Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Acknowledgement: FreedomWorks rocks Dodd's house with a Panda suit

So, being a conservative doesn't always have to be about complaining, my post a few days ago about the problems of the party in getting the message out included the observation that Sen. Chris Dodd took an illegitimate Countrywide loan, and there was no one covering it. Well, I was wrong like kong, because FreedomWorks has sent a Panda to Dodd's house of corruption asking Congress to stop PANDAring (pandering) to the mortgage industry, including setting up a website on the subject of the corporate bailouts, angryrenter.com -- in a sea of conservative movement mediocrity, they stand out like rockstars. Freedomworks gets double points for using a costume, my favorite protest trick in the book, thank you Saul Alinsky. Now, it'll be tough for this to catch on, and a lot of these smart ideas never seem to crack into the MSM and die a quick death on the conservative media ghetto, but hopefully it'll get some traction. As a complete aside, there do seem to be a few people who will do original reporting and break things from the low-level to the larger media markets, people like Michelle Malkin, O'Reilly and a few others.

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