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Rush Holt Outed in Newly Released Book

By “Abram N. Spangel”

I recently read Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception by New York University Professor Charles Seife. On the jacket cover, Professor Seife writes, ”Bogus mathematical arguments are being used to undermine our system of justice, to implement shortsighted policies that threaten our security, to dismantle our social institutions, and to undermine our voting system.”

Much of Proofiness was slanted against Republicans. And Professor Seife seems to have bona fida liberal credentials and supporters as his work has been praised by The New York Times, The Washington Post and Salon.com.

Thus, I found it shocking that the one sitting US Representative outed for his deception and chicanery was none other than our very own Rush Holt. In hundreds of pages of well-researched narrative, Professor Seife documents how the politician’s policies—such as Voter ID, voter suppression, redistricting and manipulation of census results—subvert elections and cheat the electorate of its right to have its views fairly represented in elections. (Perhaps this isn’t surprising given Holt’s refusal to even issue a statement critical of the New Black Panthers’ intimidation of voters at a polling station in Philadelphia in 2008.)

Further, Professor Seife provides the reader with insight into Holt’s history of using seemingly compelling statistics for his own interests at taxpayer expense. Professor Seife writes:

“In 1992, future New Jersey congressman Rush Holt was the spokesperson for the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, a high-tech facility devoted to fusion research. Unfortunately, the future of fusion in the United States was getting increasingly grim. As spokesperson, Holt had to try to justify to the public—and to legislators in charge of the budget—why the laboratory should consume tens and hundreds of millions of dollars in the quest for fusion energy.

Holt bolstered his case with several dramatic slides, scatter plots of data…showing that the more energy a society consumes, the longer its citizens live. The message was that taxpayers should pour money into the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory to research future sources of energy. (Fund us if you want your children to live.)

Holt’s graphs showed that there was a tight relationship—a “correlation”—between power consumption and life expectancy; the higher the power consumption, the higher the life expectancy. However, it’s a classic mistake to say that you can increase life expectancy by increasing power consumption. Power plants don’t lead to long life any more than garbage, Internet usage, newspapers, fast food, or edible underwear do. Holt’s presentation, in fact, was a vehicle for a kind of proofiness that I like to call causuisitry.”

 

Rush Holt has been an embarrassment for central New Jersey for the past twelve years. However, with explosive revelations like these, Rush Holt is on the verge of becoming a national disgrace. If he is re-elected, he might well be indicted for vote tampering before the next session of Congress convenes.

Postscript:  I thought the wackadoos supporting Holt were in favor of reducing energy consumption. I suppose drive-by values can’t get in the way of gorging at the taxpayer-funded trough.

Posted: October 18th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Rush Holt | Tags: , | Comments Off on Rush Holt Outed in Newly Released Book

The United States Army Attacks MoreMonmouthMusings

By Art Gallagher

The United States Army has attacked MoreMonmouthMusings! 

Joining the Army in the attempted  annihilation of MMM is another agent of the federal government, GM franchisee, Freehold Buick Pontiac GMC on Route 9. 

The threats are real, only if you believe the convoluted logic of former Greater Media editor Greg Bean who awakened out of his semi-retirement to write a scathing column about me, this blog,  our anonymous contributor Abram N. Spangel, and GOP 12th district congressional candidate Scott Sipprelle. 

I don’t know what it is with those Greater Media has beens, but Greg Bean and Kathy Baratta sure are obsessed with this blog. 

Even though Greater Media didn’t link MMM in Bean’s column, I’m happy to link Bean’s the column for my readers to save you the trouble of looking for it.  Click here.

Bean says he was offended by Spangel’s piece, Rush Holt Champions Infanticide .  He told me, “I am truly disgusted by it, and by you. Until today, I had some respect for your views, but that’s completely out the window. This is lower than daTruth Squad’s nutty bullshit, and that’s saying something.” 

Bean also said he’s convinced that I am actually Spangel because he used to write anonymously as “Booze Macaldoon” when he was embarrassed by what he was writing, and because his all time favorite columnist, Mike Royko ,wrote as “Slats Grobnik” and other fictitious voices. 

I’m not Spangel. I haven’t written anonymously since I retired William H Seward and the Seward Authority in 2007.  I tried to go back to writing anonymously the last time I was attacked by a weekly shopper, but it didn’t work.

What does this have to do with MMM being attacked by the U.S. Army and Government Motors’s agent, Freehold Buick, Ponitac, GMC?  

Bean says that because he saw a Scott Sipprelle ad above the the Rush Holt Champions Infantcide  post, that Sipprelle has endorsed that view.  He believes this blog is conspiring with Sipprelle to employ “dirty tricks” against Rush Holt.

