Sadly, it seems pretty clear that someone associated with one of the
other campaigns or some kind of political entity is
working pretty hard to attack Brad Lander (candidate for City Council inthe 39th district) with a wild and crazy fake ad
in a Yiddish newspaper and weird emails (with plenty of mispellings)
about his appearance on the Dov Hikind Radio show. Hikind is a assemblyman in the 48th district which includes Borough Park (part of the 39th).
Even Gatemoth, who doesn't much like Brad Lander, has decided that the "Media Watch" attack email was false. I could have told him that and I never even listened to the radio show. But Gatemouth listened to the radio show in question online and came to his own conclusions.
Today Gatemouth eats crow and writes on Room 8:
This space was
previously used to solicit a copy of recording of Saturday night's Dov
Hikind radio program to check out whether an email report of the show's
contents was accurate. When soliciting the info, I posted my own
suspicions that the assertions made within were unlikely to be true.
When someone provided the recording (a link of which is here: http://www.sendspace.com/file/cwel4v), I took the solicitation down.
A
bout of insomnia has caused me to listen to the contents; as I
suspected, the veracity of the allegations in the email ranged from
arguable to unveriable, although this may because I was half
asleep. However, everyone I've sent the recording to who listened and
emailed back agreed with my conclusion.
There were some curious
and/or questioanble remarks, and some dead air where assertions of a
dubious nature were left without comment–perhaps I will address some
of this in the week that remains of this campaign; perhaps not;
however, I did not find any great smoking soundbyte.
Certainly, there is enough to chew upon in this campaign without distorting reality.
Since in my original post I called the email in question both mind boggling and dubious, I hardly ate crow when I subsequently confirmed this. More likely, I was crowing.
However, I think your extreme naivety about the Lander Der blatt ad has now graduation into a Grand delusion. in “Der Blatt.” This was not the work of another campaign; as was reported in City hall News, Lander’s Borough Park guy went to Der Blatt with a picture supplied by Lander and asked for an ad similar to the homophobic crap Heyer had run; he got it.
I think it is highly unlikely Lander personally authorized or had knowledge of of the contents of the ad, but it seems vitually certain that Fleisher authorized the paper to print an ad of the substance of the one which appeared. As I noted, Fleisher virtually admitted this to City Hall News.
I think Lander must publicly dismiss Fleisher from his campaign ASAP, using the strongest possible terms, or be held accountable for what appeared.
I’ve posted a very thorough analysis of the Lander/Der Blatt ad fiasco here: http://www.r8ny.com/blog/gatemouth/a_blatt_on_their_records.html