Rightbloggers defend America against dangerous Nobel Peace Prize
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Roy Edroso’s Rightbloggers: Exploring the right Wing Blogosphere appears courtesy of our sister paper in New York City, Village Voice.
had an interesting feature on the Obama Administration‘s alleged
realization that it needed to strike back at “what the White House
believes to be misleading or simply false claims…” You have to wonder
what took them so long — and whether such a counter-attack could
possibly do any good.
As we’ve shown here ceaselessly, the rightblogger wing of the anti-Obama offensive has been working since the Inauguration to publicize not only the President’s failures, but also his successes as failures. Indeed, they even promote irrelevancies and their own fantasies
as Obama failures. Answering this kind of thing with fact-checking and
criticism seems beside the point, like arguing with a tape-recording of
a Tourette Syndrome episode.
What sort of answer, for example, could be offered to the charge that
winning the Nobel Peace Prize is a bad thing? Outside the context of
the rightbloggers’ war against Obama, the charge makes no sense; within
that context, it makes no difference. To answer it would be like
arguing that kittens are nice, or that fresh fruit is healthy.
All one can reasonably do is document the reaction and hope that, in
some more enlightened age, our descendants can make something useful of
it…
