Saturday, March 15, 2008
More Evidence of the Meltdown of the Downtrodden Party
The Downers are turning on themselves, as the less nuttier group allied with Hillary Clinton finds that the nuttier fruits allied with Barack "My Preacher is a Nazi" Obama are making fun of them and forcing them to leave sites like the ever-hilarious DailyKos.
Read the comments here, and laugh. This is getting better each passing moment.
Blogtalk: Pro-Clinton Bloggers Boycott Kos
Wonderful, eh? Now check out this key quote from the story:
This is akin to watching Iran and Iraq go to war against each other in he 1980s - as we watch two wings of the same nutbag crowd battle each other to the death, the rest of us can only win in the end if they destroy each other.
The Downers are turning on themselves, as the less nuttier group allied with Hillary Clinton finds that the nuttier fruits allied with Barack "My Preacher is a Nazi" Obama are making fun of them and forcing them to leave sites like the ever-hilarious DailyKos.
Read the comments here, and laugh. This is getting better each passing moment.
Blogtalk: Pro-Clinton Bloggers Boycott Kos
On Friday, it got to be too much for Alegre, a diarist on the flagship liberal blog DailyKos, who frequently writes in support of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
“I’ve put up with the abuse and anger because I’ve always believed in what our online community has tried to accomplish in this world,” Alegre wrote Friday evening. “No more.”
Objecting to the tone of attacks against Mrs. Clinton and her supporters on the blog, the diarist called for a “writers strike.”
“This is a strike - a walkout over unfair writing conditions at DailyKos. It does not mean that if conditions get better I won’t ‘work’’ at DailyKos again,” Alegre wrote, promising to come back only “if we ever get to the point where we’re engaging each other in discussion rather than facing off in shouting matches.”
The blogosphere has never been known for its polite, gentle discourse, and while fiercely partisan, being a Democrat does not make one immune from attacks from the lefty blogs (see Lieberman, Joseph I.). But now, the major internal divisions within the Democratic Party seem to be splitting liberal bloggers. So what happens when the unity enforcement mechanism becomes disjointed?
Alegre’s post attracted a strong reaction, both negative and positive. The comment board was shut down about 5.5 hours after it was posted, with 1258 comments.
One user, Sentient, called for a “permanent succession”:
“Why should this site and Kos profit from the traffic we add to DailyKos, and the sense by outsiders that it represents the netroots as a whole?” the blogger asked, adding later, “But I just don’t see how people come back together on a daily basis after a falling out like this.”
Wonderful, eh? Now check out this key quote from the story:
Joe Gandelman at The Moderate Voice blog writes: “Where progressive and moderate bloggers and commenters used to get worked up arguing about George Bush, there now a real angry, scolding tone in many comments left by Clinton and Obama supporters.”
He continues: “In short, the strike/boycott is a symptom — and with so many months to go until the Democratic convention, the prognosis for true Democratic Party unity going into the election seems ‘questionable.’”
This is akin to watching Iran and Iraq go to war against each other in he 1980s - as we watch two wings of the same nutbag crowd battle each other to the death, the rest of us can only win in the end if they destroy each other.
