Mr. Ed Takes It In Shorts Again

The world's most gullible pretend Captain proves again there's nothing he won't swallow. And why he's well qualified to write for the Daily No-Standards.

Linking to a fake memo, Mister Ed disclaims:

I missed this when it first came out in yesterday's Arizona Central Bizwire, but an independent report from the new American Center for Voting Rights Legislative Fund identifies far more incidents of voter intimidation and fraud on behalf of Democrats and their candidates than it did on behalf of their opponents.

Independent, Mr. Ed?

If you'd bother to do the work that Steve M. and Jesse Taylor at pandagon and Brad Blog and others too numerous to mention did, you'd know that the "independent report" of the august ACVR (established, Feb. 2005) was penned by a Republican shyster.

In fact, you should read the whole Brad Blog series.

Rather pathetic, Ed.

And Mr. Ed changes his soiled shorts even as we type:

UPDATE: Joe Gandelman at The Moderate Voice says that the ACVL has some controversial and potentially partisan financing. He's checking into it now. It's worth maintaining some skepticism on this report until more is known about the organization, which came into existence this past February and describes itself as a non-partisan effort to ensure clean elections. I'd consider Joe to be a pretty solid resource on this type of issue. I don't think all the mea culpas he issued on his post were warranted -- after all, we could get most of the information in this report from media accounts -- but he does have a point about ensuring that the group isn't acting as a front.

I guess the fact that the original "article" was clearly identified as a friggin' press release wasn't enough to stop Ed from linking without thinking.

Be sure to read Mr. Ed's entire post, so you can "judge the vanishing credibility of" the fake seaman.

Update: Here's the Google cache of the "article," clearly identified as a press release (via Steve M.); here's the original press release; and here's a "report" on the story by Greg Pierce of the Moonie Times, whose writing style is astoundingly similar to that of a p.r. hack writing a press release.