The Battle Engaged
Should Dems be alarmed? "Absolutely," says Hewitt. "Unless they don't mind political exile."
It would be too much to expect the Right Wing to conform to their rhetoric of "accountability" and to help Americans stop the Republican corruption now seen in high office. The Right Wing considers any who stand in the way of their agenda to be the enemy--regardless of whether that agenda is good for the nation or the world.
Progressive liberals were the first to see that war has been declared on the Middle Class, and we are to be targeted. The full force of the Right Wing is about to be focused on "overwhelming" DailyKos.
And a glib Newsweek cheers from the sidelines.
Newsweek (July 3-10)
The Right: The Next Big Thing?
Conservative pundit Hugh Hewitt marries the power of talk radio with the reach of the 'netroots.' Watch out, Kos.
On July 4, Salem Communications, one of the country's largest radio-station owners, will relaunch an old Web war horse called Townhall.com as a hub for its stable of stars (including Bill Bennett, Michael Medved and Hewitt himself).
The hope? That "Web 2.0" wherewithal can transform what was once an op-ed clearinghouse into a single nerve center serving the separate conservative communities of talk radio and the Internet. To Hewitt, a valuable White House ally, the math is simple: add 6 million Salem fans to Townhall's 1.4 million unique monthly visitors and you've got an audience six or seven times the size of liberal site Daily Kos, the Web's biggest political blog.
Oddly, the article in Newsweek does not provide key information about the precise nature of the political attack. The company website states "Salem Communications Corporation is the leading provider of radio programming, online resources and magazines targeted to the Christian and family themes audience."
What was that arcane notion of the separation of Church & State again?
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Hewitt speaking about Kos: "We will overwhelm them."
Maybe. Or maybe America is waking up to the melding of corporate and political power to serve the goals of the Upper Class in their new war against the American worker.
On July 4th the Right Wing initiates its new "Deathstar" in the form of a reanimated Townhall.com with the stated intention of overwhelming citizen activism among progressives.
The assets of the "leading provider of radio programming, online resources and magazines targeted to the Christian and family themes audience" has been enlisted to fight the Working Class activism seen on DailyKos.
Kossacks should be aware. This is evidence we are effective and the work here is important. Unlike the neo-con traitors, we are Americans, and we stand for the principles they can only mimic.
So the Right Wing is preparing its blitzkrieg, gleefully licking its gluttonous chops at the thought of further attacking their fellow citizens. With a propagandist named Hugh Hewitt leading this new charge.
The Upper Class chose this war upon America, and they will get their fight.
Check out the stock price of Salem, which has just finished three days of consecutive 56-week lows.
Message to the Right Wing: Fear the Kossacks. And in the infamous words of a Class Warmonger: "Bring It On."
UPDATE: And so they have, with Newsweek posting a new 3-page hit piece.
Choice quotes:
"Markos Moulitsas Zuniga is sitting on his back porch in Berkeley, Calif., listening to the hummingbirds and explaining his plans to seize control of the Democratic Party."
What is that saying that large minds think about events and ideas, small minds focus on people ... ? These fake journalists are framing DailyKos to be what their understanding of media is: a tightly run automaton of propaganda designed to further a single interest (a cabal, or a single "strong" man).
"Inside, a handyman is remodeling the Moulitsases' suburban living room, where soon the futon will be replaced by a daybed, and the big, boxy television by a sleek new flat-panel."
Keep playing that class warfare card, fellas. Hypocrisy visible from space.
"The GOP was clearly on the rebound ... Democrats tried to downplay the significance of the GOP's momentum. ... Still, the Democrats lost the week in the war over the war, and Moulitsas ... could no longer just criticize from the outside."
Blah, blah--yes we KNOW you are on the Republican "team." Or payroll, whatever. In any case it shows.
Oh, and yes bloggers can criticize, and in any way or manner we decide. The need for the MSM's permission, like the MSM's credibility, has been recinded due to their culpability in taking rhetorical arms against the Middle Class.
"Yet some Dems fear that Moulitsas's popularity will pull the party so far to the left that it won't be able to win the general election in 2008."
Ahhhhh .... DLC talking point. Now the story is making more sense, and this is only halfway through the hitpiece.
Jonathan Darman wrote the article. Sounds like a faux.