Someone tell me the difference between talking points and election strategies
Posted by TFG on July 28th, 2007
All he needs is the cape, the cane, and the turban, because he obviously has the crystal ball:
Do you have a problem with President Hillary Clinton, in the spring of 2010, calling bloggers and issuing talking points to subvert the investigations by a Republican Congress into alleged misdeeds and lies by her Attorney General, Pat Leahy? Of course you would.
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Which, just by coincidence, will be repeated in the right wing blogosphere until it bubbles up into the mainstream media, fogging the issue and clouding the legitimate debate.
I’m particularly fond of “clouding the legitimate debate.” Why, if bloggers got involved with carrying water for the pols, that would just be horrifying.
I’m actually sympathetic to that view, but the days of the amateur independent blogger vanished about five years ago, chief. Ginger Stampley was right, I was wrong. In the end, we just ended up with a bigger, better-connected, media — and more water-carriers. Of course, I’ve only got half a brain, so I’m safely ignored.
July 29th, 2007 at 8:46 am
The Left’s indignation over the Right adopting some of their communication strategies is so cute.
Whatever.
I think there are plenty of blogs that maintain an independent voice and aren’t just water-carriers for party or cause.
But if some establishment (or even insurgent) pols feel like their message isn’t getting through the media fog and they turn to talk radio or blogs, so what? Aren’t news consumers smart enough to sort through it all? Don’t multiple competing perspectives make for a more robust marketplace of ideas? I think so.
I have long waited for some Houston or Harris County Republican figure to send blogHOUSTON some “talking points” since I hear so much about them. I am sure we could have some great fun with that!
July 29th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
Y’know, there are plenty of independent voices, and they still do get some play, but look at Memeorandum on any day, and it’s mostly bought-and-paid-for bloggers. In a way, that’s good — who wouldn’t want that gig? But at the same time, it’s taken 99% of the fun out of blogging for me.
Have you ever gotten any feelers about BH? Seems like you should have by now.
PS Yeah, they’re smart enough. Just not loud enough to drown out the Salons, Slates, WaPos, blah-blah-blah. Of course, I could just be cranky…that would be new, I know…