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The 'Vituperation Toxicity' Of Blogs

If asked, who do you think Sen. Joseph Lieberman would blame for the lack of civility in American politics? You don't need to wonder anymore because the American Enterprise Institute asked this week at a discussion on the topic and Lieberman answered. Think Progress has the report.

Predictably, the Democrat who nearly lost his seat in the Senate last year because of liberal bloggers who attacked him relentlessly took a shot at blogs. He said blogs "have added another dimension of vituperation toxicity" to a political system corrupted by "attack ads, the kind of divisiveness of the cable news coverage of politics, talk radio."

I don't have any idea what "vituperation toxicity" is, but it sounds painful. It could have been worse, though. At least he didn't blame America's political woes entirely on blogs.

House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, joined in the blog-bashing. He blamed blogs and other outlets with putting “more information out in the public realm than there ever was, and some of it is to drive one point of versus other, dividing people more and more."

Think Progress, by the way, has started a "blog fellows" program. You can get the details and application here.

Posted by Danny | 06:02 PM

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