The real story here to me is the Republicans reliance on baseless smears to try to win votes and the media willingness to play along.

I heard the Sec. of Navy rumor everywhere…not just on FNC. Of course, that doesn’t fit with your “Fox News is a bunch of poo-poo heads” ideology.

“I heard the Sec. of Navy rumor everywhere…not just on FNC..”

Wow, I guess that doesn’t fit in with whole “The lamestream media never reports anything negative about Obama” mantra that you constantly hear from the right wing scum.

baseless smears? Sestak is the one who said it, over and over and over again. The White House admitted to sending Clinton to talk to him, on behalf of rahm. They claim to have offered him an unpaid advisory position (in place of a US Senate position! yea right!)

Where exactly do you get *baseless smears*?

Poor Megyn Kelly and Brett Baier. They so desperately want a scandal, and yet all they can do is grasp as straws that will never turn anything but more straws.

Tears all the way around at Fox today. Buck up campers! You’ve got plenty more fake scandals you can create and promote tomorrow.

“Sestak is the one who said it, over and over and over again. ”

“I heard the Sec. of Navy rumor everywhere…not just on FNC.”:

Sestak said he was offered a job. To my knowledge he mentioned no other specifics. FakesNews, Rush Limpball and the rest of the corporate/conservative media often manage to turn rumor into “fact” by sheer repetition. Other media pick up their questionable claims – too often without questioning them. MediaMatters.org has previously cited examples of this.

An advisory position sounds plausible. Sestak is a retired three-star admiral, and could readily find a private sector job. The prestige of being a presidential adviser would improve his resume. He’d still have the option of running for office in the future.

MediaWhore, you’re so cynical! CORRECT, but cynical!

As in another fairy tale, maybe Kelly and Baier can spin all those straws into gold . . . and give it to Glenn Beck.

Fox would be dissapointed.

KANE: “Were you ever offered a federal job to get out of this race?”

SESTAK: “Yes.”

KANE: “Was it secretary of the Navy?”

SESTAK: “No comment”

Later Kane asks again, “Was there a job offered to you by the White House?” to which Sestak nods and replies “yes, someone offered it.”

Kane asks “It was big right?” Sestak replies, “Let me ‘no comment’ on it.”

“Was it high-ranking?” Kane asked. Sestak said yes.

http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2010/05/this-sestak-explanation-time-to-press.html

UPDATE: Later in today’s show, a clip [displayed after the jump] was played of an interview from months ago in which Scarborough unequivocally put it to Sestak that he had been offered the Secretary of the Navy position, and Sestak seems to confirm it. So much so that after watching the clip, today’s guest Jeffrey Sachs, an ardent Obama fan, had to laughingly admit that, yes, Sestak had been offered the Navy job

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2010/05/25/todd-obama-offering-sestak-job-no-different-cheney-offering-campai#ixzz0pGaMw9hQ

Yesterday, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer, Sestak conducted a taping of Larry Kane: Voice of Reason, a cable news show. When Kane put the question to him directly, Sestak answered “yes,” but declined to elaborate.

Kane asked whether the job was Secretary of the Navy, to which Sestak, a retired Navy Admiral, replied: “No comment.” The current Navy Secretary is Ray Mabus, a Democrat and former Mississippi governor who campaigned extensively for Barack Obama in 2008.

Asked by Kane whether the job was “high-ranking,” Sestak said that it was, but added he would “never leave” the Senate race through such a deal.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/02/sestak-white-house-offered-me-job-to-get-me-out-of-senate-race.php

were you offered a WH administration federal job? Yes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUDUwbrLyk0&feature=player_embedded

Rep. Joe Sestak (D., Pa.) said yesterday that the White House offered him a federal job in an effort to dissuade him from challenging Sen. Arlen Specter in the state’s Democratic primary.

The disclosure came during an afternoon taping of Larry Kane: Voice of Reason, a Sunday news-analysis show on the Comcast Network. Sestak would not elaborate on the circumstances and seemed chagrined after blurting out “yes” to veteran news anchor Kane’s direct question.

“Was it secretary of the Navy?” Kane asked.

“No comment,” Sestak said.

“Was it [the job] high-ranking?” Kane asked. Sestak said yes, but added that he would “never leave” the Senate race for a deal.

A White House spokesman this morning strongly denied an offer had been made to Sestak. Before the spokesman issued the denial, a senior Pennsylvania Democrat said Sestak’s account was met with anger by White House officials yesterday.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20100219_Sestak_says_he_was_offered_federal_job.html

Someone is not telling the truth.

