Those Mean Bloggers
Feb 21st, 2007 at 8:10 am by PSoTD
There was some collective whining about bloggers at the National Press Club from Tony Snow and members of the WHPC (White House Press Corps). Think Progress has details. Something odd, though…
NBC News’ David Gregory bemoaned how political coverage has “become so polarized in this country…because it’s the internet and the blogs that have really used this White House press conferences to somehow support positions out in America, political views.” Tony Snow admitted he sometimes reads blogs (”I’ll occasionally punch it up”) only to find “wonderful, imaginative hateful stuff that comes flying out.”
If Tony Snow had a choice to “punch up” a blog, do you think he’d choose a conservative blog or a liberal blog? Do you think he’d be more interested to see what his allies are saying - the ones he needs to push Bush’s message - or what Bush’s opponents are saying? What is more likely?
C’mon, this is a Fox News guy. And a member of the Bush Administration… We know how those people source their information. From true believers, only. So I guess we know where Snow found that “wonderful, imaginative hateful stuff”…
And apparantly Gannon/Guckert was sitting in the audience for this crap, lapping it up.
To bad he didn’t have any softball questions ready for Tony, that would be like old times.
Yeah, the “traditional media” has just got credibility coming out the wazoo. I guess that accounts for the funny smell.
Don’t discount the enemies’ ability. These people are reading the blogs - it’s like, soooo twentyth century not to. That it doesnt perculate up is a failure of their corporate structure.
It is a safe bet where the “wonderful, imaginative hateful stuff … comes” from.
Shit, they know we’re here! And they still can’t spell percolate!