Boo Hoo - Lefties Can’t Help but Feel Threatened

You know your doing something right when all your opponent can do is throw childish insults your way.

Ted Rall has got his panties in a knot over the state of the blogsphere. In his recent editorial, BUT WHO WATCHES THE WATCHDOGS?, Ted claims that the majority of the political blogs in the United States are conservative and that they are creating a dangerous ideological imbalance in journalism. According to Teddy, hate speech and death threats are rampant amongst Republican webloggers and poor old Eason Jordan got a bum rap.

I love this part,

Borg-like, the various right-wing blogs simultaneously discuss the same stories, applying identical rhetoric. They create blacklists and urge their readers and fellow bloggers to threaten and harass their targets. Surfing this cheesy world of flag-draped neo-McCarthyite HTML makes it impossible to deny Columbia Journalism Review writer Steve Lovelady’s conclusion that most are “salivating morons” who form an ideological “lynch mob.” Worse, many of the right-wing bloggers are flat-out liars.

Ted then turns his vitriol back towards the angry-left’s favourite propaganda,

The mainstream media let Bush steal an election and lie his way into two wars. It allowed Condi Rice to be confirmed even though she got caught lying about the existence of Al Qaeda briefing papers given to her by the outgoing Clinton Administration. Lord knows the journalistic conglomerates need a firm boot in the butt, but the right-wing bloggers aren’t ideologically inclined to deliver it.

I’m not going to dispute Ted’s claim that the majority of political weblogs are conservative, because I think he’s probably right. However, Ted isn’t interested in examining why conservative weblogs are popular, he’s too preoccupied with peddling mistruths and clichés. I’m actually surprised he didn’t try to bring up Bush’s IQ.

Conservative weblogs are in the majority because they are speaking to a large segment of the population that has gotten tired of the type of biased journalism produced by the likes of CNN and Eason Jordan. Ted’s angry because the Left is once again being marginalized through their own inaction and incompetence.