Right wing blogger gets publicly OWNED by local media!

Looks like the narrow mind, and all around stupidity of a group of Virginia GOP "bloggers" has gotten them in trouble again. Via The Richmond Democrat, seems members of the media agree with the rest of the sane bloggers (on both sides of the aisle, mind you) in thinking that the "Swaction" (as it's been dubbed), is nothing more than a bunch of NUTS pretending to be bloggers! Dennis Neal, the CONSERVATIVE Opinions Editor of The News Leader, wrote an article publicly calling out the "Swaction" for being a cancer to the Virginia blogosphere:

One of the things that has really disturbed me about the local right-wing bloggers (the habituals, anyway), (and this SHOULD NOT be seen as applying to some of the posters at this blog), is their unabashed embrace of templates. THESE BLOGS ALL LOOK THE SAME. Every last one of them has the same graphic: "IT'S THE JIHAD STUPID (blood drop) DEMOCRATS JUST DON'T GET IT" and many of them are just repeating the same message.

I have no problem with the message, just the delivery system: But when you get right down to it, we're not dealing with blogging but propaganda -- and it makes the right-wing blogs look as if they're being driven by some outside source that's directing them to stay ON THE SCRIPT rather than having their own say -- which I must admit, they SEEMED to be, before recently.

That's not free speech, it's just chanting.

If that's the best our local right-wing blogs can offer -- no original thought, just approved thought filtered through "channels" -- and I see NO dissenting opinions, just "Comments: 0" for the most part -- unless it's something along the lines of "You go, SWAC Girl" or "Right on, 'Dog'" -- they're no better than anything coming out of China or any of the other "non-free" countries they rail about.

The great thing about blogging has always been its individuality and non-adherence to outside direction -- even though I publish under the aegis of The News Leader, I don't clear my blog posts through the executive editor, publisher or anybody else. What I am seeing locally from the SWAC-GOP-ers is not individuality; it's hive-think. And that's pretty sad. Boring, too.

My, my, that's sure to cause the PRETEND bloggers of "Swacland" to create 15 ADDITIONAL aliases in an effort to back themselves up.

The best comment yet came in the comments section of The Richmond Democrat's entry, when Jaime posted:

"So, we aren't crazy for thinking that the "contributors" to the "Swaction" are a. one person, pretending to be 5, and/or b. a bunch if insanely hateful people who call each other on the phone and meet to discuss being the definition of an uneducated echo chamber."

As many of you know, I've had no problem calling out my favorite pretend bloggers of THE "Swaction" either. "SwacGirl" in particular when she actually accused a kid's movie of being political propaganda! For more on the ignorance of the Swac, also see: her feverish moderation of comments posted to her blog to avoid having to respond to anyone she disagrees with via her comments section.

Now, c'mon, a group of bloggers asshats that are SO obnoxious, that not only are they kicked off of one of the most trafficked aggregators used by Virginia bloggers, but SO ridiculous, and such an utter embarrassment to the Virginia blogosphere, that they end up getting publicly "owned" by local media.

Oh, and for the record, by my count, SwacGirl has posted a total of FIVE SEPARATE ENTRIES "responding" to the article (which JUST got published YESTERDAY), all referring to The News Leader as "The MisLeader." Hm, how clever of her, let's just hope with all that "blogging," she's finally figured out how to spell correctly and/or got her hands on a dictionary.