Missing the Point

Jesse at Pandagon says about Commissioner Hugh "Ralphie" Hewitt:

Hugh Hewitt...feel my wrath.

How stupid of Democrats to call attention to the photos of Kerry's Dukakis-in-a-tank moment by complaining about them and giving Drudge a huge reason to run with the shots.

Anyone whose point about someone else being stupid is this self-defeating should not be talking. Remember the Alex Polier story? When Kerry was supposed to have been having the mad crazy adulterous sex with an AP intern/reporter? Drudge pummeled that idiotic story, despite the fact that the only major statement was given by Kerry to Imus saying that it flat out wasn't true - and yet, Drudge ran with it.

True...

...but this isn't about Drudge. Hugh could have named Drudge, or any of a thousand conservative bloggers, or Rush Limbaugh, Peter Jennings or the North Korean News Service for all it matters. The destination doesn't matter.

The important part is that Kerry, Mary Beth Cahill, and the entire Kerry spin machine would seem to be running into the weeds having their difficulties.

But Hewitt's just being totally ridiculous here - Drudge is a Republican attack dog. A beast, a machine, a doomsday device. The only excuse he needs to talk about the story is the fact that it involves a Democrat. He isn't poor widdle Drudgey-boy, getting all this nasty Democratic press forced on him by Terry McAuliffe. Then again, I don't think Hewitt's point was to provide an honest account of why every's favorite fedora-wearing rumor-monger is covering this.

Hewitt is dead-on. Kerry's clumsy denials - that the pictures were leaked and unauthorized - are obviously false on their face.

Rag on Drudge all you want (although his accuracy rate isn't much worse than ABC News); he's not the story.

And either is Hugh.

Posted by Mitch at July 28, 2004 01:00 PM | TrackBack