Oliver Willis calls out Politico's Mike Allen for dissing DNC research.

[madfloridian]

Good for Oliver Willis.

http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/06/dems-not-allowe.html

Dems Not Allowed To Be Political, Says Politico

You may remember Mike Allen as the Politico writer who gushed over Matt Drudge and slagged the Democratic party as "dogs" while ridiculing former vice president Al Gore. Today he's written a story where he's all upset that the Democratic party would do opposition research on Fred Thompson.

Well I Do Declare!

Regardless of what you think Fred Thompson is (I think he's just another Republican no-nothing know-nothing who has nothing to offer America), the fact of the matter is that the right is falling all over themselves in praise of him and he's beginning to lead in polls. The press and the right would like to have the old-style Democratic party, the one that lets the right and the media do all the talking and all the definition of the players in an election.

They have written the script and the Howard Dean-led DNC has the nerve to not play along, because that's the sort of behavior that previously lost us the House, Senate, and White House. The establishment, in this case The Politico and The GOP doesn't like it when the left fights back. They hate it when we simply show up because they start losing.

They would rather the DNC not have a research operation that simply does what the RNC's operation did in the past. It would be much more amenable to the Politico and Mike Allen, much more "civil" if the Democrats would just be a dear and lie down and play dead.

Nice words. The DNC research is updated daily. It is posted hourly at the DNC blog. It is pretty much like what the GOP and the RNC did to our guys for years.

All this cozy warm snuggle up non-partisan crap didn't start until the Republicans lost, and now the media is crying foul.

Some of the cry for playing nice is coming from our party as well....and just a little of that goes a very long way when you are fighting to get your country back.

[Jim Sagle]

1. "Nonpartisans" who wring their hands over partisanship were invisible and inaudible

when the RNC-led media hunted Clinton's cock for eight years. Now they want bipartisanship. They're not bipartisans, they're RNC moles.

The same goes DOUBLE for "non-partisan" "Democrats." It goes double becaue they're double agents. Fuck 'em all with Sam Waterston's watery dick.

[illinoisprogressive]

2. every single beltwayer is telling the democrats to not be democrats.

We will be who we are and we are democrats like Dean. Real democrats.

[OHdem10]

3. You are so right---Media and Beltway Crowd want

the Dems to just lie and rollover for the Republicans.

Dems who fight back throw them off their game.