Today, February 28 at 2 PM eastern time, Heading Left’s Blog Talk Radio show will feature Lindsay Beyerstein (author of the Salon Magazine article, “Why I refused to blog for Edwards”) and yours truly (Lowell Feld, former Webb for Senate netroots coordinator) in a discussion of the role of bloggers on campaigns. Hosts are James Boyce and Nate Wilcox of Heading Left. Check it out! If you’re in NYC, please

At Wuzzadem. One of them looked familiar.  I just can’t place my finger on it. NOTE: I’d go after Mystery Blogger(s), too, but I said what I have to say at the moment in previous posts and at the comments to this approving citation of GG at Reason. Here was a discussion of one of my posts regarding Marcotte at Crooked Timber.  In the comments you’ll see that I’m taken

If Boehlert’s comments regarding Malkin, below, were written about someone from the left, undoubtedly we’d see the kinds of dismissal that we did with Marcotte: namely, that any sniping was simply a matter of jealousy, rather than any principled disagreement.  Ridiculous.  So I hope that you won’t feel that I’m just jealous of Jim Treacher. Although I’d run into Treacher’s writings once or twice while surfing, before, it was his

Media Matters’ Eric Boehlert has a long, well-written and wrongheaded whine about the WaPo paying attention to the likes of Michelle Malkin, whilst ignoring such luminaries as Glenn Greenwald.  So, impeccable timing. Why does the WaPo find rightie bloggers more interesting, apparently?  Well, if I were to guess, their fascination may stem from the fact that such people hold positions that are at variance with those commonly held at the

The Bush Administration has agreed to join high-level talks sought by Iraq with Iran and Syria on the future of Iraq. Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), Chairman of the Armed Service Cmte—last seen pushing an amendment to the AUMF to exclude combat missions in Iraq—wants to know our plan for stopping Iran and Syria from arming terrorists and militias. It’s even on video. Do you think this has anything to do

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Miserable Donut’s Major John, posting in the comments here, is bothered that some people are using today’s attack on Bagram Air Force Base (which may or may not have been an attempt on the life of VP Cheney) as “proof” that our efforts in Afghanistan have been ineffectual—which, let’s face it, was always going to be the next move by the anti-war, anti-Bush contingent after the Iraq campaign was thoroughly

The mind, it boggles: 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. And the converse is also true: those who document the extremism and sociopathic mentality in the right-wing blogosphere do so by citing the twisted writings of leading right-wing pundits, not randomly chosen commenters with no connection to the content or

“Not that we’re advocating violence, mind you, but let’s face it:  Cheney once got liquored up and shot a ‘friend’ in the face just for making fun of his hunting vest.” “Pragmatically speaking, killing off Cheney would certainly lower his carbon footprint.  So if we place this in the context of the ‘greater good,’ I think a case can be made that, from a purely empirical standpoint, had Cheney been

Note: I had this up briefly yesterday, then pulled it down for more serious fare.  In the interim, that Allah guy at Hot Air posted on it.  My apologies to commenters for the phantom post. The Prince of Wales told a nutritionist in Abu Dhabi Tuesday that the “key” to people eating healthily was to ban McDonald’s fast food restaurants. Prince Charles was attending the launch of a public health