Given Bean’s logic, the Army and Government Motors franchisee Freehold Buick, Pontiac , GMC, must be attacking MoreMonmouthMusings because their ads appear above and within Bean’s rant.

Reading Bean’s column I’m not sure what offends him more; Spangel’s assertion that Rush Holt champions infanticide or the logic and examples that Abram uses to support his argument.  Bean says:

The logic behind the recent posting strains credulity and requires a greater suspension of disbelief than those popular “Twilight” movies about teenage vampires. But here it is in a nutshell, according to Spangel:

According to this nonsense, Holt — who taught at Princeton for years before entering politics— accepted a $2,400 donation from Laurance Spencer Rockefeller of New York. Rockefeller, another Princeton benefactor, supports the professorship of Peter Singer, the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton. Singer has some admittedly controversial views — including his support of physician-assisted suicide for terminal patients and the morality of euthanizing some of what he calls “defective” infants. Therefore, because Holt accepted the donation from Rockefeller, who supports a controversial professor at one of the most prestigious learning institutions in the nation, Holt “champions infanticide,” according to the post.

That logic is so tenuous and twisted it makes my brainpan ache, and it would be laughable if these guys weren’t serious.

Notice Bean didn’t condemn Singer.  He said his views are controversial. Notice Bean didn’t say that Rush Holt doesn’t champion infanticide.  He said the logic that Spangel used makes his brainpan ache. (Brainpan is a fancy word for skull)

In an gesture to numb Bean’s brainpan, I’ll concede that Spangel could have made a stronger and more logical argument.  Like the one I will make now.

Rush Holt does champion infanticide.  Not because the Rockefellers donated to Holt’s campaign and not because the Rockefellers endowed Peter Singer’s faculty position at Princeton.   I say Rush Holt champions infanticide because of his voting record as a representative of the people of the 12th congressional district of the State of New Jersey.

Rush Holt voted NO on banning partial birth abortion except to save mother’s life.  Reference: Bill sponsored by Santorum, R-PA; Bill S.3 ; vote number 2003-530on Oct 2, 2003 , Reference: Bill sponsored by Canady, R-FL; Bill HR 3660 ; vote number 2000-104 on Apr 5, 2000

If you think partial birth abortion in not infanticide, click here . Before you do, be warned the link will take you to a graphic and upsetting photo.

Rush Holt voted NO on making it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime. Reference: Unborn Victims of Violence Act; Bill HR 1997 ; vote number 2004-31 on Feb 26, 2004 , Reference: Bill sponsored by Graham, R-SC; Bill HR 503 ; vote number 2001-89 on Apr 26, 2001

Holt might have compassion for the Bean family, but he could care less about the Blair family who lost two unborn children when a driver under the influence of drugs crashed into their car at high speed in August of last year.

I could site more examples of Rush Holt championing infanticide, but I’ve made my point, with logic that won’t make Greg Bean’s head hurt.

But Greg Bean’s head should hurt.  His heart should hurt too.  He’s a champion of Rush Holt.  Rush Holt champions infanticide.  Using Spangel’s logic, therefore Greg Bean champions infanticide.

I don’t know if Bean really champions infanticide.  I suspect he would rather not think about it or confront pictures like this. I suspect, like Peter Singer and Rush Holt, he puts more value on the quality of life of a mother who doesn’t want to have a baby than he does on the baby’s life, but I don’t know.

This I am convinced of, though.  More convinced than Bean is that I am Spangel.  I’m convinced that Greg Bean has been chomping at the bit to attack Scott Sipprelle and to help Rush Holt get reelected any way that he can.  I’m convinced that Bean wants to see patterns of dirty tricks from the Sipprelle campaign.  Greg Bean started out supporting Rush Holt and went looking for reasons to attack Scott Sipprelle. 

That’s why Greg Bean is not fair and biased.  He’s just biased, but tries to create the illusion that he’s not.  He’s unfair and biased, like so many others in the media.

Notice I didn’t say this blog is not colluding with Scott Sipprelle to play dirty tricks on Rush Holt. Until now.  This blog is not colluding with Scott Sipprelle to play dirty tricks on Rush Holt. 

No one has to ask me to do anything to show Rush Holt in a bad light and dirty tricks are not required because there is so much material on the record with which to expose Holt as the radical progressive socialist baby killing family wrecker that he is.

I may be a bacon head, but Greg Bean is a numb brainpan.

Posted: September 21st, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Greater Media, Greg Bean, Holt, Scott Sipprelle | Tags: , , , | 4 Comments »