Teabagging Cubed

If you read the update on Teabagging yesterday, then you'll be interested in this. Following the uber-moron's links on how the Tea Party Protests are in fact a Fox News Channel creation led me to a humongous post about it on a site called "Firedoglake", a cesspool of leftism that I wouldn't want to return to. Naturally DailyKos has made the accusations as well. And then I came across this, which, it turns out, is likely the impetus behind the accusation about the Tea Parties. It is just like I said - **they think we are like them**. They attribute such ill motives to us because **they** are in fact involved in such incestuous activity themselves, and since their motives and methods are ill, like the thief who guards his wallet so closely, they assume that our motives and methods are equally ill. So in the interest of backing up my mention of incestuous activity and attribution of motives, I present you this:

Some of the leading liberal bloggers are privately furious with the major progressive groups — and in some cases, the Democratic Party committees — for failing to spend money advertising on their sites, even as these groups constantly ask the bloggers for free assistance in driving their message.

It’s a development that’s creating tensions on the left and raises questions about the future role of the blogosphere at a time when a Dem is in the White House and liberalism could be headed for a period of sustained ascendancy.

A number of these top bloggers agreed to come on record with me after privately arguing to these groups that they deserved a share in the ad wealth and couldn’t be taken for granted any longer.

“They come to us, expecting us to give them free publicity, and we do, but it’s not a two way street,” Jane Hamsher, the founder of FiredogLake, said in an interview. “They won’t do anything in return. They’re not advertising with us. They’re not offering fellowships. They’re not doing anything to help financially, and people are growing increasingly resentful.”

Hamsher singled out Americans United for Change, which raises and spends big money on TV ad campaigns driving Obama’s agenda, as well as the constellation of groups associated with it, and the American Association of Retired Persons, also a big TV advertiser.

“Most want the easy way — having a big blogger promote their agenda,” adds Markos Moulitsas, the founder of DailyKos. “Then they turn around and spend $50K for a one-page ad in the New York Times or whatever.” Moulitsas adds that officials at such groups often do nothing to engage the sites’s audiences by, say, writing posts, instead wanting the bloggers to do everything for them.

Huh. I told you so.

Moment of Zen - piracy is hilarious! If you thought Obama cackling over the economy was funny, here's another one for you:

Yes, Ms. McEwan, it sure is NICE to have "grown-ups" in charge again, isn't it?