My fleshy facade (damn you beer!) and halfro is the stop screen that greets viewers to yesterday’s Fox9 story about bloggers.
Not quite sure why they used the gun-toting government hating redneck Republican soundbite (I’m still a redneck, and prouder than ever FYI) but whatevs. What they didn’t include were some of my thoughts about the value of this and what we do — namely that blogs are a very insular community, and that we don’t win elections, but that what we can do is help frame and promote narratives to the traditional or mainstream media. While anyone who has worked on campaigns can tell you earned media is priceless it doesn’t win campaigns, which is why I always try to link to fundraising or volunteer opportunities because those things do win elections. Also that “we’re on the vanguard” comment wasn’t quite as pompous as it seems, because it came after talking about Minnesota Monitor, Minnesota Campaign Report (although I did mention that Joe is envious of our wittiness, good looks and roguish charm) and other great Minnesota blogs.
And finally, I know I’m working through some allergies, but sweet jeebus, do I always sound that nasal?
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Broom, you’re doing a heckuva job. Nice job on FOX 9.
Ouch. Sean
All kidding aside, you did a great job. Your quote was priceless.
If anything, the national press corps was probably too deferential to the White House and to the administration in regard to the most important decision facing the nation during my years in Washington, the choice over whether to go to war in Iraq.
The collapse of the administration’s rationales for war, which became apparent months after our invasion, should never have come as such a surprise… . In this case, the “liberal media” didn’t live up to its reputation. If it had, the country would have been better served.
While we’re all yukking it up, it seems like a good time to bring up McClellan’s book and his quote, posted above, concerning the media.
All the bloggers they talked to told them they did not get paid by political parties. Oh really, Mr. Brodkorb?
Broadknob is a cheap whore and everybody knows it in minnesota. They don’t ewven pay him that much for his “services.”
That’s inappropriate and unacceptable on here.
Don’t be stupid. Sean
Okay, let’s be PC. Let’s list the most “deferential” blogs in Minnesota in the march to war. Which blogs were the least critical of Bush’s illegal war?