Completely unhinged
Saturday's Washington Post has an enlightening article on the blogospheric left -- and it's quickly apparent that Bush Derangement Syndrome is reaching epidemic proportions.
The article focuses on Maryscott O'Connor of My Left Wing. I'm no psychiatrist, but O'Connor needs some serious help. The article says she's 37, but she looks 47. Oh, and like much of the left, she's got a serious case of potty mouth.
Paul Hinderaker over at Powerline takes issue with the Post's assertion that liberal blogs now are just doing what conservatives did during the '90s. I'm sorry, but even the most vicious Bill-Clinton-murdered-Vince-Foster-conspiracy-theorists didn't quite reach the level of O'Connor and her hate.
As for the keyboard, it is where O'Connor finished her evolution from lost soul to angry soul, beginning with that very first rant, which concluded with a wish that Bush, "after contracting incurable cancer and suffering for protracted periods of time without benefit of medication," go to hell.
She wrote it, sent it to Daily Kos, saw it appear online, watched as people responded to it -- and learned something about the effect of being both heartfelt and vicious. "It's impactful," she says. "It gets attention."
It also felt good, she says, transforming even, and soon she was posting regularly to Daily Kos, where she became one of the more widely read diarists with attention-getters such as "Go [expletive] Yourself, Mrs. Cheney" and "Bush Must Be HIV Positive By Now (you can't [expletive] 500 million people and not get infected)."
One of my relatives has jokingly suggested that I should start a new blog and write as a lefty -- I would get more readers and the things that go along with that (tips, advertising revenue, etc). Even if I was that coldly calculating and cynical, I don't think I could muster up the bile and hate that just boils in these people.
The right has its fever swamps too, but I don't think they've ever got the kind of traffic and funding that the left has since George W. Bush's 2000 election.
These people are seriously mentally ill.
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There are some things no sane person can associate with. It does our nation no good when one party is simply unacceptable to decent people, and the other has lost its way.
Easter is a day for optimism.
The story didn't back up its central claim. Consider this:
"What's notable about this isn't only the level of anger but the direction from which it is coming. Not that long ago, it was the right that was angry and the left that was, at least comparatively, polite. But after years of being the targets of inflammatory rhetoric, not only from fringe groups but also from such mainstream conservative politicians as Newt Gingrich, the left has gone on the attack."
Questions an editor should have made sure the reporter answered:
Are such angry left sites are getting more traffic than in previous years?
Are these sites outpacing the growth of right-wing Web sites? (By the way, what are *their* numbers?)
What are the top-ranked partisan sites by visits or page views?
How have the left/right rankings changed over the years?
Without some quantifiable data, the story is little more than a series of anecdotes.
The story didn't back up its central claim. Consider this:
"What's notable about this isn't only the level of anger but the direction from which it is coming. Not that long ago, it was the right that was angry and the left that was, at least comparatively, polite. But after years of being the targets of inflammatory rhetoric, not only from fringe groups but also from such mainstream conservative politicians as Newt Gingrich, the left has gone on the attack."
Questions an editor should have made sure the reporter answered:
Are such angry left sites are getting more traffic than in previous years?
Are these sites outpacing the growth of right-wing Web sites? (By the way, what are *their* numbers?)
What are the top-ranked partisan sites by visits or page views?
How have the left/right rankings changed over the years?
Without some quantifiable data, the story is little more than a series of anecdotes.
The story didn't back up its central claim. Consider this:
"What's notable about this isn't only the level of anger but the direction from which it is coming. Not that long ago, it was the right that was angry and the left that was, at least comparatively, polite. But after years of being the targets of inflammatory rhetoric, not only from fringe groups but also from such mainstream conservative politicians as Newt Gingrich, the left has gone on the attack."
Questions an editor should have made sure the reporter answered:
Are such angry left sites are getting more traffic than in previous years?
Are these sites outpacing the growth of right-wing Web sites? (By the way, what are *their* numbers?)
What are the top-ranked partisan sites by visits or page views?
How have the left/right rankings changed over the years?
Without some quantifiable data, the story is little more than a series of anecdotes.
The story didn't back up its central claim. Consider this:
"What's notable about this isn't only the level of anger but the direction from which it is coming. Not that long ago, it was the right that was angry and the left that was, at least comparatively, polite. But after years of being the targets of inflammatory rhetoric, not only from fringe groups but also from such mainstream conservative politicians as Newt Gingrich, the left has gone on the attack."
Questions an editor should have made sure the reporter answered:
Are such angry left sites are getting more traffic than in previous years?
Are these sites outpacing the growth of right-wing Web sites? (By the way, what are *their* numbers?)
What are the top-ranked partisan sites by visits or page views?
How have the left/right rankings changed over the years?
Without some quantifiable data, the story is little more than a series of anecdotes.
The story didn't back up its central claim. Consider this:
"What's notable about this isn't only the level of anger but the direction from which it is coming. Not that long ago, it was the right that was angry and the left that was, at least comparatively, polite. But after years of being the targets of inflammatory rhetoric, not only from fringe groups but also from such mainstream conservative politicians as Newt Gingrich, the left has gone on the attack."
Questions an editor should have made sure the reporter answered:
Are such angry left sites are getting more traffic than in previous years?
Are these sites outpacing the growth of right-wing Web sites? (By the way, what are *their* numbers?)
What are the top-ranked partisan sites by visits or page views?
How have the left/right rankings changed over the years?
Without some quantifiable data, the story is little more than a series of anecdotes.
The story didn't back up its central claim. Consider this:
"What's notable about this isn't only the level of anger but the direction from which it is coming. Not that long ago, it was the right that was angry and the left that was, at least comparatively, polite. But after years of being the targets of inflammatory rhetoric, not only from fringe groups but also from such mainstream conservative politicians as Newt Gingrich, the left has gone on the attack."
Questions an editor should have made sure the reporter answered:
Are such angry left sites are getting more traffic than in previous years?
Are these sites outpacing the growth of right-wing Web sites? (By the way, what are *their* numbers?)
What are the top-ranked partisan sites by visits or page views?
How have the left/right rankings changed over the years?
Without some quantifiable data, the story is little more than a series of anecdotes.
I tells ya: All that smokin' and potty-mouthin' will make you age fast:)