Crazy Like a Fox that is!
In the past month while I have been on hiatus, I have watched 10 to 12 bloggers write multiple blog postings about him and his "Crazy Right Wing antics" all culminated by a Milwaukee Magazine article which bloggers are still posting about.
FranklinNOW blogger Greg Kowalski had no idea he was promoting Kevin Fischer when he wrote his now infamous post Actions have Consequences where he lists the following blogs that did stories on Fischer: Musings of a Thoughtful Conservative , Folkbum's Rambles and Rants, Wigderson Library & Pub, Real Debate Wisconsin, Pundit Nation, Inside New Berlin, Whallah! , Blue Racine, Fairly Conservative, Blogging Blue.
The most vocal of these has been Cindy Kilkenny, a former BrookfieldNOW blogger and Brookfield Mayor “wannabe”. Cindy has blogged on her “Fairly Conservative” © personal blog not less than 14 times about Fischer since January of this year, in an attempt to get him fired as a Legislative Assistant to Senator Mary Lazych. Kilkenny has a strange affinity to helping young, impressionable bloggers like Kowalski and Shawn Matson formerly of BrookfieldNOW but now following in the steps of his mentor Kilkenny on his own personal blog too.
More recent exposure has been given to Fischer in a Milwaukee Magazine article which local blogger John Michlig's - Sprawled Out blog (which contains 3 recent postings about Fischer) and Greg Kowalski's "I'm in Milwaukee Magazine" have brought to the blogsphere chronicling the tenuous blog relationship that Greg and Kevin have going over a blog where Fischer called Kowalski "Cheesecake Breath". This was in reference to Greg's multiple blogs promoting the Cheesecake Factory coming to Franklin.
WOW - If people did not know who Kevin Fischer was from his stints on WISN and Channel 10's INTERchange they will now. You can't buy this kind of exposure. Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh had his Oxycontin exposure and is still a major conservative mainstay while shock jock, Don Imus was dropped from his nationally CBS syndicate show due to his racial slur comments only to pick up a sweet multi year syndication contract with ABC late last year.
The Milwaukee Magazine article states:
Mark Maley, the CNI executive who oversees the NOWWeb sites, doesn't see a serious problem. "Even with the skirmishes, nobody's been sued," he says. "It's basically been a handful of people tossing mud. There's been some online behavior that I'm not thrilled about, but the vast, vast majority is pretty positive stuff." Even some of the people involved in the verbal duels have also engaged in enterprising work, like airing details of community development projects or conducting open-records requests for officials' e-mails.
But bad journalism might be what the readers want. "I'm not crazy about it," Maley says. "But the FranklinNOW site has rapidly become our No. 2 Web site rather than 6 or 7."
That is because, thanks to all the FREE publicity, Kevin's blog is getting from other blogers, he is getting record hits on his "This Just In ... " NOW site and Mr. Maley is taking that to the bank.
Kevin has just announced that he will be filling in more on WISN radio and is in private negotiations for the expansion of his roll on WISN Radio 1130. For those of you not familiar with this type of vague announcement, Mike Gousha spoke of expanded rolls on a local station too, during speaking engagements right before he was back on TV at WISN Channel 12.
Do you think that WISN Radio 1130, an extremely conservative station, would expand his role, if Kevin's opinions did not produce revenue for their station?
That he is/will be attracting the conservative listener just like Mark Belling, Vicki McKenna, Jay Webber and yes Rush Limbaugh is, while this "Get Kevin Mob" has attracted even more listeners.
Does this mean that Kevin will be departing from employment with Senator Lazych? Not according to a comment he made on "Wigderson's Library & Pub" blog.
As for comments that Kevin Fischer is "the devil on my shoulder", Kevin writes my blog, I am part of the evil "Team Fischer" and do his biding (yes master), Kevin hijacks my blog, I support Kevin unconditionally,and that I agree with everything Kevin says, are all untrue.
What is the truth is I am a personal friend of Kevin Fischer (personal friends sometimes disagree on issues) and he is laughing because the "Get Kevin Mob" has been .........
Wagging the Dog
