Useless Right-Wing Blog
Idiotic ex-White House official crows that right-wing blogs have been very useful, and will regurgitate anything they say. I would like to assure readers of this site I have managed over the past year to come up with my idiotic right-wing warmonger opinions entirely on my own, and sources of information, inspiration, hilarity, etc., are generally linked or cited.
This must be some of that hubris and arrogance the lefties keep talking about. If anyone agrees with them, it must be because they told them to. Or maybe this is the incompetence and stupidity. I wouldn’t exactly call this a PR win for the side.
I did in fact receive one communication from the White House. It was an intern who said they were engaging with blogs and wanted to know if I was interested in receiving communications from them. I wasn’t, and did not respond. Frankly, if they want regurgitation, they’re going to need to initiate contact somewhere significantly above the intern/talking points level. How many members of the MSM actually agree with them on … let’s see …. anything, after all?
A few weeks later I was kicking myself, when several of my blogging pals got invited to the White House to meet the President of the United States and I didn’t. The President of the United States is supposed to be a fun guy, when he’s not trampling people’s civil rights, subverting the Constitution, deposing innocent kite-flying regimes, waterboarding Kabuli cab drivers, lying about peace-loving Iranian mullahs, etc. I thought maybe that was what that intern’s come-on was about. Probably not. But you know, you can always receive the communications and ignore them, as I have politely done since being contacted by GOP presidential campaign officials, above intern level, and asked if I wanted their talking points.
Captains Quarters. Ed only hears from the White House when they disagree with him.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:23 am on Thursday, December 6, 2007
7 Responses to “Useless Right-Wing Blog”
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December 6th, 2007 at 9:47 am
Jules, you ignored Lord Karl (PBUH) at your own risk. That you weren’t invited to party with Dubya is only the beginning of your punishment.
December 6th, 2007 at 11:16 am
Let’s hope that the next administration will put people in place who understand the ever greater impact the new media has. Because this administration certainly did, and still does, not.
December 6th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
REGURGITATION
I think there’s a problem here of perception. The first starts at Dan Bartlett. For a man who had the job of communications, he did a horrible job. I agree that
December 6th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
I’ve thought for some time that those who accuse the right of acting in lock-step are merely stating their own secret longing to have the power to force everyone to act in concert like ants. This statement applies to some people on both sides. The left doesn’t have the market cornered on nutters, unfortunately. They have only this in common: independent thinkers need not apply.
December 6th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
It irks officialdom (any officialdom) that there are aspects of human interaction that stand outside their spheres of influence.
The internet has managed, thus far, to remain relatively tamper free in the realm of communication. But “they” will not stop trying to curtail this avenue of free expression.
It’s important to not be sucked into The Borg.
December 6th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
Actually, this white house has been shockingly ignorant of the internet and its potential. Let me expand on that - ignorant is the wrong word, profoundly retarded is more like it.
December 9th, 2007 at 1:49 am
… profoundly retarded is more like it.” You say that as if it were a bad thing?
Cheers