Ah, the price of fame! Getting my smiling mug into Hillary’s latest video might help fan the flames of my egomania to apocalyptic proportions, but there are pundits always ready to beat it back down to a smolder. Ben Smith of The Politico compliments my boyish looks

Clinton teasingly includes a handful of angry, critical responses, all from young, white men; they’re just the sort of attackers that she’s long used to raise her stature. They’re adolescent Rick Lazios….

Adolescent? Is that why my complexion has gone all wonky again? I gotta find a new moisturizer!

Meanwhile, over at the Washington Post, Chris Cillizza liked my choices of “SexyBack” and “Superfreak,” but then has to go and point out I’m unemployed:

…in another Clinton says she is “so gratified that all of you thought this was such a wonderful idea” right before a series of guys who look like they still live in their parents’ basements are shown calling it “disappointing”, “insulting” and “ridiculous.”

Well, come September I may just end up in my parents’ basement…but dude, it has a pool table!

Given this little boost of blogosphere street cred, do you think maybe some more of the big locals could start paying attention to this space rather than relying on intermediaries? Of the Clinton video, local weekly alt rag Creative Loafing has to go through Rusty to get to me.

Check this shit out, our little Shelbinator made it into Hillary Clinton’s latest video. Look for him around the 58 or 59 second mark:

– Rusty at Radical Georgia Moderate points viewers to a Hillary Clinton campaign video featuring Atlanta blogger Shelby Highsmith.

While on Wednesday, rising group leftyblog Tondee’s Tavern has to learn “via grift…that Shelby is liveblogging the Goodling hearing.”

Leesten up you beaches, I’m right over here! Wake up and pay attention already!



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