The Soros and the Pity (II)

Earlier we addressed the heartfelt cry of Little Miss Attila (no link, she's easy enough to find) over the dearth of Koch Brothers-like slush-funding underwriting of top-notch conservative bloggers, forcing them to scrape by on subsistence levels while we Soros-enriched socialist heathens live it up on the Cayman Islands, filing copy beneath the shade of flickering palms and the distant hum of Hemingway's legacy.

To which I responded with John Simon's rhetorical question, Why pay for something you can have for free?

Rightwing bloggers already crank out posts as if they're on the corporate payroll, so why waste money on redundant messaging when there are lobbyists to hire, elected officials to tuck in your back pocket through political contributions, canapes to order?

It later occurred to me that I had overlooked a rather large Edsel on the lot in my post.

RightNetwork, the site sacredly devoted to "what's right about America" that was launched with such jaunty fanfare by Kelsey Grammer, between divorces. Now here is a site that was intended to be the very savior machine to pay worthy conservative bloggers that Little Miss Attila was lamenting the absence of, and, guess what, Little Miss Attila and her political soul bro'Dan Collins (who also responded to my post) are both contributors to RightNetwork, presumably earning paychecks for their commissioned work.

Or should I say 'were'?

Because I looked at RightNetwork today and it appears to have become a laminated placemat, like you get at the finer chain diners. New content seems to have been abandoned.

Nothing about Libya, nothing about the earthquake and nuclear crisis in Japan, which I'm sure you know have been prominent in the news.

Given Little Miss Attila's professional involvement with RightNetwork, perhaps she can illuminate us on its state of suspended animation, why it has not turned out to be the answer to conservative bloggers' dreams, why, in short, it seems to have crapped out.

Or maybe there's going to be a 'relaunch'?

Do keep us apprised.

Interestingly, when the Daily Caller (clearly a more fluidly funded boondoggle) went out to hire a new 'name' blogger, they didn't place a call to the predictable rightwing bullpen or any of those OUTLAWS holed up in Rattlesnake Gulch, but reached out to former Mouseketeer Mickey Kaus.

There must be a lesson in that, I know not what.

Related: Roy Edroso on the rightbloggers response to the convulsive events in Japan, "using the catastrophe as a teachable moment to explain that Obama sucks, global warming doesn't exist, and what America needs now is more nuclear power plants."



"I still say nuclear energy needs to be strongly promoted here in the states," said Jeff Goldstein of Protein Wisdom. "And I suspect we can use what we learn from Japan to better the containment and cooling technology." And if we open more nuclear plants here, we can have many more such learning experiences, and at first hand.

Source: http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott/2011/03/the-soros-and-the-pity-ii.html

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