Does the GOP Pay Friendly Bloggers?

jamie writes "According to the conservative political journalism site Daily Caller: '"It's standard operating procedure" to pay bloggers for favorable coverage, says one Republican campaign operative. A GOP blogger-for-hire estimates that "at least half the bloggers that are out there" on the Republican side "are getting remuneration in some way beyond ad sales." Or in some cases, it's the ads themselves: ads at ten times the going rate are one of the ways conservative bloggers apparently get paid by the politicians they write about. In usual he-said she-said fashion, Daily Caller finds a couple of obscure liberal bloggers to mention too, but they fully disclosed payment and one of them even shut down his blog while doing consulting work, unlike Robert Stacy McCain and Dan Riehl."

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And yet...

[MikeRT]

I doubt a single one of the people self-righteously attacking the GOP right now has the integrity to attack the Democrats and the way the mainstream media covers for them.

In the last 2 years alone, there have been scandals involving the Democrats that would have crippled the GOP by the time the media was done harping on them. Take, for instance, the scandal involving the Black Panthers. Now that Obama's in power, he's not considered a whistleblower. He's considered a "disgruntled ex employee of the DoJ." The left and mainstream media have largely taken the same "no evil here, move along people" stance on that issue that the Bush Administration did over the NSA wiretapping and its whistleblowers.

The media is even being prohibited from going near even clean up sites on the beach in the Gulf under penalty of imprisonment--under a statute that BP helped create. Where's the media? Where's the outrage over a majority Democratic Congress and President shackling the press? I could go on, but I think I've made my point for those who've been paying attention these last 2 years.

Um

[jav1231]

The left has been hiring protesters for some time, which is why you often see familiar faces at differing rallies. As has been mentioned, there are plenty of funded left-wing blogs. As usual, it's only an issue when it's right-wing.

What's funny here, if you RTFA, is that these are hardly huge blogs and certainly not really news blogs per se' and doesn't appear to be coming from the RNC. So we're talking about certain Republican campaigns. Much ado about nothing.

the article reported a vote

[circletimessquare]

it describes how republicans voted

its not an opinion

its a fact

here's a protip for you: facts actually still exist in this world. and 2,000 bluster-filled blatantly partisan blogs don't dispute the facts