Cry Wolf Much?

After yesterday’s post on Powerline’s lack of even rudimentary knowledge of photography, I couldn’t believe it when I read all this over at Atrios’s place this morning. And apparently Highpockets still can’t admit that every document that sheds a bad light on Republicans isn’t a Democratic party forgery.

Someday someone is going to have to go back and examine again how they and the other wingnut bloggers also got every detail wrong on the Rathergate memos and still came to be lauded for their “investigation.” Why nobody has found the irony of that worth exploring I’ll never know.

Of course these “investigative bloggers” are full of shit. They are part of the right wing media and they are just doing what they all do. They have no credibility as “investigators” or analysts because they have no personal integrity. This is clear because they never, ever admit that they make a mistake. Sadly, because the mainstream media are so clueless about what “blogging” is, we all get tarred by the same brush as these GOP tools.

I don’t mind being called partisan because I am. I really makes me angry, however, to be called dishonest because these rightwing scumbags lie constantly and the media can’t be bothered to see what is right in front of their faces — that just like Rush and FoxNews and all the dirty tricksters and Regnery whores, the right wing blogosphere is full of people who just make shit up. It’s one of the things that distinguishes the right from the left generally — the blatent, in your face, “you can believe me or you can believe your eyes” dishonesty. There is nothing new about this but the fact that so many in the press still eat those lies with a spoon and never get tired of being played is just stunning.

Earlier today, Rush’s little galpal Daryn Kagan was questioning the CNN congressional correspondent about the Martinez memo. She said something to the effect of “aren’t people in this town a little too sensitive? What’s wrong with this memo, anyway?” The guy was a little taken aback (probably because he didn’t realize he now works for FOXNews) and patiently explained that it was a big deal because the Republicans had denied writing or seeing the memo and that they had insisted that the Schiavo case was a matter of conscience not politics.

This is what we are dealing with. And the fact that Hindquarter got it wrong again won’t matter at all. He’s in the club and he’ll be back with more ridiculous flights of logic and Howie Kurtz will kiss his ass because Time magazine named him and his partners in bullshit bloggers of the year. And the lines between the mainstream media and the right wing noise machine get blurrier and blurrier by the day.

Update: Here’s the Kagan exchange:

KAGAN: The first one deals with this memo that we now know comes out of Senator Mel Martinez’ office. It goes back to the Terri Schiavo story, which you’re very familiar with, because you were in the state capital. Basically a political memo that said the fight over the removing Schiavo’s feeding tube is a great political issue, and a tough issue for Democrats. News of the day, comes out of Mel Martinez’ office. He’s fired an aide who allegedly wrote this.

Ed Henry question — what’s the big deal?

HENRY: The big deal here is that Republicans were really under fire when they were handling that emergency legislation, because this memo suggested that they were doing the Schiavo legislation for political purposes. As you mentioned, they kept insisting no, and they also suggested this have been a hoax, that maybe the democrats had a little political dirty trick here, and we’ve seen a lot of blogs out there saying that basically this was a fake memo, maybe it was like CBS documents on the National Guard story, and everyone was running around to figured it all out.

I think it’s a footnote to the entire Schiavo story. But it was a big political battle, and now we learned it, in fact, was a Republican talking points memo. It was drafted by an aide to Senator Mel Martinez, the former cabinet secretary. As you mentioned, that staffer has now resigned his job, and it’s a pretty big political black eye for the Republicans, and I think, again, it’s just going to be a footnote in the long run. But it’s not a good day for the Republicans on that.

KAGAN: But here’s what I don’t get it, when I look at it, it just seems — is this town just too sensitive. It just seems the fight over removing Schiavo’s tube, it was a political issue, it did come up, and the Democrats did have a tough time with it. I think a lot of people felt they didn’t speak up like they should have.

HENRY: The bottom line is that Tom Delay and other top Republicans who were pushing this legislation insisted that politics played no role in the debate. They were just trying to save Terri Schiavo’s life. This memo said Republicans felt, in fact, it was going to rally their political base. This was going to be a big issue for them in the 2006 election. The other flip side of this that’s kind of interesting, is that whether or not the Republicans intended it to be a political benefit, the polls now show that overwhelmingly across the country, the American people feel it was a big political loser for the Republicans; they should have stayed out of it. So sometimes the best-laid plans don’t exactly work out.

It sounds to me like the future Mrs Limbaugh’s been getting some very special talking points of her own.

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