The Romney campaign is ignoring the media and focusing on far right blogs

In case you hadn’t noticed, the Romney campaign is completely shunning the mainstream media, and yesterday Zac Moffat, Digital Director of the Romney Campaign, admitted as much in an interview with breitbart.com operative Larry O’Connor: Romney Campaign: Drudge, Breitbart Leading Rise of Center-Right Media.

My jaw hit the floor when I read this headline. “Center-right?” They have got to be kidding. breitbart.com has been busily promoting every lunatic far right conspiracy theory that bubbles up from the toxic Tea Party base, including Birtherism. And Drudge Report? You mean the site that has a permanent link to Alex Jones’ whacked-out conspiracy site and frequently features their insane stories? This is “center right” now?

These are the websites on which Mitt Romney is relying to get his message out — two of the craziest race-baiting, conspiracy-peddling sites on the web, with readers who frequently spew torrents of vile, gutter-level racism.

For example, the deranged, mindless hatred in this thread of comments at breitbart.com, about a speech given by Michelle Obama at a Nashville church: Michelle Compares Obama to Biblical Figures.

The headline is a blatant lie, first off. Michelle Obama never “compared Obama to Biblical figures” in this speech. Watch their own video — it shows exactly what a sick race-baiting lie this is.

And then, in response, breitbart.com’s readers filled up the comment thread with repulsive, hateful comments, drenched in racism and religious fanaticism, just like they do every single day.

Ladies and gentlemen — the new “center right.” And this selection is just a fraction of the hatred in this thread, of course. I didn’t quote the dozens of commenters calling Obama “the Antichrist” and “Satan.”