First They Came for the Comments Sections

Andrew Breitbart, who is not at all a lunatic, informs us that Barack Obama has ordered hundreds, perhaps thousands, or even squajillions of his slavishly obedient digital stormtrooper jihadis to cruelly make fun of Hugh Hewitt in his blog's comments section.

A digital war has broken out, and the conservative movement is losing. Read the comment sections of right-leaning blogs, news sites and social forums, and the evidence is there in ugly abundance. Internet hooligans are spewing their talking points to thwart the dissent of the newly-out-of-power.

Because heaven forfend anyone would ever say something hateful or crazy in a right-wing blog's comments section.

Uninvited Democratic activists are on a mission to demoralize the enemy - us. They want to ensure that President Obama is not subject to the same coordinated, facts-be-damned, multimedia takedown they employed over eight long years to destroy the presidency - and the humanity - of George W. Bush.

I'm glad that Breitbart concedes that the right is planning a "facts be damned" onslaught against Obama; I'm not surprised, but it's nice to see it confirmed. Though it is kind of odd that they're planning to use exactly the same one that was supposedly used against Bush. Wouldn't that one be a bit dated? Well, regardless, the person who did by far the most to "destroy the presidency and humanity" of George W. Bush was, of course, George W. Bush. The worst us internet bloggers ever did to the fellow was to chuck pop-bottles at him from the cheap seats.

Much of Mr. Obama's vaunted online strategy involved utilizing "Internet trolls" to invade enemy lines under false names and trying to derail discussion. In the real world, that's called "vandalism." But in a political movement that embraces "graffiti" as avant-garde art , that's business as usual. It relishes the ability to destroy other people's property in pursuit of electoral victory.

Really? That was Obama's strategy? Breitbart offers no evidence that it was -- or that anyone else on the Left is now doing this (assertions that Media Matters is running such a campaign don't quite equal "evidence," even if it comes from so unimpeachable a source as a guy from Human Events). But if Breitbart says so!

I mean, let's be charitable. Perhaps Breitbart was just confusing Obama with John McCain -- an understandable mental lapse -- for whom this was quite literally an explicit strategy, and whose website said as much.

No, wait, the GOP could not possibly have done this, for, as Breitbart explains:

The right, for the most part, embraces basic Judeo-Christian ideals and would not promote nor defend the propaganda techniques that were perfected in godless communist and socialist regimes. The current political and media environment crafted by supposedly idealistic Mr. Obama resembles Hugo Chavez's Venezuela more than John F. Kennedy's America.

The Huffington Post, Daily Kos and other left-leaning sites benefit from the right's belief that there are rules and decorum in political debate and civic engagement. Of course, every now and then, a curious right-winger will go in and engage in discussion at a left-wing site, but rarely under purely disingenuous and mass coordinated means.

True. Well, fair enough. The fact is, Gary Ruppert only ever comments out of love, man, love, just like any other hippie.

MORE. Reacting to Breitbart, Dan Riehl talks about his testicles and how they enable him to bravely go onto the internet and say that he likes Rush Limbaugh (perhaps fondling said testicles as he contemplates Rush Limbaugh helps him type). Nevertheless he bemoans his fate: "Meanwhile Sullivan's commenters descend here because I dared to point out that the current president doesn't think like an American and is steering a course for the Third World." As he points out, if you disagree with this grown-up assessment, you are probably a homosexual sissy.

I can't imagine why anyone on the left would ever try to shut down such fascinating speech. By all means, proceed. You too, Breitbart!

MORE! Mr. G. "Way" Pundit adds his own tale of woe:

The Other McCain pointed out that in January, they were even caught trying to plant "hate" memes at Team Sarah in an effort to discredit Palin.

Palin needs to be discredited? Why? We already have, you know, Sarah Palin to do that, and she's doing a hell of a job.