Conservative Media Trackers Vilifies before Verifies. They got the mileage out of the bashing Sen. Lena Taylor, that's all the mattered.

The phony outrage and self righteousness of Walker supporters is surreal to say the least! But now we can look at them as political frauds, mudslinging provocateurs, attempting to disparage the recall effort with recent recall shenanigans that undermine the electoral process. 

jsonline-Dan Bice: Media Trackers - a conservative outfit that digs up dirt on liberals - recently scored a public relations coup by linking state Sen. Lena C. Taylor and her mother to possible voter fraud in the April election.

The story got prominent play in the Journal Sentinel, talk radio, conservative blogs, WTMJ-TV (Channel 4) and other media outlets. Each reported the claims made by Media Trackers about the sometimes controversial senator … Including one major assertion that turns out to be spurious. In particular, Media Trackers had suggested Taylor and her mother might have been "accessories" to voter fraud for their role in helping a felon named Russell Collins vote illegally in the April election. In reality, Collins had been released from custody weeks before the election. That means he was legally free to vote.

This is how the alarmists and paranoid conservative freaks at Media Trackers report what they found to the media:

"Last week, we saw Sen. Taylor introduce legislation that would allow felons the moment they leave jail to vote," Brian Sikma, communications director for Media Trackers told the Journal Sentinel. "But looking at what we found, it looks like she didn't even wait for the law to change. She was, in fact, an accessory to one felon voting on April 5 when that individual was ineligible to vote under Wisconsin statutes."

Others in the media were also ready to prosecute … "Is it not news that Lena Taylor and her mother are involved in assisting an ineligible felon to vote?" wrote conservative talk show host Charlie Sykes on his blog. "The law was broken when this guy voted. Isn't that a problem?"… Channel 4 reporter Charles Benson said on air, "Media Trackers says one of those people who voted from here is a convicted felon, and that would be illegal."

Asked if Media Trackers should offer an apology to Taylor or her mother, Sikma said he didn't think so. "We stand by the information we were given," he said. Even if it turned out to be incomplete.