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July 28, 2004

Atrios of Eschaton is Revealed

Atrios - the lefty blogger at "Eschaton" that all the "progressives" love to read - is revealed. He's a foot-soldier in the Vast Left Wing Conspiracy led by George Soros and David Brock.

CBS News: "Billionaire Bankrolls Bush Bashers." George Soros provides funds to far left organizations like Media Matters - which bashes Bush while it pays the bills for Duncan Black. Duncan Black writes as the anonymous "Atrios" at the heavily-read Bush-bashing weblog "Eschaton."

Via JustOneMinute:

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Who Is Duncan Black?

Not the economic historian (but we wonder...).

I'm talking about the Duncan B. Black formerly known as Atrios.

I can't say I care, but...

It turns out that Mr. Black works at Media Matters, the new David Brock media watchdog group, which is kind of interesting - he is doing paid media commentary on one site, and a lot of anonymous media criticism on the other... and I'm still not that concerned. Yes, there is the potential for a self-serving echo-chamber effect, but what else is new in the willd, wild blogosphere. Maybe I would care if I could take the Brock group seriously.

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And from Instapundit:

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I PROMISED HIM THAT I WOULDN'T OUT HIM a long time ago, but now Atrios has been unmasked as a guy named Duncan Black who, among other things, works for David Brock's Soros-funded Media Matters operation. Nothing wrong with that, but if I were working for, say, Richard Mellon Scaife, I think somebody -- like, say, Duncan Black -- would be making something of it.

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As CBS News has reported, Media Matters is just one of the hard-left organizations funded by billionaire leftist George Soros.

George Soros provides funds to far left organizations like Media Matters - which bashes Bush while it pays the bills for Duncan Black. Duncan Black writes as the anonymous "Atrios" at the heavily-read Bush-bashing weblog "Eschaton."

Geroge Soros has funded other hard-left organizations like MoveOn.org - to which he recently gave $2.5 million.

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Comments

Posted by: Don at July 28, 2004 11:55 AM

And in another interesting blogosphere "outing," Don is revealed as George Stephanopoulos, and Cap'n Doc unmasks to reveal Charles Colson.

I'm really just Andrew Sullivan.

But I'm not really gay.

Not that there's anything wrong with that....

Posted by: gus3 at July 28, 2004 12:36 PM

Wow. So Atrios is a well-paid Tool. What a surprise.

Goodness.

:jackson

Posted by: jackson zed at July 28, 2004 12:43 PM

I AM SHOCKED! Shocked i tell you!!!

Well ok maybe not.

Posted by: Ronin at July 28, 2004 01:10 PM

My God, gus3... Charles Colson?

Puhleeease!

The ONLY thing we have in common is we're both 'Christian'. I don't even agree with Andrew Sullivan on MANY of his PsOV...

We could use a Constitutional Amendment to protect Marriage? I don't think sooooo....

It ain't gonna help.

And don't 'out me' ever again! :o)

Posted by: Cap'n DOC at July 28, 2004 04:57 PM

Wow, Cap'n, it took only 4 hours and 21 minutes. ;-)

You being Charles Colson makes about as much sense as me being Andrew Sullivan.

(I just hope Don comes on and says he could never be Georgie-boy.)

Posted by: gus3 at July 28, 2004 05:06 PM

Actually, Don could not be George S. You see, I

actually heard George Stephanopoulos make an

intelligent comment once. I think it was back in '97,

or maybe it was '96.

Posted by: leaddog2 at July 28, 2004 09:42 PM

/me thwaps leaddog2

Now now. I've agreed with Don a couple times. When it happened, I made note of it, because it is indeed a rarity.

Just take my word for it and don't ask me to search the archives, OK?

Posted by: gus3 at July 28, 2004 11:51 PM

The working assumption here is that if Hard Right folks can fund anti-Left groups of various guises, then Hard Left folks can fund anti-Right groups of various guises.

Sauce. Goose. Gander.

All part of the dance.

Posted by: Don at July 28, 2004 11:55 AM
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Quite right, an dthe interesting facet of this dance is that about 60% of all contributions of $200 go to the Republican Party and of contributions of 1 Million or more about 90% go to the Democratic Party.

The trend is as the size of the contribution increases a greatr portion goes to the Democrats.

Gives a different slant on which one is driven by Big Money?

Posted by: Dan Kauffman at July 29, 2004 07:11 AM

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