Vander Plaats says Iowa Judges who defend them­selves against his new (and totally false) YouTube smear are 'doing a PR tour on taxpayers' expense'

Busted on video: Exposé of new smear of Iowa Supreme Court Justice David Wiggins by Bob Vanderplaats and Tamara Scott of Iowans for Freedom, a political goon squad "project" of the Iowa Family Leader.

Vander Plaats and Tamara Scott recently released an Iowans For Freedom YouTube video which smears Iowa Supreme Court Justice David Wiggins so outrageously, shamelessly and falsely that their political hucksterism has to be seen to be believed.
     In the video, Iowans For Freedom repeats four times a flagrantly deceptive out-of-context soundbite from Supreme Court Justice David Wiggins in a blatant attempt to trick voters into thinking that Wiggins confessed on camera to conspiring to circumvent Iowa's constitution regarding gay marriage.
     In fact, the soundbite wasn't about marriage at all, and the footage that Bob Vander Plaats and Tamara Scott & their organization connivingly discarded shows them to be political charlatans of the first magnitude.
     Via the good graces of some helpful Iowans, AKSARBENT has located the very video that Iowans for Freedom (the Family Leader political goon squad focused on judicial intimidation) ransacked for the soundbite that they subsequently distorted in a completely different context. Our video totally busts their chicanery and is at the top of this post. If what Vanderplaats and Tamara Scott have done to Justice Wiggins isn't defamation via libel then perhaps the words need to be redefined.
     Below is their press conference announcing Iowans For Freedom's new judicial Jihad, itself a work of art, in which Vander Plaats actually claims that justices defending themselves from his baseless accusations are 'doing a PR tour on taxpayers' expense.'



Bonus oldie — Vander Plaats' favorite lie about the Iowa Supreme Court:

"You don't make law from the bench. And if you do, we're going to hold you accountable for it."

Translation:

"At the fantasy law school I didn't attend, interpreting the constitutionality of laws is the job of the Supreme Court of Iowa unless evangelicals and their Pied Piper of the moment don't like the decision, in which case it is "Legislating From The Bench. By activist judges. All seven of them. But especially the ones appointed by Tom Vilsack."

Second best Vander Plaats quote:

According to David Barton, 80% of Americans think the courts have taken waaay too much power"

Bob Vander Plaats' source, David Barton, just wrote a book about Thomas Jefferson. It is so bad, the PUBLISHER recalled it for multiple factual inaccuracies, is pulping the book and eating the cost. Religious scholar Greg Forster said David Barton’s “inability to write reliable history stretches beyond ideological cheerleading into outright incompetence."  Oh, by the way, the History News Network just named Barton's Jefferson bio "the least credible history book in print." Nice to know from what author Bob Vander Plaats gets his facts, ain't it?

Third best quote, in which Vander Plaats proves he doesn't even know what the word "parameter" means, much less the law, the courts, Iowa's constitution or any other facts which deconstruct his relentless demagoguery:

"They [Iowa Supreme Court] just need to stay within the parameters of the constitution. If they do that, they're going to be OK."

From dictionarycentral.com:

The term 'parameter' is often misused by, for example, being confused with variable, or, even more vulgarly, with 'perimeter', as in the degraded English phrase 'within these parameters'.