Mass. Democrats want Brown to explain photo comments

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2011/05/mass_democrats.html

The Massachusetts Democratic Party issued a statement today saying Senator Scott Brown "owes" Massachusetts residents an explanation after the Republican asserted — and then retracted — that he had seen postmortum photos of Osama bin Laden.

“As a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Senator Brown owes the people of Massachusetts more details as to what led him to believe that he was shown an authentic photo, and then what led him to feel comfortable enough to speak out publicly about the photo," party Chairman John Walsh said in a statement.

"He needs — right away, today — to provide answers to the following questions: who showed him the fake photo; who told him it was genuine when it wasn’t; and what are the procedures he uses to make sure he has reliable information before he gives voters that information?" Walsh added.

The chairman said the senator needs to “understand that his words matter, and his assertions are taken at face value because of his position."

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:rofl:

I can just see it in my mind's eye! :D

on Monday.

Here, I suspect that Brown was shown the photo from Chambliss, ranking member of the intelligence committee - who says he did not get it from anyone in government. Brown should have asked more questions, but this is not that completely stupid.

What was stupid and shows many bad elements of his narcissistic, self centered, ego driven personality is that early Monday morning when everyone was speaking of getting Osama, he babbled to the Boston Globe in a very coy way that he would be going to Afghanistan - on missions. When asked more - he said his office would put out a statement. The statement was that he wanted to do his annual NG training in Afghanistan. The dominant reaction is that he wanted the talk to be of him, Scott Brown. To make matters worse, he then told FOX News that "somebody" dropped the dime on this - so he had to answer it.

Where the photo problem is embarrassing, he was one of three who did it and there probably will be a way to explain it - especially if the source was another, more senior Senator. The Afghanistan story is ALL Scott Brown and he looks like an egomaniac.

(Looking on google, I might be wrong. Though very small still there appears to be a Scotto sawit twitter thing ala the Kyl "not a factual statement" thing. This might be that it could get more play - and he looks none too bright. )