Pretty fucking sad
It’s pretty fucking sad when Big Boi Josh Mr. Stubble starts quoting Drudge’s BFF, the Politico, as an authoritative source, or, indeed, as doing “reporting” at all. Because Politico is always wrong about everything.
Hey, remember when we had the self-correcting blogosphere, and a media critique, and everything?
But that’s s-o-o-o-o-o-o 2007!
Oliver Willis (April 19, 2007)
The Politico should really just be called out for what it is: an outlet for right-wing nonsense to attack Democratic pols. A lot of the people who write for Politico think that the era of “journalism” from ’91-present where the press exists to slam Democratic politicians (Clinton, Gore, Kerry, Edwards, Obama, Clinton) and suck up to Republican ones is the normal state of things, and if it means servicing Massah Drudge they’re more than happy to do it.
But it isn’t real journalism in any sense of the word.
OK, so we all know Drudge’s new BFF is the Politico. And we know that Drudge is a GOP smear machine,,,Aren’t you thinking what I’m thinking? Greenwald says they are joined at the hip…
Media Matters has the rundown…All hail “Drudgico”…
The new online political magazine, The Politico, is a pernicious new presence in our media landscape. As I noted the other day, it really is nothing more than the Drudge Report dressed up with the trappings of mainstream media credibility. Today, Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Daily News writes on his blog about what is merely the latest episode (of many) proving how closely coordinated The Politico is with The Drudge Report. It is not hyperbole to say that the former is all but an arm of the latter.
Good times…
Why, I’m so old I remember when I used to go to TPM for the news!
Tell me again why it’s any better to have the Boiz on the Blogs pick my candidate for me than the rest of our famously free press?
UPDATE eRiposte does the math. Two conclusions: First, in the popular vote, Clinton’s doing just fine, especially if you, like, count all the votes and don’t disenfranchise FL and MI. Second, the caucus system is just wildly undemocratic: In both TX and WA, the caucus system and the results of a genuine, secret ballot election are very different, and while Hillary wins the genuine election, Obama takes the caucuses. Of course, an Obama nomination won’t disenfranchise the large states that Obama can’t win or didn’t deign to compete in, no siree.
UPDATE Boi Josh doesn’t get it. He opines:
et this afternoon, just before going to a meeting, I posted a link to The Politico article on Hillary Clinton’s chances of winning the nomination and expressed my agreement with it. When I returned I fully expected an avalanche of emails from Hillary supporters. But when I did return, nothing, or nearly so. Even the few we did get barely seemed to have their heart in it.
That’s not it. We know you’re so deep in the tank there’s no point writing.