John Ziegler You’re Just Wrong

Posted by on October 20, 2009 · 2 Comments 

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You may not immediately recognize the name John Ziegler.? But you probably recognize the the documentary title Media Malpractice.? Media Malpractice was a documentary that Ziegler put together exposing the corruption and vitriol within the media toward Palin during the 2008 Presidential election.

So now Ziegler has decided to go after people that he has determined are counter productive to appropriate leadership in the conservative movement.? Part of the decision to do this is because he is under the impression that donations and sponsorships are earning speaking positions at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference.

Yet he cavalierly and ironically admits that he has been given speaking slots and panel positions at both CPAC and WCPAC (the conference on the West coast) because of his documentary being a sponsor of the event.

Double standard much?

This past Sunday, Zieglar posted the afore-linked to post on Mediaite.com tearing into CPAC Chairman David Keene.? Zieglar issued three main complaints as to why Keene wasn’t fit for leadership, and postulated that he wasn’t even a Conservative.? Actual evidence withstanding…

Here is Sherlock Zieglar’s list of dastardly Keene deeds:

1) Keene believes Sarah Palin’s decision to step down was a mistake, that she “bailed out” on her duties and that it would hurt her candidacy for the presidency.? –? Is this really a big deal?? I mean our own RJ Caster essentially said the same thing back in June.? People have a right to their opinion.? And furthermore, I would actually argue that it’s bad for the conservative movement for everyone to always be in total agreement, or to jump on an “Obama-esque” idolization bandwagon.

2) Keene gave Arlen Specter $2,000 in 2008.? Arlen is a long time friend, supposedly.? –? You know, a lot of dyed in the wool conservatives gave Specter a lot of money in 2008.? And a lot of them were ham hogged! (my word)? I’d be willing to bet Keene gave a lot of Republicans with conservative values across the range money in 2008.? The guy isn’t a psychic.

3) Ziegler alleges that the American Conservative Union, whom Keene is Chairman of, offered to give FedEx Keene’s Op-Ed support on a legislative issue if they paid ACU a $2 million.? — First of all, shouldn’t Ziegler be in favor of the free market?? If that is the cost of Op-Ed support, and you have the name recognition to get published to help a client, then what’s the problem?? If you do feel that is unethical, that’s fine too.? That would also be a valid opinion.

Turns out, it wasn’t the case at all.? As Keene explains in this video Ziegler made of a interview he asked if he could have with Keene at WCPAC.? Which turns out to actually be a setup where Ziegler unethically and maliciously corners Keene with his ridiculous assumptions.

Then Ziegler follows Keene around pestering him.? He follows Keene into a conference room disrupting the conference.? And then gets his feelings hurt because Keene says, “I want to hit you right now.” Which of course was the title of his blog post to help get attention to it.

Here is where Ziegler really shows his class.? The kicker is I’m pretty sure Ziegler believes he is a grand conservative leader.

The rest of the videos which you can see in their entirety along with his post show him chasing people around pestering them, going to hide when the cops come but leaving his camera man to film the “action”, and reactions from people that are clearly embarrassed to be seen with him after his outburst at the CPAC Chairman.

John Ziegler, this isn’t cool or hip.? You aren’t solving some big mystery or exposing some secret truth.? All you exposed in your post and your videos was hard evidence that you are a pompous buffoon who in a 20 minute period of YouTube clips valued at $0 most likely destroyed their reputation and career within the conservative movement from this point forward.

Great job Ziegler.? You just made Michael Moore look like a gentleman.

-nick

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2 Responses to “John Ziegler You’re Just Wrong”
  1. RJ says:
    October 20, 2009 at 2:33 pm

    You’re exactly right Nick. Ziegler’s use of “ambush journalism” reeks of Michael Moore and the tactics used by those who cannot tolerate a decent debate. He is the TMZ to William F Buckley’s “Firing Line”.

    Perhaps this is better excused if we take into account his possible career move: from partially respected commentator to ‘Contributing Editor’ of those all-so-respectable InfoWars and Alex Jones-esque websites.

    • nick says:
      October 20, 2009 at 2:50 pm

      If the guy has tough questions, I don’t have a problem with him asking them. But schedule a proper interview. Tell Keene you’re going to ask him about the issue so he can have a reasonable response. Sometimes these “journalists” believe that believe the results of the ambush (your word. I like it.) which is generally disaray is evidence of unethical behavior. When the truth of the matter is that this would happen to anyone.

      I mean if we are in a deep conversation about football, and I’m explaining to you why the Falcons will beat the Cowboys next Sunday, and suddenly dive into this fast and furious interjection on you taking a bribe, your only reasonable response would be, “Uh, what?”

      And then the audacity of the guy to follow him into a conference room where a panel discussion is going on, interrupt the lunch break, be screaming in his mic repeating phrases over and over that he would never get answers to, and turn around and say, “I wasn’t causing a scene, it was Keene”. He sounds like a little kid.