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Andrew Sullivan Says's Karl Rove Is "Playing" Netroots Who Cover Palin - He
2008-09-13 16:12:00 Blogger Andrew Sullivan advances the idea that we liberal bloggers are being "played" by Karl Rove in that we're giving too much coverage to McCain Palin gaffes and not enough to the good deeds of Barack Obama. There's a good point and I think it's a byproduct of the newness of the addition of Palin, but we've also got to get back in to the habit of telling Barack and Joe Biden news. I have worked to do this myself, but we have to counter the online effort of the GOP, which is spamming YouTube of late with these Palin videos. Someone on a video channel is working to pump up views artifically and dump Palin videos. What's good about this is that we all will get sick of her that much faster.
Netroots Blog Caltics Attacking Senator Diane Feinstein
2008-07-11 19:38:00 I happened to visit the Calitcs Blog, when I saw an article calling for nothing less than the censure of Senator Diane Feinstein. Why? Because of her support for the FISA bill that just past, and her alledged role as swing vote confirming, as Caltics put it, the appointments of Michael Mukasey, President Bush's torture-condoning nominee for Attorney General, and Leslie Southwick, a racist and homophobic judge.Yikes!It seems that no action has stopped Feinstein, according to Caltics.:We've tried everything to get Sen. Feinstein's attention. Phone calls. Emails. Faxes. Petitions. Protests. Smoke signals. We even launched an online petition supporting a proposed California Democratic Party censure resolution of Sen. Feinstein last November that spread like wildfire across the grassroots, with 35,039 Californians signing on in support.The censure movement also catalyzed national media attention, fueled by endorsements from MoveOn.org, Progressive Democrats of America, the Californ...
It?s been a month
2008-03-26 00:36:00 Since I moved from Blogger to WordPress and launched my new domain. I’m still trying to get the feel of things here at WordPress but I must say it is by far Blogger’s superior! Not only that but the layout is much cleaner (both what visitors see and what I see on the back end) and the the list of features offered by WordPress vastly outnumbers that of those offered on Blogger. Like I said though, I’m still trying to get the feel of things and just wanted to offer an opportunity for visitors to post some constructive criticism and/or suggestions you may have. Also, you may have noticed that my blogroll is not as large as it used to be, but I’m going to be updating it shortly. I’d especially like to add those of you who stop by often or who have been generous enough to link here from your own blogs. That having been said, if I’ve missed you, or you want to suggest a blog to be added please feel free to leave it in the comments! SHARETHIS.addEn...
By: Too Progressive
Left Out In The Open: How the Netroots are Changing Progressive Politics
2008-03-05 15:00:00 "Internet activism has upended American politics by amplifying new voices, connecting disparate social networks, transforming campaign funding, enhancing public scrutiny and electing non-traditional candidates. The progressive netroots is building a participatory, egalitarian, aggressive movement with an agenda of progressive foreign policy, populist economics, Constitutional rights and open government...This panel will convene progressive leaders and writers for a lively discussion of how the netroots are changing progressive politics." Panel participants after the jump. Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
By: FreeNYC
From the Netroots With Love
2008-02-14 15:04:00 Historians would surely be interested in the history of Valentine’s Day, a geeky science writer might look at the evolutionary origin of Flowers. Hackers are excited about the Stormworm greeting card virus. But where’s the love for progressive political bloggers? Register Two Now! Simply click on the group button as “YES” to take advantage of ...
New Hampshire?s recount and the Netroots? culture of conspiracy
2008-01-24 19:36:00 By Jefferson Flanders New Hampshire officials yesterday finished a hand recount of some 40% of the votes from the Granite State?s Democratic presidential primary, an election which featured Hillary Clinton?s dramatic victory over Barack Obama. Not surprisingly, the recount of paper ballots produced no significant change in the results. Clinton lost 25 votes and Obama dropped ...
