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I am pleased and flattered that the Kerry Spot is doing well in both categories of Wizbang's Weblog Awards. Unlike the Washington Post contest, where the Kerry Spot was up against the almost-every-category Corner and some left-of-center blogs ranging from the pretty good to the incomprehensible (COUGHwonketteCOUGH), in this contest the competition is pretty tough, including plenty of blogs that I check daily. It will be no shame coming in second or worse to any of these guys.

One of the other bloggers in the "Best New Blog" category, Bill from InDC Journal, is taking this pretty seriously, though. He lists why readers should vote for him over the Kerry Spot:

Try and pronounce "Geraghty."

Geraghty's picked up the annoying NRO tendency to refer to himself in the third person. He repeatedly stated "Jim Geraghty likes guns. Big ones. Oh yes, Jim Geraghty likes ..." during his last appearance on Cam Edwards' show.

Sources inform me that Geraghty voted for John Kerry in a bid to keep his little dog-and-pony show going for another four years, and sacrificing the national security of our country for a paycheck seems a bit selfish to me. But hey, your call.

Jim Geraghty: registered Green.

Dan Rather? A huge fan.

However, I understand that Bill’s campaign may have hit a snag. I have been told that in the coming days, a newly-formed 527 group called "Pajamahadeen Vets for Truth" will be running ads criticizing Bill. A sneak peak at the transcript:

If you have any questions about what Bill from InDC Journal is made of, just spend three minutes with the bloggers who linked with him…

[Various bloggers before a black and white photo, speaking angrily and disappointedly, while sad, haunting music plays in the background.]

“I linked with Bill.”
“I linked to InDC Journal.”
“My blog linked to InDC Journal.”

“InDC Journal has not been honest about what happened during Rathergate.”
“Once I linked to InDC Journal, and he didn’t link back to me.”
“He is lying about his record… and he once misspelled a word.”
“He once pointed to another site… but the link didn’t work. It didn’t work until five minutes after I had sent him an e-mail that the link was down.”
“During the great Rather wars, when the chips were down... you could not count on InDC Journal.”
“He is not fit to lead the blogosphere.”

(Actually, Bill did a bang-up job during Rathergate.) It’s a shame that negative attacks and the politics of personal destruction are marring this contest. ;)

[Posted 12/03 03:01 PM]