Psst! Somebody tell Reince Priebus about the blogosphere. Evidently, neither he nor anyone else at the RNC understands the new information order the internet has wrought.
Do go on....
William Jacobson of Legal Insurrection, a site which regularly breaks new ground in coverage of politics (see for example LI's coverage of Elizabeth Warren's phony claims of Cherokee ancestry when it gave her a leg up in academia) discovered that the 100 page exercise in navel-gazing just published by the RNC does not once even mention blogs.
Fascinating. And what do we learn from this "William Jacobson" intrepid-journalist person himself?
For the RNC to produce a 100-page report and not have a single mention of the need to interact with and support the conservative blogosphere tells me that the RNC simply has rearranged the deck chairs on the HMS Consultant.
Right! The RNC is totally ridiculous for not paying attention to the sort of Valuable Citizen Journalism produced by savvy grassroots geniuses like William Jacobson, whose shocking exposées of Real Issues Real Voters Care About, like that Warren-Cherokee thing, would have totally changed the outcome of the last Massachussetts US Senate election if only Scott Brown had ever gotten smart and used that shit...
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... I will only very rarely accuse the RNC of "acknowledging that things that really happened last year actually happened," but in this very special case, they get the booby prize.
Though it is very hard to argue that the reason Obama convincingly won in 2012 is completely and utterly explained by the picture Col. Mustard provides us with, a picture of a meeting with an aide to Joe Biden with some leftist internet bloggers, which was taken in February 2010. Duncan flashed some nip, and that was it for the chick vote, hubba hubba.
The Jacobson piece is in its way brilliant, though. In any pool hall they'll tell you -- even if you ever bother to try, you can't wise up a sucker. Can't be done.
You'll never get Jacobson, or Stacy McCain, or Pasty, or any suchlike buzzards, to ever admit they were just outhustled.
And shit, would you, if you got outsmarted by, say, Michelle Malkin and Erick Erickson?
Let's keep some perspective here, folks.