You can't trust the internet

Someone named Jonathan Strong (at least that's the name he uses) writes at the Daily Caller that half of all political bloggers are being paid by politicians for their support. Of course, this is just the sort of statistic that no one could know. Indeed, there is no proof that payments from candidates to bloggers are anything other than an extremely rare event. No one has ever paid me for support (or to oppose them). Admittedly, this is far from the largest blog out there, but there are not all that many blogs that deal with Connecticut politics. Given the amounts being spent this year in the Nutmeg State on the election, one would think someone would have approached me for my support by now if the buying of blog support was really happening. This strikes me as jost another of the phony stories of the "vast rightwing conspiracy" at work.