March 02, 2007 01:35 AM UTC

"Let the Crap Flow"

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• by: Tyler Chafee

( – promoted by Colorado Pols)

It seems that the press is still willing to uncritically print anything Dick Wadhams says.

As Colorado Media Matters notes:

In a March 1 article about political websites that “play dirty,” the Rocky Mountain News uncritically quoted likely incoming state GOP chairman Dick Wadhams as saying, “I probably would invite more of this from the other side, because I think it hurts them. So let the crap flow.” The News, however, failed to note Wadhams’ own widely reported use of dirty play in the 2004 U.S. Senate race in South Dakota between Republican John Thune and incumbent Democrat Tom Daschle.

In fact, Wadhams is a pioneer of dirty internet politics.  In 2004 he spent tens of thousands of campaign dollars manipulating blogs to trash his opponent.