Oh, the Delusional Left-Wing Blogosphere

Yes, I could feel the tremor in the force today as the lowest of the leftists gathered but 25-miles from where I write this. I ignored it as I was coaching 11-twelve year old boys in two baseball games in weather not for baseball.

Any way, our helplessly liberal Inquirer/Philly Daily News blogger was among his own and reports for us:

The primary battle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama seems far from over (no matter what the numbers say), the war in Iraq just marked its grim 5th anniversary with renewed bloodshed, and a host of issues from domestic spying to the U.S. attorney scandal are still up in the air, too.

He must have been rushed as he forgot to mention we just passed the 4,000th dead in the war in Iraq. Most libs have been in full-on cream your jeans mode over that.

Note, no one has brought up the "attorney scandal" in quite some time as, well, it's not a scandal. He also didn't mention any of the other myriad Democratic scandals such as Baghdad Jim McDermott being outed for being a useful idiot but what the hell, it's Rethuglican-bashing time y'all.

No matter. A group of some 150 top liberal political bloggers gathered in Philadelphia this morning, and they declared a new war before there is anything remotely resembling a ceasefire in the old struggles. The focus is GOP presidential candidate John McCain – but that’s the strategic goal of the campaign, not the new tactical weapons.

The collective IQ of the entire city dropped for a few hours by the way it sounds. Us folks in the Delaware Valley were honored to be joined by a large group of self-proclaimed geniuses and it probably went really far in decreasing the huge rate of black-on-black crime that has laid waste to immense parts of the City of Brotherly Love in the last fifty years of Democratic rule in the city.

The left-wing blogosphere is declaring an all-out war against the mainstream media – desperately concerned that inside-the-Beltway reporter-love for D.C. fixture McCain is already creating too large a mountain for any Democratic nominee to scale.

Yeah, we saw that love when the NY Times ran an unsourced smear of Maverick. They just love the guy, don't they?

“This campaign is not going to be between the Democrats and the Republicans,” said Philadelphia’s Duncan Black, who writes under the name Atrios and whose highly popular progressive political blog, named Eschaton, inspired the gathering of bloggers and political activists called Eschacon '08.

Eschacon '08? What the hell is that? Are these people actually so brain-dead they can't come up with a better name than that? Er...that was a rhetorical question.

It’s between the Democrats and the media.” (sic, that last quotation mark is there but the first is missing so i have no friggin' idea if that was a quote or a typo)

Cue deep voice and ominous music.

The first panel of the morning at Eschacon – the ballroom of Philly’s Courtyard by Marriottt (sic)– focused on the blogosphere as a political tool, and the session was dominated by a sense of frustration that McCain’s personal popularity among mainstream TV talking heads like MSNBC’s Chris Matthews will overshadow any talk of his political liabilities...

Er, wasn't it Chris Matthews who uttered "My, I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don't have that too often."? And indeed he probably doesn't but he didn't utter it about McCain, he uttered it about Obama.

“People are asking Chelsea Clinton about Monica,” he said. “Why aren’t we asking McCain about Cindy” – his current wife, who McCain left his first wife for after returning from Vietnam – “or some of his lobbyist connections.

“We’re (sic) got to be ready to cause pain for the media when they give him a free ride,” Hamsher agreed.

Why don't you just consider the entire piece with a "sic" after it.

But wait, here's my favorite part:

Digby, a widely read pseudononymous blogger from Santa Monica, Calif., agreed and went one further, saying that McCain opponents need to get personal with reporters who seem to favorable to the GOP candidate. “They need to be shamed before their own public,” Digby said.

Nevertheless, it was a little unclear to the panelists – or those in the audience – how to do that. In informal chats after the panel, there was talk of viral email campaigns or other ways to reach everyday voters outside of the news media filter. They realize the problem in undercutting McCain is made even harder by his record as POW in Vietnam.

“He’s now a sleazy politician,” Digby said. “He was a brave POW – but that was 40 years ago!”

And that says it all, folks: McCain suffered for five years for his country and was tortured in ways that would make most people curl into the fetal position and die. He still suffers from the effects. But hey, it was forty years ago so why should it matter today? WWII was sixty plus years ago and those dude's who stormed Normandy Beach that were shot by Nazi's, what should they matter, it happened two generations ago.

The Attytood blog is garbage and this shows more about the liberal psyche than just about any post I've read in months.