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RatherGate Envy
By Matt Margolis | January 11, 2005
When I first started blogging, the word was that blogging was “a liberal thing.” I didn’t exactly believe that—I ultimately proved it wrong—but that was the stereotype. Then came RatherGate and blogs suddenly achieved some legitimacy, much, much more than the DNC or the RNC managed to accomplish. Liberal bloggers like to take credit for taking down Trent Lott, but in reality both liberal and conservative bloggers contributed to that.
But in the aftermath of RatherGate, generally speaking, you got silence from the left side of the blogosphere, to this day I believe that they felt emasculated that it was conservative bloggers who collaboratively took down Dan Rather, and perhaps eventually CBS.
Since then, liberal bloggers have had RatherGate Envy. Desperate to make a name for themselves they’ve gone after every ridiculous thing hoping for their own RatherGate-type claim to fame.
Allegations of Bush cheating in the first debate was probably their first attempt—which didn’t go anywhere because it was absurd (after all, according to them, didn’t Kerry win that debate?) Following the election they thought they’d win for Kerry, it was the Ohio challenege. They tried so hard to get Kerry to challenge the state, find evidence of fraud… So much for that. Sound Politics has done more to find voter fraud and election irregularities done on behalf of the Democrat in Washington state, while no liberal blogger has been able to find any evidence of a stolen election in Ohio.
So what’s their next attempt for the left’s own RatherGate? They’re going after the Armstrong Williams story. Striving for relevance, at least one liberal blogger, Oliver Willis, who once enjoyed The George Bush Jr burger at Bartley’s in Harvard Square, has created a whole new separate category devoted to his coverage of the situation… in order to justify not discusses the CBS Memo Report, he has to shrug it off as insignificant. Other liberal bloggers have chosen to virtually ignore the CBS report and concentrate all their energies on Amstrong Williams. However, even right-wing bloggers are speaking out negatively towards the Armstrong Williams situation.
It’s RatherGate Envy. They want to break a story of their own that they think will be of equal or higher impact. They want to get interviewed by the media, and get a cover story in TIME Magazine… How sad.
UPDATE: Looks like a lot of other bloggers don’t think much of OhDub..
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January 12th, 2005 at 4:57 pm
Actually, I’m more concerned about government payola. But if you don’t care, that’s the breaks. And hey, I did get on the cover of the Boston Globe. Heh.
January 12th, 2005 at 5:09 pm
The Kerry campaign’s connections to RatherGate are more disturbing to me. Libs were up in arms over Sinclair broadcastings plan to show “stolen honor” crying foul that it was an “in-kind contribution” even though Kerry was given the opportunity to respond.. however CBS in contact with the Kerry campaign over a forged documents story meant to hurt the President during the campaign is apparently no big deal to liberals… go figure.
January 12th, 2005 at 5:20 pm
There’s no evidence of a connection between Kerry and the CBS case. It was sloppy journalism, period. Furthermore, even if the remote chance of Kerry involvement was true, it didn’t involve taxpayer funds. I wonder where your concern for the media assault on a president was from 1991-2000?
January 12th, 2005 at 5:24 pm
Oh, right… the right-wing media conspiracy against Clinton huh?
btw, did you like the George Bush Jr. burger? Good wasn’t it?
January 12th, 2005 at 5:36 pm
Forget PlameGate, Now It’s FlameGate
…as in delicious flame-broiled hamburgers from Bartley’s in Cambridge, the home of the best hamburgers anywhere. My scurlious attempt to leak damaging information about that nefarious liberal bomb-thrower, Oliver Willis, backfired badly when Willis,…
January 12th, 2005 at 8:30 pm
Come on Willis… was that “one tasty burger?”
January 12th, 2005 at 10:12 pm
i must say that the idea that you sat around with bob cox discussing what i ate is almost as funny as it is sad. honestly, there aren’t more interesting things to chat about at these conferences? And yes, the media totally scuzzed up Bill Clinton for 10 years, not that you’d notice.
January 12th, 2005 at 10:16 pm
Actually, he just happened to mention that when I ordered the George Bush Jr. burger that you had as well… but you were too ashamed you didn’t want anyone else to know.
Now that is sad.
January 13th, 2005 at 3:39 pm
Yes, I lost a lot of sleep over it. Sigh.
January 14th, 2005 at 9:37 pm
“I wonder where your concern for the media assault on a president was from 1991-2000?”
Oliver, you are right. That VLWC against Bush 41 during ‘91 and ‘92 was pretty over the top.
January 14th, 2005 at 10:46 pm
cannon don’t you see, he was talking about candidate clinton.. but as you know the media is suppose to give Democrats free rides…
January 16th, 2005 at 12:49 am
Yep that was his intention, but the VLWC against Bush 41 was the cause of his drop in approval rating from 91% to the mid 40s. :^) (Just applying leftist logic here.)
January 16th, 2005 at 12:55 pm
the only station Oliver Willis would ever want to watch is one owned and operated by the Democratsic Party.. Like the Democrat News Channel and their slogan would be “We put the “ass” in assumptions.”
January 22nd, 2005 at 1:37 pm
JFK’s campain MGR sat in on meetings with Joe Lockheart and Mapes frequently in the ploting of Rathergate. See USA Today 9/20-9/22/04. Rathergate was a co-ordinated DNC/MSM smear. The NYT was also involved with the “Favored Son” Smear. But the NYT backed out as soon as Rathergate blew up.
January 22nd, 2005 at 5:53 pm
The MSM is acting like Rathergate never happened. Look at ABC Thurs and CNN Sat for examples of MSM America bashing.