I agree.
My point, however, is that the only effective backlash is to (1) get a positive message out (refute the media pieces, if necessary), but more than that (2) to win.
I am not saying what the media, including Drudge, is doing is nothing.
I am saying it's a waste of time and ultimately futile, and even counter-productive, to wail about how this **shouldn't** be.
It IS!
And the only way to stop it is to stop it from being effective. Not always easy. But a lot more potentially effective than focusing on how awful it is that someone said something negative about Newt and claiming that everyone else is stupid for even evaluating the information that comes out.
Evaluate all you like but if the evaluation doesn’t take into account the motivation of those who are rapidly releasing a flood of half-truths and decades old information, then i think it misses the real story here. For it isn’t just the negativity that angers conservatives, it is that there is so much coming out seemingly all at once, so much so that most working people don’t have the time to read beyond the damning headlines, don’t have time to properly evaluate what is coming out. And that is the whole idea behind this coordinated attack, to make it nearly impossible to “refute [all] the media pieces” to those voters who hardly have time to read much more than a headline.
My own approach (despite how you may wish to characterize it) is to recognize the media assault for what it is and to not let it demoralize us, but rather use it to energize us even more by standing strong with and voting for Newt, which is essentially casting a vote against the media and the establishment.