The Shape of the Right-Wing Response to The Downing Street Memo

It may not be as bad as Tom Tomorrow's vision of Jeffrey Dahmer as a Right Wing Pundit, but I have received some responses about The Downing Street Memo in my recent Comments from those who appear to be somewhat to the right of the Big Brass Alliance. These excerpts should give a sense of what we might hear if the mainstream media ever does pick up the ball and start running with it (admittedly a big if):

"A British Memo about President Bush. No one but Liberals believe this. This is the Dan Rather,Newsweek report in Britian. Stop hating America so much. Your love of George Soro's only goes to show you hate America. Why would you take what a true Nazi like Soro's is and run withit. He compares all Republicans to Nazi's even though he is a card carrier himself." [emphasis added, it was hard to resist adding sics]

Among the grammatical errors, I'm especially impressed by the superfluous apostrophe in Soros (toward whom I've never expressed an opinion one way or the other in this blog, but he's obviously a Fox and Limbaugh whipping boy).

And another:

"Another Newsweek, Dan Rather hatchett Liberal Media Job. Move On.Org yeah thats a credible place. Lets see people said Swift Boat Vets truthful. Move On .Org big piece of manure. Bush win re-election Kerry crybabies keep crying." [emphasis added]

I could not have written a better parody myself. On the other hand, we have to get it on the mainstream media first before these rants are heard through the land. The status of that effort is still in doubt.

One of my favorite activities during this period of emphasis on The Downing Street Memo has been to check news.google.com for three stories. Here are the results at 8:15 est this morning:

"Downing Street Memo" -- 288 hits, only one from a "Major" source, and that source is FOX News!! A quick scan shows that most of the hits are from blogs and activist sites.
"Runaway Bride" --5,260 hits, "168 related" in the top major news story category, and a quick flip through the pages and pages of hits shows that most are from mainstream media outlets.
"Michael Jackson" -- 21,400 hits, "967 related" in the top major news story category, and a quick flip through the pages and pages and pages and pages of hits shows that most are from mainstream media outlets.

Hey Kids! Have Fun! Get Depressed! Click on the links yourself for an update of the totals! Does anyone doubt that this is a media problem even more than a problem with our government? Does anyone doubt that The Downing Street Memo would be a major issue for Americans if its contents were as well known as the Runafuckingwaybride's eyes and Michael (whose-last-hit-was-in-the-past-century) Jackson's nose?

Just asking,
True Blue Liberal