Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Why We Blog

AMERICAblog: Because a great nation deserves the truth: ". . ..People are frustrated. They're tired of the Republicans and their arrogance, their failed policies, their incompetence, and their inability to learn and grow from their mistakes. That is why the blogs came about, and it's why we've been successful at getting a voice. We are tapping into that frustration and, yes, anger, and channeling it towards an effort to change things for the better.

And that, my reporter friends, is what is happening in Connecticut and across America.

Joe Lieberman is a victim of the anti-incumbent, anti-Republican times in which we live. He is not a victim of the peace movement. He is not a victim of the Iraq war. He is part or the larger passion play that is taking place across the country against the incumbent party in power. Republicans control the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the federal government. Americans believe our country is heading in the wrong direction and we, rightfully, are finally holding those running the country accountable, in addition to those who enable and embrace them.

I'll stop repeating myself, but this is important. Whatever happens in the Connecticut race today, the media, from George Stephanopoulos at ABC to Dan Balz at the Post, both journalists I respect a lot, are being simply lazy. The media never understood what motivates the Democratic blogs. . ."

An excellent post. Read it all here.

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