They Get Paid For This: Part VI - Clueless and Huge

Why do I do this?

Reading lefty blogs, I mean?

Do I believe that anyone that believes in the tripe that the likes of Atrios and Oliver Willis and Kos write will change their mind over what I write here?

Well, hope springs eternal. I have to hope that people aren't that stupid, although experience - observing the popularity of Clay Aiken, Fear Factor, bla bla bla - tells me I'm wrong.

By way of this, Duncan "Atrios" Black writes:

[Some lame leftyblog] tells us that [Andrea Mitchell] just informed the world that Bush is a very popular president.

Very popular presidents don't consistently have favorability ratings below 50.

Atrios' audience is mostly Democrats - hence mostly have no better knowledge of the history (or these current events, for that matter) of Bush's pretty-consistently 50+ point approval rating than any others.

"Popular" presidents can do whatever they want with polls. Good presidents ignore polls and do what's right.

"Atrios", who can't seem to get his facts straight, is employed by the George Soros-funded Media Matters.

Posted by Mitch at September 25, 2004 06:02 AM | TrackBack