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Barack Obama is like a black widow spider except for that widow part
In Eric Boehlert’s Bloggers On The Bus, he includes an excellent chapter describing how liberal and progressive bloggers spent their time working to elect Barack Obama (you know…the President? It was in all of the papers) while conservative bloggers, faced with a Old Man Who Yells At Clouds/Bible Spice ticket, spent their time chasing down bizarre consiracy theories like the "whitey tape", "Bill Ayers wrote Obama’s books", "Michelle Obama’s $450 room service tab", and, of course "Birthcertificategate", a zombie that still walks the earth in search of brains.
So, while real world stuff is being taken care of by people who live in the real world, I am pleased to see the un-housebroken puppies of the right are continuing to chase after dust motes and moving shadows on the wall. Of course there are those who know that this is all a waste of time and in many ways they’re stupider than their conspiracy-besotted brethren because they can’t help themselves:
The only way to even get the MSM to do their jobs and take a look is to pressure them by claiming Worst Scandal Eveh, even if we don’t all necessarily buy that. But we have to claim that in order to spur any sort of media interest whatsoever. (That interest, of course, coming in the form of stories like Conservatives Now So Crazy They Think Obama Is Closing Chrysler Dealerships for Political Advantage, which isn’t exactly the headline we seek, but that’s the best we can hope for from the MSM.)
Because nothing garners the respect and attention of the MSM more than frantically waving your hands around and claiming that you’ve been kidnapped and anally-probed by spiders from Mars.
Okay. The New York Post would pay attention, but my point still stands…
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Poor things — still suffering from Baracknophobia after all this time.
“Baracknophobia” — touche. Just brilliant.
Apart from that, will someone please remind me again what the MSM’s job is these days? I mean, I know it used to be journalamism and research-y stuff, but that was back when I was a puppy and the world was printed in black & white. Nowadays is seems to consist mainly of stenography and kissing Village butt.
I think their plan will backfire. I mean, I fail to see how they’ll do that any better if they’re distracted with exciting stories about “Michelle Obama’s Love Affair with a Chinese Swine-Flu Spreader” — the MSM is not exactly known for scrutinizing the validity of Drudge’s stuff, so won’t the fourth estate be too busy talking the sordid “facts” to actually run with the desired underlying story about horrors of Obama’s Black Socialist Revolution?
In case the headline of TBogg’s post is confusing, it refers to yet another stupid-assed Republican Bullshit Smear.
Barry played guitar
Jamming good with Joe and Hilly…
TBogg took it all too far
but boy could he play guitar
So where were the lib’rals?
While the right tried to break our balls…
I think there may be a whole generation of readers who won’t get this comment thread …
Ziggy played guitar-ar-ar-arrrrrrrrr
I certainly get it–”Ziggy Stardust” was the best song Bauhaus ever did.
Ziggy? He’s adorable. Always liked him better than Garfield.
Why, yes, I do get the song reference, why do you ask?
Here in Peoria, our local Congressman, Aaron Schock, took a swing at the administration for the closing of local Chrysler dealerships, although what that meant in practice is that one of the local megadealers has to delete one of the logos from his sign and dump the cars that weren’t moving anyway. Schock, of course, gets to avoid having to talk about his position on gay marriage.