John Cole on why Left-Wing Bloggers Suck

As usual he nails it why netrootish types are not ready for the big leagues yet:

Watching the collective freak-out over the New Yorker cover yesterday, it has become clear that the left wing blogosphere has become very adept at whipping themselves into a Malkinesque frothing outrage, but they still seem to be unable to maintain the message discipline that the right-wing bloggers have perfected. I challenge you to, at this point, find right-wing bloggers critical of McCain. You won’t. It is all anti-Obama, all the time.

So if you are going to become just as bad as right-wing bloggers with your fauxtrage, you ought to at least pick up one somewhat useful characteristic- their message discipline. I can’t read a comment thread or visit a left-wing blog without continued self-mutilation over Obama’s FISA role. As such, a quick pointer.

This is not just a recession. This is the BUSH recession. This is the REPUBLICAN RECESSION OF 2008. This is the BUSH/MCCAIN RECESSION. Say it loud. Say it often. Learn it. Live it. Love it.

John McCain’s policies will continue the BUSH/MCCAIN RECESSION. John McCain’s financial adviser thinks you are a whiner for experiencing tough times in the BUSH/MCCAIN RECESSION. Your retirement fund is going in the shitter because of the BUSH/MCCAIN recession. You will not be able to pay for college for your kid because of the BUSH/MCCAIN recession.

Again, if you are going to copy these guys, at least be competent.

Exactamon.

Quote for the Day

From new NyTimes Olympics Blogger Carmelo “Melo” Anthony, starting forward on the US Men’s BBall Team:

I have a very bitter taste in my mouth from the 2004 Olympics, like I just ate a sour grapefruit or something. This summer in Beijing, we’re going to drink a lot of Kool-Aid, because revenge is going to be sweet.

It’s a nice line, but someone might want to tell Mr. Melo that “drinking the kool aid” generally means something quite bad in discourse now, courtesy Jim Jones.

Though speaking of Kool Aid can lead to nothing other than posting this vid:

RIP–World’s Oldest Blogger

From CNN:

(CNN) — An Australian woman often described as the world’s oldest blogger has died at the age of 108 after posting a final message about her ailing health but how she sang “a happy song, as I do every day.”

Olive Riley died Saturday at a nursing home in New South Wales.

Riley posted more than 70 entries on her blog — or “blob” as she jokingly called it — since February 2007.

On the site, The Life of Riley, and in a series of videos post on YouTube, Riley mused on her day-to-day life. She also recounted living through two world wars and raising three children on her own while working as a cook and a bar maid.

Check out the link for a very sweet photo of Olive. And I dig the name Olive.

Her blog is here.  The server might be overloaded–it was slow in downloading–because of the CNN coverage. So maybe give it a day or two.

Godspeed.

Wag of the Finger: Weekly Standard Edition

No, this isn’t an anti-neocon tirade, but it has to do with the re-formatting of their (previously separate) two blogs The Campaign Standard and the (Foreign Policy) Worldwide Standard Blog. They have now combined the two into one.  Bad move.

The WWS Blog is a neocon uber-hawk platform, which I generally shy away from (if you want real hard core neocon and done better go Commentary).

But the Campaign Standard was a solid blog, particularly with Richelieu.  But now it has become unreadable with the foreign policy mess jumbled in.

Memo to the editors:  re-separate the two.