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Dean Campaign Made Payments To Two Bloggers
Wall Street Journal ^
| January 14, 2005
| WILLIAM M. BULKELEY and JAMES BANDLER
Posted on 01/13/2005 7:47:11 PM PST by 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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blogs; crookedrats; dailykos; dean; dirtyrats; filthyrats; kos; media; rats; scumbags; zuniga
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After all the hay the left has been making about Armstrong Williams, this is just hilarious.
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posted on
01/13/2005 7:47:13 PM PST
by
RegT
To: RegT
Is this written by THE BILL BULKELEY?
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posted on
01/13/2005 7:49:22 PM PST
by
ProudVet77
(If it's Saturday, I'm sailing!)
To: RegT
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posted on
01/13/2005 7:57:13 PM PST
by
finnman69
(cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
To: RegT
Your campaign has to be pretty bad to have to PAY PEOPLE to say anything positive about you!
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posted on
01/13/2005 8:08:43 PM PST
by
RasterMaster
(Saddam's family were WMD's - He's behind bars & his sons are DEAD!)
To: RegT
She said "to be very clear, they never committed to supporting Dean for the payment... Ah-*CHOO*!!
Sorry...I'm allergic to bull****.
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posted on
01/13/2005 8:10:23 PM PST
by
Prime Choice
(If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made of meat?)
To: RegT
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posted on
01/13/2005 8:12:04 PM PST
by
Fiddlstix
(This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
To: RegT
The Daily Kos was bought and paid for? ROTFLMCO!
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posted on
01/13/2005 8:15:06 PM PST
by
McGavin999
(Senate is trying to cover their A$$es with Rumsfeld's hide)
To: ProudVet77
THE BILL BULKELEY would be William F. Buckley
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posted on
01/13/2005 8:21:46 PM PST
by
Bi-ped Carbon Unit
(Liberals' hypocrisy knows no bounds.)
To: RegT
"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."
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posted on
01/13/2005 8:29:05 PM PST
by
jpf
To: RegT
Tommorrow's headline:
DailyKos political prostitution ring smashed by FBI. Two John's arrested! oops! lol
To: RegT
To: RegT
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.
To: RegT
And now a word from our technical consultants...
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posted on
01/13/2005 9:54:38 PM PST
by
Seaplaner
(Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
To: RegT
He's a Dem ... so it's ok for them to do it / sarcasm>
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posted on
01/13/2005 10:08:59 PM PST
by
Mo1
(Does the distinguished Sen from VT wish to act as our treaty rep. for negotiations with Al Queda?)
To: RegT
"Zephyr Teachout." Does that sound like a liberal or what?
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posted on
01/13/2005 10:27:27 PM PST
by
Graymatter
(Happy New Year FR!)
To: RegT
I thought one of them would be YEEAARRRGGHH.com
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posted on
01/13/2005 10:33:00 PM PST
by
Ken H
To: RegT
It certainly is! But sadly,the MSM will ignore this completely.
To: RegT
Markos ZunigaAhem! That's Markos "Screw them!" Zuniga.
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posted on
01/13/2005 11:43:38 PM PST
by
L.N. Smithee
(Hey, Senator Leahy -- Go BORK Yourself!)
To: RegT
The partisan Democratic political bloggers who were hired by the Dean campaign were Jerome Armstrong, who publishes the blog MyDDI've been to that site...oh, wait, that was "MyDD's." </sarcasm>
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posted on
01/13/2005 11:45:40 PM PST
by
L.N. Smithee
(Hey, Senator Leahy -- Go BORK Yourself!)
To: nopardons
LOL.....you mean Dan Rather is not going to be breathlessly breaking this story!!!!!
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posted on
01/14/2005 3:29:35 AM PST
by
OldFriend
(PRAY FOR MAJ. TAMMY DUCKWORTH)
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