Meow, or should I say Hissssss

Alas, once again I come out on the opposite side of the main big "Liberal" blogs. I of course was not involved in the phone call of the top 50 to work on the "plan" against John Roberts confirmation to the Supreme Court.

This article points out some very important things about the blogosphere though, that for some, it's not about individual points of view it's promoting an across the board agenda.

The lightning-quick attacks came after 50 top liberal bloggers held a 45-minute conference call Tuesday night. "On the left, we've always talked about the need to have an echo chamber," says John Aravosis, a Washington lawyer and gay rights activist who writes at Americablog.com. "We believe the right has a whole media network, from talk radio to Fox News to Matt Drudge. The left doesn't have that because the left doesn't play well with others."

The conference call was arranged by BlogPAC, a political action committee that got some of its members on the phone with Sen. Ted Kennedy on the day that Sandra Day O'Connor announced she was leaving the court. The group has also held calls with Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.), Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.) and the liberal organizations involved in the nomination battle, including MoveOn, Alliance for Justice, NARAL and People for the American Way.

Kennedy "reached out to them directly to convey the impact that this decision will have on hundreds of millions of Americans, whose last line of defense for their freedoms and liberties is the Supreme Court," says Laura Capps, the senator's spokeswoman.

It's realistic to point out that some of these top 50 bloggers earn their living from advertising and donations on their blogs. Going rate for an ad on Americablog is $270.00 a week, a good bargain compared to Kos's $750.00 a week rate. I'll admit it was blogs like Kos and Americablog that made me want to have my own blog. I felt as if there were quite a few of us not being heard, that all of us are not some collective of extreme points of view. My concern is that not only do some of these bloggers who make their living from these blogs lose a certain amount of objectivity when earnings conflicts with opinion (take the whole scenario on Kos surrounding the soft porn ad for Return to Gilligan's Island bruha) but now these larger blogs are being sought out as a political action tye group rather than individual blogs. They endanger our status, which is why several of them do not even call themselves "blogs" anymore but have chosen "ezines". Regulation could be forced upon all of us because they have basically become their own PAC.

I end this with my favorite quote from the article:

But Aravosis sees no prospect of his blogging colleagues sticking to a set of talking points. "It's like herding cats," he says. "You can get 40 cats in a room, but you can't herd them."

Good point John, this cat? Don't herd.

:-)

So some of us don't play well with others, maybe it's because we don't agree with the way the game is being played.