Bloodworth-Thomason: MSNBC "out of control;" Democrats seize Internet while Republican blogosphere self-destructs
Writer-producer and self-proclaimed liberal Democrat Linda Bloodworth-Thomason says that MSNBC, with its outrageously biased coverage of the current election campaign, is "completely out of control-" and even said that she'd rather have lunch with Sean Hannity than with foaming-at-the-mouth Leftist MSNBC commentator Keith Olbermann.
Meanwhile pollster Frank Lutz- going out on a limb and predicting an Obama victory (please note the sarcasm)- said that while Republicans dominate talk radio, Democrats are starting to dominate the Internet- "and I'd rather have the Internet."
So would I. The emergence of the nutroots has been one of the major differences between this campaign and the last. Four years ago, Matt Margolis and Blogs for Bush established a single, well-organized network of political bloggers that dominated this medium and effectively made the case for the president's re-election in the one forum that liberal media bias could not drown out.
But that's all been lost. Blogs for Bush had, for some reason, not one but two successors: GOP Bloggers and Blogs for Victory. I tried in vain to get the blogroll code for Blogs for Victory for several months. Now, it seems that GOP Bloggers has at last gone belly-up, replacing leaving us once again with a single, united blogroll (apparently the reason why I couldn't get the code was that the blogrolls for the two redundant sites had merged). But then, there for a while, there was apparently something called "Blogs for John McCain's Victory," with a seperate blogroll.
Got that?
But in the mean time, at least two other major and myriad minor blogrolls for John McCain have sprung up, all wholly unaffiliated with either of the successors of Blogs for Bush. One underwent a nascent civil war involving a would-be hostile takeover. In other words, at the very moment at which the Democrats were organizing an even more impressive Internet presence than the dominant Bush presence in 2004, the GOP blogosphere fragmented into various pieces- some of which eventually died, and others which- hopefully- will not attempt to survive the current campaign.
Hopefully, the doleful prospect of an Obama presidency coupled with a Democratic super-majority in both houses of Congress will inspire my fellow Republican bloggers to get their act together again before 2012- in fact, hopefully before 2010. Re-taking the Internet will be a tough task, and many egos will have to be submerged and dormant gray matter utilized to enable it to happen.
Personally, I hope Matt Margolis (or somebody like him) takes an active and assertive role in rebuilding the single centralized, energized, and effective blogging machine that assured the Internet dominance the Right had in 2004, and so completely lost it this time around.
We have to take back the Web from the nutroots.
Meanwhile pollster Frank Lutz- going out on a limb and predicting an Obama victory (please note the sarcasm)- said that while Republicans dominate talk radio, Democrats are starting to dominate the Internet- "and I'd rather have the Internet."
So would I. The emergence of the nutroots has been one of the major differences between this campaign and the last. Four years ago, Matt Margolis and Blogs for Bush established a single, well-organized network of political bloggers that dominated this medium and effectively made the case for the president's re-election in the one forum that liberal media bias could not drown out.
But that's all been lost. Blogs for Bush had, for some reason, not one but two successors: GOP Bloggers and Blogs for Victory. I tried in vain to get the blogroll code for Blogs for Victory for several months. Now, it seems that GOP Bloggers has at last gone belly-up, replacing leaving us once again with a single, united blogroll (apparently the reason why I couldn't get the code was that the blogrolls for the two redundant sites had merged). But then, there for a while, there was apparently something called "Blogs for John McCain's Victory," with a seperate blogroll.
Got that?
But in the mean time, at least two other major and myriad minor blogrolls for John McCain have sprung up, all wholly unaffiliated with either of the successors of Blogs for Bush. One underwent a nascent civil war involving a would-be hostile takeover. In other words, at the very moment at which the Democrats were organizing an even more impressive Internet presence than the dominant Bush presence in 2004, the GOP blogosphere fragmented into various pieces- some of which eventually died, and others which- hopefully- will not attempt to survive the current campaign.
Hopefully, the doleful prospect of an Obama presidency coupled with a Democratic super-majority in both houses of Congress will inspire my fellow Republican bloggers to get their act together again before 2012- in fact, hopefully before 2010. Re-taking the Internet will be a tough task, and many egos will have to be submerged and dormant gray matter utilized to enable it to happen.
Personally, I hope Matt Margolis (or somebody like him) takes an active and assertive role in rebuilding the single centralized, energized, and effective blogging machine that assured the Internet dominance the Right had in 2004, and so completely lost it this time around.
We have to take back the Web from the nutroots.
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