about Building Red America

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20070309.html

And a response to George Will in TNR

http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=w060925&s=edsall092506

A Reagan Democrat or a Blue Dog Democrat, with a little Scoop Jackson neocon...

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/22/opinion/22edsall.html?ex=1179115200&en=d31855f80ac6e6e8&ei=5070

Interesting...

Lipset Memorial Tribute

On February 28, NED, the School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University, and the George Mason University (GMU) School of Public Policy held a Memorial Tribute Program honoring the life and work of Seymour Martin Lipset. Lipset was a leading scholar of democracy and one of the most influential social scientists of the past half-century. The program included remarks and remembrances by several of Lipset's colleagues and friends, including:

Carl Gershman, NED

Francis Fukuyama, SAIS

Don Kash, GMU

William Schneider, American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

Karlyn Bowman, AEI

Ambassador Max Kampelman

Marc Plattner, Journal of Democracy and NED

Irving Kristol, AEI

Michael Barone, U.S. News & World Report

Tom Edsall, Columbia University School of Journalism and The New Republic

Larry Diamond, Stanford University's Hoover Institution and Journal of Democracy

http://www.ned.org/events/events.html#Feb2807

http://www.ned.org/mm/022807.wmv

Atrios has been doing the media crit for awhile... and Digby started as a commenter at Eschaton... Billmon, (he quit for now), Peter Boehlert, Eric Alterman, Greg Sargent at TPM Muckraker and lots of smaller, less well-known bloggers who are all from the Eschaton crowd, or Atriots. But the very first was Bob Sommerby at The Daily Howler. But only Atrios and Glenn have actually gotten the old media to engage them I think...

But things change, remember?

(...)

At the same time, the six-year Republican grip on the presidency and Congress made the postwar MSM take on politics - roughly, that "both sides should stop posturing, set aside their differences, and compromise for the good of the American people" (i.e., Broder's main schtick) - unworkable, laughable. There could be no decent compromise achieved with someone who held all the cards and wasn't interested in meeting you halfway. And still is not, apparently.

(...)

One senses this is just the beginning, that there are more changes rumbling under the political landscape we can't yet glimpse.

No kidding. The old media has no clue that the center already vanished. It's gone. You would think that's news. Important news.

http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/05/04/center-what-center/

And here's another big story they don't report:

If a Republican presidential candidate snubs some working-class farmers, and the media doesn't report it, does it really make a sound?

When Greg Sargent first noted on Thursday that Rudy Giuliani's campaign cancelled an event at Deb and Jerry VonSprecken's family farm because they're not millionaires, he asked in his first paragraph, "[W]ill the haircut-obsessed political media cover it?"

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/014098.php

Back in February, Prof. Abramowitz had a different take on Schaller's thesis...

http://www.emergingdemocraticmajorityweblog.com/donkeyrising/archives/001631.php

But the center is gone so it does no good to pander to it...

This is the strategy debate that we will be having....

For all you armchair strategists:

http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/0607/index2.php

Media Matters for America

and Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)

Both have taken on the real bias in media, as opposed to the right that has been attempting to bias the media.

but only MMfA is a blog like beast

http://newsbusters.org/

Reading through the comments is always a hoot...

Comedy gold, but all the "shoot a liberal" or "asphyxiate a liberal" tag lines might get to you. They aren't angry or vitriolic or anything. And Christianity is the religion of peace...

I'm sure I left many worthy of naming out of my poor excuse for a definitive list, and some obvious ones too.

Holly,

When Atrios cuts loose, he's damn good. The problem is you never know when he's going to go off on a tear. You have to check frequently. He recently wrote more consecutive posts with more words per post re: the currently resurgent myth of the Democratic party break up after Vietnam than I have seen him do in some time. Full of typos. :-)

This is from a commenter at mild mannered Roger L. Simon:

Redwonders :

Looks as if those of us who have a gnawing feeling in our gut about a coming civil war, have more food for thought. The MSM doesn't seem realize they will be high up on someones target list. Credibility, what credibility?

http://pajamasmedia.com/2007/05/film_review_islam_vs_islamism.php#c048324

You see that paranoid fantasy at the more rabid sites all the time... but it seems to be spreading.

Do you folks think that there is going to be a Civil War here?

No way. Corporations won't allow it. Bad for business. That's way out in William S. Lind wingnut land.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Lind

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