Booman reviews Eric Boehlert’s “Bloggers on the Bus”

Here’s the end of it, but you should really read it all:

There were six weeks between the Mississippi and Pennsylvania primaries during which the Jeremiah Wright saga unfolded with frightening force. The assault on the culture of the urban black church was so severe that friends of that culture were put under the utmost stress and pressure. It was in this context that Obama supporters, who knew Obama had already secured the nomination short of disqualification, turned savagely against all signs of racial coding from the Clinton campaign. The race issue had simmered prior to that with occasional nasty flare-ups (see Bob Kerrey, Bill Sheehan, Bill Clinton and Bob Johnson in South Carolina). But it was only in the full glare of the Wright drama, with the full knowledge that our candidate had it wrapped up, that Obama-supporting bloggers lost all patience and turned on Clinton (and some of her supporters) with fury. To ignore Jeremiah Wright is not credible in writing a history of the Blog Wars of 2008. Writing black bloggers out of the story is even less credible.

MORE: Also, via Booman, we’re reminded that today is National Fist Bump Day.

Posted by Kevin K. on 06/03/09 at 11:13 AM • Permalink

Speaking of the primaries & bloggers, both meatprod and Murphy have posts up commemorating the “anniversary” of the pumas and the DNC rules meeting In Re Michigan & Florida. I couldn’t help but think of this moment where Robert Wexler absolutely owned Harold Ickes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H00mg4KE_uI&feature= related

I just got around to reading the Booman comments and followed the links that dmd76 dropped in there.  The asskicking he lays on Lambert 2.em0 in this old thread is awesome.  Lambert is absolutely helpless and is reduced to posting this over and over like some malfunctioning smugbot:

Thank you for commenting, dmd76. Your comment is important to us. Please do not hesitate to comment again.

Lambert must have a well developed twitch by now that flares up whenever he sees dmd76 pop up anywhere on the internet to call him out as the bullshitter that he is.  Bonus recent Lambert silliness, check him out here conspiracy theorizing about how so many people on the internets came to vex him so with their support for Obama:

1. What I remember most was that the OFB were more or less interchangeable (not all, but a huge portion). They all used the same talking points, and they all used the same tactics. It was like they had been trained. (From the SacBee, we got a glimpse of what training on the ground was like—the conversion narratives, which was generally the first move by these guys.) The talking points came in waves, as if they were emanating from a central source. Sometimes, it even seemed like there were shift changes… When I remembered that Axelrod’s day job was corporate AstroTurfing, I always pictured a huge warehouse in, say, Obama, NB, with OFB working three shifts, typing away…. And clearly it would be very useful to the Obama campaign to capture Kos; it would be capturing a cable operation, in readership terms. That said, there is no hard evidence I have seen; every so often there’s a random mention of 450 bloggers, but I’ve never seen a link.

The rest is no less stupid and paranoid including his clueless wonderings on how we got paid by Axelrod.  He’s not even close to figuring out how it all worked.

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