S.D. Union Tribune astroturfed...!

I am a bit surprised the editors of our local mouthpiece for the Republican Party failed to catch that this letter (scroll down: it's by Steven Zasueta) is a verbatim suggested email from the GOP Team Leaders Action Center website. In other words, all Zasueta had to do was click a mouse button--the GOP Team Leaders site even provides relevant editors' names and email addresses.

You'd think, loyal party members that they are, the editors would be up on these things.

Thanks to This Modern World, the UT editors are now the laughingstock of blogdom. As well they should be. On May 5, Tom Tomorrow posted the letter here --and alerted readers to be on the lookout. That's 3 days before the UT published Zasueta's letter.

Too bad the UT editors don't read This Modern World.

I've fired off a letter to the editors--that I composed myself. Let's see if they even acknowledge it....