{"id":5777,"date":"2010-07-10T16:36:41","date_gmt":"2010-07-10T23:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/?p=5777"},"modified":"2010-07-11T08:26:32","modified_gmt":"2010-07-11T15:26:32","slug":"what-the-heck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/what-the-heck\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Heck?"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Chuck Muth)<\/em> – The Nevada Republican Party sent out a convoluted press release yesterday, obviously on behalf of the Joe Heck for Congress campaign, that I can\u2019t make heads or tails of even after reading the darned thing four times.<\/p>\n

In it the party first demands an apology from Rep. Dina Titus \u2013 the Democrat incumbent and Heck\u2019s opponent in the fall \u2013 for an alleged attack on Heck.<\/p>\n

Except\u2026.the release doesn\u2019t explain what the attack was, where it was made and exactly what was said.<\/p>\n

And folks, would you PLEASE stop \u201cdemanding\u201d actions that you know darned well won\u2019t be complied with and you have no means of enforcing? The Republican Party is in no position to \u201cdemand\u201d anything from Titus. And what is it going to do after Titus tells them to pound sand? Hold their breath until they turn blue? Stamp their feet? Gimme a break.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the release then accuses Titus of attacking Heck \u201cwith dishonest accusations and hypothetical scenarios.\u201d <\/p>\n

Except\u2026.no explanation is given for what was supposedly said that was \u201cdishonest\u201d or a \u201chypothetical scenario.\u201d <\/p>\n

It then wanders off into seemingly unrelated issues dealing with \u201csustainable jobs,\u201d the stimulus bill, tax cuts, tax hikes and exploding deficits before declaring that Nevadans \u201cwill not tolerate her (Titus) complete and flagrant lies about Dr. Heck.\u201d <\/p>\n

Except\u2026.there\u2019s no description of what Titus supposedly said that is supposedly a \u201ccomplete and flagrant\u201d lie.<\/p>\n

The release then references what Titus supposedly said \u201cin the interview\u201d – without ever saying what interview, with whom or when it took place. It only cryptically references Titus supposedly using the words \u201cscamming\u201d and \u201ctriple-dipping\u201d without bothering to explain exactly what she supposedly said and what she was supposedly referencing and in what context.<\/p>\n

The next paragraph indicates that the accusation about \u201ctriple-dipping\u201d has something to do with Joe Heck\u2019s company, but I\u2019ll be darned if I can figure out what the heck they\u2019re talking about. It slams Titus for her \u201camazing arrogance and stunning lack of basic knowledge of Dr. Heck, with no regard for the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Except\u2026.again, we have no idea what it is they\u2019re accusing Titus of accusing Heck of doing.<\/p>\n

From there, and in the exact same paragraph, the release somehow wanders into Titus somehow making \u201can issue out of Dr. Heck’s service to his country while working for the Department of Defense.\u201d <\/p>\n

Except\u2026.again, we\u2019re left to figure out what the heck Titus supposedly said about Heck that made an issue of his service to our country on our own. I\u2019m guessing even the Great Carnac would have trouble figuring this one out. <\/p>\n

The release concludes thusly: \u201cDina Titus should be ashamed of herself and owes an apology to Dr. Heck and all who put our country ahead of themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, I\u2019m just speculating here, but in reading this release I\u2019d bet you a dollar to a donut that no one from the Nevada Republican Party wrote this press release. I\u2019ll bet you someone from the Heck campaign drafted this flapdoodle and asked the party to send it out under its name to allow Dr. Heck to remain \u201cpositive\u201d and above the fray. <\/p>\n

So the person who really owes someone an apology is whoever drafted this embarrassing release and talked the Nevada GOP into sending it out for them.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t get me wrong. I\u2019m all for campaigns occasionally using the party as the \u201cattack dog.\u201d However, at least make sure the attack from the attack dog is something understandable and verifiable. <\/p>\n

If the Heck campaign sends something this bad to the party again for distribution, the party ought to just stamp it \u201cReturn to Sender.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Chuck Muth) – The Nevada Republican Party sent out a convoluted press release yesterday, obviously on behalf of the Joe Heck for Congress campaign, that I can\u2019t make heads or tails of even after reading the darned thing four times. In it the party first demands an apology from Rep. Dina Titus \u2013 the Democrat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5777"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5777"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5792,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5777\/revisions\/5792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}