DailKos Writer Attacks Netroots For Positions On Obama
2007-12-09 20:22:00 This is an interesting presentation of how some "netroots" don't support Barack Obama, but also a window into why some have changed to now back Barack Obama. I do agree with Senator Obama that it's easy to predict what the Daily Kos writers are goiing to bring to a discussion; all too predictable. The blogosphere's problem with Barack Obama by PsiFighter37 [Subscribe]Sun Dec 09, 2007 at 11:06:28 AM PSTIn the past couple of days, there have been some particularly incendiary pieces written about Barack Obama by prominent bloggers within the netroots community. First, Jerome Armstrong over at MyDD decided to post two entries that attacked Obama - one for what his spokesman, Robert Gibbs, said about Paul Krugman; the other was about how Oprah Winfrey allegedly helped George W. Bush in 2000. Both were off-base, and they're fairly indicative of the decline in quality at MyDD that's occurred since Chris Bowers and Matt Stoller left the site to start Open Left. The other piece, penne...
Netroots Rate Warning
2007-11-21 19:39:00 Don’t say no one warned you the rates at Netroots Nation 2008 will go up on Dec 1; from $ 175.00 to $250.00. In addition, the block rate Hotel Rooms are available, and they really could be gone quickly: Netroots Nation has secured a block of rooms at the Austin Hilton Downtown at the discounted ...
Netroots Rate Warning
2007-11-21 15:28:00 Don’t say no one warned you the rates at Netroots Nation 2008 will go up on Dec 1; from $ 175.00 to $250.00. In addition, the block rate Hotel Rooms are available, and they really could be gone quickly: Netroots Nation has secured a block of rooms at the Austin Hilton Downtown at the discounted rate of $132 per room, per night. Click here to book a room. The Austin Hilton is a lovely property located across a narrow street from the Austin Convention Center … read the rest … My advice: Reserve, save money, conceal the expenses from your apolitical significant other in the lengthy Christmas credit and banking statement, get the good rate[s], and figure out details later. Netroots Nation Low Special Rate Register Here Netroots Nation/Austin Hilton Room Reservation Here Original post by http://feeds.dailykos.com/~r/da-ilykos/index/~3/188256932/490
Going to Texas: Expanding our Netroots Nation!!
2007-11-16 02:31:00 (Promoted by MissLaura) July 17-20, 2008: Netroots Nation is coming to Austin! The face of progressive politics is changing. Regular people have taken it on as their civic duty to become activists, and citizen journalists, and even run for office. The trend toward more decentralized, people-powered politics and media is accelerating, and at Netroots Nation, we are ...
How The Left Really Feels About Veterans Day
2007-11-12 17:21:00 From Daily Kos: Its time to be done with the ridiculous idea that there are some sort of politically neutral expressions of “patriotism.” Patriotism is a consciously cultivated mindset intended to secure popular consent for military actions that might otherwise be unpopular. The US is a hyper-patriotic country because it is an imperialist country that is ...
By: The Hot Joints
Useless Speculation: Will the Leftist Netroots Wither Without A Case Agains
2007-11-10 06:45:00 I often think a populist movement based on a lie won’t collapse just because the truth makes itself manifest. My suspicion is that such movements transform and lie in wait until they can rise... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
By: The Irate Nation
Useless Speculation: Will the Leftist Netroots Wither Without A Case Agains
2007-11-10 06:45:00 I often think a populist movement based on a lie won’t collapse just because the truth makes itself manifest. My suspicion is that such movements transform and lie in wait until they can rise... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
By: The Irate Nation
Misunderstanding & Loathing from the ?Netroots?
2007-11-10 01:29:00 Sometimes, I’ll put days of thought and hours of work into a post, thinking I’m addressing an important issue and get no links and only a handful of comments. Most people didn’t find take as much interest in the idea that I found so compelling. Other times, I’ll read some post (or encounter ...
By: GayPatriot
Obama Controversy Bigger In Netroots Than in Real World
2007-10-30 20:56:00 Those who read the blogs the last few days as opposed to the mainstream media would have a totally different view of the Obama campaign. Not only has Obama been the subject of numerous attacks for having McClurkin at his campaign’s gospel concert, but some are even writing off the campaign as dead. I’ve written ...
By: Liberal Values
Who’s Afraid Of The Big Bad GOP? The Netroots Are!
