Yesterday I posted on an editorial from a local Iowa paper that gave Sen. Chris Dodd a very positive review. The post started a small discussion about the viability of Dodd and who the top tier candidates are. I was going to include this as a comment on it, but it grew long. I […]

Digby:
We bloggers didn’t make this toxic, fetid environment, we just live in it. And toxic and fetid it is. At some point the prim and proper MSM are going to have to put down the smelling salts over the uncivil blogosphere and deal with the fact that the world they enabled with their convivial chuckling […]

Ann Althouse, during a meltdown on BloggingHeads TV after Garance Franke-Ruta of TAPPED mentioned Althouse’s attacks on Jessica Valenti following the blogger meeting with Bill Clinton in September:
I don’t like it being brought up as just a way to undermine me and make me look bad in an out of context way…You are on a […]

Here’s today’s Hartford Courant editorial lede on the decision by the Edwards family to continue John’s presidential campaign after learning Elizabeth’s cancer has metastasized.
The blogosphere wasted no time attacking John Edwards as heartless for continuing his presidential campaign as his wife struggles with a new bout of cancer.
Um, what? And more importantly, who?
Despite […]

Shorter David Lightman: YouTube is AWESOME, but it can cut you.
Lightman’s piece in today’s Hartford Courant on campaign videos, independent YouTube videos and the role blogs are playing now is a surprisingly positive look at how citizen driven media and the viral distribution of video is influencing politics. Lightman interviews a number of blogger experts […]

Soren Dayton and Townhall.com’s Matt Lewis spent time on the McCain campaign’s Straight Talk Express (The Remix) bus this weekend the Senator’s trip to New Hampshire. Dayton promises us oodles of video from their magical mystery tour throughout the week, though Lewis already has posted a snippet of video from their time with McCain.

Lewis: “Senator […]

According to Bill Clinton I’m a rage-aholic. I get drunk on rage-ahol and support Barack Obama.
“This dichotomy that’s been set up to allow [Obama] to become the raging hero of the anti-war crowd on the Internet is just factually inaccurate.”
Facts be damned, I’m raging right now!

This is my first videoblog ever, on the outing of ParkRidge47 aka Phillip de Vellis by Arianna Huffington. De Vellis was an employee of Blue State Digital until he was fired this evening. BSD is an internet consulting company that is employed by the Barack Obama campaign. Though De Vellis published the anti-Clinton video anonymously […]

Matt Stoller posted his analysis of three major trends related to blogs that will define the 2008 presidential cycle, one of which he called “Republican Crack-Up.” I thought it would be worthwhile to reproduce his take here.
For a long time, the right has been in control of the media narrative, which has meant that Republican […]

Last night I was on MyDD’s Blog Talk Radio program, hosted by Jonathan Singer and Adam Conner. Appearing with me as we discussed CPAC, the Democratic primary, and the latest news on the firing of US District Attorneys was Aaron Banks of NDN. The segment is an hour long and I think it went really […]