Tuesday, December 14, 2004  The leftie smear job to end all
smear jobs   The left-wing side of the blogosphere reaches the
new low - and keeps digging, courtesy of Martini Republic (is it
like a leftie Vodka Pundit?) accusing Iraq the Model of being a
part of an American government intelligence and disinformation
operation:  "Maybe you've wondered: What kind of operations does
the U.S. Government conduct in the line of pumping 'favorable'
propaganda regarding Iraq?  "And, more importantly, since this
is such an unpopular War: Would the runaway Republican
Government dare conduct below-board ops and psy-ops not just in
Iraq, but right here in the U.S?  "In the blogosphere, the
practice of 'blog trolling' - touting the 'right' messengers
with a mix of above-board, official recognition and below-board,
ideology-based, sustained pump-priming, to generate a following
for propagandistic messengers far beyond their natural level of
interest- and to perchance achieve key mainstream media
placement without normal media