The ABC's of Liberal Blogging

[Unmarked Poster]

"A is for Angry ~ B is for Bush ~ C is for Clueless.

Let me explain. In recent months, several prominent media and political figures have had run-ins with left-leaning bloggers (examples here, here, here, here, and here). Their reactions have been eerily similar. Greg Sargent describes it accurately: "In recent weeks, one member after another of the D.C. media establishment has gone out of his way to depict bloggers as hysterical, angry and destructive. To hear them tell it, bloggers sitting at their computers are akin to squalling brats in high-chairs chucking baby food at their sober, serious elders -- i.e., major figures at the established news organizations."

This attempt to demonize and belittle the online community is old news, but lately it's taken on new urgency... and it's getting really tiresome. Yes, it's a predictable reaction to the rapid rise of a new political power center, but really, how clueless can people like Richard Cohen be? Here's what every blogger's favorite "liberal" columnist writes in today's WaPo: "The e-mails pulse in my queue, emanating raw hatred. This spells trouble -- not for Bush or, in 2008, the next GOP presidential candidate, but for Democrats. The anger festering on the Democratic left will be taken out on the Democratic middle. (Watch out, Hillary!) I have seen this anger before -- back in the Vietnam War era. That's when the antiwar wing of the Democratic Party helped elect Richard Nixon. In this way, they managed to prolong the very war they so hated.... The hatred is back. I know it's only words now appearing on my computer screen, but the words are so angry, so roiled with rage, that they are the functional equivalent of rocks once so furiously hurled during antiwar demonstrations."

http://daoureport.salon.com/synopsis.aspx?synopsisId=191cf555-60ce-453c-a573-77f73f56e580

[MADem]

1. Gee, they fucking loved 'em when they were in their PJs kicking the shit

out of Dan Rather...which makes you wonder...if it ain't the medium of transmission, is what's bugging them in actual fact THE MESSAGE??? And the message is: Hey, asshole, you were dead wrong! You have always been dead wrong, and you will continue to be dead wrong! Wake up and smell the coffee!

[libertypirate]

2. crafting strawpeople

"The e-mails pulse in my queue, emanating raw hatred. This spells trouble -- not for Bush or, in 2008, the next GOP presidential candidate, but for Democrats. The anger festering on the Democratic left will be taken out on the Democratic middle. (Watch out, Hillary!) I have seen this anger before -- back in the Vietnam War era. That's when the antiwar wing of the Democratic Party helped elect Richard Nixon. In this way, they managed to prolong the very war they so hated.... The hatred is back. I know it's only words now appearing on my computer screen, but the words are so angry, so roiled with rage, that they are the functional equivalent of rocks once so furiously hurled during antiwar demonstrations."

[blm]

3. Daou is becoming a national treasure.

One of the brightest bulbs ever lit on DU.

[LeftNYC]

4. So in Cohen's mind, we should be kind to Bush

so the war in Iraq will end? I dont get that logic.