Obama Spends Money on Drudge While Clinton Buys BlogAds
on Liberal Sites
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To contrast this news, I want to draw everyone’s attention to Hillary Clinton
who did a big BlogAd buy to liberal blogs across the spectrum. In fact, when
I talked about ABC breaking the story on
my show today, I also asked Chase Martyn if he’d gotten the Clinton BlogAd.
He said that Hillary was the only big candidate to advertise on Iowa Independent
in months. Mind you, Iowa Ind. never does positive stories on Clinton. I finally sold
a big banner ad to Clinton at the end of last year, the first ever on the site,
which will appear through tomorrow’s caucuses.
Frankly, Drudge and Obama are a perfect primary match.
Given Senator Barack Obama’s recent comments about Gore and Kerry, trial
lawyers and others, he has aroused the wrath of the liberal blogosphere.I read Drudge’s website frequently and have come to admire his entrepreneurship.
But his politics do seem to lean to the right, and liberal Democrats — even
though they may read Drudge regularly — may see Obama’s advertising there
as somehow philosophically disloyal.You can almost anticipate the netroots’ reaction, pumped up by rival campaigns:
“Obama’s putting your campaign contributions in the pocket of one of
the conservatives who tried to bring down Bill Clinton!” … ..
Clinton has given Drudge stories, but when it came to spending advertising
dollars her team bought on BlogAds. Frankly, I expect Democrats to give stories
to gigantic sites like Drudge because eyes on his page matter.
I was amused when I got off the air and had received the following statement
from Obama’s campaign:
“Someone is circulating a screengrab of an Obama ad on drudge. Even
if it’s true, it wasn’t intentional, the site isn’t on the approved
list of sites we advertise on.”
Even if it’s true, it wasn’t intentional?
Oh good grief, another Obama quote classic. No doubt they bought the ad before he didn’t. It got on top of Drudge somehow.
It’s yet another epiphany moment, no doubt, for the bloggers who are finally waking up to Obama the Independent one day before the Iowa caucuses. The truth is, which I’ve also written about, is that Mr. Obama and his team don’t care about the blogosphere. That was evident with the horrendous handling their first blog outreach coordinator faced and the treatment he got when he was axed. Again, the gods smile on Obama so he don’t need no stinkin’ blogosphere. He only needs the aura of him.
TM.com readers, you should pat yourselves on the back. You knew his candidacy was a scam from the start, even when no one else would believe what I was writing and reporting. You’ve kept me going through the worst. You are quite simply the best.
UPDATE II: Good Markos post, really the first serious one he’s done of the primary, because as he told me during BlogWorld, he just wasn’t that interested in it. His focus is Congress. Read it:
Who is playing to win?
… .. Hillary Clinton, by far. She’s not limiting her campaign’s ability to raise money (nor her supporters’ to give it) by accepting public financing. Obama has opted out for the primary, but has said he’d accept it for the general if the Republican did so as well. Why give Republicans veto power over what the Democrats do? Given our better ability to raise money this cycle, why would Obama willingly surrender that advantage to the Republicans? That’s not playing to win. Edwards is the opposite, saying he could opt out of public financing for the general, but already opted in for the primary. That means that unless he’s opposite a similarly limited Republican (i.e. McCain), he’ll be at a gross disadvantage all summer as he has less than $20 million left to spend until September.
What’s more, Clinton was the only top-tier candidate to refuse the ultimate Iowa and New Hampshire pander by removing her name from the Michigan ballot. That makes her essentially the de facto winner since Edwards and Obama, caving to the cry babies in Iowa and New Hampshire, took their name off Michigan’s ballot. Sure, the DNC has stripped Michigan of its delegates, but that won’t last through the convention. The last thing Democrats can afford is to alienate swing states like Michigan and Florida by refusing to seat their delegates.
So while Obama and Edwards kneecap their chances of winning, Clinton is single-mindedly focused on the goal.
Who is tested against the Right Wing smear machine?
Clinton, by far. No one has taken more shit from the VRWC, not by a long shot. Edwards earned valuable campaign experience in 2004. It makes me wonder why he’d go through it all again a second time, but still, it’s something. Obama has never had a competitive race against a Republican. His best experiences comes from winning primaries. But he’s never been in the crossfires of the GOP. Maybe that’s why he can pretend that he can move beyond partisanship. Because he’s never had to run a partisan race.
Who is the best defender of progressive ideals?
Edwards, by a landslide. … .. Clinton isn’t horrible on this front, but Obama has made a cottage industry out of attacking the dirty f—— hippies on the left, from labor unions, to Paul Krugman, to Gore and Kerry, to social security, and so on. People think I was being ticky tack with the Gore thing, and in isolation it would’ve been but a minor non-event. But it was the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back for me, yet another in a pattern of attacks against Democrats and their constituencies. He is the return of Bill Clinton-style triangulating personified. … ..
UPDATE: Access Hollywood: Cameo appearance by Clinton on “Letterman” tonight.
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