Bloggasm

I’m guessing that the Daily Beast doesn’t have a copy editor, otherwise this wouldn’t be noteworthy, not that it is anyway.

From Meghan McCain’s recent column:

Everyone from Jessica Simpson to Tyra Banks, Oprah and Hillary Clinton has fallen victim to this type of image-oriented bullying.

UPDATE: In case it isn’t clear, I’m giving McCain kudos for correct grammar, not saying that it’s incorrect.

Which reminds me of this tshirt I’ve been meaning to buy:

That’s conservative blogger Michelle Malkin posing for a photo with a man holding a swastika Obama sign

I’m not going to pretend to be an expert on the history of the National Review, but I’ve seen claims that at some point it was some kind of haven for conservative intellectual thought (though the biased part of me remains skeptical of whether this was ever true). That being said, I’d like to think I’m being unbiased when I echo the thoughts of many that in recent years the publication has been an anti-intellectual sewer only a step above sites like Perez Hilton or The Free Republic. Glenn Greenwald details a recent episode — not solitary by any means — in which the publication just outright refused to print a correction in a timely manner.

…and then you go and bitch about it when he cashes in on the success? One thing can be said about Ayers, and it’s that he’s no media-whore Joe the Plumber who sought out the MSM’s teat. He avoided reporters’ interview requests. Without your constant guilt-by-association tactics that you played out until the election, nobody would even know who he is.

With McCain so far down in the polls, right wing bloggers are facing a dilemma. For years they’ve had to speak in racial code speak, always hinting but never blatantly displaying the prejudicial undertones that knit and weave their way into so many of their posts. But now in the final days of the election, with so much at stake, they’ve realized they have no choice but to shed the sheep’s clothing, dig deep into the swirl of muck of racist thought, and fling it at the wall.

Here’s popular conservative blogger Atlas Shrugs writing an entire expose trying to claim that Obama’s father is Malcolm X.

And a quote from popular conservative blogger Ace of Spades this week: “Eh. Here’s the deal: He’s pretty much exactly the same kind of socialist race hustler as Jesse Jackson. Everyone swears he’s not Jesse Jackson. But he is.”

As I’ve pointed out before, these aren’t fringe bloggers or diarists, these are celebrities within the conservative sphere.

This is a stain that will stay with them for a long time to come. I’ll make sure of it.

Here’s the major ALL BOLD headline from Drudge today, linking to a Chicago Public Radio interview that was conducted with Obama back in 2001:

If you actually listen to the interview, we have this quote from Obama in it:

“Maybe I am showing my bias here as a legislator as well as a law professor, but you know, I am not optimistic about bringing about major redistributive change through the courts,”

Nice try Drudge, keep digging.

A few days ago I published the seven things you’d believe about Obama if you only read right wing blogs. The modest conservative blogger Jon Swift has compiled a detailed account of all the various “investigations” that the right wing blogosphere has conducted to expose the real Obama.