Joel Connelly, the contumelious liberal columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, who is best known for being duped into thinking that a spoof Mike McGavick campaign web site was for real, reveals his insight and reportorial skills yet again in his column this morning about political endorsements
* The kiss of death: Certain recommendations carry baggage. Burnishing Democratic credentials, Casey Corr likely did not do handstands at receiving praise from the conservative SoundPolitics.com Web site.Sheesh. One day Connelly labels SoundPolitics "vituperative right-wing", a few weeks later he ridicules our positive but restrained comments about a supposed Democrat. Whatever. But more importantly, does Casey Corr view positive comments from Sound Politics as "baggage", or is Joel Connelly just making stuff up? I can't say for sure, but if Corr didn't want any favorable attention at Sound Politics why would he go to the trouble of occasionally sending me personal e-mails with his press announcements (once in April, once in July)?
If Joel Connelly is more comfortable believing that praise from Sound Politics is harmful to one's reputation, I might make a point of saying nice things about him more often.
UPDATE: My good friend Joel Connelly e-mailed the following, with permission to post: --
Oh, c'mon. If you dish it out, expect a bit of incoming: Stefan, you've got about as much defensive armor as a Japanese Zero in the Battle of the Marianas.Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at August 10, 2005 11:06 AM | Email ThisI've been out at district meetings, where Casey Corr is constantly
stressing his Democratic credentials.The Drago campaign is responding by circulating his conservative
columns of the late 1990's.In your item on his entering the race, you referenced exactly the
columns being used by Jan's people to influence the litmus testers.Insult? Hell!! It's something that bears on the outcome of close
quarters endorsement battles, and the race!
Don't say anything nice about Joel for his sake, he loves to be hated.
That's part of why he behaves in such a nauseatingly blockheaded fashion.
That having been said, this is really a great website. Just came across it today, but I already consider it well worthy of donation. This might seem odd for a site with whose opinions I strongly disagree -- but it's no cliche to say that is what makes America what she is.
Dan Santini
(Amused by Conservatives -- at least for now)
The P-I sure has some weird columnists.
Posted by: ScottM on August 10, 2005 01:39 PMYou say, "Hehe ... I think it's comfortably safe to say that SoundPolitics.com benefits more from Connolly's attention than the reverse.
Who cares?
I hope you are able to muster more substance and originality than is readily apparent so far.
Amused by petty liberals (mostly bored)
This from the guy who responds to the mildest of criticisms from readers with fury? Please. What a phony.
Posted by: jsa on August 10, 2005 03:46 PMBut I wonder if his argument could be generalized. Is there, for example, a column or two by Joel Connelly that might be helpful in a Republican primary, in Eastern Washington, or even in the rural areas of King County?
All publicity (well, most all, but I'm assuming you aren't a pedophile or anything like that) is good and draws attention to this site.
And, with that, Connelly is helping you show the rest of this screwed up county just how bad its government is and how crooked Ron Sims truly is. People can see that the lady in the governor's office isn't really the duly elected governor.
Posted by: BananaLand (aka Iguana) on August 10, 2005 06:13 PMHe thinks Shark has thin skin?
Good Grief, indeed.
Posted by: Shaun on August 10, 2005 10:17 PMI'm an amateur naval aviation historian, BTW.
Just thought I'd clarify that little point for y'all.
Connelly, if you're reading this, your historical inaccuracy is surpassed only by your profound predilection for chasing snipes and backing the wrong guy.
Posted by: ERNurse on August 11, 2005 10:12 PM