How the Distributed Attack Machine Works

Glenn Thrush has a keen, insightful post on how “Republicans are absolutely killing Democrats when it comes to leveraging the web to go negative,” using the spinning of David Axelrod’s Sunday morning remarks about turning the interrogation of the Christmas bomber over to the FBI as an example. Read the whole thing, but note that the catalyst was Steven Hayes of The Weekly Standard, author of “The Connection: How al Qaeda’s Collaboration With Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America,” not usually counted among the most influential books on the Iraq War.