This Is Rather Funny

David Broder writes a column in todays Washington Post that is sure to generate much smoke and fury in his inbox. In writing a generally favorable review of the two new Democratic websites I posted about yesterday, Broder applies a stinging back of the hand slap at certain other netroots websites.

Judging from the amount of publicity they gleaned, the liberal bloggers who gathered in Las Vegas recently for the first annual YearlyKos convention represent the cutting edge of thinking in the Democratic Party.

But the blogs I have scanned are heavier on vituperation of President Bush and other targets than on creative thought. The candidates who have been adopted as heroes by Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, the convention's leader, and his fellow bloggers have mainly imploded in the heat of battle — as was the case with Howard Dean in 2004 — or come up short, as happened to the Democratic challengers in special House elections in Ohio and California.

The howls should already be causing Mr. Broder's inbox to approach combustion temperature.

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  By Black Jack, June 23, 2006 @ 11:20 am

  Beware the netroosters!

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