Posted on 06/02/2008 1:20:38 PM PDT by Dawnsblood
Michael Goldfarb, online guru at the Weekly Standard, has taken a leave of absence from his post at the magazine to become deputy communications director for McCain.
Standard chief Bill Kristol announced the move on their blog.
In his new role, Goldfarb will use his grasp of the rightosphere to help drive the McCain message online and will also lend a hand in writing campaign materials. He'll focus especially on the rapid response element of a campaign that is already being fought hour by hour.
A source at the magazine said that when Goldfarb announced his move at a staff meeting, Kristol joked that the conservative writer was being "detailed" to the McCain campaign.
VRWC, indeed.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Is Michael that all but extinct species, a conservative on NPR or is this just McCain reaching out from Teddy Kennedy's lap to a fellow liberal?
My opinion: the latter.
Given that Goldfarb is Bill Kristol's lick-spittle, he won't know squat about the real rightosphere.
This is WONDERFUL! Maybe he will fix the “Contact us” link on the McCain web site, so we can send our words of encouragement (and occasional policy disagreements and questions) to the attention of the campaign, so they can keep in touch with their base. After all, the “Contribute” link works just fine, so I know they want our money. Unfortunately for the McCain campaign, I don’t contribute to tin-eared, tone-deaf politicians who ignore their friends EXCEPT to ask for money, but cozy up to their enemies and ignore the needs of their Country.
Yeah, good luck with that... He's gonna need it.
A wasted move. The weak-ly standard has ALWAYS supported McCain anyway. Why pay for something you will get free?
That’s a different Michael Goldfarb, for sure!! [I tracked that guy to a post on the unmentionable, unlinkable Puffington Post where he made a point of saying he is not the same Michael Goldfarb as the one who works for The Weekly Standard]
“...the McCain message online...”
Vote for me, I’m not Obama?
Conservatives suck, vote McCain?
Forget all those things I DID, listen to what I’m SAYING NOW!
McCains’ message?
Wrong. Same guy. I followed that incident closely. Goldfarb is good. Too good for McCain, IMHO. I am not voting for McCain. But, I think this was a good move.
?? Did you go to the link at #2?
That Michael Goldfarb, who works for NPR and writes for the Huffington Post, is NOT the same Michael Goldfarb who has been working for The Weekly Standard and is now moving over to the McCain campaign.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2010/01/100113_health_of_a_nation_pt1.shtml
Did you see the latest from the Huffington Post Goldfarb. A liberal I know is pushing this as fresh insight into healthcare. But it is just a hit piece on Republicans.
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