In addition to swarms of PUMA protesters and delegates to Denver, the nutroots promise to play a starring role at the Democratic convention.
Call it the "last hurrah" of the nutroots. When Obama goes to certain defeat, and believe me, when Massachusetts and Michigan are considered tossups (provided Romney is on the GOP ticket), it's not only over for the Democrats, it's probably over for the bloggers, too.
Their track record has been miserable as it is in electing anybody worth a shit. And then to be SO gullible as to swallow the media hype over Obama and trash Hillary Clinton is really beyond the pale. Treating a right-leaning "Democrat" with privatizer/neocon advisers as a "progressive hero" while trashing real Democrats makes me ask a lot of questions as to WHO these "progressive Democrats" REALLY represent.
Somebody was paying these people off to spew 24/7 propaganda on behalf of Obama and against Democrats.
And if readers didn't see this effort to push AP to remove Ron Fournier from the presidential beat for daring to spew the inevitable Republican talking points about Obama, they should. Dumb shit Hamsher has a history of doing stupid stunts like promoting Ned Lamont and driving Joseph Lieberman out of the Democratic Party (when the party couldn't afford defections), and trying to deny Larry Sinclair a hearing at the National Press Club on his allegations against Obama and thus drawing attention to him. This is just another one of her dumb stunts.
Gee, Jane, you mean you didn't see it coming at ALL? Little old me, who makes nothing on this blog and gets relatively few hits, saw this shit coming more than a year-and-a-half ago. If you weren't so much in the tank for Obama, if not financially in the tank for him, you would have seen it.
But the nutroots have never been known for astute thinking or for thinking at all.
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Do you think Moveon.org and DailyKos have buyers remorse?
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If they don't now, they will by the time election day rolls around. Then it will be too late.
I am not sure about that Susan.
Daily Kos is a business above all else. Markos exists on outrage, much like Rush and O'Reilly.
He will simply blame the Clintons or racism or whatever and feed off the outrage of his readers and make lots of money in the process.
Liberal blogs are completely corrupted. They are not that different from talk radio. They are in the business to make a profit, to channel outrage into cash.
I think the only cause Markos Moulitsas and Arianna Huffington, to name two of the worst offenders in the nutroots, are themselves.
Markos failed to pass the California bar, as I recall, and this gig is a very, very easy way to make a living.
What is needed is alternatives to Daily Kos and HuffPo.
Liberal blogs decided to throw their support behind the Messiah and demonized other Democrats running. Dissent was not allowed.
I am hoping this will change. We will see blogs with heavy readership that allow dissent, discussion and real debate among liberals.
I deleted your duplicate post, Mary Louise. I hope that's okay.
I truly believe there needs to be dissent. The "left" blogosphere should not be the mirror image of the "right" blogosphere, although I find often there is more tolerance of dissent on the right side than the left.
What has happened in this election is truly bizarre and certainly it was coordinated. Every point of view other than blind worship of the Hyde Park Messiah has been shouted down, marginalized, ridiculed.
Manipulation and no doubt money was involved in this lockstep support of the Messiah.
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