| Perry Prodded--Rightie Bloggers Yelp |
| Posted by Will Rice (will) on Aug 26 2011 at 10:07 AM |
You know you’re doing something right when the Right says it’s wrong!
As reported by The Washington Post last Friday, WFW New Hampshire State Director Jaime Contois successfully cornered current GOP presidential frontrunner Rick Perry August 18 at a Dover restaurant, pressing him “for nearly 15 minutes” about his alleged plans to tackle the unemployment crisis.
“His jobs plan sounds a lot like trickle-down economics,” the Post quoted Contois as concluding. “We’ve seen those policies enforced and they’ve led to a massive crash of the economy.”
But that’s not the end of the story. Right Wing bloggers—upset that the current golden boy of reactionary radicalism had actually been held to account for his destructive plans—struck back.
Red State, a leading conservative website, thought the Post should have supplied Jaime’s WFW affiliation (so do we!). The site apparently thought her desire and efforts for expanded health care, fair budgets and other popular goals disqualified her from asking tough questions of Republican presidential candidates. Presumably Red State prefers that less knowledgeable and less dedicated voters ask all the questions.
Conservative media watchdog Newsbusters then got into the act, going so far as to filch a photo from Jaime’s Facebook page to illustrate its attack on informed questioning of GOP hopefuls.
We respectfully disagree: we think WFW activists are the just the right people to be asking incisive questions and demanding full answers out on the Republican presidential campaign trail. So we're going to keep on doing just that.