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Basically Disagree With This Post

Submitted September 3, 2008 - 5:31 pm by Ben Alpers

Interesting post, Al, but I pretty fundamentally disagree.

I'll keep this short.  My disagreements are two-fold.

First, this seems awfully chicken-littlish to me.

Secondly, given how removed the McCain campaign's accusations about the blogosphere and the media are from the actual behavior of the blogosphere and the media, blaming the "netroots" for the McCain campaign's behavior seems seriously off-base to me. The McCain campaign is pretty clearly keeping to a run-against-the-media script that has nothing to do with what's actually happening at dKos. Will it work? I hope not...and I think it won't. But blaming dKos and other websites for this non-reality-based series of moves by the McCain campaign is part of the same "logic" that led the Democrats to nominate a war hero in 2004 in the vain hope that doing so would insulate them from Republican attacks on their patriotism.

And to go back to an earlier interesting, but off-base, post: sorry, Al, for better or for worse the Palin pick has changed this campaign.

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