I've been given a full text of Salon's hatchet job on Media Whores Online. Atrios has already pretty much deconstructed it (scroll up for more on the story) but a couple of things struck me. One is that a few months ago, MWO actually passed the hat for Salon; they mounted a campaign for MWO readers to subscribe to Salon's Premium service. In exchange, Salon runs a Premium article attacking MWO. Life is funny sometimes.

The other is, and this is hardly original with me, that the MWO template is based upon numerous right-wing sites; they simply apply the methods of the Freepers on behalf of the other side. MWO is positively tame compared to the attack sites of the right; they've certainly never claimed that GW Bush is a murderer, rapist, and drug dealer, which were staples of the anti-Clintonites. (Still are. Guy's been out of office a year and a half, and they still can't let it go. Frankly, I think those people need professional help. The President shouldn't be that big a part of anyone's life except maybe the First Lady.