While good people in California were fighting their hearts out to try and stop Janice Hahn (including the former Democrat Zumadogg, who switched parties because of this race!), conservative media was having a party.
They were having a party the whole time.
While people like Stacy McCain, DaTechGuy, Ace Of Spades, Penguin Pundit and others were working their hearts out to shine a light on the corruption of Janice Hahn, these guys barely touched the subject. A tweet from Breitbart, an article on Big Journalism, a couple of retweets from Stephen Kruiser. Meh. I'm grateful for that but. Pretty lackluster, when it wasn't downright zombie-like or just plain treacherous. Fox News? Don't even get me started.
I don't care who you are. There were all sorts of ways to tackle the story, and with a dancing stripper and rappers thrown into the mix, there's just no damned excuse for ignoring it, and everyone knows it.
Some of these people I had drinks with. Some of these people I thought were at least cordial colleagues. Did any of them take a moment to notice the aforementioned death threats? Cyberhacking? Psych-ops? Anything? Buehler? Buehler?
I'm kinda perplexed myself. Why would anybody on the right fail to take this story and broadcast it long and loud? It's the Obama in miniature: feckless professional politician, in bed with unsavories, screwing the people she's supposed to be serving. What's not to trumpet?
Ultimately, all politics are local, and this election was lost when Craig Huey decided not to use the ammo that had been offered to him. He didn't have a campaign, he had an After-Party Planning Commitee. But where was the goddamn cavalry?
Consider this.
That ad got more hits from Huffpo than any conservative blog. I got more media interviews from liberal rags like Slate and Salon than any conservative media.
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