Dana Loesch Misses the Point

Dana Loesch just published a seething, rambling, name-calling, 1000-word essay on what she calls the "non-issue" that points out the $2,500 dollars her husband's business received from Ed Martin prior to her attacks on Martin's primary opponent. Loesch presents a collection of random facts about the incident but of course basically ignores the central point: that she failed to disclose a potential conflict of interest while she was blacklisting and attacking one of Ed Martin's opponents in the Republican primary. None of the things she said addressed the fact that she failed to disclose that she and her husband financially benefitted from Ed Martin's campaign while she was busy publicly ranting about Martin's primary opponent John Wayne Tucker. As a host of a radio show, she has a duty to disclose any potential conflicts of interest, and she failed in that duty.

A couple other things worth noting about Loesch's rant. First, Loesch posted the advertisement paid for by Ed Martin on her Dana Show blog without any acknowledgement that it came from her husband's studio and was paid for by Martin:

She also tweeted about it without acknowleging the conflict of interest:


Second, she claims that all of this was because she had Ed Martin on her show one time:

Since I once had Martin on my show months ago, before I went full time and my show went to a daypart to talk about an initiative for the troops in which he took part, the candidate trumpeted that I was “in Martin’s pocket.”

In fact, Loesch has had Ed Martin on her show many times, and generally not, as she claims, for the troops.

She had Martin on March 2nd to talk about a health care forum he was organizing for his campaign.

She also had Ed Martin on her show on March 30 to discuss health care.

And she had Martin on her show to promote his announcement that he was running for Congress back in September of last year.

So it's not entirely clear why Loesch wants to claim that she only had Martin on her show once, but that claims clearly false.

Third, Loesch, trying to act cool, tried to pretend that she only heard about the post after she got "three hits" from the RFT site:

It was then perpetuated by a lazy blogger for the Riverfront Times who mistook defamation and libel for content. I knew they wrote about it when I saw that I had a whole three hits from their blog.

But, the RFT post didn't even link to Loesch's site, and her husband Chris was ranting about this online on Monday, so her attempt to be aloof didn't quite work out.

Anyway, I'll have to keep my eye out for her next 1,000 word rant on a "non-issue."