Charlie Sykes

With Walker now leading in the polls this was perhaps to be expected. So far it is awfully weak tea, but clearly lefty talkers are trying to peddle rumors (can the JS be far behind) . Here's a story about MSNBC's talker Ed Schultz's rambling speculation on leaks. Despite the efforts by the legal establishment to disparage any criticism of the John Doe process, there are only two possibilities here: (1) This is just a flat out lefty rumor/smear that the Dems are trying to float in their final desperate hours, (2) The Democrat DA is selectively leaking slanted rumors from the "secret" probe to hurt Walker in the final desperate hours.

And the media and the Dems are sick about it. (Note that JS doesn't headline the numbers themselves, just the "timing.") Their unhappiness is understandable, since the JS devoted a screaming banner headline to the bad jobs numbers and Tom Barrett has essentially been running on it. So the new numbers take a wrecking ball to both narratives. But for the rest of us, this is good news:

Wonky, but fascinating. John Koskinen, the chief economist for the Department of Revenue calls BS on the jobs-loss numbers and says other data suggest that Wisconsin has created tens of thousands of jobs.

While I was gone the local media went orgasmic over a year old clip of Governor Walker using the phrase "divide and conquer." This was considered to be big news because, well... it showed Walker saying something that could conceivably be controversial (and because Democrats wanted to use it in their campaign.) So why hasn't this video of the man who says he wants to 'end Wisconsin's Civil war," gotten the same sort of media treatment?