Progressive Media USA – the David Brock-helmed group organized to be the main soft-money advertising vehicle for Democrats in the fall – is ditching its previously announced $40 million attack effort against John McCain, after Barack Obama’s camp told supporters not to give money to independent expenditure groups.
That does not mean that McCain will not be attacked. Rather, it means that such attacks will be coordinated through the DNC or Obama’s campaign infrastructure.
Open Left’s Chris Bowers wrote an important post last week about the way in which Obama’s campaign infrastructure was consolidating his power over the Democratic party. However, a close reading of Bowers also lends itself to concluding that Obama’s campaign infrastructure is both independent from and likely an influence overarching the Democratic party if (as expected) he becomes the Democratic nominee.
The immediate capitulation of Brock’s Progg Media (which is likely indirectly tied to George Soros) is the first concrete sign of Obama’s increasing authoritah. Those who were already inclined to see the Obama campaign as a cult of personality should take note.
Comment by sashal on 5/15 @ 2:32 pm #
Obama=Stalin=Mussolini=Hitler
Comment by Pablo on 5/15 @ 2:37 pm #
You forgot Pol Pot, sashal.
Comment by sashal on 5/15 @ 2:56 pm #
Pol Pot and Mao, Kim and Fidel, sure.
Comment by dre on 5/15 @ 2:57 pm #
“Obama=Stalin=Mussolini=Hitler”
oh please:
Obama=Kerry=Dukakis=Carter.
Comment by maggie katzen on 5/15 @ 2:59 pm #
but not Katrina
Comment by Karl on 5/15 @ 3:04 pm #
Or Kyoto.
Comment by McGehee on 5/15 @ 3:04 pm #
Maybe Halliburton, but only on Tuesdays.
Unless it’s raining.
Comment by Karl on 5/15 @ 3:09 pm #
Also, it’s not like other Americans have not had their own cult of personality.
Comment by Gabriel Fry on 5/15 @ 3:17 pm #
Say what you will about his policies, the guy can herd cats like a pro.
Comment by elmerg on 5/15 @ 3:19 pm #
It is going to be so sweet watching you fascist child molesters lose the Senate and the White House this November!
I’m stocking up on popcorn and good FRENCH wine!!
Comment by McGehee on 5/15 @ 3:23 pm #
LIAR! I have never molested a fascist child!
Comment by McGehee on 5/15 @ 3:23 pm #
Oh, and, uh…
The Senate isn’t ours to lose.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/15 @ 3:24 pm #
Wine and popcorn. That’s the stuff.
Comment by Gabriel Fry on 5/15 @ 3:24 pm #
Uhh, hate to break it to you, nephew, but my people are taking the White House and Senate this November. Bet on it.
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 5/15 @ 3:28 pm #
Oh my budha the democrats are loosing their shit on the President’s remarks. And it’s only causing the footage to be looped and relooped. Just saw Geraldene(sp) saying i think the Obama people blew it by responding to something that didn’t even mention him.
Comment by Pablo on 5/15 @ 3:39 pm #
You Mexican, Gabriel? Gay? What?
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 5/15 @ 3:42 pm #
Here a lefty who didn’t get the Messiah’s media halt order
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/05/15/new-lefty-ad-is-mccain-too-old-to-get-an-erection/
single handily handing Florida to McCain
Comment by Pablo on 5/15 @ 3:50 pm #
Ah, the old Bob Dole ploy.
/Agent 86
Comment by Jeffersonian on 5/15 @ 4:18 pm #
Obama == Denethor
Comment by maggie katzen on 5/15 @ 4:21 pm #
um, who are they taking the Senate from?
Comment by maggie katzen on 5/15 @ 4:31 pm #
Lieberman…maybe.
(yes, I’m answering my own question)
Comment by N. O'Brain on 5/15 @ 4:41 pm #
Because of teh JOOOOOOOOS!!!!11!!!eleventy!!11
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 5/15 @ 4:44 pm #
Uhh, hate to break it to you, nephew, but my people are taking the White House and Senate
Looks like your knowledge of current events is even more out of date than your blog.
Dork.
Comment by maggie katzen on 5/15 @ 4:52 pm #
cause really, about the only thing that would change is they can afford to boot Lieberman off some committees.
Comment by Aldo on 5/15 @ 5:12 pm #
Just saw Geraldene(sp) saying i think the Obama people blew it by responding to something that didn’t even mention him.
Glenn Reynolds:
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 5/15 @ 5:33 pm #
OT, but from the department of DUH
Interpol: Chavez Supports Terrorists
by Adam Housley
Congressman Connie Mack (FL-14) renewed his calls for the Administration to impose tough new sanctions on Venezuela today after Interpol, the international police agency, confirmed the validity of the contents of laptops and other documents containing information strongly tying Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his allies to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), an internationally-recognized terrorist organization.
Interpol released its report early this afternoon on laptops, files and other documents that Colombian forces recovered after a raid on a FARC camp in Ecuador in which a top leader in the FARC, Raul Reyes, was killed. The laptops and documents contain solid evidence that Chavez and his closest advisors have cooperated and coordinated with the FARC and given them hundreds of millions of dollars, weapons, public support and safe passage and haven in Venezuela.
http://onthescene.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/05/15/interpol-chavez-supports-terrorist/
Comment by Aldo on 5/15 @ 5:46 pm #
After further reflection I think Obama’s outrage at Bush’s appeasement remarks is a ploy to whip up the base. Remember that Obama gets a lot of his funding from small donors, and he is girding up to do battle with McCain now. It’s time to shake the money tree. What better way than to portray himself as the target of a nasty smear by the Bushitler?
