Dave’s Media Lynching: Shoe Hurts Other Foot
I like Dave, I’m a big Dave fan. But just read this thread and laugh along with me.
So how does it feel when it happens to you? Not so good, right? Well it is exactly the GOP game plan that Dave’s been a willing player in for as long as I’ve been blogging.
The Modus Operandi is this:
1) Catch a liberal (in this case Dave) in an unguarded moment.
2) Use the talk radio smear machine to take the moment out of context and blow it out of proportion.
3) Get “legit” commenter to express “shock” and “outrage.”
4) Up the ante by pressing some outrageous demand (e.g. “Everyone call his employer and demand he is fired.) thereby trying to keep the target off balance.
Now Dave is the target – but he knows full well he has been a part of the dark side of this. How do I know, because I…yes I…expressed a pang of regret yesterday for being on the dark side of it regarding the IRSD. I’m not saying I’m sad about my role in the IRSD thing, I think we have to fight fire with fire.
I’m saying it takes one to know one bitches!
Comment by R Smitty on 26 February 2008 at 1:04 pm:
I still think the lone apology should be to the state of Delaware for making (who is) Dan Gaffney think he is relevant again.
Comment by jason330 on 26 February 2008 at 1:17 pm:
Agreed.
Comment by donviti on 26 February 2008 at 1:19 pm:
I’m a big Dave fan
are you a big fan that blows the smell of shit all over the state? if so I agree and there is plenty of shit coming from his party to blow around
Comment by jason330 on 26 February 2008 at 1:54 pm:
DV – so you are not buying into this new spirit of blogger brotherhood I take it.
Comment by Brian on 26 February 2008 at 2:01 pm:
Bloggers of the net unite? Who said that? But still, Dave is taking a huge raft for his comments and it is wafting the smell you refer to around…Dave don’t deserve all that bro.
Comment by Brian on 26 February 2008 at 2:01 pm:
I Mean Don’t Dave me Bro.
Comment by donviti on 26 February 2008 at 3:09 pm:
Oh, I’m buying into it Jason but I don’t plan on compromising who I am at any point.
I call a spade a spade. At the end of the day I still plan on being able to sit down and have dinner with everyone, as long as our goals are the same…
Comment by R Smitty on 26 February 2008 at 3:27 pm:
as long as our goals are the same…
being the hottest blogger around?
Comment by Von Cracker on 26 February 2008 at 3:30 pm:
If you think Michael Chiklis is hot, wait until you get a gander at DV!
Comment by disbelief on 26 February 2008 at 3:31 pm:
I think I can say with fairness and impartiality that the State GOP was the Number 1 user of the public drop-kick described in this post. It does suck to be at the pointed end of a stick held by pointy-headed pundits.
Comment by TPN on 26 February 2008 at 4:03 pm:
VC – HAH! So viti is like Belushi hot?
Comment by Von Cracker on 26 February 2008 at 4:28 pm:
Jim, not John, of course.
Pingback by Merit-bound Alley » Around the Horn Friday: The New Deal on 29 February 2008 at 10:05 am:
[...] that, Jason Scott gives us a comparison of Dave’s situation to “the GOP game plan that Dave’s been a willing player in for as long as I’ve been blogging“. It’s Jason’s accurate point that Dave’s GOP is perfectly willing to use [...]