NY: Shumer v. Townsend - who lied?

[nogods]

At the end of tonight's debate between Jay Townsend and Charles Shumer (NY Senate race), Townsend said Shumer had a license to carry a hand gun. Shumer said that was a lie, and that he did not have a license to carry a hand gun.

One of them lied.

[nogods]

Looks like it was Townsend who lied, well not really a "lie" but just regurgitation of internet vomit.

Townsend claimed that he "had read" that Schumer had a pistol permit. That was probably true, because there are a million blogs and forum posting in which people incorrectly claim Schumer has such a license.

To make things worse, Townsend's campaign managers said shortly after the debate that they would submit proof that Schumer had a handgun license. So far no such proof hs been submitted and they are probably frantically reading all the blogs and forum posts that make such a claim in an effort to find some actual credible source for such a claim.

In the meantime, Schumer's campaign submitted proof that he does not have a handgun license, which pretty much exposes the foolishness of relying on unsubstantiated internet claims.

Chuck Schumer says he’s not armed

Perhaps Townsend's campaign will come up with some evidence otherwise, but as of today it looks like Townsend owes the voters a correction on this one.

[Bohemian]

Chucky Gun-Ban Schumer owes the entire country Hari kari, also known as sepuku for what he has done to the Constitution & the Second Amendment

FIRE SENATOR CHUCK SCHUMER (D-NY) NOVEMBER 2ND, 2010

[nogods]

Chucky Gun-Ban Schumer owes the entire country Hari kari, also known as sepuku for what he has done to the Constitution & the Second Amendment

FIRE SENATOR CHUCK SCHUMER (D-NY) NOVEMBER 2ND, 2010

Without some substance that is just more internet blah..blah...blah.

Townsend will probably read your post and then claim in a TV ad "I recently read that Senator Schumer...blah...blah...blah..."

Which will have the same result with voters capable of critical thinking as his assertion in the debate.

I'm not voting for Schumer because he is an incumbent. But if Townsend doesn't do better than he has so far, I'll be wasting my vote because most people are not voting for Townsend because he appears to be stupid.

[twogunwilly]

Schemer is a traitor to the American people and his Jewish heritage!

[nogods]

Schemer is a traitor to the American people and his Jewish heritage!

What, no citation to an internet blog to back up your assertion? Surely there must be hundreds, perhaps thousands, maybe even 6 million.