The Deluge

An interesting phenomena has developed over the past couple of weeks: the attempt to push the conservative blogs onto particular stories. My feeling at first was that of flattery, getting included in the same list with the big dogs---not that made me linger one second before deleting them, mind you, but my initial sense was saying "hey, you aint my pimp---this blog belongs to My Pet Jawa, fool!"

My second feeling about these emails was that they were frauds---I just had the sense that certain folks were trying to Buckhead the pajamuhadeen into pursuing a story that would then blow up on them. In other words, treat us as a bunch of Mary Mapes' and show our partisan axes for what they are. Case in point was a big email campaign to get blogs to build on the idea that Kerry was dishonarably discharged, and that this story would "break" over the weekend. End result? No story. My sense was that the whole thing was a fake all along, and that the blogs did a good job of sniffing it out and not buying into it.

Wizbang notes the phenomenom, as does the Commissar and Michele Catalano.

Now if only I'll receive an email from a Nigerian former minister of finance willing to send me John Kerry's dishonorable discharge form I'll be ready to believe it...