Is Your Favorite Wingnut Blogger on the Take?

[blogslut]

I realize the original story comes from Tuck Carlson's crappy site but I saw this in a Tweet from http://www.oliverwillis.com/2010/08/23/republican-bloggers-getting-payola/">Oliver Willis:

...“I can be retained at a quite reasonable rate or for ‘projects,’” Park wrote in an e-mail to campaign officials. In an interview, Park defended himself by claiming, “nobody has any doubt which candidates I’m supporting,” and noting that his blog specifies which candidates he “endorses.”

But while Red County’s Hanlon expressed outrage at Park’s pay-for-blogging scheme, questions arose about his own editorial independence when it emerged that Red County itself had been taking money from the Whitman campaign.

In December of 2009, Red County received $20,000 from the Meg Whitman campaign, which has sent the site $15,000 a month since then.

The money is ostensibly for advertising, yet by conventional measures the numbers don’t add up. According to Quantcast, Red County reaches around 125,000 unique viewers per month. Two new media industry experts confirmed that, given such a readership, Whitman’s ad purchase is “ridiculously” expensive, surpassing the going market rate for such ads by 1,000 percent or more...

And yeah, I know. You probably don't have a favorite wingnut blogger.

[tridim]

1. Too bad I have morals..

Otherwise I could just set up a fake RW blog and watch the cash roll in.

Payola is what this is. It aint legal.

[SpiralHawk]

2. RepubliCorporate Payola prostitutes

is what they are.

[tularetom]

3. Not even every republican is as stupid as meg whitman

These bloggers have lucked into a once in a lifetime cash cow, so to speak.