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MD4Omalley II

Postwatch catches the Washington Post's Matthew Mosk being too modest. Like it or not, Mosk insinuated himself into the story by taking a tip from MD4Bush. Maybe he really doesn't know MD4Bush's real identity, but he had to have known that MD4Bush was a Democratic Party operative. He played a role in the story and should acknowledge that in every article he writes about the MD4Bush scandal.

Meanwhile Mayor O'Malley sees nothing wrong with MD4Bush's actions:

"I don't know who MD4Bush was, and if I find out, my wife and I will thank that person for exposing Gov. (Bob) Ehrlich, and his gutter politics, and his dirty tricks henchman Joe Steffen," O'Malley said.

I guess that O'Malley isn't bothered that someone associated with his campaign may have been involved in dirty tricks. The only situation under which I can understand that is that if Steffen clearly had been involved in the same. And despite his boast of giving the O'Malley rumors "float" after being prodded by MD4Bush, there's no evidence that Steffen did anything wrong. And if he did give the rumors "float" it still doesn't answer the question who originated them. The impression I got from callers to talk radio at the time is that the rumors originated Democrats.

Still Governor Ehrlich fired Steffen immediately upon learning that he may have been involved in spreading false rumors about the mayor. Mayor O'Malley will not act in a similar fashion.

At least one Democratic political consultant believes that if O'Malley is tied to MD4Bush it will hurt O'Malley:

"If it was a setup, that's got lack of ethics written all over it," said Donald F. Norris, a public policy professor at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. "If you set a guy up to get him, that's political dirty tricks. Whose hands are dirtier? Any benefit that would have accrued to O'Malley's campaign because of the dirty tricks of Ehrlich now bite the mayor in the you-know-what."

(Others don't agree.)

Still the MD4Bush waters, continue to be muddied.

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