Where’s MY money?

Grand Nagus Obama

It looks like there’s trouble in paradise between the Obama administration and the fauxgressive blogosphere.

Some of the leading liberal bloggers are privately furious with the major progressive groups — and in some cases, the Democratic Party committees — for failing to spend money advertising on their sites, even as these groups constantly ask the bloggers for free assistance in driving their message.

I guess they never learned the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition. Rule #3 states: “Never spend more for an acquisition than you have to”. The Obama administration understands that rule very well. Why should they spend their money on people that have been giving it away for free for him going on 3 years now? They didn’t really expect a payback for all their hard work in smearing fellow Democrats and the party’s most qualified candidate for president in a generation did they? Well I guess so.

“They come to us, expecting us to give them free publicity, and we do, but it’s not a two way street,” Jane Hamsher, the founder of FiredogLake, said in an interview. “They won’t do anything in return. They’re not advertising with us. They’re not offering fellowships. They’re not doing anything to help financially, and people are growing increasingly resentful.” (snip)

“Most want the easy way — having a big blogger promote their agenda,” adds Markos Moulitsas, the founder of DailyKos. “Then they turn around and spend $50K for a one-page ad in the New York Times or whatever.” Moulitsas adds that officials at such groups often do nothing to engage the sites’s audiences by, say, writing posts, instead wanting the bloggers to do everything for them. (snip)

“We don’t invest in the future, and Republicans do,” says John Aravosis, the founder of AMERICAblog. “The party committees really get that we can be effective as their partners and that we’re happy to help, and they take advantage of that. But even so, very little ad money comes from them. It’s more than just wanting to share in the spoils. We are small business-people who are fighting to survive economically in a really bad year.”

It’s bad enough to hear these a-holes whining about not getting their share of the money, but with such indignity! Didn’t they lie and make excuses for Obama every time his inexperience was showing? Didn’t they banish from the web all opposition to him when it looked like he didn’t stand a chance against Hillary in the primary? And didn’t they wholeheartedly bash rank and file Democratic voters every chance they could, just like he wanted? Now they expect Obama to be honorable and fair? Yeah. They should have gotten paid up front. Because they obviously understood rule #13 from the Ferengi, “Anything worth doing is worth doing for money”, they just forgot to get that money in advance. At least they didn’t do what they did for something as stupid as principle, or because it was the right thing to do.

You have to hand it to Obama’s money handlers though. These sites helped his campaign raise millions of dollars. And what did the Obama campaign do in return? Of course, take the money and run.

Really, what are they going to do, start shilling for the Republicans? Where you gonna go sweeties? Nowhere, that’s where. Now just get over it.