You’ll have to forgive Right Wisconsin for chortling over Democrats’ eating their young:
A day after RightWisconsin reported some of liberal radio host John ‘Sly’ Sylvester’s critical comments comments about Democratic candidate for governor Mary Burke, Sly took to the airwaves to report that Democratic Chairman Mike Tate was unhappy with him.
“I got a text today from the Chairman of the Democratic Party. And it went kind of like this: “Dude, what are you doing here? You’re not helping us win here brother.”
Tate was reacting to the RightWisconsin piece that quoted Sly’s Friday comments on Burke at length. RightWisconsin’s story read in part:
“I’m not getting on this train,” said Sly on Friday. “I couldn’t live with myself.”
“This woman and her brother are responsible for putting people out of work and shipping the jobs to China,” said Sly. “When she went on the snowboard sabbatical do you think she thought about those unemployed people?”
Sly, a stalwart progressive and protectionist who has championed the labor uprising in recent years taps into the serious hypocrisy of the Democratic Party’s choice of Burke and why grassroots progressives are not thrilled.
“She’s Mitt Romney in a red dress,” explains the Monroe radio host. “Look at how much money was spent to paint Mitt Romney as an out-sourcer. The hypocrisy here. I don’t know if I could live with myself.”
Expressing his belief that Mike Tate and the Democrats chose Burke for her personal fortune, Sly called Burke “a wallet.” And as for her promise to not make any promises, particularly on a pledge to repeal Act 10, Sly called Burke a “coward.”
Sly didn’t apologize or retract any of his statements about Burke emphasizing, “when someone does something contrary to my core beliefs, I can’t let it go.”
Give Sly credit for consistency … so far. As Right Wisconsin previously reported:
The liberal blogs have been merciless in their treatment of Burke. And now liberal radio host John ‘Sly’ Sylvester has declared that he would be “the biggest hypocrite in the world” if he endorsed Burke for governor due to her past as an executive for the Trek bicycle company that has moved much of it’s manufacturing facilities overseas.
“I’m not getting on this train,” said Sly on Friday. “I couldn’t live with myself.”
“This woman and her brother are responsible for putting people out of work and shipping the jobs to China,” said Sly. “When she went on the snowboard sabbatical do you think she thought about those unemployed people?”
Sly, a stalwart progressive and protectionist who has championed the labor uprising in recent years taps into the serious hypocrisy of the Democratic Party’s choice of Burke and why grassroots progressives are not thrilled.
“She’s Mitt Romney in a red dress,” explains the Monroe radio host. “Look at how much money was spent to paint Mitt Romney as an out-sourcer. The hypocrisy here. I don’t know if I could live with myself.”
Expressing his belief that Mike Tate and the Democrats chose Burke for her personal fortune, Sly called Burke “a wallet.” And as for her promise to not make any promises, particularly on a pledge to repeal Act 10, Sly called Burke a “coward.”
There is some irony on Sly’s accusing Democrats of choosing Burke for her supposed ability or willingness to self-finance her campaign. The Democrats spent tens of millions of dollars on the 2011 and 2012 Recallarama with nothing beyond temporary effect. Walker is still in office, Republicans still control both houses of the Legislature, and conservatives still have a majority on the state Supreme Court.
One thing this demonstrates is that talk-radio hosts should never align themselves too closely with political parties. The purpose of political parties is to get their members elected and reelected, first and foremost. The Democratic Party would nominate anyone it believes can beat Walker. Conversely, political party heads should never assume that the media is on their side, particularly someone like Sly. Talk show hosts are hired and paid to make money (through attracting advertising revenue) for their employers. That is why WEKZ radio employs Sly — to attract Madison listeners and therefore advertisers — not to shill for politicians or candidates.
Sly doth protest a bit much, since most of Burke’s positions, to the extent she has positions, come from the same Democrat hymnal that’s worked so badly at the state level. It would be refreshing to have a Democrat who actually understood business, and understood what the state needs to do to attract and keep business, other than the usual start-a-new-government-program answer Democrats have.
Steve Prestegard.com: The Presteblog 
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