MediaMatters does a great job of exposing the smear campaign the Machine started on Cindy Sheehan. What we don't know right now is who gave the smear story to Matt "The Eggman" Drudge but we can sure it wasn't Valerie Plame!
Here's the timeline from MM:
Drudge posted the Sheehan item on August 8 at 10:11 am ET.
- Right-wing pundit Michelle Malkin posted the item on her weblog one hour later, at 11:22 am ET.
- At 12:40 pm ET, the Drudge story appeared on C-Log, the weblog of the conservative news and commentary website Townhall.com.
- At 2:33 pm ET, MooreWatch.com posted the story.
- At 3:23 pm ET, William Quick of DailyPundit.com posted the story.
- Fox News then picked up Drudge's distortion of Sheehan's quote. On the "Political Grapevine" segment of the August 8 edition of Special Report with Brit Hume, guest anchor and Fox News chief Washington correspondent Jim Angle highlighted Sheehan's supposed contradiction
Liberals also have a distribution system but it's not as developed as the Machine. For example, a post could start at Daily Kos and then move to Atrios but we don't have a Townhall. More important, we don't have our own cable news outlet.
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