Things I Learned Listening to Air America
I've got to stop listening to Air America. This is not going to become an Air America blog if I can help it.
I listened to a very patient explanation of blogging on the network today. I learned that blogs were a minor phenomenon before 9/11, mostly consisting of liberals fact-checking the New York Times and other conservative news outlets (no, really), then after 9/11 right-wing blogs took off, with their single-minded focus on revenge against Muslims, but that now the left is starting to take back over, behind such reasoned and rational bloggers as Joshua Micah Marshall and Eschaton at Atrios.
Oh, I also learned that right-wingers have an easier message to get across because they simply tie everything into smaller government and personal responsibility, messages that stupid people like. And these stupid people ignore the left because the left doesn't have a single message like the right, and doesn't have any guiding principles since they take such an intellectual and subtle approach to everything, a fact which leaves them open to false charges of having no principles.
Ooooh...kay.
I will personally write a limerick praising Ed Schultz if George Soros or some other deep pocket isn't still writing checks to this network on a regular basis for the next year. Assuming they last that long, that is.