In light of the administration now admitting ““Efforts were made in June and July of 2009 to determine whether Congressman Sestak would be interested in service on a Presidential or other Senior Executive Branch Advisory Board, which would avoid a divisive Senate primary, allow him service to the public in a high-level advisory capacity for which he was highly qualified,” I am more prone to believe Sestak.

sarainitaly, you’re like a dog chasing its own tail. Only you don’t have a tail.

If you know anything about the law, you would know that no prosecutor would ever come near this fake case, because there is in fact ZERO EVIDENCE. There are a bunch of public statements by Joe Sestak, none of which would be convincing in a court of law.

So unless there’s a tape recording somewhere, tough shit. This fake “scandal” is going nowhere.

But by all means, keep chasing the non-existent tail. You’ll probably also be interested in a highly explosive story that Mediaite was working on earlier this month about an OBAMA AFFAIR!!!!!!!

Cue the Drudge siren and get sarainitaly on that “scandal” as well.

p.s. sara, please buy more gold before you do any more research. Glenn thanks you.

I can’t believe that out of all the news outlets and major blogs that have waxed on about this situation, no one bothered to check the dates. Perhaps priorities need to get in order because it seems that before something becomes so widely reported that it approaches common knowledge, it should at least be within the realm of the possible.

Oh, and the above clips are hilarious. In the first one, there’s no hiding their disappointment and in the second one, which Megyn had hyped as a potential takedown, the former AG starts by saying that she’s skipping over some important words.

As I understand it, Rep. Sestak was on Bill Clinton’s National Security Council, so there’s a previous relationship with a President he had already served and the former President is considered one of the Democratic Party’s foremost politicians and he has extra knowledge of Pennsylvania politics because not only has he carried it once or twice, but his wife just won their most recent primary.

Thanks for posting the above. I wouldn’t have seen their floundering any other way.

Once again these dumbasses have missed their mark. Do you folks ever tire of looking stupid? We Liberals are laughing hysterically at you again. Ha!

You probably are laughing, but what you should be laughing at is your candidate Sestak. He was fired from the Navy. He is a disgrace!

oh yes, “we” look stupid…. Surely not the Democrats. Despite the fact that Sestak is a Democrat and has been running his mouth off for months that he was offered a job, and is now the Democratic candidate for Senate, and the Democrats in the White House spent months concocting a cover up and finally released a memo stating that they offered him an advisory position – that Sestak is NOT eligible to accept, anyway. And the liberal media buys the baloney.

Yea, but go ahead and keep up with your silly attacks that “we” are the dumb-asses.

Media Whore – Zero evidence? Sestak, a DEMOCRAT, has been saying it happened for months. The White House has DENIED it for months. NOW the WH admits it did set up a quid pro quo, but the position was non-paying. So, you are willing to accept that they tried to get him to get out of the Senate race for a NON paying position on an advisory board that he would not be eligible to accept anyway, and they used a former President to do the bidding!? And you believe this, and Sestak’s new revised version of the story? HA

Keep your heads in the sand if you want, but I thought you voted for this chump because of the change and transparency he would bring to Washington? You apparently bought the hype he was selling enough to vote for him, and apparently you are still falling for it.

FUCKS NEWS…..WRONG AGAIN

Wow, drex, you’re a genius! Did you come up with all by yourself or did your 14 year-old boyfriend help you?

sarainitaly, no use to try to reason with these kool-aid idiots, I could not put it any better then the way you have here, of course he was offered a job, like you said he said it himself so many times and so many shows even last week on cbs the shiffer show, what a ” COINCIDENCE” that obama had lunch with clinton thursday the day before they came up with this story when for months at the daily briefings gibbs could not give an answer, and when obama was in LA. finally made a trip before his vacation he says a statement will be coming out soon, what a joke, now can you imagine if BUSH had done this, and had been stonewalling for this many months , they are covering up for rham emanuel or obama himself, and if it had been as simple as they say now they would have said this along time ago, and to get a former president whose wife is the sec. of state to be the fall guy is pretty bad. obama is going down slowly and you libs better get use to it, he’s messing up this country and he really messed up with the oil spill, he has been playing golf at least three times a week, playing basketball everyday, and now two vacations, 11 men died in the explosion and where was obama when they had the memorial this past week, not even a mention of them, thank GOD the american people are waking up and will vote him out. and drex94 you just prove what libs are, trash talking is the only thing you know. didn’t take much thinking huh?? FOX NEWS BEATS MSNBC AND CNN COMBINED AND YOU JUST CANT STAND THAT, THEY ARE EXPOSING obama FOR WHAT HE IS,

it is truly frustrating how incredible dense they are when the truth is right there in front of their faces.
denial denial denial. i think they just refuse to admit they were completely duped by The One. And instead of researching the actual facts and events of the whole debacle, they just rave like lunatics.