Is PowerLineBites.com Taken?
Is PowerLineBites.com Taken?
Powerline is having a great laugh at Brian Komar, who now works at American Progress.
Apparently the Legal Times has a story describing how Komar, when he worked at Leadership Conference for Civil Rights, purchased web domains with names that indicate support for a prospective Supreme Court nominee (e.g., supportluttig.com, for Mike Luttig) with the intention of creating a site that opposes the nominee. (How this is news, we’re really not sure.)
For this, Powerline snarkily dubbed Komar a “strategic genius,” claimed his strategy showed how “the left has lost its ability to discern causal relationships,” and then tied all that to why the left thinks “we can obtain life-saving information from terrorists without using coercion.” Huh?
Look, the Powerline gang needn’t be so upset — Komar merely picked up some tools of the trade from another “strategic genius” whose name they might recognize:
[In 2000,] Karl Rove, Bush’s current White House political director and then a key campaign strategist, proceeded to register a raft of domain names – both straightforward and potentially negative…
Among the many names registered by Rove: bushsucks.com, bushbites.com and bushblows.com. Rove then took the unconventional step of linking those derogatory addresses to Bush’s official campaign web site at www.georgewbush.com. [Roll Call, 6/17/02]
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Powerline really isn’t very good at the internets.
June 15th, 2005 at 11:13 amhttp://www.AssRocket.org – tee hee
June 15th, 2005 at 12:21 pmThe parody site http://www.whitehouse.org got many emails from Bush staffers and GOP operatives that wrote .org instead of .gov. They printed several of them, including one which putatively showed a GOP voter supression drive in Florida.
June 15th, 2005 at 2:41 pmIf Powerline is taking potshots at you, remember, they are TIME magazine’s blog of the year! It is safe to say that you can be judged by who your enemies are. You guys must be BIG.
June 15th, 2005 at 4:30 pmkarl Rove got one thing right.
June 15th, 2005 at 5:41 pmbushsucks, bushbites and bushblows.
Oh, gawd. Powerline is blog o’ da year @ Time? Even after Ann Coulter as cover girl, that’s low.
re: Think Progress. You’ve had just a string of outstanding Progress Reports lately, from Cox to GITMO. Really good, solid quality stuff.
Likewise, even back in March, this blog had like maybe 20 regulars tops on the comments. It seemed deeply in the shadow of sites like Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo, etc.
Now, an important post gets dozens of comments, and sorts of new people have shown up to contribute.
My impression, watching this the past four months, is that ThinkProgress is really starting to take off.
I’ve also seen you cited more and more elsewhere: Salon and Juan Cole, to start. Seems like the mojo is working–or at least finally being recognized.
So, Brian, you’re where it’s at, man. Bust your ass and don’t let us down!
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