Dean Campaign Made Payments To Two Bloggers

Wall Street Journal ^ | January 14, 2005 | WILLIAM M. BULKELEY and JAMES BANDLER

[RegT]

Howard Dean's presidential campaign hired two Internet political "bloggers" as consultants so that they would say positive things about the former governor's campaign in their online journals, according to a former high-profile Dean aide.

Zephyr Teachout, the former head of Internet outreach for Mr. Dean's campaign, made the disclosure earlier this week in her own Web log, Zonkette. She said "to be very clear, they never committed to supporting Dean for the payment -- but it was very clearly, internally, our goal." The hiring of the consultants was noted in several publications at the time.

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The partisan Democratic political bloggers who were hired by the Dean campaign were Jerome Armstrong, who publishes the blog MyDD, and Markos Zuniga, who publishes DailyKos. DailyKos is the ninth most linked blog on the Internet, according to Technorati, a measurement service, and in October, at the height of the presidential campaign, it received as many as one million daily visits.

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[RegT]

After all the hay the left has been making about Armstrong Williams, this is just hilarious.

[ProudVet77]

Is this written by THE BILL BULKELEY?

[finnman69]

Those Krazy Kos Kids

[RasterMaster]

Your campaign has to be pretty bad to have to PAY PEOPLE to say anything positive about you!

[Prime Choice]

She said "to be very clear, they never committed to supporting Dean for the payment...

Ah-*CHOO*!!

Sorry...I'm allergic to bull****.

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[McGavin999]

The Daily Kos was bought and paid for? ROTFLMCO!

[Bi-ped Carbon Unit]

THE BILL BULKELEY would be William F. Buckley

[jpf]

"to be very clear, they never committed to supporting Dean for the payment"

Right and when I tip a bartender I'm hoping he'll spit in my drink...."now I don't want you to feel obligated to us or anything, just remember that Wesley Clark didn't give you any money."

[TheForceOfOne]

Tommorrow's headline:
DailyKos political prostitution ring smashed by FBI. Two John's arrested! oops! lol

[Dont Mention the War]

Gratuitous Schadenfreudefest taking place over on LGF.

[Dont Mention the War]

Ms. Teachout said she thinks bloggers need to rethink their attitudes toward ethics.

Yeah, now that she's got her jackpot, it's time for everyone else to rethink their ethics.

How typically Democratic.

[Seaplaner]

And now a word from our technical consultants...

[Mo1]

He's a Dem ... so it's ok for them to do it / sarcasm>

[Graymatter]

"Zephyr Teachout." Does that sound like a liberal or what?

[Ken H]

I thought one of them would be YEEAARRRGGHH.com

[nopardons]

It certainly is! But sadly,the MSM will ignore this completely.

[L.N. Smithee]

Markos Zuniga

Ahem! That's Markos "Screw them!" Zuniga.

[L.N. Smithee]

The partisan Democratic political bloggers who were hired by the Dean campaign were Jerome Armstrong, who publishes the blog MyDD

I've been to that site...oh, wait, that was "MyDD's." </sarcasm>

[OldFriend]

LOL.....you mean Dan Rather is not going to be breathlessly breaking this story!!!!!