Democratic Idiots & the Parroting of Right-Wing Lies

Earlier this week, I chastised writer Ari Melber for his piece in the right-wing New York Post. Now we see just how the GOP spin machine uses people like Melber to perpetuate its most dishonest lies.

To review, Melber claims to be "progressive," yet had the Rupert-Murdoch-owned paper publish his piece that vomited up all the typical dishonest GOP stereotypes about Democrats and national security. And they were dishonest: as Ken Almquist shows, Melber deliberately misrepresented the polling numbers that his entire article relies on.

But the sheer lying isn't what's interesting about this - it's the exposure of the right-wing spin machine that is noteworthy. You see, the GOP feeds off of people who purport to represent progressives and Democrats, yet who carry the right-wing's most shameful lies/stereotypes. Conservatives have an entire infrastructure to get the criticism as far and wide as possible. It's why Melber's piece has now gone from the right-wing New York Post, to a prominent place in the fringe-conservative Washington Times today.

This is exactly how it's supposed to work for the GOP: they grab someone who calls themselves "liberal" or "progressive" (usually from a place like the New Republic). This person typically has little - if any - political experience in the real world outside of the Beltway, and is really only interested in promoting their name at the expense of others. Then they get that idiot to validate dishonest right-wing lies in the media. Finally, they then cite that self-proclaimed "liberal"/"progressive" as proof that the GOP's dishonest stereotypes are actually true, no matter how factually inaccurate. It's a brilliant machine, actually - but it is pathetic that so many people in the insulated Washington, D.C. Democratic Establishment play along.