PHONE HOAX: INVESTIGATE WALKER, FOX

PHONE HOAX: INVESTIGATE WALKER, FOX
It is without a doubt that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. This time-tested idiomatic expression might as well have its headquarters in the political arena. John Edward described himself as narcissistic, when busted cheating on his wife. Tom Delay (his sentencing is being delayed), was blinded by his near invincibility as the “hammer.” Abramoff, you know him for his lobbying shenanigans, and subsequent imprisonment. John Hansen annexed the wife of an ex-staffer with impunity, just to mention but a few; and now Scott “Gadhafi” Walker of Wisconsin.
Between Scott Walker and Governor Kris Kristy of New Jersey, a competition is a foot as to who could treat public employees most contemptuously. Verbally, Kristy has treated state civil servants more discourteously than any one state chief executive. He has elevated the annoying habit of bad-mouthing to a state’s craft. Scott Walker himself has excelled in many fronts. He has walked truth on its head. He is hypocritical, and clearly unintelligent. The recent phone prank is an eloquent testament that his is not just dumb, but also narcissistic.
I have listened to the entire phone conversation, and one segment is manifestly troubling, and that was where the governor hinted that he had considered planting troublemakers among the thousands of Capitol protestors against his proposed union restrictions. This got me thinking. Just two days into the protest, commentators, news anchors, and their guests in FOX television introduced the talking point, “this will turn ugly, and violent.” They continued to compare what was happening in Madison to the violent protests that ousted Mubarak of Egypt. The question for me now is, what did the people at FOX knew the rest of us did not? Was FOX trying to prepare her viewers for the violent and mayhem they knew was coming?
This type of yellow journalism and politicking is vintage Karl Rove. Remember, that he said also on FOX just a week ago, that the “Birther” movement (those who believe and canvass President Obama was born in Kenya) was orchestrated by the White House. There is nothing FOX and the Republican will not say or do for political expediency. Back to the prank phone conversation, it is disheartening to think that a state executive and chief security officer will ever consider endangering the lives and properties of the people of his state just to score a political point. It is therefore, left for law enforcement agencies in the state to step up investigation into the chilling details of the phone conversation, and to also decipher what FOX knew relative to the plot to foment trouble.