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Saw this at Eric’s blog, regarding Clinton-Obama tensions.

If I were in Denver, this is a story I’d be digging on. In bars. In hotels. In elevators. Dig. Exposing the nonsense that is the Clinton ego and finding ways to zap some of this division narrative would be a good bet. Of course, if it’s there, it’s there. Find it.

Frankly, I think all this is totally overblown, and that’s why I’d be following it if I were in Denver.

If I were in Denver, I’d find these whiny Clinton whiners, I’d video their ass, and they’d be on my blog.  Much like the smear campaign against Barack, this Clinton whining has a DNA that gets “zapped” with light.

Here’s the DNA.  

At its core there are a group of true believers, who actually do think that either Barack is a muslim (in the smear case), or actually believe that Hillary can make it onto the ticket and was somehow wronged.  This is a teeny, tiny group, but loud.

Above that group is the spinners. This is a much larger group with an agenda that matches the true believers, who find the true believers utterly moronic, but not too moronic to be used.  It’s this group that then spreads the falsity, plus the derivative falsity that something actually can be done to reverse reality.  It’s this second group that uses the passion of the first group to spin a third group.

The third group is the target audience.  The target audience is ignorant to all of this, may not even care, but either (a) will believe the spin or is susceptible to it, or (b) has another agenda that in some way matches the true believers.  These are mostly the media, who in the Denver instance are looking for this Clinton-Obama drama.

So how should a blogger report this from Denver?  

Expose the second group.  The spinners.  Whole narrative gets kaiboshed.  How?

As Eric said, “zapping” this is pretty easy.  The spinners thrive in an environment where they are anonymous whisperers.  So I’d hang out in the bars, listen for this stuff, and get it on tape.  

Then blog it.  

Then email it to the media.

Then email it to the guy who said it in the bar that night and who is now famous.

That oughta stop it in its tracks, no?