Digby: Oiled Up And Ready To Go

One of the points I probably failed to adequately make on my Netroots Nation panel with Perlstein, Atrios and Krugman about the media's relationship with the right is the fact that the professional right wing noise machine exists on a number of different levels and is at its most effective when it operates in opposition to power. It's an industry that exists across all communications fields and operates on its own logic. They don't even have to talk to each other. They have a synergy built in, a common worldview and vocabulary that enables them to work in tandem without actual coordination.