We’ve suspected it for a while. At the start, it was kind of a joke – “hey, these liberals are all saying the same thing…and not just on TV, but also in print and in mere blog comments…must be they get together every morning to coordinate talking points, har har har!”. Then it became kinda creepy how they would continuously hit the same talking points and how they would always try to steer conversation towards whatever twaddle Obama, et al were peddling on a particular day. Well, now we know – just because you’re not paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you:
How many faintly ominous pieces has Politico run this year about people close to Obama colluding to target their political enemies? There was the story about Rahm Emanuel’s friendly daily chats with Begala, Carville, and Stephanopoulos, then there was the expose on the group effort (“explicitly authorized” by David Axelrod) to make Rush Limbaugh the face of the GOP, and now this. No wonder Ben Smith’s using the word “conspiracy.”
Question to our resident Politico-haters: Has any other publication written extensively about this sort of thing? If so, I missed it.
The vast new left-wing conspiracy sets its tone every morning at 8:45 a.m., when officials from more than 20 labor, environmental and other Democratic-leaning groups dial into a private conference call hosted by two left-leaning Washington organizations…
The call has proved particularly effective at coordinating attacks on critics, said Jackie Schechner, the national communications director for Health Care for America Now, a labor-backed alliance of groups that support Democratic efforts to expand health care.
“There’s a coordination in terms of exposing the people who are trying to come out against reform —they’ve all got backgrounds and histories and pasts, and it’s not taking long to unearth that and to unleash that, because we’re all working together,” Schechner said.
When a new group called Conservative for Patients Rights, for instance, launched an ad campaign featuring former health care executive Rick Scott, “There was a discussion about what do we know about this guy and in a very quick period of time we were able to come up with his background,” she said…
This, as noted later in the linked article, is smart politics – in a media-driven age where the merest impressions can cause major shifts in the electorate, its just smart to have a well-oiled machine for both getting your views out and hitting hard at the opposition. But even though we GOPers will, naturally, copy this and, just as naturally, do it better (and, also just as naturally, when it comes back to bite Democrats they’ll suddenly be offended by it and claim that this GOP nastiness just has got to stop), it is a bit creepy. Creepy – but also boring.
Fortunately, we here at Blogs for Victory do have the saving grace of a few very intelligent and actually well-read pinkos (Sergei, Ricorun, kmg, etc) and thus we’re not just being hit with talking points…but to turn on any liberal talk show or read any lefty commentary is just dull as dishwater these days…they all say the same thing in the same way at the same time. Doesn’t it bother you liberals to have your views just ground out by a propaganda ministry-type operation? I mean, come on – can’t you stand to differ with your Fearless Leader just a bit? I broke with most of my fellow GOPers on immigration reform, ya know? And yet my fellow conservatives still like me – heck, I also go my separate way on the death penalty, and I’m still able to hold my head up high at a conservative gab-fest. Its actually a bit more fun when you hash things out and there’s more than one opinion on the table.
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