Never missing an opportunity to blame all the world’s ills on Conservatives he doesn’t agree with, or those he actually has a personal grudge against, Little Green Footballs Blogger Charles Johnson stretches reality to blame Conservative Bloggers for Obama’s win.
In an opinion piece by columnist David Brooks, Brooks writes to confess that he was hoodwinked by the Obama ‘Hope & Change’ campaign into believing that Obama was a centrist. Although Brook’s himself, in the first paragraph of the piece, states that he missed the truth about Obama because of his own personal moderate-conservatism, then Senator Obama’s stances on “investments in education, energy innovation, and health care reform that expands coverage while reducing costs”, and in the second paragraph acknowledges a change in the Obama Administration’s attitude since winning the election based on “its own revolutionary fervor — caught up in the self-flattering belief that history has called upon it to solve all problems at once”, LGF’s Charles Johnson concludes that Brook’s hoodwinking was actually the result of Conservative Bloggers. (but only those who didn’t stick strictly to LGF’s message, of course)
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“One unfortunate factor that exacerbated the tendency to dismiss all critics of Barack Obama as kooks: the many right wing bloggers who did act like kooks, enthusiastically and relentlessly promoting stories like the birth certificate nonsense, the “Michelle Obama ‘whitey’ tape,” the “Obama is the love child of Malcolm X” rubbish, and countless other insane and/or stupid smears. The damage they did (and are still doing, in some cases) to the center-right blogosphere was enormous; when some of the loudest voices are screaming gibberish, they drown out everyone else and tar the whole group by association.”
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Wait, so it was “right wing bloggers who did act like kooks, enthusiastically and relentlessly promoting stories like…the “Michelle Obama ‘whitey’ tape”? Right wing bloggers?
Well that is confusing because on June 16, 2008 LGF itself lambasted the “Pro-Obama Media” for “sliming ‘Right-Wing’ Blogs” by attempting to “to divert the blame [for Bob Beckel’s “whitey tape” statement”] onto conservative bloggers. Also, on that same day, LGF proudly criticized Beckel for having “the nerve to blame the “whitey tape” smear on right wing bloggers”, adding that “Wow. A new apex of hypocrisy has now been achieved.” (see Update 1) That wasn’t all however. On June 17, 2008, LGF assured its readers that Bob Beckel was a “democratic operative” who was blaming “Right-wing ‘crackers’ for his own Michelle Obama smearmongering.”
I agree Mr. Johnson, maybe a new apex of hypocrisy has now been achieved.
Tags: Budget Crisis, David Brooks, Hypocrisy
