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Kos has a posting up about the nefarious tricks that pro-GOP bloggers in Virginia appear to be making to cloud the waters about Gov. Mark Warner's support of Tim Kaine, which the media outlets go on to cover:
From the National Journal Hotline:
When we saw this blog post asserting that VA Gov. Mark Warner was finished campaigning for candidate Tim Kaine, we did not make too much of it. After all Warner just on the campaign trail with Kainein NoVA on Monday and the two are slated to join forces again tomorrow in SW VA. But when some GOP officials started circulating the post to the media, we thought we'd check it out.
"Nothing could be further from the truth," says Warner political adviser Mame Reiley. She said that Warner is with Kaine "lock, stock and barrel" and that Warner had actually recently asked his staff to "carve out some more time" on his schedule so that he can spend more time with his preferred successor.
So why this rumor? Because GOPers are "petrified at [Warner's] impact on the race," says Reiley.
Kos, who picked up on this, writes:
"This is the tactic the GOP developed in the South Dakota senate race last year -- leak damaging information, irrespective of the truth, onto blogs. Then, GOP party and campaign officials circulated those blog posts to the media, demanding that they follow up on the allegations. Media, afraid of being called "liberal," wrote about the allegations.
"It's now clearly SOP, and Democratic campaigns need to become well versed in the blogosphere, see these attacks coming in advance, and be prepared to rebut them when necessary (as in, when reporters call asking for comment).
"And note, it's not that blogs are reporting rumors or making allegations -- it's that Republican operatives then push those blog posts on to the media. Even when they are patently and obviously false as claiming Warner is ditching the Kaine campaign even though his schedule is full of joint events."
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Kos: still opposed to regulation?
In April, Kos wrote:
"Incidentally, I'm not a Feingold supporter for president. Anyone who attempts to regulate blogs -- like he has -- is instantly on my shit list"
Gee, if blog posts can maim Democratic candidates at will, ya think that he might warm his heart towards some attempt at regulation? Like a rewards & punishment system of sorts for sites which engage in these tactics? For example, a blog/forum can only seek a "press exemption" IF they don't allow pseudonymous posts? Well, that would end the press exemption of the DailyKOS.