Sometimes I feel that way.

jaime on December 6, 2007 at 5:18 PM

I was trying to bail you out :-)

Sadly, I was using Acme products again.

-Super genius (or is that mud?)

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I’m not sure how Hugh could possibly make a convincing argument that he’s not been a tool of the Bush White House.

Maybe on immigration? The guy most closely in line with the White House there has been Medved.

Hugh also criticizes the president when he muzzles Israel.

In Hugh’s defense, I expect he’s probably trying to get Bartlett to come on his show and defend himself as we speak, and there’s a better than even chance that Hugh will make him look like a fool if he agrees.
Kensington on December 6, 2007 at 5:32 PM

I’m not sure how Hugh could possibly make a convincing argument that he’s not been a tool of the Bush White House.

I don’t have a problem with him being in Romney’s corner- I do have a problem with his complete overzealousness in shamelessly pimping Romney almost daily in his column while bashing… pretty much everyone else.

Also, I’ve listened to his radio show while he sometimes gets it right, I sometimes find his method of questioning to be cheap and pushy.

the almost daily Romney-worship has pretty much destroyed his credibility as a serious commentator in my view.

In Hugh’s defense, I expect he’s probably trying to get Bartlett to come on his show and defend himself as we speak, and there’s a better than even chance that Hugh will make him look like a fool if he agrees.

As for the Romney stuff, I don’t begrudge Hugh his choice. I just think it was a bit weird that he pretended for so long that he hadn’t made up his mind yet. Your comments about his credibility are well-taken. I think his judgment on matters electoral took a huge hit when he got the ‘06 elections wrong pretty much across the board, but it’s still a good show. The weekly Hitchens, Steyn and Lileks segments, for example, remain top notch, but it’s probably smart to take his ‘08 prognostications with several grains of salt.

He was a beacon of sanity on election night in ‘04, however, and he’ll always have my respect for that.

Wile E. Coyote?

Sometimes I feel that way.

Haha, if I hadn’t drank up all my milk I would have snorted it out through my nose…

I can’t wait until the first potential client brings this up when Dan is trying to sell his services there in Austin.

Actually, I do get a list of talking points from the White House on a daily basis. So, tell me again how we “regurgitate exactly and put up on [our] blogs what you said to [us]“? Ace points out that……

As much as I love Hugh Hewitt — and I do — Bartlett might have a point when it comes to him. Hugh can really be a water carrier sometimes.

Kensington on December 6, 2007 at 3:51 PM

Sometimes? I can’t even read his stuff anymore- unquestionably carrying water for Bush was bad enough, but now the almost daily Romney-worship has pretty much destroyed his credibility as a serious commentator in my view.

opps. genius. Now we know who the real genius is.

jaime on December 6, 2007 at 4:47 PM

Wile E. Coyote? Sorry, somebody had to say that.

opps. genius. Now we know who the real genius is.

jaime on December 6, 2007 at 4:47 PM

Never had much use for a man who could only spell a word one way. Shows lack of imagination.
- Mark Twain

It’s a very efficient way to communicate. They regurgitate exactly and put up on their blogs what you said to them.

This could mean:

“The conservative bloggers quote you exactly and fully, getting your message out, instead of other media sources who selectively quote and paraphrase, potentially distorting your message.”

I think this is a valid way to read this quote, and yes I looked at the context, because for bloggers, when the White House puts out a message, that is in and of itself a story. That gets its own post. When the White House talks to a mainstream media source, its message gets put in a story mixed up with opposing views and criticism, drowning out the message, and unsympathetic journalists (which is most of them) can distort the message coming out of the White House or at least cut it down.

Bartlett’s right. Look how much the conservative blogs helped the administration get Harriet Myers on the Supreme Court and pass comprehensive immigration reform.

Oh wait…

Maybe by ‘regurgitate’ he means throw them on the White House.

Drew on December 6, 2007 at 4:36 PM

I believe you nailed it. Heck, my first heap of posts was on the Mushroom, which I ultimately decided was poisonous.

I don’t know why he left off Redstate.

MB4 on December 6, 2007 at 4:17 PM

Me either. Maybe they don’t have enough traffic to bother with.

It’s probably because of all this regurgitation that Bush’s aprroval ratings are so low among Republicans. What a genious that Bartlett is.

That said, the one saving grace in the White House’s cultivation of contacts for regurgitation of information is that it’s one bypass of the MSM, who has a habit of spraying the Administration’s communications with Round-Up before putting it up for sale. I’ll give Dan the benefit of the doubt here that this is what he meant, but he does Hugh and Powerline no good by talking of them using such derogatory language.

Oh wait…

Maybe by ‘regurgitate’ he means throw them on the White House.