Leakbusters

The Scrum does a nice job of tracking down the source of an "incriminating" photo. The dirty tricks campaign is off and running:

Are expensive cars the new umbrellas? Apparently so, since yesterday, someone thought that a photograph of Bob Graham and a Jaguar was politically incriminating enough that they saw fit to leak it to the Drudge Report. Here at The Scrum, we're not sure the photograph is that big a deal.

First off, the evidence is not too convincing. From the photo, it's not clear that Graham was actually riding in the Jaguar. He could just as easily have been walking from the gold car behind the Jag, which, for all we know, is a Ford Taurus.

Second, the logic of why riding in a Jaguar is a bad thing isn't terribly sound. Sure, we understand the he's-not-a-man-of-the-people charge. But don't politicos usually ride around in nice cars? Okay, maybe not Dennis Kucinich

However, as is usually the case in this sort of situation, the most interesting thing whenever someone leaks something isn't the leak itself, but who did the leaking.

Check out the full post for the REAL incrimination.

As I commented at The Scrum, "Everyone knows authentic men-of-the-people arrive at political events in S-3B Viking's wearing snug-in-the-crotch flight suits."

[via Political Wire]