Letters to the Editor
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these viral emails?
I was wondering how these things, and the far rightwing conspiracy theories about Obama get out into the mainstream press. According to Huffington Post it's helped in no small part by our very own Sidney Blumenthal!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-dreier/sidney-blumenthal-uses-fo_b_99695.html
turns out he's been collecting all these stories and sending them off to his own private mailing list, who just happen to be in the opinion-makin' business. Odd behaviour for a dude that spent the 90s decrying the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy dontcha think?
anyways, check this excerpt out...there's some pret-ty familiar names here isn't there? Almost a who's who of Salon eh?
"Among those whose names show up as recipients of Blumenthal's emails are writers and journalists Craig Unger, Edward Jay Epstein, Thomas Edsall (Politics Editor of the Huffington Post), Joe Conason, Gene Lyons (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette columnist and author of The Hunting of the President: The Ten Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton), John Judis, Eric Alterman, Christine Ockrent, David Brock, Reza Aslan, Harold Evans, and Josh Marshall; academics and think tankers Todd Gitlin (Columbia U sociologist), Karen Greenberg (NYU law school), Sean Wilentz (Princeton historian), Michael Lind, William M. Drozdiak, and Richard Parker; and former Clinton administration officials John Ritch, James Rubin, Derek Shearer, and Joe Wilson."
just thought you'd be interested in this...I certainly found it illuminating.
cheers