Hazelbaker lie #1 – Hazelbaker caught lying to the Star Ledger
Hazelbaker denied the campaign had anything to do with the postings. “Oh, please,” she said…Hazelbaker argued that the address Melli said was on the postings is not the campaign’s IP address.
But it is the same IP address that appears on numerous official campaign e-mails sent by Hazelbaker to The Star-Ledger through the course of the campaign.
Hazelbaker said tonight she could not explain why that IP address shows up on her e-mail, but that the campaign’s technical staff assured her Melli had it wrong.
"It's nonsense. That's my comment,” Hazelbaker said Ok, seriously, that’s major. Confronted with the IP address that the fake blog postings were made from, Hazelbaker outright lied to the largest paper in the state – stating the exact opposite of the truth. Then when called out on that lie, rather than correct herself Hazelbaker just blew it off! That's either the mark of an incompetent press secretary or a shameless liar.
Hazelbaker lie #2 – Hazelbaker caught feeding lies to the New York Times
This time she lied and got a junior staffer to lie too. Ms. Hazelbaker called the accusations “nonsense,” and said neither she nor anyone else she knows of in the office had anything to do with the postings…
The Kean campaign’s technical adviser said that the Internet protocol, or I.P., address that linked the posts to the Kean headquarters was an old one, “from over a month ago.” But an e-mail message Ms. Hazelbaker sent to a reporter on Wednesday shares the same I.P. address. What the heck was she thinking? First she lies to the largest paper in the state, then to the top paper in the nation?
Hazelbaker lie #3 – Hazelbaker caught lying to the New York Times AGAIN:
First, a bit of critical background. Late Monday night, BlueJersey.com broke a big story – a 1996 Jersey Journal article revealed that Senator Menendez had stated as far back as 10 years ago that a House ethics attorney cleared his rental deal. Menendez had forgotten her name over time, but this article had it! Ellen Weintraub, a current FEC commissioner. This was huge news.
On Tuesday, the Bergen Record’s Herb Jackson interviewed Weintraub at length and reported Wednesday that she said “she would have advised Bob Menendez” in 1994 that the leasing of his property “was not a conflict of interest.”
Weintraub didn’t remember her specific conversation with Menendez, but said she was responsible for hundreds of congressional offices, many of them asked verbal questions, and many members of Congress rented out property. “Given the circumstances she's read about in news accounts, she would have cleared the lease,” Jackson reported.
Here’s where the lie begins. On Tuesday night at 7:14pm, fake blogger “cleanupnj” (which had Hazelbaker’s IP address) wrote that Weintraub “isn't even sure if she gave Boss Bob approval anyway.” Hmm…somewhat suspicious, since that fact wasn’t reported until the next day’s paper! Coincidentally, Hazelbaker’s Tuesday quote to Herb Jackson about Weintraub included the same idea, “his corroborating witness doesn't remember the act of approval.”
The New York Times directly asked Hazelbaker about this: But Ms. Hazelbaker said many others could have been privy to that information, which concerned recollections of a former lawyer for a Congressional ethics panel… What?!! Hazelbaker was caught red-handed—fake-blogging about news that hadn’t come out yet! And she lied to the media anyway!
If the fake blogger was not Hazelbaker or another Kean-Jr. staffer under her direction, the only other possibility is that Matt Miller, Herb Jackson, or Ellen Weintraub snuck into the Kean headquarters and blogged on BlueJersey.com from there!
BONUS -- funny Hazelbaker deceit #1
Jill Hazelbaker is VERY busy. “Oh, please,” she told the Star Ledger. With all that time spent lying to the media “I’m very busy. I don’t have time to focus on Blue Jersey. ... I don’t blog.”
But the edits to Robert Menendez’s Wikipedia blurb made from her IP address tell another story. No less than SIX DAYS were spent obsessing over and changing Bob Menendez’s wiki entry in July and August!!
I suppose this makes sense from a time-management perspective. Like Hazelbaker, we all know that Wikipedia is the #1 source of information for swing voters. Right? (Just like they get their information from BlueJersey.com political blog!) “Oh please…I’m very busy.”
BONUS -- funny Hazelbaker deceit #2
On Tuesday night, fake-blogger “usedtobeblue” took a proud stand on behalf of press secretaries everywhere! You guys are upset about the attacks on Menendez, but isn't it a little bit hypocritical to then attack his press secretary. Not to mention, Kean (sic Jr.) is winning so she must be doing something right. Hahahaha… Someday Jill Hazelbaker will look back at this and agree with me that this is just awesome!
And to throw her a bone, I agree with one point – she’s indeed doing something right. I must say, those wiki entries look meticulously edited.
Unfortunately for her, she has some improvement to make in the “covering her tracks” category. After the above posting was made, BlueJersey.com’s Juan Melli followed with this… What smells fishy is that both "usedtobeblue" and "cleanupnj" posted comments 15 minutes apart from the same exact IP address from two accounts that were created within 10 minutes of each other.
When a press secretary’s lie after lie after lie is followed with deceits so bad they are humorous, one has to question why any reporter would ever take anything that press secretary says at face value again. |
