David Sirota has a great piece on how alleged Democrats play in to the right wing spin machine. He focuses on the case of Aril Melber. But think back over the past couple weeks and you'll see how Joe Biden played in to it. Seriously, the right wing much just sit back and laugh at how easy it is to draw Democrats in to the game of criticizing their own:
But the sheer lying isn't what's interesting about this - it's the exposure of the right-wing spin machine that is noteworthy. You see, the GOP feeds off of people who purport to represent progressives and Democrats, yet who carry the right-wing's most shameful lies/stereotypes. Conservatives have an entire infrastructure to get the criticism as far and wide as possible. It's why Melber's piece has now gone from the right-wing New York Post, to a prominent place in the fringe-conservative Washington Times today.Meanwhile, we can't get any Democrats in DC to take up the lynching issue or to file ethics complaints against GOPers like Cunningham and Ney.
This is exactly how it's supposed to work for the GOP: they grab someone who calls themselves "liberal" or "progressive" (usually from a place like the New Republic). This person typically has little - if any - political experience in the real world outside of the Beltway, and is really only interested in promoting their name at the expense of others. Then they get that idiot to validate dishonest right-wing lies in the media. Finally, they then cite that self-proclaimed "liberal"/"progressive" as proof that the GOP's dishonest stereotypes are actually true, no matter how factually inaccurate. It's a brilliant machine, actually - but it is pathetic that so many people in the insulated Washington, D.C. Democratic Establishment play along.
The Democrats don't know how to play to win. They play to make sure they don't get anyone inside the Beltway mad at them. And, the ones who do play to win are called "mean" or "extreme" by their own party.
