The Dkos/Jerome attack by Wallstreet are not new. It happens to Atrios in December by CBS, using the EXACT same story line.
http://weblog.blogads.com/comments/P936_0_1_0/
The affiliations and identities of bloggers are not always apparent. Take writer Duncan Black, who blogged under the name Atrios. His was a popular liberal blog. During part of the period he was blogging, Black was a senior fellow at a liberal media watchdog group, Media Matters for America. Critics in the blogosphere said this fact wasn't fairly disclosed.
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Notice how for no reason whatsoever, rightwing media is doing scrutiny on left blogs, while they left rightwing alone. And we all know how some of them receive talking point, a big undisclosed insider player, or even paid.
If I follow rightwing strategy correctly,
- They will do probe.
- see pattern of reaction.
- find weakness within the community (funding bottle neck, lawsuit overloading, smear job, hardware attack, isp account, ...etc.)
- see how community respond
- repeat to each most popular blog and on down...
now, this is just speculation in my part. It could also be that CBS was just doing a revange snow job on atrios and wallstreet is just doing random shoddy job.
...but it's best to start thinking up a system to track and find solution against the rightwinger when the next type of attack coming.