Chris Bowers has done some extraordinary research into the traffic patterns and differences between progressive and conservative blogs. His findings? Among highly-trafficked blogs (those that accept BlogAds), there are more blogs on the right - but the...

I hope you're not actually expecting people (and I use the term loosely) like JRI to respond to you.

No, I expect that they have slunk off this thread, having counted coup on "chickenhawks" such as yourself, to pop up on some other thread, here or on some other board, to make the same inanities again, and be slapped down, again.

(BTW, I assume it's idjits like JRI that have removed the desire to put comments back up at your side, but I liked it when you COULD comment, and would request that you get your comments problem solved?)

Those who who asserts that only those who have served are entitled to support a war never seem to believe that notion goes both ways. So, no, JRI, I am not posting less because I'm ashamed of anything. Had you any shame, however, you would be better informed before spouting off nonsense. Or at least admit when you've been proven to have just done so.

Anyone else see the irony in Fersboo’s, Bithead’s, and Spacemonkey’s posts?

Posted by: goyen at June 17, 2005 08:33 Permalink

Nope.

Chris Bowers at MyDD attempts to divine some meaning from BlogAds traffic. I've framed the title post in the grand terms he used when looking at blogosphere traffic in his stories. While I don't completely disagree with his findings, I...

There are some sites where I always read the comments (jane Galt), and others that were wise to dispense with comments due to the trolls (Malkin).

And I think they like the ability to troll-list and shutup whomever disagrees with them.

You mean, cowards like Dodd Harris, who served in the US military?

Or heroes like Bill Clinton, who happily bombed countries and kept sanctions that killed Iraqi children by the thousands, all while never serving a day?

Just wondering....

“Or the rise in leftie traffic against relatively stagnant rightie traffic could just be that were not POd about the election and have turned more attention to other matters. I know thats a large part of the reason why Ive been blogging and reading blogs rather less than I was nine months ago.”

I think that it has more to do with how ashamed the Right side is over not encouraging their readers to enlist in the military to fight the Iraq war.

Once they allow comments, they get flooded with questions about how they promote the war, disparage anti-war people as traitors, but yet do not come out and enlist or demand that their followers do the same.

It’s shame, pure and simple.

Maybe it isn't shame, maybe it is because they don't want to deal with the millions of your ilk, dumbass.

I think that it has more to do with how ashamed the Right side is over not encouraging their readers to enlist in the military to fight the Iraq war.

Once they allow comments, they get flooded with questions about how they promote the war, disparage anti-war people as traitors, but yet do not come out and enlist or demand that their followers do the same.

It's shame, pure and simple.

There have been some interesting responses to that post by email, comments and in other blog postings. I’ll update you on them.

They, OTOH, were solidly rebuked by 61 million voters and, rather than reconsider their approach, prefer to huddle together and tell each other how much smarter they are than everyone else. We don't need that much re-assurance and, further, prefer diverse, disparate voices to collectives.

Ours has always been a more niche-oriented enterprise, which will naturally be more splintered than their uber-blogs. That's fine by me, I think group blogs with more than a handful of regular posters actually tend more toward conformity than solo or small group efforts.