It appears that the Democrats have run out of attacks, when they resort to spreading lies about Bob McDonnell’s campaign having a Confederate flag in their booth. The flag was in the neighboring booth, not McDonnell’s booth, as reported on Not Larry Sabato. This picture clearly proves what I am talking about. This is exactly the type of reporting that will hurt bloggers and give us bad credibility.
It is especially bad, when The Washington Post‘s Virginia Politics blog calls you out on the bad report. Other bloggers have chimed in on this issue:
- Jim Hoeft reports on Bearing Drift that the Confederate Flag report hurts blogging credibility.
- Shaun Kenney also has a post on this issue as well.
- Also reporting:
“No one will remember this blatant lie (the second for the Deeds campaign in as many weeks), but what they will remember is how reckless and irresponsible bloggers bring down the entire medium through their flagrant narcissism…and how desperate candidates are quick to go negative and spread falsehoods, ruining the nobility of public service.
While all of those Republican pots are busying themselves, calling the blogging kettle, black; everyone consider the fact that Virginia could generate a BILLION dollars per year by actively promoting Confederate era tourism.
Both candidates should be waving the Battle Flag at every possible opportunity, because, more than standing for a part of Virginia’s rich historic and cultural heritage, today, that hallowed Battle Flag stands for jobs, jobs, jobs and more jobs for our Virginia citizens.
For either of the political parties to continue to shun our Confederate heritage serves only to deny our citizens of today, Billions of dollars in lost tourism income; and all for the sake of misguided worship before the altar of what the fools think is political expediency.
Rather than trying to deny who is with the Battle Flag, these two candidates should be fighting over who stands more proudly with our Confederate Battle Flag.