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If you haven’t seem them already, here’s a couple items that are worth the time: While I think the “Gannon” controversy is pushing the envelope of a legitimate lifepsan, here’s a more historical analysis where ethically challenged is a kind description. (Via Dakota Today).

Hats off to Trent for taking a closer look at [...]

“Gannon,” Thune and Thune’s paid bloggers

A friend points out the Jeff Gannon/James Guckert uproar may hit pretty close to home. Joe Conason has this at Salon and there’s also info here and here on “Gannon’s” connections with Thune and Thune’s paid bloggers. Maybe those bloggers were even more slimy than we thought.

Missing the point

SD’s right-wing bloggers are squawking that left bloggers in SD aren’t outraged that the operator of Daily Kos was a paid consultant to the Dean campaign and using that news to rationalize their actions. They miss the point.

As I said at the outset, I didn’t have a problem with the Thune campaign paying bloggers. [...]

A goal for SD’s paid bloggers?

Here’s the NY Times version of a story making the rounds nationally: Armstrong Williams, a prominent conservative commentator . . . acknowledged yesterday that he was paid $240,000 by the Department of Education to promote its initiatives on his syndicated television program and to other African-Americans in the news media.

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The disclosure about the [...]

Examining the paid blogger defense

Other things have had me distracted for a while but posts on Daily Caucus and more recently on Thune v South Dakota finally clicked with some earlier fact-checking I did.

In defending the fact they did not disclose on their blogs that they were paid by the Thune campaign, two Daschle-bashing bloggers (and some of [...]

Thune v Thune

“I believe in letting science make those decisions and not emotion.”

– John Thune, Dec. 21, 2004, on making enviromental decisions upon his appointment to the Senate Environment-Public Works Committee.

An evangelical Christian, [Thune] does not believe in evolution.

– Newsweek, July 26, 2004

Thune v South Dakota

Hats off to Trent Dlugosh. Playing off the name of a pro-Thune, Daschle-bashing blog operated by a paid member of the Thune campaign, Trent has launched Thune v South Dakota.

Who owns that blog?

Ben Hanten at Daily Caucus caught something that slipped by me during my absence from blogging. Seems two of the leading Daschle-bashing, pro-Thune blogs were run by people paid by Thune.

Jon Lauck labeled his “Daschle v. Thune” blog as one “Analyzing the Biggest Senate Race in the USA.” Seems Jon neglected to tell anyone [...]

Proud Liberal

Meant to post this for a bit now but welcome to Proud Liberal, a thoughtful liberal blog coming out of South Dakota. Trent has been added to the blogroll.

Kudos

To the Lennox woman whose letter to the editor said radio talk show hosts and bloggers have “diarrhea mouth.” Perhaps I should be offended because it was prompted in part by the Argus article on bloggers, of which I was a part. Thing is, she’s more right than not.

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