http://www.blogpi.net/i-dont-know-anything-about-the-blogs Putting the blogosphere under a magnifying glass Fri, 5 Dec 2008 10:34:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.blogpi.net/i-dont-know-anything-about-the-blogs#comment-8867 Oppo Knocks? at Blog P.I. Thu, 14 Dec 2006 20:45:19 +0000 http://www.blogpi.net/i-dont-know-anything-about-the-blogs#comment-8867 <p>[...] Recall not just the blackface controversy in this year’s CT SEN race — where Ned Lamont unconvincingly blurted to reporters: “I don’t know anything about the blogs” — but the infamous “screw them” moment in 2004, where then-rising blog star Markos Moulitsas callously dismissed the deaths of American contractors in Iraq. [...]</p> [...] Recall not just the blackface controversy in this year’s CT SEN race — where Ned Lamont unconvincingly blurted to reporters: “I don’t know anything about the blogs” — but the infamous “screw them” moment in 2004, where then-rising blog star Markos Moulitsas callously dismissed the deaths of American contractors in Iraq. [...]

]]> http://www.blogpi.net/i-dont-know-anything-about-the-blogs#comment-2876 Stabbing Eastward: Lamont, the Netroots and Barack Obama at Blog P.I. Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:50:15 +0000 http://www.blogpi.net/i-dont-know-anything-about-the-blogs#comment-2876 <p>[...] Shortly after Ned Lamont upended Holy Joe Lieberman in the CT SEN primary this summer, I noted a report by TNR’s Ryan Lizza arguing that Washington Democrats would steer clear of the race from there on, letting the blue-on-blue rhetorical violence work itself out. Two and a half months later, that looks eerily prescient. Lamont has fallen behind in the polls, and there’s little question that a victorious Lieberman would retain his committee assignments even if the newspapers called him (I-CT). [...]</p> [...] Shortly after Ned Lamont upended Holy Joe Lieberman in the CT SEN primary this summer, I noted a report by TNR’s Ryan Lizza arguing that Washington Democrats would steer clear of the race from there on, letting the blue-on-blue rhetorical violence work itself out. Two and a half months later, that looks eerily prescient. Lamont has fallen behind in the polls, and there’s little question that a victorious Lieberman would retain his committee assignments even if the newspapers called him (I-CT). [...]

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