Coleman: Media ‘could have waited’ until after Nov. 4 to ask about money-funneling

Since when is it a reporter’s job to sit on a story just because there’s an election coming? This is just more whining from another loser. Whining and blaming others must be the new SOP from the GOP — Norm, Palin, Tedesco,

I’d say where there’s smoke there’s fire. Coleman definitely doesn’t want to answer questions about the Kazeminy investigation.

What exactly did the Hays Insurance firm hire Laurie Coleman to do? I’ve never seen that question asked or answered. Was she hired to sell insurance? To provide insurance consulting? To sit around and look pretty? Does she show up at an office every day? Once in a while? Never? I’d like to know what exactly she does for the money Hays pays her. Is she still employed there? Lots of questions that deserve answers.

What a laugh!

Just like Woodward & Bernstein could have submerged the story on the Watergate break-in until after Nixon got elected, right?

Or maybe the repubs could have been quieter when the Monica Lewinsky affair became known. After all, the GOP national committee is so quiet and respectful of its political opponents, right?

This guy is starting to sound as crazy as Michele Bachmann.

Sure, Norm. Maybe they could also have funneled illegal funds into your personal bank account, since we’re talking complicity and all.

What’s wrong with Minnesotans that you allowed this cancerous nutsack to represent you in the position previously held by one of your state’s finest statesmen?! Norm Coleman is an affront to every American and, now with all of his selfish delays and ridiculously false claims to the Senate seat he lost, should be anethema to every thinking Minnesotan.

Uuhhmmm, sorry fella, we the people like to know if our reps are corrupt before the elections, not after! You’re basically saying, that you’re corrupt, but there would be less to do about it after the election? Get outta town.

Norm needs a grammar lesson. It’s DEMOCRATIC commerical, not democrat commercial. I know these Republicans misuse the language because somehow they think it belittles the democratic party. But it makes them sound like they can’t speak the language. They just look and sound stupid.

So, the Strib knew all about Kazeminy and the rest of Norm’s money grubbing kickback style,
AND STILL ENDORSED HIM. Norm has that mouth full of gimme and the
hand full of grab. A free endorsement is not enough, we gotta hear him whine about “gimme more.”

I can hardly wait til this town is finished printing newspapers and the editors and publishers of the
Strib are at the freeway entrances with cardboard signs, maybe they will get in a hobo fight
with the Pi-Press guys.

Coleman is an all too typical Republican in today’s politics. Lies, taking moning money innappropriately, vicious, unsubstantiated, attacks on one’s political opponent, all becoming the GOP general mode of operations. I don’t get it. I am a former Republican, and I am left wondering how every single member of the GOP Senate has lost their integrity. It is NOT the way to earn-aback all of the lost seats, nor the respect of the nation. It is the way to the continued hiding of monstous social, economic, and world-hate problems. It is, in a word: Wrong.

We already have an example of what happens when a newspaper squashed a story “in the national interest:” the NYT suppressed the story of Bush’s illegal wiretapping of US citizens for nearly a year before the 2004 election. Would it have had an effect? Who knows, but voters were denied the opportunity to consider the information in their vote.

Please, please, please – when idiot Republicans intentionally misuse the word Democrat the way Coleman did twice in the above exchange, sic it. It’s wrong, it’s a slur and if they aren’t called out on it every time, people will eventually think it’s proper usage.
Republicans have been controlling language this way for years – partial-birth abortion, death tax, personal accounts, terrorist surveillance program, etc., etc., etc., ad nauseum, and it works.
It’s up to professional wordsmiths to end this, not perpetuate it.

I don’t know who did what, two guys got fired, two other guys stood in front of cameras, another guy took over a business, there were trackers all over the place, and the FBI is doing what it does, a contributor is offering subsidized and furnished housing to a candidate who isn’t reporting it as income, I don’t know. All I know is that none of it has anything to do with Norm Coleman, er…

What is the actual reason for waiting until after the election to report on the money funnelling story? Never did hear that from Mr. Coleman. I would assume he would not mind answering those questions now since the election is over. so what ever bothered him then, does not bother him now. Someone ask him again the substantive questions on money funnelling.

As a moderate Republican I am so tired of Norm Coleman – now he’s whining about questions?!?

Does Coleman really believe the US Supreme Court will even hear his appeal when it gets there? I hardly think so – most of the GOP members still remain the flak they got from Bush v Gore.

Norm, your a tard. Just shut up and move out of the way already.

Uh, doesn’t the public have a right to know?

It’s not the media’s job to protect a candidate during an election. It’s the media’s job to allow the public to access all of the information needed to make a thoughtful decision.

Sour Grapes Norm. Oh, and after you lose yet again, there may be an indictment in your future based on that money funneling.

Not the media’s job to cover up for you.

How much of a bigger cry baby will he become? Grow up Norm! Shame on you. You lost. Be a man and stop blaming everyone else for your loss. I recall Bush could never take responsibility.
You’re all disgusting cry babies. Boo-hoo, Boo-hoo!

