Friday, January 12, 2007

Astute readers of this blog have known about Brian Camenker's Romney take-down attempt since late November, but the Associated Press just took it national with a story this morning about the Camenker screed.

Romney's rapid-response team wasted no time putting out a press release on Camenker, calling him A "Conservative Gadfly" who "Pushes An Extreme Ideology" and is "Not A Credible Voice." The release points out that the Boston Globe says Camenker is "Often Lampooned By The Local And National Media," and the Herald once hoped someone would "tell the increasingly shrill Brian Camenker of the Parents Rights Coalition to simply go to his room." (All the odd capitalization comes from the press release.) The release even manages to slip in the fact that Camenker is Jewish.

More harshly, the press release provides a link to the hysterically funny 2005 takedown of Camenker on the Daily Show -- which some anonymous source, who just became a YouTube member yesterday, just happened to have posted!

Memo to Mr. Camenker: you're messing with the big boys now -- or, more precisely, the big boy's highly paid staff of experienced character-assassination specialists. How many rounds are you willing to go?

1/12/2007 12:24:09 PM by David S. Bernstein | Comments [2] |