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Schumer video bragging about cutting pandemic fund surfaces.

Oops.

Hey, who here thinks that the Nation, ThinkProgress, Washington Monthly, Firedoglake, and the rest of the Journolist stenographers are going to reference this?

(For those who can’t see it: it shows Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer bragging about cutting out the very funding that a good number of ostensibly-unrelated Left-bloggers and writers are trying to pin on the GOP, in the person of Senator Susan Collins.  And never mind the fact that the cutting was done as a spectacularly unsuccessful attempt to bribe the GOP into signing on to the Democrats’ debt bill; or that it was an incredibly tacky unsuccessful bribe in the first place.  Reality-based thinking is somewhat… flexible for the Online Left.)

Yes, neither did I.  Even the ones that aren’t overtly obediently writing whatever they get told to write are busy with their uncritical willingness to accept Democratic talking points as gospel truth (as if it’s our fault that it takes a Cabinet appointment to make a Democrat pay his taxes).  So it’s almost certainly foolish to expect that the dogs linked above will even dare bark at their masters.  Never a good idea to make those who feed you angry, right?

Anyway, see Michelle Malkin, Don Surber, Protein Wisdom, The Sundries Shack, Legal Insurrection, Q & O, AoSHQ, Hot Air, and my unworthy self for more details of what is proving to be all the evidence that you need that not only is the Left-sphere being fed its points: it’s being fed its points sloppily.  Frankly, any of the above could have done a better hit job, even if you assume (as well you should) that we’d be intending to sabotage it…

Moe Lane

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

COMMENTS

  • http://www.braindeadrepublican.com Michael DeWeese

    Had to be cut, only big pork for funding ACORN allowed. Litte porky things for saving American lives needs to be cut.

  • JadedByPolitics

    they tell you what the Dem’s tell them to say OBTW I guess they will be getting PAID soon since they have bowed to any standards they might EVER have had!

  • http://www.RedState.com/ETCartman Kenny Solomon
  • Addison

    …thanks for the link, Moe. I had no idea before this that Michelle Malkin had noted my Dailykos diary:

    Wow. There is actually one sane person at the Daily Kos. Probably won?t be there for long, but give this person credit for pointing out that the left-wing attacks on Republicans over flu pandemic funding are utterly ridiculous. The money they are shrieking about was included in a different bill passed by the Senate ? and in fact, was funding requested by George W. Bush

    I wrote that diary last night. I am that “sane” person. Banner day…

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    I mean, normally I’d encourage an auto-da-fe over there on general principles, but it seemed overly cruel even by my rather flexible standards.

  • Addison

    …if you look at the comments in that diary it’s pretty clear a sizable segment of Dailykos was troubled about the lack of analysis on the Collins/pandemic prevention funding “discussion.” It had turned into an adolescent, fact-free attempt at blunt-force meme-making. Some other folks found that dumb, too. So it’s not like I was saying what I was saying on an island. The Nation article was so shoddy it was sure to inspire critiques.

    Anyway, once Michelle Malkin has called me sane, what more could happen? Mostly I wonder how in the world Michelle Malkin found it. And, honestly, how it happened that I seemed to be the first person to make some of those points anywhere. Being quoted by Malkin is at least an interesting thing to have happened, and I’m not averse to whatever you’d call publicity/recognition in such an anonymous media as blogging. Ego!

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    At a guess.

  • $peciallist

    when he’s stickin it to Repubs…he LOVES it…..

    and then we have some coming in here saying, you have to rise above, you gotta be nicer, you have to set a better example….fu-get about it…

    we’ve been through this…no more Mr. Niceguy