The remarkable conversation between Walker and the Koch caller — actually Buffalo, N.Y., blogger Ian Murphy — was the talk of Wisconsin Wednesday morning, as lawyers rushed to review the tape and the governor's office, perhaps even more remarkably, issued a press release saying: "The governor takes many calls everyday. Throughout this call the governor maintained his appreciation for and commitment to civil discourse. He continued to say that the budget repair bill is about the budget. The phone call shows that the governor says the same thing in private as he does in public and the lengths that others will go to disrupt the civil debate Wisconsin is having."

Actually, that's not true.

The governor has not said in public that he is using his budget repair bill to advance the "vested interest" of a billionaire businessman who stands to benefit if the bill is approved.

The governor has not said in public that he is working closely with that businessman to coordinate tea party rallies and advertising to support the bill, and that he wants the businessman to use a front group, Americans for Prosperity, to launch a massive advertising campaign to support Republican senators who — despite the fact that they are troubled by the bill — choose to vote for it.