Hillary Clinton Paying Right-Wing Blogs to Not Run Her Ads
Thursday, January 25th, 2007
Hillary Clinton’s campaign for President faces an uphill battle on the Internet, that mythical land where shut-ins and misfits convince themselves and each other of their incredible importance. But Clinton wisely brought in former Salon blog rounder-upper Peter Daou to manage and advise on internet strategy some time ago, and we’re just now seeing the first hints of their strategy: bribery. Clinton’s blog advertising buys started this week, and because there’s nothing bloggers like talking about more than bloggers, Hill’s ad buys have attracted quite a bit of attention. The first controvery: she bought ads on conservative sites.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign for President faces an uphill battle on the Internet, that mythical land where shut-ins and misfits convince themselves and each other of their incredible importance. But Clinton wisely brought in former Salon blog rounder-upper Peter Daou to manage and advise on internet strategy some time ago, and we’re just now seeing the first hints of their strategy: bribery. Clinton’s blog advertising buys started this week, and because there’s nothing bloggers like talking about more than bloggers, Hill’s ad buys have attracted quite a bit of attention. The first controvery: she bought ads on conservative sites.
When Mike McCurry posted his “Telecommunication companies have paid me to tell you that they should own the internets” thing, everyone else on HuffPo just got mad and wrote mean things about him, they didn’t demand that he take it outside. That’s why we like Cenk Uygur. 