simple simon smells the wind and it's not just his crackatoa that's stinking things up. simon rosenberg is out of the dnc chair race. officially out because it was over for him a long, long time ago. oh sure you had people praising him in astroturf all over the leading "blog" sites.
you had joe trippi endorsing him. josh micey marshy came out for simon.
it should have been deb simon's big coming out party. especially with sam seder and bill scher giving him air kisses during an interview that turned into soft-core porn.
but he couldn't pull it off. because 'third way' is the high way.
because we're tired of sell outs and we're tired of creeps.
and because when others wanted to waffle, the common ills called it like it was.
http://thecommonills.blogspot.com/2004/12/questions-for-questionable-simon.html
that takes you to 'questions for a questionable simon rosenberg.'
did you read about it from an old school blog star? hell fucking no.
did you see it linked all over the net? no shit way.
but if you were grass roots you probably were e-mailed it.
i sent it out to 6 friends and within 2 weeks it was being sent to me by casual friends writing 'get a load of this! we have to stop rosenberg!'
what killed simon rosenberg's chances for dnc chair?
the damn truth.
and in a blogosphere that is supposed to be so open to the truth you might want to ask yourself why you saw it by visiting the common ills or because someone e-mailed it to you but you didn't see it linked all around blog land.
you might want to ask yourself about the people who made comments about simon's not so bad.
let me quote from an e-mail a blogger sent out to 1 person who complained about the kissing up to slimey simon:
I don't have a strong opinion of Simon Rosenberg. I'm not at the point where I believe Simon is out to get us liberals, despite what he has said in the past. Granted, I have gotten most of my info about him from Kos and Mydd (I've never met him or anything), but the impression I've gotten is that he is a so-called "centrist," but one who understands that you have to work with your base (as opposed to guys like Beinart, Lieberman, etc.).
that's from a blogger. (i scored that e-mail via a trade off.) 1 who could have told the truth about simon but didn't because he got his info, according to him, 'from kos and mydd.'
we're not done with the e-mail:
He ended up giving answers that were vague, designed not to alienate or offend. You can interpret that as a weak, but well-intentioned, attempt to unify the party (and appeal to GOP moderates), or as a nefarious attempt to snow liberals. Considering that he did not join the Stop Dean bandwagon in the primaries, I lean to the former, but of course, you could look at his past comments and lean the other way.
yeah, you fucking could look to his former comments and lean the other way because so many people didn't want to do a reality-check on slimon.
people took passes on seriously addressing simon. you need to ask yourself why that was? why your blog stars wouldn't take the time to look into simon rosenberg's record? why they'd chat him up without ever checking him out? or did they check him out?
let's note the astroturf that surfed on to so many sites:
Simon Rosenberg should NOT be the DNC Chair.
The Blogsphere should NOT support him.
Here is why:
1. Vision
2. National Majority
3. Charisma
4. Youth
5. Internet savvy
6. Integrity
7. Centrism
8. Message
9. Broadmindedness
any 1 of the 9 is fucking laughable. 'integrity?' did they check out his slimey record?
what made them get behind this man tutored by al frum, this man who claimed he was former dlc?
people either lied to you or they didn't do basic research.
what was simon's record? well 1 thing was his support for the war in iraq. before the war started and after. he went on unfiltered and made that statement. he repeated it on the majority report.
that bloggers missed that is amazing because the blogs for both shows exploded in anger at simon. but did any 1 of our big blogs tell you that?
did they tell you that rosenberg felt hugo chavez was a threat? that's really in line with bush-think and that's because the line between neo-con and neo-lib is a very fine line.
you heard a lot of people pushing 1 line and it was 'simon's so cool.' lot of blog bullshit.
and you need to ask yourself why that was?
are they naive? do they support the war?
you might remember some of these bloggers went on the radio after the election and told you ohio was nothing to focus on and that we needed to move on.
cokie fucking roberts couldn't have been more of a gatekeeper than this crowd.
with simon rosenberg they either didn't do their home work (surprising considering all the blog space rosenberg took up) or else they elected not to inform you. they played gatekeeper with you. fuck that shit.
simon had plans to bridge the blogs with the dnc. gee, didn't we see elisabeth bumiller give air kisses to bush for access? and weren't we outraged by that?
i'd hate to think that are blog stars were selling out their readers for possible "access."
so i'm just going to assume they didn't do their basic work. maybe they were too blown away
with the fat dough-boy (charasmatic? come on!!!!!!) to do the work that is expected of them.
there's a lesson here: fuck a "left" wing echo chamber. the truth works more than lies and it always will. simon rosenberg's out and he should be. all the blogs that pushed him (and god almighty the number for that is huge!) couldn't put humpty dumpty simon into a bonafide candidate.
they could astroturf and they could air kiss but they couldn't get over the hump because the hump was a big 1: a mountain of ugly truths.
slimon's out of the race, democracy won.
think of c.i. as buffy the hype slayer. because that's what c.i. does. and c.i.'s the only 1 that told you the truth about simon rosenberg. c.i. looked at slimey's public statements over the years and wrote the post that was a stake in the heart of rosenberg's chances to be dnc chair.
if you didn't read the post before, read it now. and then take that and compare it to what you were told on other blogs.
you need to think too about the lies you were told about the so-called red states. about how you were encouraged to stereotype everyone in those states. because that was management, people. that was trying to take your eyes off the ball. the nation ran several stories on that in the last 2 months - about how the party structure has been allowed to wither across the country. so let's take a moment here to sing the praises of the nation - a great mag and 1 that doesn't silence itself to gain access.
who pushed that shit off on us? the gop started it, the mainstream press ran with it, but bloggers on the "left" damn well should have known better. it sure worked like a charm to make us think we were too "left" for the nation, didn't it? it sure worked when dlc babies like rosenberg tried to take leadership of our party and steer us into a 'third way.'
the new republic was all over the hype, spreading that shit like it was truth. why it got legs in the land of blogs is a question that you need to ask.
david sirota called it, the nation called it and c.i. called it. any 1 coming here knows i'm no fan of big brain and over-forty-and-under-weight. but let's take a moment to note that rachel maddow and lizz winstead asked slimey tough questions. let's take a moment to note that they had more balls than sam seder and bill scher.
i've ragged on the gals before and i'll rag on them again. but big brain and lizz showed guts and committment when they interviewed simon rosenberg. give it up for the ladies and for every 1 who questioned slimon. today democracy scored a victory. and it wasn't a cake walk because you had too many people telling you slimey's cool and neat and wowie.
i read over this and want to clarify something. janeane garofalo was on vacation when slimon oozed onto the majority report. i don't for a minute believe she would have sat silent through that non-inclusive interview. and she sure as hell wouldn't have attacked howard dean after the interview to defend blowing air kisses on simon's belly throughout the interview.
