Letters to the Editor
Kitt
Published Letters: 2950
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Sceptic
[Read the article: "Fringe liberal bloggers"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What should be done about it is for left sites to show some editorial wisdom and judgment and stop operating under the presumption we can be all things to all people without considering how alienating that is to moderate America.
It's the same problem Evangelical churches have. They can pander to the wing nuts or serve the moderates, but they can't do both. No tent is that big.
-- healthyskeptic
You're insulting the so called "moderate Americans". We (commenters and also the bloggers) aren't leading "moderate Americans" by their two year old hands. We assume that they can filter out and differentiate between one blogger and another, just as we have.
Also you're using the Right's widely known Rush Limbaugh and Ann Colter as examples to make comparisons to obscure, what you are referring to as, lefty bloggers.
I've been able to decide upon which bloggers I want to put my trust in. Have you? If so, what makes you think these 'moderate Americans' you speak of aren't capable of figuring it out also over time?
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"Fringe Kooks'
[Read the article: "Fringe liberal bloggers"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The left and right have a long history of alienating the middle and losing elections as they take the low-road and pander to thier bases.
If it wasn't for the blogoshere the DNC who was pandering to what they thought was the Democratic Party's base, would have managed to lose a lot of seats that we instead won in that last election. Was that the "fringe left" who pulled that off?
Why is the Republican party now in the toilet? Because they pandered to a bunch of fringe kooks like the Fundies and the Neocons and completely betrayed the middle.
Those "fringe kooks" are the Repulican base and the Republican middle. Hey, you dance with what brung yuh.
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Who is Fringe?
[Read the article: "Fringe liberal bloggers"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]And for anyone who is just assuming I must be a down the middle centrist making a self interested argument, no I'm rather to the left on many issues, I just don't like impractical twits and counterproductive fringes.
-- healthyskeptic
I don't know what you are or where you stand. I don't even understand what your point is. There are some wild ones out there. So what? Is Glenn "fringe"? Is Digby "fringe"? Is the marvelous Jane Hamsher "fringe". What aboout Christy and the others at Firedoglake? Are they "fringe"? If any or all of those are fringe then praise the lord and pass the butter. If they aren't then praise the lord and pass the butter. what is it that you are complaining about?
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Skep
[Read the article: "Fringe liberal bloggers"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You're really not trying to hold a conversation, are you? I shouldn't need to wear out my fingers explaining to you what is what. Obviousfuckingly when I say left blogs I'm not speaking of some obscure examples. I'm speaking of the ones that most all of us are quite aware of.
A lot of words were written and a lot of money was raised on the left blogs. For example, a bunch of them pooled into one and called it Blue America.
http://www.actblue.com/page/blueamerica
Really. I don't think you're listening. You seem to be arguing for the sake of argument.
Tedious behaviour. I've seen enough of that from another commenter on this site lately to last me for a long while.
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Mehit
[Read the article: "Fringe liberal bloggers"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What is the relationship of the the doctor to the boy?
It takes a remarkable amount of thought for most people to get to the answer, and many never do, that the surgeon is the child's mother. The doctor is a woman.
-- Mehitabel
Yes, I recall being taken in by that completely reasonable question which seemed more like a riddle. Shook my world that I was stumped. It was an 'oh dang!' shameful moment in my life.
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Sceptic
[Read the article: "Fringe liberal bloggers"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]For example, the LGF people are certainly a fringe, and most people in real life would probably consider them complete assholes. But on LGF they have found the perfect little echo chamber and assure each other they're god's chosen few.
That's the same as your Limbaugh and Coulter example. There is no equivalent on 'the left' to Limbaugh, Coulter or LGF and the knuckledgragger commenters on LGF.
Got any examples of a left wing blog commenter being convicted and sent to prison for mailing fake death powder to a prominent TV journalist personality and a Democratic Senator? And then bragging about it in the blog comments? That's what an LGF commenter did and that was the result of what the LGF commenter did. Ain't that somethin'?
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Sceptic and Women
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]That is exactly the kind of "with us or against us" crap that is just the mirror image if the rt wing fundamentalist crap for stupid people. It has a lot more in common with hippies and the cult mentality of the counter-culture movement, and it has always hurt the left in elections.
-- healthyskeptic
You lean too much on hippies as having been a detriment. Bob Dylan. Jimmie Hendrix. Van Morrison. Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, hell, even last but most certainly not least, Johnny Cash had good relations with hippies. What's wrong with that?
But I think it was Karen you were replying to. So, what women writers from 'the left' do you admire...if any? Jane Smiley? Katrina Vanden Heuvel? The late Molly Ivins?