Politics: Aaron Schock, superhero?

November 24, 2007
By Billy Dennis

From my inbox:

A 12 page, 4 color tabloid hit GOP mail boxs this week with the Headline: “Schock to the System Just What Washington Needs.” The Tabloid was setup to look like a newspaper (Downstate Illinois Republican).   Schock comes out like a Marvel Comic Super Hero with help from his friends former Gov. Big Jim Thompson and Gov Little Jim Edgar joined by a gaggle of other local politicos.

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8 Responses to “ Politics: Aaron Schock, superhero? ”

  1. Chase on November 24, 2007 at 9:15 am

    History: Go back to Schocks first election to the schoolboard…as a write in….defeating a deeply entrenched bureaucratic incumbent. Likewise his Illinois House Election….Ricca Sloan a deeply entrenched bureaucratic incumbent. You can’t argue to vociferously against Schock without indirectly supporting the candidates he defeated or is running against. Frankly, some of the resentment he seems to garner may be due to the fact that the voter is resentful against public office holders in general (Sandbergs and Ron Paul being exceptions) and that none of the opposing candidates really seem that different.

  2. 11Bravo on November 24, 2007 at 10:34 am

    No, the resetment is due to Schock’s history of leaving those previous offices as soon as a higher one opened up.

    And yes you can argue against Schock without indirectly supporting his previous opponents. I would have no problem with him if he would just stay in an office long enough to make s difference

    As for the resentment some voters feel towards elected officials, that is reflective of their belief that elected officials are only concerned with their own career. Hmm… thank God Aaron is not like that (sarcasm).

  3. PeoriaGuy on November 24, 2007 at 12:08 pm

    Was there a Senator Larry Craig endorsement in there?

  4. Billy Dennis on November 24, 2007 at 12:57 pm

    PeoriaGuy: It’s called “scraping.” You set up ablog that gets ALL it’s posts from an rss feed for Goodgle search results for certain words and phrases. THEN they tweak the search results slightly so that the words are not exactly the same thing.

    IT’s sorts like when you did a report in grade school, and you copies the encyclopedia entry exactly, but changed one or two of the words.

    Why do this? To profit from all the Google AdSense hits the scraped site generates. Do a couple hundred of them, and you’ve got some serious revenue coming in.

    These scraped sites actually do convince SOME people that they contain original content.

    My site gets scraped a dozen times a day.

    But I I click on a Google ad from my home computer, I’m a criminal.

    Go figure.

  5. the wonderboy on November 24, 2007 at 9:17 pm

    11Bravo…while we may disagree on other issues, I am in complete agreement with you on this. Well stated in response.

    Schock has a number of reasons for people to question his intentions. He may be incredibly hard-working on the campaign trail, but he leaves much to be desired on the substance side of public service. And then there is his frightening view of foreign policy…

  6. prego man on November 25, 2007 at 2:15 am

    These campagin items that are made up to look like newspapers must be the latest trend. Former King of Sleaze Peoria Heights Mayor Earl Carter put out one this past election, made up to look just like a newspaper called “The Peoria Heights Examiner.” It was nothing more than campaign rhetoric for Carter’s party, but I’m sure some folks took it to be a true newspaper. Looks like Aaron is buying into the same strategy… put out campaign crap, but trick folks into thinking that some deep-thinking publisher put together a newspaper about the crap, so it must be “true.”

  7. Kris Seklur on November 26, 2007 at 4:23 pm

    David Leitch has been doing the “newspaper” thing for years….can’t think of any two people closer to Rep. Leitch than Schock and Carter. Well, maybe one…

  8. LC on November 27, 2007 at 10:15 pm

    I haven’t seen the paper yet, could you maybe post it?
    Thanks!