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So Betty has covered this already, but I’m still curious, although not curious enough to wade back through a week’s worth of wingnuttery. Does Eric the RedState’s latest Squidcloud of Butthurt…
Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
Several media outlets have run stories about a rumored gathering of conservative bloggers, writers, and others last week. You can find pictures on Facebook. You can find a list of names. The words “off the record” seemingly have little value. Much of the information came from invitees…While I do not claim to be a traditional journalist or reporter, many of the traditional rules of the media have always applied to blogs since I started and even now as I and others move on to television and radio. Off the record means off the record. If some breach the trust, others should not….
Here now nine years after I started blogging, let me tell you something I have noticed. The people who are the loudest haphazard voices and bitterest voices among the longest serving crop of bloggers on left and right are the ones who never grew up. They hold proudly to the standards and cavalier attitude many of us possessed when we first got started and are angry when they see their peers doing more and having more influence and impact than they are. They wonder why they don’t get invited to meetings, conventions, and the like when others do and instead of realizing it is them, they conclude everyone else is selling out…
… indicate that the Romney campaign actually failed to invite the proud Leader of the Red State Strike Farce (mailers of rock salt to Maine Senators) to their not-very-“secret” blogger conclave? Surely box coffee and bulk donuts can’t be that expensive for a campaign sitting on a warchest of UNLIMITED CORPORATE DOLLARS!, although it would be in line with established MBA vulture capitalist best practice to have eyeballed Infinite Erick’s mighty corpus and chosen to cheap out…
Or is Erickson just desperate to hoard his hard-acquired Credibility Capital, and trying to warn his less fortunate fellow Wingnut Welfare recipients against using the N-word in public… prematurely?
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