So bored and slightly cranky, I surf around and go to Joe Gandleman’s blog – ‘The Moderate Voice.’ Joe is a smart guy and a good writer, even if his definition of moderate is less iconoclastic than mine.<\/p>\n
He’s got a post up on the Edwards Bloghorrea thingie<\/a>, which centers on the notion that bloggers will now be – heaven forfend – closely scrutinized if they are associated with major political campaigns. What next? Urine tests for Tour de France riders? I’m more than a bit baffled at his concern.But then I realize something interesting…part of the issue is that he views the kind of rhetoric at Pandagon and Shakespeare’s Sister as the norm<\/b>. This is baseline political rhetoric. And that’s just as nuts as a meth-addled preacher announcing that he’s done with gay sex and expecting the mantle of spiritual leadership to fall neatly back on his shoulders.<\/p>\n Haggert needs a job in fast food or tech support, and Gandleman needs to stop reading Oliver Willis and considering him normal. There are a shedload of bloggers – right and left – who would not disgrace a political campaign. Kevin Drum<\/a>? Phil Carter<\/a>? Steve Smith<\/a>? What have they written to compare with “Q: What if Mary had taken Plan B after the Lord filled her with his hot, white, sticky Holy Spirit…”?? Powerline<\/a>, Volokh<\/a>, Patterico<\/a>? There’s nothing<\/b> in their oeuvre that shows the level of contempt – for anyone – shown by the Edwards duo. Heck, go look in my blogroll<\/a> – who (other than Defamer) does? And there are a lot<\/b> of blogs in there.<\/p>\n So yeah, if you’re bilious, you’ll get attention and if you get attention you might get a job…but you’ll immediately be on thin ice because of what you’ve written in the past, and you won’t be free to be tough-minded and take real risks – you know, the Sam Brown “Don’t offend them with style when you can offend them with substance” kind.<\/p>\n And I’m genuinely puzzled that Gandleman doesn’t see that.<\/p>\n And as an addendum, Joe – if you read this – go police your comments section, will you? This does your site no credit:<\/p>\n ChuckPrez said: \nIn an unrelated note, I would so do Michelle Malkin.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Yup, that’s what modern political dialog is supposed to be all about, isn’t it…we’re in a war facing a bigger one and we get this crap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Joe Gandleman is worried that what bloggers say may matter enough to be held against them…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFebruary 8, 2007 at 10:20 am<\/p>\n