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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 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 […]