The Noise-Machine Daisy-Chain

Certain local columnists who claim not to be monkeys of the Minnesota DFL - but who are, anyway - are constantly intoning "Cuhnuhct Thuh Duhts!" (Connect the dots) with the local NeoconWingnutHowlermonkeyNoisemachineDaisychain; they believe, and have written in their columns, that there is a direct chain of command spreading down from Karl Rove through the big conservative think tanks, downward through Talk Radio, and thence to the conservative blogosphere.

Jeez, wouldn't that be cool? Never having to dig for material, and having some big sugardaddy pay me huge money to blog (like George Soros does for Atrios and Oliver Willis)?

Well, the whole thing is a hallucination; I suppose if you're a leftymedia figure it's easier to think "it's a big conspiracy" than "people think we suck" and "a bunch of amateurs are fact checking our asses and we're not coming across so well".

So the "Daisy Chain" is a fantasy; the conservative blogosphere is a "noise machine" in the same way that a mass of Portuguese Man-o-War is a "fleet".

That being said, if one of the big lefty whiners - say, Brian "Who's Brian Lambert" Lambert or Nick the Monkey - had been at Undisclosed Location #2 on Saturday night, they'd have probably tossed a hernia.

The Kentucky Derby party on Saturday included a veritable...well, daisy chain of the local alt-media:

• Mark Yost (plus Leslie and George, who is well on his way toward becoming a conservative media figure in his own right) and Craig Westover of the PiPress
• Joe Olson and John Caile of Concealed Carry Reform Now!
• David Strom, Margaret Martin and Jordan Mason from the Taxpayers' League
• Saint Paul, Elder and Atomizer from Fraters
• John "Policy Guy" LaPlante and Mrs. Policy Guy
• About fifteen other people.
• A big bag of money from Karl Rove

Rumors of photos are so far unsubstantiated.

Posted by Mitch at May 8, 2005 07:28 AM | TrackBack