This is an outrage! You just wait. I'll get CNNABCNBCBSNewYorkTimesZogby to run a poll on it. That'll learn ya!
Posted on 12/11/2005 1:42:14 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
When the liberal activist Matt Stoller was running a blog for the Democrat Jon Corzine's 2005 campaign for governor, he saw the power of the conservative blogosphere firsthand. Shortly before the election, a conservative Web site claimed that politically damaging information about Corzine was about to surface in the media. It didn't. But New Jersey talk-radio shock jocks quoted the online speculation, inflicting public-relations damage on Corzine anyway. To Stoller, it was proof of how conservatives have mastered the art of using blogs as a deadly campaign weapon.
That might sound counterintuitive. After all, the Howard Dean campaign showed the power of the liberal blogosphere. And the liberal-activist Web site DailyKos counts hundreds of thousands of visitors each day. But Democrats say there's a key difference between liberals and conservatives online. Liberals use the Web to air ideas and vent grievances with one another, often ripping into Democratic leaders. (Hillary Clinton, for instance, is routinely vilified on liberal Web sites for supporting the Iraq war.) Conservatives, by contrast, skillfully use the Web to provide maximum benefit for their issues and candidates. They are generally less interested in examining every side of every issue and more focused on eliciting strong emotional responses from their supporters.
But what really makes conservatives effective is their pre-existing media infrastructure, composed of local and national talk-radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh, the Fox News Channel and sensationalist say-anything outlets like the Drudge Report - all of which are quick to pass on the latest tidbit from the blogosphere. "One blogger on the Republican side can have a real impact on a race because he can just plug right into the right-wing infrastructure that the Republicans have built," Stoller says.
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This is an outrage! You just wait. I'll get CNNABCNBCBSNewYorkTimesZogby to run a poll on it. That'll learn ya!
...They are generally less interested in examining every side of every issue and more focused on eliciting strong emotional responses from their supporters.
Hey Micahel Crowle, you're totally clueless so go screw yourself you commie basterd. LOL heh heh
I mentioned trial lawyers and promptly got booted at DU. That's OK, I've got nine lives left.
"(I've never been able to take more than 2 1/2 minutes in DU, myself)"
As long as you are playing in the dirt....check out liberal oasis, juan cole, and talking points memo. They've each staked out their turf.....cia leak....repub corruption.....and my favorite-conspiracy theories about Italian memos & French spies sorta kinda related to our battle in Iraq.
DUers are very profane. So many "f***" word comments!
I must be one tough SOB. I've been able to stand up to 20 minutes there once or twice.
It couldn't have anything to do with the possibility that the basis of liberalism is bovine scatology.
Your a better man than I, Gunga Din
or something like that...
It's amazing that they still hate Matt Drudge. I don't think he caters to the right really, although he seems to be interested in cultural trends and giving the viewer a few occasional nuggets that the big news outlets don't want to publish or broadcast. Most of the time, he just reposts the stories from the MSM. It seems to me that the chief reason why they hate him is that his little operation is just eating into their profits.
"(I've never been able to take more than 2 1/2 minutes in DU, myself)
(followed by a 20 minute shower and a hearty de-lousing)"
I must be tougher than you, as I managed almost 6 minutes once. Of course, then I had to go have my brain washed.
Let not forget their favorite. The "J__s" control the media, banking, US foreign policy, ect.
Just another NYT whine about how Americans insist on believing the facts instead of the agenda.
As I have observed, Liberals are able to post on FR. But then their post is read, rebutted, and then it is time to compete to see who gets in before the ZOT.
much longer and ones IQ decreases past the Forrest Gump area of the scale
I.....just.....don't......have..........strength..........
"much longer and ones IQ decreases past the Forrest Gump area of the scale"
That would explain it...
Isn't that the DU Motto??
"Stupid is as stupid does"?
I didn't know the DUers were smart enough to have a motto. If they do, it is "Duh?"
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