Evil geniuses
Oh man, these people just can't stop lying. Digby has a great roundup on the Right Wing Media Machine. You know, the one they keep calling Liberal so that it will keep getting more conservative? They're so smart it hurts. Anyway, there's a whole drummed up non-scandal based on utter lies about Kos taking money from the Dean campaign.
This part is hilarious: "HUGH HEWITT [AUTHOR]: No, Bill. In fact, the idea of payola is very dangerous. Bloggers on the take are very bad for the business of blogging. Blogging of real journalists, and people like Power Line and like InstaPundit and myself, we don't like it when Daily Kos shows up on the take of the Howard Dean campaign. Now Daily Kos says, this is one of the bloggers from the left, says he disclosed it, but not to the satisfaction of anyone who watches him. I didn't know.
O'REILLY: Aw, this is bunk. This is bull. Nobody knew about this.
HEWITT: That's right."
Now, as someone who was reading DailyKos at the time, I was well aware that he was a paid consultant for the Dean campaign, and there was even a permanent disclaimer up on the site. This smear is, quite honestly, sickening in how intellectually dishonest it is. It's amazing how easily and happily these people just lie and lie and lie.
This part is hilarious: "HUGH HEWITT [AUTHOR]: No, Bill. In fact, the idea of payola is very dangerous. Bloggers on the take are very bad for the business of blogging. Blogging of real journalists, and people like Power Line and like InstaPundit and myself, we don't like it when Daily Kos shows up on the take of the Howard Dean campaign. Now Daily Kos says, this is one of the bloggers from the left, says he disclosed it, but not to the satisfaction of anyone who watches him. I didn't know.
O'REILLY: Aw, this is bunk. This is bull. Nobody knew about this.
HEWITT: That's right."
Now, as someone who was reading DailyKos at the time, I was well aware that he was a paid consultant for the Dean campaign, and there was even a permanent disclaimer up on the site. This smear is, quite honestly, sickening in how intellectually dishonest it is. It's amazing how easily and happily these people just lie and lie and lie.
2 Comments:
I wish we could get on some campaign's payroll.
Hell, I'd shill for *anybody* (well, no Nazis, Commies, or Terrorists).
That's just the type of shifty Dick Morris politico I am.
Oh, as for Kos.
I don't read him, so I don't care. Which probably explains Hewitt.
Hugh Hewitt is a smart guy, and I like his blog, but his sketchy knowledge of Kos doesn't confirm the existence of Right Wing Media (which I guess consists of just about everything in Too-Much-Eric-Alterman-Leftists' minds; it's really just Talk Radio, Drudge, and Fox News. Believe me, I wish it was everything!).
The much bigger crime here is that Hewitt's living in a blog bubble.
And we're all guilty of this.
Blogs are letting us live in political isolation, where we only devour news and opinion to our liking. I should know. It really takes an extreme effort on my part to read Lefty blogs, Lefty rags, and Krugman and Dowd columns in the NY Times every day. I don't think Hewitt has this discipline.
He's probably busy at his Right Wing Conspiracy meetings and plotting to steal money from old people.
Kidding.
He's plotting to steal candy from babies.
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