Reply #10: This Is Astroturfing...At Its Sleaziest [View All]

[KharmaTrain]

I put up a post about this as well. Josh Marshall thinks this is the work of Barbara Comstock...she planted the story with Solomon at the AP and just sat back and let the lie and spin outrun the truth. They've pulled this stunt with Reid before about the boxing tickets...put the story out of some alleged "impropreity"...it takes 24 to 48 hours for the story to get fully debunked, but in the meantime, the hate radio shows and blogs are smeared with an alleged scandal without having to explain why there is one.

Repugnicans are desperate to get a Democrat in trouble. They'd love to out a gay Democrat...too bad it's ok in the Democratic party to operate openly. They'd love to find a Democrat who hung with Abramoff (they tried to hang that on Reid as well) or anything that can be used as nullification for their own scandals.

It's the corporate media being lazy. It's a story that is intended to stir shit and the corporate media likes stories like that. The GOOP media slime machine is very, very good at planting stories and "working the refs"...claiming that by ignoring "the Reid scandal" somehow the "media is biased".