Daou weighs in on Cohen. Amazing quote from a RW blogger's e-mail to RC.

[BurtWorm]

http://daoureport.salon.com/synopsis.aspx?synopsisId=191cf555-60ce-453c-a573-77f73f56e580

by Peter Daou

The ABC's of Liberal Blogging (for Richard Cohen, Joe Klein, Tim Russert, et al.)

A is for Angry ~ B is for Bush ~ C is for Clueless. Let me explain. In recent months, several prominent media and political figures have had run-ins with left-leaning bloggers (examples here, here, here, here, and here). Their reactions have been eerily similar. Greg Sargent describes it accurately: "In recent weeks, one member after another of the D.C. media establishment has gone out of his way to depict bloggers as hysterical, angry and destructive. To hear them tell it, bloggers sitting at their computers are akin to squalling brats in high-chairs chucking baby food at their sober, serious elders -- i.e., major figures at the established news organizations."

This attempt to demonize and belittle the online community is old news, but lately it's taken on new urgency... and it's getting really tiresome. Yes, it's a predictable reaction to the rapid rise of a new political power center, but really, how clueless can people like Richard Cohen be? Here's what every blogger's favorite "liberal" columnist writes in today's WaPo: "The e-mails pulse in my queue, emanating raw hatred. This spells trouble -- not for Bush or, in 2008, the next GOP presidential candidate, but for Democrats. The anger festering on the Democratic left will be taken out on the Democratic middle. (Watch out, Hillary!) I have seen this anger before -- back in the Vietnam War era. That's when the antiwar wing of the Democratic Party helped elect Richard Nixon. In this way, they managed to prolong the very war they so hated.... The hatred is back. I know it's only words now appearing on my computer screen, but the words are so angry, so roiled with rage, that they are the functional equivalent of rocks once so furiously hurled during antiwar demonstrations."

As I sat down to craft a thoughtful post about Cohen's latest outburst, I got a call from a conservative blogger with whom I'm appearing at a blog workshop. He'd just read the Cohen piece and much as he said he enjoyed watching liberal bloggers get criticized, he articulated a response to Cohen that was far less polite (and shorter) than the one I intended to post: "Tough sh*t! So after thirty years of writing this stuff in a bubble, you're finally getting feedback from people who are pissed off. Deal with it."

[grasswire]

1. they used to call black folks angry, too

This is pathetic, even for Cohen.

[Dunvegan]

2. Ah...but Will Pitt's slapdown of Cohen is a beautiful thing to behold.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050906R.shtml

Read for enlightenment, Mr. Cohen.

Then. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

[Cha]

3. Wow! This coming from a

conservative blogger who says he "enjoys watching liberal bloggers get criticized"..what's up with that?

[BurtWorm]

4. It's the blogger in him that's responding, I think.

Not the conservative.