MOULE: Jack Davis and the coming civil war

August 25, 2008 at 10:19am

So Jack Davis says that a rising tide of immigrants coming from Mexico could cause a civil war between the southern states they populate and the rest of the country. For real.

This little shocker of a news story broke over the weekend in the Buffalo News, which has been right on top of the increasingly volatile run-up to the 26th Congressional District Democratic primary.

The story is significant not just for what Davis said, but for how the newspaper learned about it.

Robert Harding, a blogger for the Albany Project, has an acquaintance who attended a Davis speech - the one where he made the controversial remarks - at the Center for Inquiry in the Buffalo suburb of Amherst. Harding posted his friend's video on YouTube, and then contacted the News about it.

Harding, whose candidate of choice is Jon Powers, posted the video to YouTube in April and subsequently blogged about it.

Consider this a lesson about the role political blogs now play in campaigns. And for us media types, it's worth noting just how badly Harding scooped us.

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