The award for Saturday's most misleading post
The conservative blog The Outlander wins this one far and away with this unsourced piece of foolishness:
Molly Hughes, blinded by her sycophantic love and adoration for Bill "Slick Willie" Ritter, let it slip that the security for the forthcoming DNC in Denver will cost at least 35 million dollars. This is in addition to the upfront payola to the Democratic Party of at least fifty million dollars.
Which means, even before anything is done the taxpayer is expected to pay almost one hundred million dollars for this nonsense. Yet the Democrats complain endlessly about how much the war in Iraq costs. Furthermore, there is no way the City and County of Denver can break even on this waste of money and resources.
I would've liked to respond to this on The Outlander, but comments there are closed to people without blogstream IDs. I hate linking to posts this flawed, because I don't want to give them any blogxygen. But I have no choice. Because I really want to point out just how silly the right's arguments have gotten:
1. Colorado is spending $85 million - not "almost one hundred million" - to get an event that will inject $150 million to $200 million into the Colorado economy. This is what's known as an investment. The tourism industry is ecstatic. In the unlikely event the convention loses the city money, it will still promote the city to conventioneers across America.
2. The taxpayers did not pony up all the money spent to win the convention. See The Rocky Mountain News:
In late September, the Denver host committee submitted a detailed final bid document. Denver's ability to raise the $80 million needed to put on the convention was the big question mark. Just a few weeks later, though, Qwest announced it would commit more than $5 million to support the convention... Fundraising quickly picked up, with Xcel Energy, Molson Coors and other companies making commitments.
3. The $85 million it cost us to land the convention is nothing like the $9 billion a month we're spending in Iraq. It's not even remotely close. At all. Even a little.
I expect spinning and partisanship in the blogosphere. Heck, I participate in it. But Colorado's rightwing blogs - with a few notable exceptions - cross the line into deceit with disturbing regularity.
Molly Hughes, blinded by her sycophantic love and adoration for Bill "Slick Willie" Ritter, let it slip that the security for the forthcoming DNC in Denver will cost at least 35 million dollars. This is in addition to the upfront payola to the Democratic Party of at least fifty million dollars.
Which means, even before anything is done the taxpayer is expected to pay almost one hundred million dollars for this nonsense. Yet the Democrats complain endlessly about how much the war in Iraq costs. Furthermore, there is no way the City and County of Denver can break even on this waste of money and resources.
I would've liked to respond to this on The Outlander, but comments there are closed to people without blogstream IDs. I hate linking to posts this flawed, because I don't want to give them any blogxygen. But I have no choice. Because I really want to point out just how silly the right's arguments have gotten:
1. Colorado is spending $85 million - not "almost one hundred million" - to get an event that will inject $150 million to $200 million into the Colorado economy. This is what's known as an investment. The tourism industry is ecstatic. In the unlikely event the convention loses the city money, it will still promote the city to conventioneers across America.
2. The taxpayers did not pony up all the money spent to win the convention. See The Rocky Mountain News:
In late September, the Denver host committee submitted a detailed final bid document. Denver's ability to raise the $80 million needed to put on the convention was the big question mark. Just a few weeks later, though, Qwest announced it would commit more than $5 million to support the convention... Fundraising quickly picked up, with Xcel Energy, Molson Coors and other companies making commitments.
3. The $85 million it cost us to land the convention is nothing like the $9 billion a month we're spending in Iraq. It's not even remotely close. At all. Even a little.
I expect spinning and partisanship in the blogosphere. Heck, I participate in it. But Colorado's rightwing blogs - with a few notable exceptions - cross the line into deceit with disturbing regularity.
Labels: blogging and blogs, convention 2008
posted by 300 Spartans Gym at 6:24:00 PM
1 Comments:
but if it were the republicans, any cost would be worthwhile, right?
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