Perhaps Coleman would “exchange” a pardon on his many wrong doings for admitting that he has indeed lost the election! Then MN would get it’s Senator and also they would not have to pay to keep Coleman in Jail! In the “olden” days coleman would have been told to get out of town,but these days perhaps someone will throw in a few tickets to Disney World, so coleman can continue his fantasy quest or maybe he would fit right in in AK with Falin’ Palin & Stevens.

Mr Coleman amazes with his sense of entitlement. He thinks the media exists to provide him with endorsements. When news, and this is news, comes to the media’s attention because it is a matter of public record Senator Coleman seems to think he is owed this deference? Why are you owed that Ex-Senator Coleman? Did you by these guys a drink at some time? Did you furnish them with some special story to help them in their careers? Or was it just the same as the rest of Minnesota’s citizens, we were just honored to have been served by Norm Coleman.

It must be that he honored us because like most people I can not name one thing he achieved to benefit the people of Minnesota. Wait, wait, he did finally catch that big Salmon! Remember the one he was photographed with when he was visiting his senate mentor, Ted Stevens! Yes, that added to his rep!

No one has mentioned the ad Coleman put out even closer to the election – an ad that unfairly impugned Franken’s integrity by accusing him of being behind the Kazeminy story. How did that deceptive ad affect the outcome of the election?

I think Coleman was hoping for the same kind of backlash that swept him into office in 2002. It didn’t work this time, Norm.

blueJ, you can see that Coleman ad in a post that’s linked above, under “Related.” See “Video: Coleman ad calls Texas lawsuit “11th-hour attack” by Franken“

Didn’t the NY Times hold back a story about George before an election as well?. So typical of the Republicants. Never taking responsibility for their actions. Blame everybody else.

And this guy thinks that by delaying a question of ethics, not mention legality, is something that should be discussed AFTER he’s gotten his hands on the senate seat.

Good grief, the since of entitlement is so thick you can cut it with a knife.

Coleman is mad; thinking the Press should hide things until after election. You want a biased media, like Fox and others to run your secrets foul? What an idiot. Too many things hidden from voters already, then we get stuck with an idiot like Bush or almost McCain.

What a loser–a poor loser at that. Norm–you lost. Give it up. I am so sick of you whinning about this. Do us all a favor and take a hike.

Hey Loser Coleman,
Stop your constant whining and lying.
Minnesotans may be justifiably upset with your selfish attitude.
Come out to Idaho-one of the reddest states in the union and feel at home with the Rethuglicans. You could almost have a political career here, as we elect any nutcase with an R after their name …..bring Michele Bachmann out here too. The nuttier, the better……we don’t care. Just as long as you are anti abortion and a gun nut and a fiscal conservative (we’ve been silent for 8years while Bush drove the economy into the ditch, but now that Obama has been in office 3months, we have discovered fiscal religion and expect him to fix everything without spending a dime)…..you’ll do fine. You were a waterboy for Bush and Darth Cheney Vader…..all those years of faithful GOP votes. Minnesotans may be tired of you, but Idaho welcomes you with open arms.

and you could have gone away quietly, too, Norm but chose not to.

Norm’s a whiny baby…always has been. This Hayes deal sounds like one of those no-show jobs handed out on The Sopranos. Norm’s the most corrupt member of Congress. Let’s put him in jail before he can do any more damage.

Where is Hollywood? NORMS CORNER Every episode begins with Norm sulking in the corner of his kitchette, “I won, I won, I am the real winner. Why won’t they let the real winner be the winner> Has the world gone mad? What is wrong with everybody? It’s their fault, they’re all crazy.”

How are Truth and Justice served by the New Media when they continue to print nothing except their personal biases and opinions and the “feelings” of their readers? Forget about the fairness or lack thereof to Mr. Coleman. How does it serve society well for a “news organization” to merely regurgitate the opinions and biases of others instead of having “boots on the ground” reporters who actually interview the parties involved in a story and who report nothing more than what each party to the story says and the facts dictate? Come on people. Have a little concern for Law and Truth, and not so much about how you “feel” about an issue.

Truth_In_Reporting, not sure I follow. Do you find this post to have nothing but personal biases and opinions? Or are you talking about the comments?

Look,

This complaint by Coleman is such bogus bullcarp. Coleman’s lead assertion is that cameras are ALWAYS on him (and on Franken) or any politician because so-called trackers are always around, filming – which was the case with his complaint here.

By that standard NO reporter, EVER, will be able to ask a question face to face, where the politician isn’t prepared, from this point forward. Apparently, even though politicians have been being asked questions they didn’t like, apparently, even though they’ve been taped (before they were filmed all the time, they were taped), or even just overheard by multiple reporters, apparently, that all doesn’t count any more. Nope, not for Norm, no questions please, certainly not ones I(he) don’t(doesn’t) like.

So much for freedome of the press I guess. If Norm Coleman can’t stand uncomfortable questions, the fix isn’t to stop the questions, it’s for him to get a new job. And ya’ know what, the voters of Minnesota have seen to that.

The bottom line is though, cameras ARE always rolling, just as tape-recorders were, and you have no right as a politician, to pick and choose the questions you want to be filmed answering. You serve at the whim of the people, including having to answer to them when things don’t go right.