“Common Sense: Scandal” — OR — “How things are done and said in the 'false flag' world of Jerry Kassar”

As is often the case with too many long-time c[C]onservatives, a large part of their message is bait and switch — In that regard, Kings County Conservative Party Chairman  Kassar is clearly proof of the rule and in no way exceptional 

A case in point is this week’s Home Reporter/Sunset News “Common Sense” column by Mr. Kassar, spectacularly and ironically  entitled  —   “ COMMON SENSE: SCANDAL ” (See “Common Sense: Scandal” by Jerry Kassar, 5/28/13. Home Reporter/Sunset News [http://www.homereporternews.com/opinion/common-sense-scandal/article_91694df6-c7c9-11e2-8b90-0019bb2963f4.html]; also linked in the Conservative Party Blog as: “Common Sense by Jerry Kassar -on National and NYS Scandals and Candidates Offering Hope for Future” by Ross Brady, 5/30/13 [http://brooklynconservativeparty.com/?p=905]).  Here is how it was described by Ross Brady, “May 28th, 2013 – in Home Reporter and Brooklyn Spectator- Brooklyn Conservative’s Chairman Jerry Kassar has an article on scandals of national implication and here in the NYS Assembly. He also discussed Lhota and Quaglione events.”

As is often the case with a Kassar opinion piece, his May 28th column marches or sails in small circles and usually under a false flag. He opens with a passing mention of the national IRS-Tea Party scandal and opines that we shouldn’t look at the Republican push for more investigations as an attempt to “drag it out.”  His reasoning is a little pied, but it runs like this, “... [The IRS] certainly must be above politics. There are many Democrats calling for a thorough review. ***  For this reason, a full investigation by Congress is warranted....”  –  in other words, a thoroughly politicized investigation to look into politics in the IRS in order to eliminate politics at the IRS is justified because some other politicians might agree.  Shockingly, Kassar describes this IRS scandal as “...Tea Party audits...” —  as an “accountant” and seasoned political observer and writer he should know better; "audits" are a tiny part of what was wrong, to the point of being illegal, at the IRS.  However, the reason that Kassar's opening section was so shoddy was that he could care less about the Tea Party or even the national IRS scandal, right now. But, no matter  —  for him,  that was just the bait and any offal would do to chum the waters of any unsuspecting readers that he still might have.

Kassar then segued into a chorus about the more local scandals involving Vito Lopez and Shelly Silver  —  again, with very little substance in those discussions. This part of Kassar’s column was really ironic false flag stuff, because Lopez and Silver have long been benefactors of Kassar’s boss State Senator Martin Golden, and for his part, Golden has been a cooperator and facilitator of both Silver and Lopez. Little of import was mentioned or accomplished other than a tip of the hat to two of Kassar’s friends in the NYS Assembly Nicole Malliotakis and Joe Borelli. All that Jerry was missing as he marched in his ever narrowing circle was a tin toy soldier hat, tin whistle and tin drum.

It was after mentioning Vito Lopez and Shelly Silver that Kassar pulled down his false flag of convenience and hoisted the Jolly Roger and embarked on his real acts of rhetorical piracy. The real meat of Kassar’s column was the half of it that was devoted to a meeting of what Kassar described as  “...a new group calling itself Republicans for Change.”

Kassar went from his falsely flagged pettifoggery to an open and notorious “Big Lie” when he opened the final segment of his propaganda published weekly with this: “Mayoral candidate Joe Lhota and City Council candidate John Quaglione had a large crowd at a recent event held at the Bay Ridge Manor...”  The “crowd” was anything but “large”; in fact, except for a tight contingent of close-in Quaglione supporters, the Bay Ridge Manor crowd was embarrassingly small  —  a fact not lost on Lhota and his close-in supporters. You see, the fact not being reported by Jerry Kassar is that this “event” being hosted by Tim Cochrane  was the first gathering for “Republicans for Change”; and it fell on its face.

Also not reported by Jerry Kassar is that “Republicans for Change” is an alter-ego of Kassar’s boss, State Senator Martin Golden; and that "Republicans for Change" is part of Golden’s thoroughly corrupt effort to take over control of the whole Kings County Republican Party. So far Golden’s name has not been formally mentioned in connection with these so-called “Republicans for Change”; and certainly Kassar wouldn’t be serving his boss by doing that in his column.

Based on robo-calls, there is another gathering of “Republicans for Change” tonight at Gargiulo’s. Let’s see if Golden is announced in connection with all of this — OR — whether like Kassar, one of its creators, promoters  and facilitators, “Republicans for Change” continues to move under its own false flag.