Blogging Perspective
February 21, 2007 at 9:23 am
Quite some bravado from Kos in today’s Washington Post article about liberal bloggers pounding on their new public enemy #1: Democratic Congresswoman Ellen Tauscher:
“Absolutely, we could take her out.”
And truth be told, they probably could pull it off.
But if you really want to see how important and compelling blogs are for democracy, go a few pages further into the Post. From an op-ed by University of Chicago’s Raja Kamal and Cato Institute’s Tom Palmer:
A former college student, Abdelkareem Nabil Soliman, is sitting in an Egyptian prison, awaiting sentencing tomorrow. His alleged “crime”: expressing his opinions on a blog. His mistake: having the courage to do so under his own name. … Whether or not we agree with the opinions that Abdelkareem Nabil Soliman expressed is not the issue. What matters is a principle: People should be free to express their opinions without fear of being imprisoned or killed. Blogging should not be a crime.
What’s happening in Egypt seems a bit more compelling and critical for our blogging attention than the ability to influence a congressional district election here at home.
Tom Tancredoso said,
February 21, 2007 @ 10:10 am
not under the new campaign finance and ethcis rules they can’t “take her out”… she would have to pay her own way…. dinner, drinks, dancing — even the movie tickets…. geeesh…. what is wrong with these San Francisco Democrats?
Andrew Pass said,
February 21, 2007 @ 10:30 am
Unfortunately, I think it’ll be far easier to “take out” the congresswoman than change the situation in Egypt. But at the same time, who knows, if enough of us get on the bandwagon we could really improve the world. I’ll link to this post on my own blog and encourage others to do the same.
Andrew Pass
http://www.pass-ed.com/blogger.html
pst314 said,
February 21, 2007 @ 11:14 am
heh: Powerline blog called him “the power-crazed Subcomandante Markos of the Daily Kos”
d5ef said,
February 21, 2007 @ 12:09 pm
d5ef checking in:
The readers’ comments in the “Woman In The Middle” story — if you can call it that — are worth reading: enraged “bloggers” are “blogging” a story about enraged bloggers!