Hillary Clinton Paying Right-Wing Blogs to Not Run Her Ads
Hillary Clinton's campaign for President faces an uphill battle on the Internet, that mythical land where shut-ins and misfits convince themselves and each other of their incredible importance. But Clinton wisely brought in former Salon blog rounder-upper Peter Daou to manage and advise on internet strategy some time ago, and we're just now seeing the first hints of their strategy: bribery. Clinton's blog advertising buys started this week, and because there's nothing bloggers like talking about more than bloggers, Hill's ad buys have attracted quite a bit of attention. The first controvery: she bought ads on conservative sites.
Blog P.I. confirmed Clinton ads on four right-wing sites: Hugh Hewitt , Powerline , Captain's Quarters , and Wizbang . This caused the predicable bitching on both the righty blogs that received her dirty money and the lefty blogs that didn't.
Last night, though, the ads on right-wing sites disappeared and dozens more lefty sites were added to the buy. Which has shut up precisely no one, but does lead to this amusing circumstance: Because Blogads buys have a one-week minimum, Hillary Clinton's campaign is currently paying four conservative sitesnotto run her ads. If she can manage to payallbloggers not to support her, she may have a chance at the nomination.
Hillary in Blogistan: On Blogads, the Netroots, and Peter Daou [Blog PI]