Courtesy of Jeff G:
Air America host Stephanie Miller: “98% of the callers to my show this morning were saying ‘you go, Mr. Stark.’â€Â
Courtesy Of Glenn G.:
There is a reason why those who seek to demonstrate the alleged extremism and hate-mongering in the anti-Bush blogosphere need to go digging for anonymous commenters.
I guess now that the BDS is emanating from Congressional Democrats in front of live microphones we can stop digging for those anonymous comments in the blogosphere.
Comment by Jeffersonian on 10/20 @ 11:18 pm #
I thought any given 5-minute clip from Hardball, Countdown or th average NYT editorial (front page or otherwise) was sufficient to demonstrate this. Are the Gleens being kept in a cave these days? Against his will?
Comment by Aldo on 10/21 @ 12:32 am #
The puppeteer’s quote dates back to February, but I don’t think the prog extremism was really any more buried eight months ago
Comment by Math_Mage on 10/21 @ 4:02 am #
If she thinks that’s a random sample of the population, she’s nuts. The only people who would call her show are left-wingers who support Stark strongly enough to call about it. Right-wingers wouldn’t call Air America. Given all the skew in her sample, I think the 2% might actually be surprisingly high.
What is BDS?
Comment by Spiny Norman on 10/21 @ 5:18 am #
Bush Derangement Syndrome. Coined by columnist Charles Krauthammer, it describes the often bizarre behavior of otherwise (apparently) reasonable people at the mere mention of the current President’s name.
Comment by Aldo on 10/21 @ 3:17 pm #
Mage,
Glenn Greenwald is a high-profile blogger who’s positions on various issues usually get repeated by all the small bloggers, (like John Cole), on that side of the spectrum, and gradually ossify into conventional wisdom over there.
For a while, Greenwald was making an effort at spinning away the Left-wing blogosphere’s well-deserved reputation as a fever-swamp of hysterical juvenilia, claiming that this reputation was created by right-winger bloggers who fished around in the comments section of left-wing blogs for (unrepresentative) extremist views to showcase.
In fact, as the Stark comments show, the raving dementia that has swept the left during the last few years has hardly been confined to the outer fringes of blog commenters.
Comment by psychologizer on 10/21 @ 4:07 pm #
I can’t get past the implication in “98%” that there were at least fifty callers, when there aren’t that many listeners.
TW: baguettes also
Okay, count those. Still not fifty.
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