DNC Orders Blogs to Flak for “Kung-Fu Grip” Etheridge
John on June 14, 2010 at 3:38 pm
I thought the video I posted this morning was pretty self-explanatory. Two young people ask a Democratic Congressman a question as he’s walking down the street. In response, the Congressman assaults the person asking the question, grabbing him by the neck at one point.
Apparently, this isn’t clear enough for the DNC. They sent out a press release which reads like a rough draft of Media Matters usual hackery. Ben Smith at Politico posted the talking points. Click over to read them all, but here are a couple of them:
2. Why would any legitimate student doing a project or a journalist shagging a story not identify themselves. Motives matter — what was the motivation here? To incite this very type of reaction?
Is the DNC saying they deserved to be assaulted? Sounds that way to me. But here’s where things get really interesting:
6. Push hard w/ blogs the lack of credibility inherent to anything Breitbart does/posts, given its role in the debunked ACORN videos:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/opinion/21pubed.html?src=twrhttp://mediamatters.org/research/201006010001
Who is the DNC giving marching orders too? Wouldn’t you like to know? So far, the only outlet/person which seems to be responding to the DNC is Mediaite’s Colby Hall, who offers some dishonest spin on what Mike Flynn posted at Big Government. And yes, he does seem to be pushing the “lack of credibility” angle pretty hard. Is Colby on some kind of Townhouse/Journo-list style e-mail chain?
In addition to the mystery of the DNC’s puppet blogs, the talking points claim that Breitbart’s site has been “debunked” because of the ACORN videos. But the link they provide to the NY Times’ Clark Hoyt doesn’t support that claim. I wrote about this at the time, but the bottom line from Hoyt is this:
Acorn’s supporters appear to hope that the whole story will fall apart over the issue of what O’Keefe wore: if that was wrong, everything else must be wrong. The record does not support them.
I don’t know how this rebuke of Breitbart’s critics (like the dunces at Brad Blog) has been transformed into proof that Breitbart’s sites are not reliable. If anything, the Times concludes the opposite.
But again, which blogs does the DNC have under their thumb. I’d really like to know.
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Well, I think there is an important, unanswered question here.
Why didn’t the kid present his papers when he was instructed to?
Now the STASI will have to do the photo matching work and all that so they can pop around and straighten them out.
I remember, back in the Constitutional days, when you could ask a congressman a question without presenting your papers or getting roughed up. The idea of either happening would just not have occurred to anybody.
Of course in those days, the congressman (or anybody else) would be free to keep on walking if they wanted to commit political suicide by not talking to a constituent.
Of course in those days, the questioners could be pretty aggressive, I recall hating SFO and LAX because of the saffron-rob folks, and Pershing Square could get hard on your ears.
June 14, 2010 @ 7:06 pm