The story is that some asshole Representative from Florida, Adam Putnam, who is the House's 3rd ranking Republican, proudly admits that he aggressively pushed a false smear story about Nancy Pelosi without any evidence to back up his attack.
"This is not about having secure communications and secure aircraft available to her. It's about an arrogance of extravagance that demands a jumbo jet that costs $22,000 an hour to operate to taxi her and her buddies back and forth to California," Putnam told Fox News.Nice quote, jerkoff, but the whole story was bullshit. Pelosi made no such demands; the non-partisan House security people insisted on secure travel arrangements for her. Who cares about the truth though, right!?
Putnam says the opportunity to drive the media's coverage of this non-scandal was "the first break [Republicans] have had from the media in driving our message since before the Mark Foley story broke." So this highly respectable Congressman flat-out admits that his party's "message" is lie, a reality-free attack on the Speaker of the House, and that he gleefully accepted an opportunity to spew his filth.
The strategy is simple - loudly say nasty things about your political opponents and lots of voters will remember the smear and not the debunking. Adam Putnam clearly doesn't give a fuck about the truth, and is willing to say absolutely anything to score cheap political points. This is despicable.
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My name is Adam Putnam too and I want to make it clear on the record that I have no association with the Florida Republican. I deem his politics dicspicable and want my name to have no association. He has killed the creadibility of my name.
There's a politician out there who has my exact name too, though I know nothing about his politics.
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