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The starving of Ohio’s leftysphere happens alongside the rightysphere getting ever more money, and ever more traffic.  Via Pajamas Media, Ohio not only gave the world Joe The Jackass on the ground in Israel, but also Tom Blumer.

Blumer spent 2 solid years trying to prove that our current president is a terrorist.  This gave him his Pajamas Media bona fides, so now, Blumer is getting pushed hard by Pajamas Media.  These are links from two of the largest right wing blogs to Tom Blumer in just the last week.

Malkin January 14.

Reynolds January 15.

Reynolds January 21.

Malkin January 21.

I have been linked to by Instapundit, many times.  Malkin links are probably even bigger.  Each of these links is worth thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of hits.  That translates into dollars.  And those dollars probably make Tom Blumer the second most well funded blogger in Ohio, left or right.

Who’s the #1 well-funded blogger in Ohio?  Well, right on cue after this post, Progress Ohio’s Brian Rothenberg sends out a mass email inviting us all to RootsCamp (very nice signature on the invite here!), including an invitation to “subscribe” to the blog he’s paid many tens of thousands of dollars a year to write.  

 Get your subscription to Brian Rothenberg’s “Shadows on High”, a ProgressOhio exclusive FREE to all Ohio progressives.

The columns normally come out weekly on Friday, but Brian says he’s making no promises while he’s taking no prisoners.

Rothenberg has thrown up three posts in October, three posts in November, one post in December, and two posts so far in January, for a total of 9 posts in 4 months.  Which is one less than Blumer has on his own page at Pajamas Media in the last 2 months.  This doesn’t include the well-funded, well-linked 24/7 insanity for all the lunatics who stick around at Blumer’s own blog.

Granted, Rothenberg pays Dave Harding to post more often (Harding is probably the third most well funded blogger in Ohio, right behind Blumer).  And there is a “community” at Progress Ohio putting up content.  I’ve never read any of it, nor can I think of anyone else who has, and if they did, no one links to it.  No one talks about it.  And it doesn’t affect any media narrative.  It’s almost as if it never happens.

Blumer, on the other hand, along with the drumbeat of insanity from his brothers in arms, helped turn our political discourse into a discussion of whether our current president is a terrorist not too long ago.  And Blumer is now getting pushed harder, getting more money, and will likely be around for a long time.  What narrative will Blumer be permitted to cement into the media for 2010 in Ohio, while we wait for Rothenberg’s next shadow from on high?

So as one of Ohio’s most rabid righties gets pushed, every single day, to a national audience, with nice kickback thrown in for good measure, Ohio’s leftysphere flashes and dwindles, its best voices coming and going for lack of a drop to drink….except for the ever constant presence of Brian Rothenberg and Progress Ohio.  

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