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Karl Rove: The Father Of Left-Wing Blog Bile?

Lefty bloggers are as angry with Jonathan Chait of The New Republic as they are with Richard Cohen of The Washington Post. Chait explains why in posts here, here and here.

Bull Moose Marshall Wittman (himself a target of loathing by liberal bloggers) thinks all of the vitriol from the left side of the blogosphere is the conspiratorial work of White House adviser Karl Rove because it is "the only thing that it is going well for the Republicans." He has penned related criticisms in the past.

Wittman said bloggers are moving the party to the left in spite of the fact that the only Democrat re-elected to the presidency in the past 60 years, Bill Clinton, was a centrist. He also complained that "Democratic politicians are increasingly pandering to the netroots. That pandering may gain them access to money and some activists, but it is not where the voters reside who they will need to become a majority party."

He said the "smart Democrat" who realizes the deep flaws of liberal bloggers has a shot at becoming president. (Could he have Clinton's wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, in mind?)

Wittman closed his diatribe against bloggers with another attempt to humble them. "Bloggers (including yours truly) are simply deluded if they believe [they] are anything more than unedited and uncredentialed keyboarders with strong feelings," he wrote.

"The left-wing blogosphere is a place where bile passes for wisdom. ... The medium is nothing more than a method of communication for a very narrow slice of the electorate. Moreover, a couple of the most influential left-wing bloggers are crude, crass, humorless and annoyingly predictable."

Posted by Danny | 06:52 AM