How Wingnut Welfare Works....

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Apparently, former reality maker Mr. Karl Rove, who knows a lot of stuff about stuff, is kind of worried about all those rabble rousers who are able to voice their opinions on things like blogs for free:

"People in the past who have been on the nutty fringe of political life, who were more or less voiceless, have now been given an inexpensive and easily accessible soapbox, a blog," Mr. Rove said during a speech about politics and the Web at the Willard InterContinental, a hotel just blocks from his former place of employment.

"I'm a fan of many blogs. I visit them frequently and I learn a lot from them," Mr. Rove said. "But there also blogs written by angry kooks."

After all, if just anybody is able to start up a blog, do good stuff, and begin influencing public opinion by attracting , I dunno, a million and a half readers a month, what will happen to all that Wingnut Whirlitzer Welfare (W3) infrastructure that the Neandercons have invested so much money in?

Infrastructure like, say, a fine little house called Regnery, that published the incomparable tome of lying flack-hackery shown above that did so much for Mr. Rove and his Horse-On-Shrubbery in 2004.

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But there is something scarier afoot for those who have paid so much to make their warped version of reality come to life.

Specifically, what will happen when all those "famous" writers who have been the recipients of so much W3 start deluding themselves into thinking that they, like the best of the independents, actually did it on their own and thus deserve a bigger slice of a pie that does not actually exist?

What the heckfire am I talking about?

Well, it turns out that a bunch of Regnery stablemates, including one of the co-authors of the Swiftboat Liars Craptacular, have gone berserk and started biting the Neandercon hand that feeds them:

Five authors have sued the parent company of Regnery Publishing, a Washington imprint of conservative books, charging that the company deprives its writers of royalties by selling their books at a steep discount to book clubs and other organizations owned by the same parent company.

In a suit filed in United States District Court in Washington yesterday, the authors Jerome R. Corsi, Bill Gertz, Lt. Col. Robert (Buzz) Patterson, Joel Mowbray and Richard Miniter state that Eagle Publishing, which owns Regnery, “orchestrates and participates in a fraudulent, deceptively concealed and self-dealing scheme to divert book sales away from retail outlets and to wholly owned subsidiary organizations within the Eagle conglomerate.”

Why is this laughable in the extreme?

Well, as only she can do, the incomparable independent, Ms Hamsher, explains:

Do these authors (ie. the wingnut welfare recipients) really not understand that it takes incredibly deep pockets to do what they’re accusing Regnery of doing, and that they are the beneficiaries of it?

That when Regnery is basically giving away books for free it’s not making any money off them, and is doing so in order to get them on the New York Times’ bestseller lists, from whence so much of their publicity and further book sales are generated? That 30,000 people aren’t going to buy their crappy books at full price, and most authors would kill to have their works seeded out there at such great expense?

Finally, there is, of course, one more thing to consider here.

Which is that, as Mr. Rove and his ilk have proven over and over and over and over again, these people only smear that, and those, which they fear most.

OK?

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So, how long will it be before Alison is writing about the same sort of stuff going on up here, North of the rapidly disappearing 49th parallel?
Original Rovian Kook source - skdadl at POGGE.


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