One of the interesting aspect in reviewing the data on the Dish is you see some patterns. Today, for example, the second most popular post remains one published on Friday night. It’s about the most extraordinary act of pandering to AIPAC by the new lefty mayor of New York City – and was deliberately kept off his public schedule and would never have seen the light of day if not for a Capital New York reporter getting hauled out of the room for recording it.
The story was covered elsewhere, but in many places it is simply not done to air the cravenness of so many politicians to various lobbies of all stripes. Or at least it is not done with respect to the Israel Lobby, whose very existence we have been told is a myth. Such a myth led De Blasio to say in ringing terms:
City Hall will always be open to AIPAC. When you need me to stand by you in Washington or anywhere, I will answer the call and I’ll answer it happily ’cause that’s my job.
Translation: “When you ask me to jump, just be extra sure to include how high.” And since that lobby is doing all it can to end a peaceful dialogue with Iran – in a Senate bill co-sponsored by 59 Senators, and mercifully pushed back on by two Senators today in the NYT – its ability to have politicians jump as soon as they call seems a relevant fact of public life in America. And readers seem to know this.
These posts – like the hugely popular ones on Sarah Palin in the 2008 campaign that asked questions the MSM wouldn’t – are very popular. The most recent one is the second most popular in the last week. You can’t bury them, even on a Friday evening. And that tells you something about what others may sometimes be too intimidated to publish and write about. And, not to add a plug for the Dish, but it’s the kind of thing that only a truly independent website can afford to do.
Three other posts worth noting: my attempt at psycho-analyzing the anger of the One Percent; the ethics of watching the Super Bowl; and the growing enrollment in Obamacare.
The most popular post was The Selective Secrecy Of Bill De Blasio; next up was “Ted Cruz’s Reality.”
See you in the morning.
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