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One of North Carolina's better political reporters, Bob Geary, has done a decent job in recent months covering the monstrosity known as the Art Pope Puppetshow. In fact, he did a particularly good job laying out the sordid details of Pope's electioneering case that came before the State Board of Elections. In a display of stunning incompetence, the Board dismissed the complaint against Pope, and left the dirty old Puppetmaster feeling vindicated.

To celebrate his victory and try to clean up his shady reputation, the Puppetmaster responded to Geary's article in this letter to the editor:

By his own admission, ace political observer Bob Geary doesn't traffic in rumors, just well-founded speculation. So when he writes about the possibility of Raleigh Mayor Charles Meeker taking on Liddy Dull for US Senate in 08, we ought to at least sit up and take notice. The story first shows up on Wake Pol, one of the N&O blogs.

For those of you who have not caught of glimpse of the Independent reporter Bob Geary's blog Citizen yet, he has had a gem up today about Rep. Etheridge's (D-2) desire to avoid any question relating to the war in Iraq:

The reason Etheridge wanted to get out of there, and did get out a couple of minutes later, was that all the questions were about Iraq, and the torture-rendition flights out of Johnston County, and he didn’t want to talk about either subject. “You can’t do everything,” he said to a woman who pressed him on his refusal to co-sponsor a particular House bill. “I haven’t looked at that one.”