It’s Right Down There in the Emm Ess Emm
From this morning’s Baltimore Sun . . .
Silver Spring resident James Henley, 45, is a Libertarian who said he planned to vote for Cardin to balance power in Washington. It’s nothing personal against Steele, he said.”
At the national level, the Republican Party has become such a repugnant institution that I would like to take as much of the control of Congress away from the Republicans as possible,” said Henley, who works in finance for a telecommunications company.
Near as I can tell, my answers to the telephone-poll questions struck the Sun’s analysts as so bizarre that they flagged me for pull-quote follow-ups. “I wonder what else we could get to come out of his mouth?” stuff.
Comment by SomeCallMeTim —
September 25, 2006 @ 8:28 am
Are you a Libertarian or just a libertarian?
Comment by Jennifer —
September 25, 2006 @ 8:55 am
I envy the guy from the Baltimore Sun. I’ve got my share of emergency back-up people to approach for quotes when necessary, but they tend to be insane. It’s very hard to find non-insane people with a deep interest in local small-town politics.
Ever think of moving to Connecticut, Jim?
Comment by Brian C.B. —
September 25, 2006 @ 9:22 am
Well, you could have held forth on Floyd Landis. That would have been entertaining. However, bitching about the abuse of power undertaken a corrupt political machine was appropriate.
Comment by Eric Martin —
September 25, 2006 @ 9:52 am
The dawn of the Big Media Henley era.
I like to think I knew you when…
Comment by Hesiod —
September 25, 2006 @ 10:31 am
I once got quoted by none other than Michael Isikoff, back during the 1992 Presdential campaign.
At the time, he worked for the Washington Post, and he was covering a Ross Perot rally in Michigan.
I showed up (as a Clinton supporter, naturally) but expressed the opinion that Perot had an old-school political charm about him that was remeniscent of Harry Truman.
My idea was to have a Clinton supporter quoted by the national news media saying nice things about Perot. [This was before he demonstrated he was a nut, BTW].
Isikoff got my quote right, but he the contesxt he put it in was questionable, and he even spelled my name wrong.
IN 2000, during the GOP primary, I saw him covering a McCain rally, and introduced myself as the guy he interviewed in 1992, and who’s quote and name he butchered.
He kind of laughed it off.
I also asked him about what were then some electoral shenanginas with polling stations in the South Carolina GOP primary that favored Bush, and he shrugged it off as no big deal.
Turns out that they probably were the precursor for the Rovian election stealing writ large we saw in 2000 and since.
Which only means I have a better nose for news than Spikey Mikey does.
Comment by matthew hogan —
September 25, 2006 @ 6:03 pm
” It’s nothing personal against Steele, he said. . . .At the national level, the Republican Party has become such a repugnant institution that I would like to take as much of the control of Congress away from the Republicans as possible.”
You can tell that was not made here, because it is clearly a QUALIFIED offering.
Trackback by DCDL —
September 25, 2006 @ 8:49 pm
Local Libertarian Blogger Is Voting for Cardin…
Jim Henley of Unqualified Offerings (one of several nonliberal blogs I read frequently) lives in Silver Spring and got hmself quoted in the Baltimore Sun:
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