Aug 07 Overpromise, Underdeliver

So as I was on my way home from work last night, I was listening to “Marketplace Money” on MPR last night.  The interminably smug Khai Riszdahl teed up a story about the town hall protests:

“Protests this big have to take a lot of money to coordinate.  Find out who’s paying the bill, up next on Marketplace Money.”

“Hmmm”, I thought.  “Maybe, after all these months of hearing lefties yapping about how grassroots conservatism is really all coordinated from “faux” news and asking for some actual names and proof and evidence and stuff, we’ll get some actual names!”

So I listened.

And learned that “as many as 3/4 of lobbyists don’t have to be registered”, and that “you don’[t have to be a registered lobbyist to arrange demonstrations”.

Registering as a lobbyist to arrange demonstrations? So the problem, according to the relentlessly left-leaning Marketplace Money, isn’t that they have proof that Richard Mellon Scaife is paying big money to bring people out to demonstrate against Obama’s agenda.  It’s apparently that the Administration doesn’t have a written record of who its critics are.

Yet.

Question, lefties:  What if a conservative organization were ponying up to help channel populist anger against Obama’s minions?  ACORN pays for mobs; Citizens for a Supine “Safer” Minnesota pays for tiny demonstrations; Media Matters manufactures outrage; the Center for “Independent” Media supports “grassroots” lefty media and tells them what to write, and resists disclosing that it’s financially related to all the above.

Even if it were true that some Rove-ish figure on the right is providing financial and logistical support to these demonstrations, how is that any different?

At any rate - the left wants it to be true.  Which is all that matters to the likes of Khai Ryszdahl and “Marketplace Money”.

Cross-posted and comments welcome at Shot In The Dark.