re: #23 Slap

The idea is to take a temperature.

This is what a politician might do, to test out how public to make her support for an idea or bill. Have an underling speak to a reporter, get a story going somewhere, study the reaction. Deniability is important, but so is stirring the waters.

Trial balloons are not limited to politicians. They are a well used tool by companies (in figuring out how and where to advertise).

Whether or not MM believes in any of the writings of PCR is irrelevant to her. Her goal is to pimp her blogs, bring in more readers, make more money. If running articles by VDARE or PCR brings more hits to her blogs, then that is a good thing as far as running a blog business is concerned.