re: #47 Amory Blaine

Exactly. He is very useful, even more-so on the margins.

CCJ is a small and easily replaced part of the right wing noise machine that has been in place for decades. The RWNJ lunatic fringe is fed and watered by the GOP establishment to provide a constant froth of crazy that can be inserted into the mainstream media on an “as needed” basis.

Any smear that doesn’t get traction in their core audience of haters and bigots never happened, while any smear that does work in that sewer is propagated to the media as a whole.