Shortly after the November election, Republicans promised to spend the next two years swiftboating Nancy Pelosi as an out-of-touch pampered princess -- as a regular Marie Antoinette.
"Come January, we'll take her head off every day," said a top GOP aide involved in the planning. "It will be a pure war of ideas over the next two years."
How fortunate for the morality-challenged GOP to have a willing accomplice in the U.S. media.
In an amazing find, Roger Ailes points out that what the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz cites as a "typical blog reaction" to the Pelosi plane story, is in actual fact a rightwing reaction from some very atypical blogs.
Roger Ailes:
Political Retch is a blog with one -- that's one -- post. The one Kurtz quotes. The blog apparently didn't exist until yesterday morning at 8:38 a.m. If you do a Google search with "Politcal Retch" in quotes, it doesn't even show up. Yet Howie the Putz somehow managed to find the blog and promote it with no trouble whatsoever. The Lord works in mysterious ways.
The other blogger, Radiant Times, is "a choral director specializing in working with singers with changing voices" who began blogging on February 1, 2007 and currently has a total of 93 pages visits, 30 of which are from today.
So, according to the Putz, "typical blogger reaction" to the Pelosi slander is uniformly negative, and comes from bloggers who have blogged a total of 9 days. For Kurtz, the typical bloggers -- and the only bloggers worth quoting -- are ones who spout uninformed right-wing opinion, not ones that actually searched for the facts and challenged the fabrications of the Moonie Times.
Is this totally weird?
How do you even find two brand new rightwing blogs?
Unless you got a tip from the RNC because you are a disgusting Republican shill.
Maybe Howard Kurtz is smoking something a whole lot better than anything I can get my hands on . . . or maybe the Media Notes guy has signed a contract with the Devil Rove himself.
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