Comment by LiveFromFortLivingRoom on 5/15 @ 5:50 pm #
I agree Aldo, it also marginalizes Hillary as she can be portrayed as just a side show to the real battle between the evil ChimpyMcHaliburton and the Savior Obama.
Comment by kelly on 5/15 @ 5:51 pm #
*sigh*
I’m just about ready to submit yet another word for retirement from the lexicon: “Fascist.” (and its various etymological forms)
When little bedwetter twats like elmer show up and fling it like his own simian feces, it has lost its meaning.
Comment by LiveFromFortLivingRoom on 5/15 @ 5:56 pm #
Well as many people as you see on an average day getting called fascist you would think there would be a Fascist party and they would have already won the House and Senate.
Comment by sashal on 5/15 @ 6:06 pm #
kelly, are you trying to appease elmer?
Comment by kelly on 5/15 @ 6:14 pm #
Sure, sashal, if by “appease” you mean “mock.”
Comment by troy mcclure on 5/15 @ 6:50 pm #
Actually more like Comandante Abimael Guzman of the Shining Path. Hey, he was a an academic with a sense of community organizing, who chose
a more uplifting view of politics. Note how Time’s capsule profile of Obama’s background in Hyde Park has an almost Soviet erasure of any ties to Ayers and Doehrn; even leaving out the
Annenberg Challenge connection.
Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 5/15 @ 7:01 pm #
“MEMO TO THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN: When somebody condemns appeasement, it doesn’t help things to jump up and yell “Hey, he’s talking about me!â€Â
- N:ail on the head. Exactly. The Dems in general, and O!’s camp in particular, are in complete knee-jerk disarray. I think Hilldegards trouncing of Obama in WV, coupked with the upcoming trouncing hes going to take in Kentucky, the whole “White voters” problem in fact, has shook them up far more than they want anyone to know.
- They also know this is the worst possible approach to handling the Presidents barbs, but it helps quiet the talk about WV. They can tap dance all they want. Whats really got their panties in a twist is the fear that Hillery’s arguments will start a stampede among the remaining S-dels. They have good reason. The convention already shapes up to be the calamity of the year, hell the centuary. The more gravitas she collects, the more difficult and deep the mess becomes.
Comment by John McCain on 5/15 @ 7:03 pm #
What’s up, trollops and cunts?
Comment by thor on 5/15 @ 7:49 pm #
Whazyup, bitter squid.
Comment by Big Bang Douchebag on 5/15 @ 7:50 pm #
This kevin james guy really knows his stuff. I love him. Check it out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1wSZBTAXRs&eurl
Comment by B Moe on 5/15 @ 8:09 pm #
MSNBC continues to sink, quit digging indeed.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 5/16 @ 4:35 am #
Who the hell is Kevin James? Before Douchebag linked to that Matthews piece, I’d never heard of him.
Don’t tell me — he’s like Hagee, one of those folks that no one’s heard of outside their region, but who becomes the left’s current poster child for the right?
Comment by JD on 5/16 @ 5:43 am #
I thought Kevin James was the King of Queens.
Comment by TheGeezer on 5/16 @ 6:11 am #
Hey, guys! With the California Supremes over-ruling 60% of that’s states citizens’ votes to bar gay marriage, GAY MARRIAGE IS BACK ON THE POLTIICAL FRONT, JUST IN TIME FOR THE GENERAL ELECTION!!!! Who cares if Obama is a terrorist-appeasing-black-theology-Marxist weasal when conservatives will drag their bodies through broken glass to prevent Obaman judge appointments!!! John McCain just won through liberal stupidity, which just goes to show that’s there’s always a good use for liberal stupidity and ignorance – if they call attention to it themselves.
What a great day for America. Even though the Republicans don’t deserve it.
Comment by Gabriel Fry on 5/16 @ 9:43 am #
“even more out of date than your blog”
You dirty knife-twister, you. I would argue that a party that can’t pass legislation even when all its members vote “aye” in unison is not in control of the Senate. The Congress needs surgery, and all the Democratic Party had to offer was a tourniquet. I’m not going to blame them for that. After all, they’re only Democrats.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 5/16 @ 10:20 am #
So, basically, no one controls the Senate until they have 67 seats?
Comment by Gabriel Fry on 5/16 @ 10:47 am #
For practical purposes, in the current political climate, yes. The only other option would be to make every bill into a horrific flipper baby like the farm bill. You could get the votes that way too, I guess.
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Comment by syn on 7/28 @ 2:51 pm #
Every once in a while I think about sticking to arrogant narricissitic know-it-all youngsters by voting for Obama; give the MTVers what they want, to labor the rest of their lives paying for the government goodies I am entitled to receive after paying into the system all of my life.
If the youngsters are so eager to work the all of their lives provide for my healthcare, my social security, my morgage, my gasoline and my happy then who am I to stand in their way.
If the youngster want to be suckers let us give them what they want.