A Mighty Wurlitzer?

I have being accused of being a part of the Mighty Wurlitzer by the folks over at Free State Comment, a lefty blog in our fair state. Of course, even me being as blog-savvy as I am had no idea what this Wurlitzer business was, so I had to look it up:

the right has perfected what the CIA used to call a "mighty Wurlitzer" -- a propaganda machine that can hone a fact or a lie, broadcast it, and have it echoed and recycled in Fox News commentary, in Washington Times news stories, in Wall Street Journal editorials, by myriad right-wing pundits, by Heritage seminars and briefing papers, and in congressional hearings and speeches. Privatization of Social Security, vouchers for school, Vince Foster's supposed murder, Hillary's secret sex life, you name it -- the right's mighty Wurlitzer can ensure that a message is broadcast across the county, echoed in national and local news, and reverberated in the speeches of respectable academics as well as rabid politicians.

Given how often that I am not in lockstep with the Administration and the national party, I guess that the Kossack crowd will assign that moniker to anybody that does not share in their worldview (so much as it is a worldview, given that most of the left is stuck with "we hate the right", new ideas and policies be damned).

But hey, they have a place in our political dialogue as well. Unlike the left-wing of the blogosphere, the conservative/libertarian side tends to encourage discourse; we can do that, since we have ideas and can defend them in a rational manner.