To: David Thomson
“By both campaigns” is perhaps a misnomer. You may be pretending everything on the left-wing blogosphere to be planted by the Obama campaign, while everything from the right-wing blogosphere is from “independent” analysis.
This isn’t the case … while you are making believe that the McCain campaign is being reticent about Rev. Wright, the right-wing blogosphere certainly isn’t. The right-wing blogosphere has distributed everything about Rev. Wright (and the COLB and Larry Sinclair and cocaine and the Kenyan election violence, etc., etc.) as widely as possible.
At the same time, the left-wing blogosphere has distributed everything about Palin’s pregnancy, troopergate, Cindy McCain’s drug abuse, etc., etc. as widely as possible also.
Like the author has stated, nuggets are 1% of the blogo-sphere. Cut-and-paste reprints make up the other 99%.
Please, David Thomson, cite one example yourself of any “astroturfing” that came directly from the Obama campaign or the DNC (and please show an irrefutable connection the example was planned and created DIRECTLY by the DNC or Obama campaign).
As for McCain smears on the blogo-sphere, most of those were generated by George Bush supporters during the 2000 Republican primaries.
They’re not seeing much light now because even Republicans don’t care about McCain. I feel sorry for him, shoved into the background by his own VP pick.
