Reply #11: Media Whores Online was the first really smart

[Tactical Progressive]

snarky blog, before they were called blogs, site to get sick of the media's wholesale support of the disgusting perversion that Republicanism has become in this country. They would watch he pundits and ridicule them mercilessly. They were really good writers too. It is why the term media whores is still used today.

It was like there was finally someplace to go where the world you saw wasn't through the looking glass. It was shortly after the media's full-on support of the phony impeachment of Clinton, and their burgeoning full-on support of the lies against Gore and protection of Bush. The stunning levels of media hypocrisy were just too much to even believe. It was like a bad dream that we were waking up TO.

I believe Atrios and Roger Ailes among other bloggers, came from there. I'm proud to be an alumnus of their bulletin boards.

MWO used to take sabbaticals of a few weeks at a time, then one time, they just never came back. I keep hoping they will return, and check the site about once a year just in case. But the explosion of online progressivism provides more than enough flame that even if their spark came back, it would be just one of many. The evolution of progressive thought on the internet over the past few years has been more than I could have ever hoped for.