I’ve said it before. If you’re going to insist upon lying to me, then make it a good one. Don’t insult my intelligence with some sort of halfhearted effort that you can’t even fully commit to. As another famous TV judge often says, “Don’t pee on my leg and tell me it’s raining.”
So when Bill Foster got caught live on CLTV claiming endorsements from the Tribune, Daily Herald and Chronicle – none of whom had endorsed him in the general election – he did his best to weasel out of it by telling the moderator he had the timing all wrong:
The thing is, just yesterday, Foster’s website claimed endorsements from all three papers. But today, after the CLTV appearance, his website stipulates they were only primary endorsements.
This is vintage Bill Foster.
Now, I know some of you are thinking I only take on the folks who I want to see lose, but that ain’t it. The folks I want to see lose just happen to be the ones giving me all this great material. Remember, I actually backed Bill Foster in the beginning
But it’s exactly this kind of abject mendaciousness that made me rethink that support. He and his office staff had no compunction about making the strangest fictions up on the spot. When I checked out one of their many false assertions with the FEC, the gentleman laughed so hard he couldn’t talk for 30 seconds.
And when I called Foster’s people back to call them on it, they immediately ran to my editors claiming I’d threatened them with purposely misquoting the Congressman. Foster and his lackeys are a real class act.
I know I’ve taken heat for endorsing Biggert, but just like Mitt Romeny, Foster will say anything to get elected which is a really good reason not to elect him.
