Liberal bloggers were the Baghdad Bobs of this year's election
Many liberals were shocked and distraught to learn that George Bush was reelected. One reason for taht is it is easy for liberals to insulate themselves from contrary opinions. If they just avoid Fox News, talk radio and three or four newspapers they will never hear conservative points of view that are unfiltered by the bias of the left.
Bloggers have the luxury of just talking about things that interest them, but by contrast conservative bloggers find it hard to avoid liberal media. So they find interesting ways to challenge the liberal media such as the CBS forged document scandel. Conservative bloggers also were properly skeptical of the NY Times missing explosive story.
Unlike the rest of America liberal bloggers and media types really believed they had discredited the Swiftvets, but conservative bloggers found the vets entirely credible as did many voters. The conservative bloggers were also tough on each other when it came to challenging facts and arguments.
Conservative bloggers aalso were more persuasive than their liberal counterparts. Reasoned argument is always going to be more persuasive that insults and and slogans. There is no better example than the tirade of a liberal commentator on MSNBC calling John O'Neill a liar over and over. It reflected the weakness of the Kerry response to the Swiftvets, never responding with facts but always responding with insults. People notice those things even if liberals in the media do not.
Many liberals were shocked and distraught to learn that George Bush was reelected. One reason for taht is it is easy for liberals to insulate themselves from contrary opinions. If they just avoid Fox News, talk radio and three or four newspapers they will never hear conservative points of view that are unfiltered by the bias of the left.
Bloggers have the luxury of just talking about things that interest them, but by contrast conservative bloggers find it hard to avoid liberal media. So they find interesting ways to challenge the liberal media such as the CBS forged document scandel. Conservative bloggers also were properly skeptical of the NY Times missing explosive story.
Unlike the rest of America liberal bloggers and media types really believed they had discredited the Swiftvets, but conservative bloggers found the vets entirely credible as did many voters. The conservative bloggers were also tough on each other when it came to challenging facts and arguments.
Conservative bloggers aalso were more persuasive than their liberal counterparts. Reasoned argument is always going to be more persuasive that insults and and slogans. There is no better example than the tirade of a liberal commentator on MSNBC calling John O'Neill a liar over and over. It reflected the weakness of the Kerry response to the Swiftvets, never responding with facts but always responding with insults. People notice those things even if liberals in the media do not.
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