This rather interesting tidbit of news managed to rate mention in the bowels of that CBS news site. If you Google it you’ll find the only mentions of it is in obscure blogs (not as obscure as this one though) and if you search Google News you’ll find, as of 7:30 EST, a whopping two whole mentions, one of which is zdnet in the UK.

Yet read the comments after the linked article. You’ll see the rightwingers whining about being picked on by the “liberal MSM” because they mention that this guy has apparently made substantial donations to the Natonal Republican Campaign Committee and further claims to be a lifetime member of the National Republican Senate Committee’s Inner Circle, a rather select group of people.

Imagine if you will, the uproar, fueled by Drudge of course, had this been donor to the Democratic Party. There would be Breaking News! on the Fox Noise Channel, and speeches by outraged Republicans on the floor of the House and Senate and Tony Snow would pontificate from the podium that “of course we don’t think the Democrat(sic) Party supports terrorism but you have to wonder why they took this guy’s money”.

Oh yeah, they’d have a field day with that one.

But Right Wingnut whining in the comments section of that CBS News article about how picked on they are aside, this story has rated not a peep on any other mainstream site that I can see. We can only hope that others will pick it up and dream that someone might point out the logical inconsistencies in how the Right Wingnuts demonize their opponents versus the abject silence on the part of media and liberal politicians when something like this involves one of their own.

Now, do I really think the Republican Party supports terrorists? Of course not, what could ever give you that idea? Oh, that headline up there? Why, that’s just to get your attention and make a rhetorical point. I would never suggest such a thing. Never.

(and yes, I’m making a point there. To hear how a real Wingnut weasels out of his own words listen to Glenn Greenwald take apart Frank Gaffney and listen to how Gaffney whines and slithers out from under his own words, always refusing to be held accountable for what he said. )

Here’s Glenn’s new blog over at Salon. And yeah, I know it requires clicking through an ad but they make it pretty painless and the result of getting to read Glenn in a venue where he’ll get even more exposure is well worth it.

So please — please — use these last 10 days well. Use them to educate your readers and viewers and listeners about the things that really matter. Use the next 10 days to help people understand what the candidates want to do about Iraq and whether their solutions have worked in the past. About how we’ve failed to capture Osama bin Laden and what we’re doing to change that. About what is happening in Afghanistan, about port security, about the budget deficit, about wage stagnation, about runaway energy costs, and about health care.

Don’t just use this time to play an RNC ad — or a DNC ad, or any ad — over and over and over and over again. Voters will see these ads; the parties and candidates are paying for voters to see them. That’s the whole point of an ad. Voters don’t need you to air these ads nonstop, for free. The parties want you to do that. You’re doing their bidding. You’re telling voters about campaign tactics rather than issues. But campaign tactics don’t keep us safe, don’t keep our troops from dying needlessly in Iraq, don’t put food on the table, and don’t help people get health care.

Oh, if only. We can always dream I guess.