Caputo Speaks

by: phillip anderson

Fri Aug 17, 2007 at 10:33:46 AM EDT

Look, folks - I am not being paid. Not by Sen. Bruno, not by Roger Stone, not by anyone. I am just a conservative activist and I take orders - and money - from nobody on this.

Unfortunately, I have nobody taking orders from me on this, either. I'm doing it all myself. If I can do it, any dope can - but it does take some time out of my day.

Honest to God, I wouldn't know Sen. Bruno if he boarded my boat. But I graduated from SUNY, I've been in the arena nearly 30 years, I read the news, and I have computers. So why is it so impossible for the media and bloggers to believe I can handle NYFacts and SpitzerFile on my own?

I'm normally thick-skinned, but even I'm starting to get a bit offended here. Fess up: do you think I'm just too stupid to pull this off?

I've never asserted that Caputo was stupid or incapable of anything. His intelligence or skills aren't the issue here.

Remember, the guy who's writing the script for me is Richard Milhous Spitzer. He authored this tragicomedy; he created his own starring role.

What's more funny: the insinuation that I got the DVD from Stone because it came from New York City. Last I looked, there were a few people living there directly affected by Spitzer's capricious, thug-like behavior. Maybe millions?

With all the people AG Spitzer screwed in the business community - entire industries - can't you imagine a groundswell of folks out there eager to see him pay for his crimes? Well, those people are on my email list and many are in New York City.

As Bouldin says, I think this statement is very illustrative of exactly what this effort by Stone and Caputo is all about: overturning the results of last year's election, a familiar Republican tack.

If you could only see my email inbox everyday, chirping all day long with unsolicited incoming information. The DVD was certainly not the first thing I received via Internet, snail and express mail. Is that a shock to all of you?

Importantly, I was threatened; I don't feel threatened. I've been around the block a few times. I've worked in boardrooms, on battlefields, in Belarus. I've been spat upon, beaten, shot, and stabbed. I don't scare all that easily anymore and I am certainly not afraid of this sophmoric attempt to silence me.

Who exactly is trying to silence him? Certainly not me.

More strawmen and obfuscation on the flip...

What Azi Paybarah's story didn't tell you about our discussion on Fred Dicker's radio show: my Internet servers endured 50-plus hours of a "denial of service" attack. It didn't take much to unwind, but it was coming from central New York. You also missed how I was threatened: via telephone, as hundreds of phone-bank calls flooded my cellphone. The calls came from Morris Plains, New Jersey.

This is likely more thug-like behavior from Spitzer cronies. Tired of being hammered with the truth, they decided to shut me down. Well, it failed.

Obviously.

But I do have some PR101 advice for the Dems: read the Constitution, leave me be, and do a little communicating yourselves. Develop and rent grasstops email lists. Set up Web sites, send out targeted emails. (HINT: don't just focus on reporter emails, that gets you very low ROI.)

Once again, I've never even hinted at "silencing" Caputo. I've red the Constitution, even carry a small one in my wallet. I'm a First Amendment Absolutist. Free speech is not the issue here.

Heck, you might even find a few mystery packages arriving to your office, too. Last week, my parrot received a chew toy via US Mail from an "anonymous benefactor" in Albany. (Augie says thanks; she's ecstatic.) Someone sent me a nice bottle of New York State wine via DHL, too. (Thanks "Pete"; I drank it the other night with a nice red snapper I caught just an hour before.)

One thing is clear for the Dems: you cannot just use the Albany Times Union as your press office anymore.

Because the word is out on Spitzer. And times have changed. So deal with it.

Michael Caputo

Caputo seems awfully upset about issues that neither I nor Bouldin have ever raised. What is at issue here is that Caputo is quite obviously using Stone's email list. Stone's job is now to save Bruno's job. Caputo and Stone are thick as thieves. But, Caputo and Stone aren't working in concert even as Caputo blasts GOP messaging all over the state.

I'm not buying it, Mr. Caputo.