How desperate have the folks at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s PolitiFact gotten? So desperate they’ve taken to determining the accuracy of statements Mary Burke made about her preferred beer.
During a “getting to know you” Q&A with ABC News, Democrat Mary Burke fielded a question that hardly will change the course of Wisconsin’s future.
But it did present a dilemma for the would-be governor of the state of beer and brats.
The question: Spotted Cow or Summer Shandy?
The question forced Burke to choose between two well-known Wisconsin beer makers: New Glarus Brewing Co. and Chippewa Falls-based Leinenkugel’s.
She had to choose between a regional craft brewery and a much larger company. And between a slightly cloudy “farmhouse ale” and a wheat beer mixed with lemonade.
Burke didn’t equivocate in her reply.
“Spotted Cow,” she said. “New Glarus is a great brewery and Spotted Cow, you can only get it in Wisconsin and (it’s) one of my favorites.”
Wait, what? We didn’t realize Spotted Cow was so exclusive.
And when we asked some beer drinkers — journalists know a few — several seemed surprised that the brew wouldn’t be available beyond the border.
For the record, Mary Burke’s statement was absolutely true – Spotted Cow is not available outside Wisconsin.
MJS is desperate to pad and give Mary a true statement in the long line of pants on fire lies. The real question should be this was the toughest question MJS could checkout out from Mary’s Q&A?
Enjoy your candidate! LOL
Desperate, why? To perpetuate an even horse-race meme to trick their boy wonder (who would be president) into returning more of that campaign cash back to the MJS owners (for advertising) before SKW goes down in flames and they lose control of it. Promoting Burke would fly in the face of MJS endorsements of SKW in two previous elections. Logic wasn’t your best subject in your charter school and we were already painfully aware of that.