about officers who supposedly urinated on an American Indian fellow after they picked him up for public drunkenness. Had all the PC boxes checked off and the guy got the whole activist brigade to turn out for him. DNA testing showed the urine on his clothes was his own. He had pissed himself while drunk and the story was a crock. It completed evaporated, with nary a mention of an apology or any attempt to redress to the harm done to those officers reputations.

By: David Marcoe

David Marcoe — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:56:23 +0000

I thought it was a little off when he said it was the Secret Service. First, occasional abuses aside, our federal law enforcement are professionals held to a higher standard. Not only would something like this result in consequences for an agent–possibly job loss, or least suspension–but the character of the average person chosen to carry the badge is such that I give them the benefit of the doubt. The SS is an organization with a long tradition of honorable service. It’s a shame that their reputation is sullied by the politicians they have to protect.