A Republican Kosola?
Via Virginia Virtucon, Patrick Hynes of AnkleBitingPundits.com, a vocal supporter of John McCain, has just revealed he has been working for McCain’s Sraight Talk America since May:
The problem with that, Jim Geraghty writes at www.nationalreview.com, is that “New Media Strategics had been under contract with McCain’s PAC … since May. Hynes has, since that initial payment, posted several items praising McCain and critical of [Massachusetts Gov. Mitt] Romney.” Mr. Romney is seen as one of Mr. McCain’s potential rivals for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination.Patrick is opening himself up to comments (and criticism) here.Furthermore, Mr. Geraghty writes, during the uproar over so-called “blogola” charges involving the DailyKos site, Mr. Hynes compared popular radio talk-show host Hugh Hewitt — who had criticized Mr. McCain on his blog — to Mr. Moulitsas.
“While I don’t believe Hugh is the Kos of the right, one question lingers in my mind: Who died and made Hugh Hewitt King Republican?” Mr. Hynes wrote on July 13 at his blog, AnkleBitingPundits.com. “If I was a conspiracy theorist, I would suspect Hugh of bashing McCain in the services of Mitt Romney, who Hugh, it has become increasingly obvious, supports along with Arlen Specter.”
I give him credit for coming clean but his “[m]y consulting business and my blog are two different entities” excuse is a bit iffy, in my opinion. When the two begin to overlap, as it seems to have here, you would be wise to do yourself and your readers the service of revealing any potentially questionable ties.
July 28th, 2006 at 6:52 pm
Agreed entirely, but only so far as it reflects on their commentary.
Certainly, if it refers to the FMA or to Rep. Musgrave, I’d be quick to reveal the information. On the other hand, if I’m blogging about rainbows, what’s the disclosure issue in that?
I like the new site layout BTW.