Beltway Incest At Its Finest

I've tried to post comments a (very) few times on The Huffington Post, but they've never appeared. Perhaps someone thinks I'm trying to pass myself off as O.J.'s benefactor over at the FOX Network. It certain isn't for quality control reasons.

Anyway, here's a rough attempt at recreating (and expanding upon) my aborted comment in response to this Steve Clemons post:

"John McCain and Joseph Lieberman are also both attracted to Marshall Wittman because of his work and thinking about a 'new campaign of national greatness.'" A new campaign of national greatness? The voters must be wetting themselves over that! Those running on an old platform of national shittiness don't stand a chance.

What exactly has Wittmann the Giant ever acheived in his legendary career, apart from self-promotion? Because I don't see anything about that in your post, or in the New York Times article. You seem to think that he has the skills to bamboozle (or seduce) "many pundits," but there's already a surplus of chuzzlewits who guzzle the Maverick/Holy Joe Drano without Wittmann's assistance.
The man is so impressive that you can't manage to spell him name correctly once.

Bullshit In The Halls Of Congress

Time for a blogger ethics panel, according to the Hartford Courant:

"There is no better person to take the helm during this new time in my Senate career than Marshall [Wittmann]," Lieberman said Tuesday. "Marshall has been a trusted outside advisor to me for some time now and I'm glad he will be bring his experience and wisdom to my staff. Those qualities, along with his independence and diverse background, make him the ideal captain of my new Senate Communications team."

I certainly don't recall Ralph Reed's own Little Dick Morris disclosing that he was servicing Holy Joe whilst blogging smears against Ned Lamont. Not to mention that the Bullshitter was advising a de facto Republican while claiming to blog for the DLC. (Someone should archive the Bullshitter's blog before it disappears, because Holy Joe has just endorsed every slander against Democrats found on that site.)

The Courant story also notes, with no evident sarcasm intended, that Fathead Wittmann previously worked "as communications director for McCain, the maverick Republican who is now unofficially pursuing a 2008 presidential bid."

Somebody get Chris Hitch a proofreader:

We shall no doubt have to accept whatever the publishing industry decides to shovel over us, and to that extent get a small idea of what it is to be a member of the Coleman and Goodman families.