2007-09-26 15:26:00 You read it everyday on Democratic Underground, DailyKos, and other “progressive” spots in some manner or form: Because Hillary Clinton leads the Democratic nomination race, and the media is reporting it, the media is “picking” the candidate. Perhaps the media has contributed to the “inevitable” feeling of the Clinton campaign by reporting trends in the election, but one thing is for certain - It goes beyond logic to even suggest reps from the major TV networks, 24 hour news channels, and newspapers are holding secret meetings to plot the election of Sen. Clinton. Yet by claiming the media is picking our candidate, that is pretty much what they’re expecting us to believe is happening - some sort of “corporate media” collusion. The question that begs to be answered then is what “progressives” propose to do about it? Do they want an information black out on the campaign? Do they advocate some sort of forced or self...
So Far - Looks Like The Netroots Are Out And Queen Hillary (Her Royal Highn
2007-09-26 00:20:00 Today, Andrew Sullivan of The Daily Dish and David Brooks of The New York Times are finally saying what I’ve been saying for the last couple of years around here — “OOPS! Looks like Hillary is gonna win and maybe we shouldn’t have been so quick to grant dictatorial, unconstitutional “powers” to President Bush ...
Serious Democrats aim for the Center
2007-09-25 18:58:00 David Brooks has a very interesting piece in The New York Times today about the real effect the netroots are having on the Democratic party. Far left bloggers at the Daily Kos and others would like Democrats to believe that the netroots have taken over the Democratic party, but the numbers simply don’t bare that out. In ...
By: The Hot Joints
David Brooks Finds Democratic Party Not Controlled by Netroots
2007-09-25 16:38:00 David Brooks is sure to receive a number of unfavorable blog posts over today’s column on the influence of the netroots on the Democratic Party. I’ll leave complaints over his arguments as to the impotence of the netroots to other bloggers and instead begin by noting the value of Brooks ad in countering the conservative ...
By: Liberal Values
If Hillary Clinton Wins The Democratic Nomination, The Netroots Are Backed
2007-09-04 14:03:00 If Hillary Clinton Wins The Democratic Nomination, The Netroots Are Backed Into A Corner - How Will They Respond? Barry Casselman’s piece Sunday on Hillary Clinton and the netroots hits on some very salient points as we head past labor day, the traditional start of the presidential primary season. He, of course, covers the tired ...
Ron Paul Grabs Attention of Alienated Voters
2007-08-31 20:34:00 Computer engineer Jonathan Morey says, “I have never voted for a Republican, ever.” Nathan Hansen, a lawyer, says, “I’ve been a Republican all my life.” Yet a political meeting in St. Paul, Minn., brought the 31-year-old friends together for the first time — in support of presidential candidate Ron Paul. Officially, Mr. Paul is a Republican, ...
By: The Hot Joints
The Netroots? Missed Opportunity
2007-08-24 20:07:00 What does Markos Moulitsas have against Mike Gravel? The über-blogger recently called for exiling the longshot presidential candidate from future Democratic debates. “Mike Gravel is a waste of our time,” he wrote in an August 7 post. “[He’s] a running joke.” That’s an odd assessment coming from the founder of Daily Kos. Every time Gravel ...
By: The Hot Joints
Obama catches fire with netroots
2007-07-08 06:00:00 The audacity of Barack Obama has always astounded me. He is walking arrogance from head to toe. Salena Zito projects an interesting. But then it’s all in a day’s politics - right? In it’s entirety, Salena writes: Total 2007 primary dollars raised: $55.7 million. Total 2007 number of individual donors: 258,000. In a word, Barack ...
Democratic Leadership Favors Netroots over Military Leadership
2007-06-29 04:33:00 With approval of the Democratic Congress falling below that of President Bush, Speaker Nancy Pelosi seems to think the solution is to appeal to her party’s base, “working hard to make sure that the fiery liberal wing of the Democratic Party remembers that she is one of them. She is also going out of her ...
By: GayPatriot
Netroots primary
2007-01-25 14:52:01 I hope this is an overzealous reporter and not spin coming from the Clinton campaign: Soon after Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton announced her bid for the presidency on the Internet, her campaign was boasting of its success in one of the most important new presidential battlefields: the Netroots Primary. Last week's dKos straw poll, which sported over 22,000 votes: Edwards 35 Obama 28 Clark 17 Richardson 5 Clinton 4 Daily Kos isn't the entire netroots, and sure, it's still early. We'll likely see more movement in the coming year. But Clinton isn't by any stretch of the imagination scoring the early points online. In this world, she's an also-ran. |
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