Comments on: Reading the Other Side

By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:29:11 +0000

I couldn't agree more. I've gone to some blogs that were way far left or way far right, but I quickly determined they were not worth my time. When it is all just regurgitated rhetoric from the party line (either party) with no original thought or analysis, what is the point.

By: PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts » Yup

PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts » Yup — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:06:02 +0000

[...] To see what I am talking about, James Joyner has an excellent example at OTB today. Filed under: Blogging | |Send TrackBack [...]

By: Jon Henke

Jon Henke — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:53:56 +0000

Well said, James.

Ascribing to Hamsher comments which she did not make was a mistake on Cole's part, but Firedoglake is most certainly a rhetorically virulent stain on public discourse. That specific charge did not stand up, but that kind of rhetoric is par for her course.

Unfortunately, that kind of rhetoric gets traffic. The paranoid style of blogospheric politics is doing at least as well as the paranoid style of american politics.

By: Irrational Woman

Irrational Woman — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

OTB there is talk of how politics is being treated like a sporting event and I feel the need to chime as I have some strong opinions on both. James says: Aside from following the occasional link during a blogstorm here and there, I quit reading the most