I’ve re-linked Roger Simon and would like to encourage others to urge him to slam the door on Huffy-Puffy. He who lies down with dogs gets up with fleas, and that sort of thing.
Huffy-Puffy has basically become Jim Lampley’s blog and the others are just visitors, guest-bloggers, and vassals. Lampley is so deranged he’s downright amusing. I’ve seen a lot of his sportscasting and while he was always a little bit off I had no idea he was such a basket case until Huffy-Puffy. Here’s an example of Lampley in full conspiratorial meltdown:
Sure there are still disquieting signs in a country where real democracy lies momentarily dormant. Dormant due to right-wing ownership of the national political machinery and the widespread election fraud that has engendered. Dormant due to the capitulation of mainstream media in the face of neoconservative intimidation tactics (see Bill Moyer’s post today about the corruption of editorial independence at PBS). Dormant due to the inherently greater diversity, fragmentation and iconoclasm of liberal as opposed to reactionary thought. Yes, it’s harder for us to get our act together because we’re way less willing to pervert the system for our own ends. But once we’re back on top, we’ll stay there longer, because our still-innocent willingness to really trust democracy will show.
So the left really values diversity of thought and democracy? Really? Is that the lesson of the diversity-sensitive, democracy-affirming mass filibuster of qualified judges?
I didn’t think so.