No Payola Here

There is speculation that some bloggers are getting paid to post favorable coverage of candidates. The Daily Caller writes

But increasingly, many bloggers are also secretly feeding on cash from political campaigns, in a form of partisan payola that erases the line between journalism and paid endorsement.

It’s standard operating procedure” to pay bloggers for favorable coverage, says one Republican campaign operative. A GOP blogger-for-hire estimates that “at least half the bloggers that are out there” on the Republican side “are getting remuneration in some way beyond ad sales."

Apparently some conservative bloggers in California take the payolo in the form of inflating the cost of ads run on their blogs.

The question begs an answer and here it is: this blog has never taken money from any campaign. No campaign has offered any, and if one did, I would tell them to go suck (salmonella-laden) eggs.

According to the Daily Caller, many demo-blogs take money from liberal groups like Media Matters, the Center for American Progress and the Campaign for America's future. To the extent that there are conservative groups that mirror these liberal ones, they have not offered money to this blog and we would not accept it in any event.