Truth? Facts? Opinions? Feelings? Hallucinations?

They’re all the same at one of the web’s other centers of “progressive” thought, MyDD, where Curt Matlock repeats an unbelievably silly accusation against LGF based on … nothing at all. No evidence, just a vapid belief in a nefarious LGF conspiracy to plant “false” stories at Daily Kos.

Who needs to plant anything at these sites? The insanity flows from them in an endless river of mean-spirited bile. Planting a story would be like adding a glass of water to a tsunami.

False Flag Diaries.

Over on dKos the number one diary currently details a false flag diary put out by a couple of Little Green Footballs members trying to incite their blog mates. I’ll let Kestrel9000, the dKos diarist who exposed the deception, explain:

This diary, The Eloquence of an Enemy Combatant, is currently being called out at Little Green Footballs under the charming title, “The Kos Kid Al Qaeda Convergence. I have preserved the current diary text and comments in the event they delete it once they are exposed.

The problem is, diarist TH Amos is almost certainly an LGF troll. First diary, one comment, UID #118647. …

The false-flag effort seems to also be occurring on MyDD. The recent MyDD diary ‘Let’s welcome Iran President Ahmadinejad!’ is likely either a part of the same effort or a copycat. This previous comment by Cobra, the diaries author, makes it pretty clear he’s trying to get someone at MyDD to agree with his Al Qaeda sympathizing front:

We need to be unified and send a strong clear message to those around the world (and especially in the middle east) who wonder whether we are ready to call it a day in Iraq.

We cannot have Al Qaeda thinking we may stay and oppose them.

The names may change but trying to bait commenters on progressive blogs into giving ammunition to the right-wing will always be there. Don’t fall for it.

What really gripes me about this is that it’s such an ignorant ploy! Lefties don’t have an infatuation with Iran or with Ahmadinejad. I think it’s safe to boil it down and say that, for many reasons, we just think war with Iran would be catastrophically stupid. That so many ditto-heads on the right think otherwise is a triumph of Republican propaganda.

UPDATE at 3/16/07 9:23:51 am:

Also see:
Weasel Zippers: More ‘Progressive’ Thinking on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed