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August 3, 2006

Dear Washington Post

by AltHippo @ 11:05 am. Filed under hacks

I’m writing in regard to your piece of August 3, one of a genre that I’ll refer to as Progressive Bloggers Gone Wild. For reasons I don’t understand, you like to focus on events that portray the leftie blogosphere in an unattractive light, and tend to do so in as context-free manner as possible.

For instance, it’s interesting that you omit discussing the fliers that the Liberman campaign has been distributing: (Salon)

Joe Lieberman is playing the race card. On Sunday, according to several bloggers following Lieberman’s primary race against challenger Ned Lamont, the Lieberman campaign plastered cars parked in black churches throughout Connecticut with a flier questioning Lamont’s commitment to civil rights.

“Who has and will always be on our side?” asks the flier, which you can see at TPM Document Collection. It’s got a picture of Bill Clinton campaigning with Lieberman, and it runs through a list of issues meant to bolster Lieberman’s cred with African-Americans. For instance: “Lieberman has fought throughout his entire career to knock down barriers, stop discrimination and extend the promise of America to everyone.”

The back side of the flier asks, “What is Ned Lamont’s civil rights record?” The answer: “For years, he didn’t pay as much attention to race … until he got into the Senate race.” The flier cites a New York Times article in which Lamont acknowledged that he’d recently resigned from a country club that had a predominantly white membership. At the bottom of the flier are the words “Paid for and authorized by friends of Joe Lieberman.”

Would that piece of information been of use to your readers? That the context of the black face photoshop was race-bating from the Lieberman campaign? Ah, but that would detract from your theme of the leftie blogosphere being, as the Queen of All Xenophobia would put it, “unhinged.”

A number of us have been wondering when the Post plans to publish a similar piece on the rightie blogosphere? If such a piece is being contemplated, and I doubt that it is, allow me to suggest some possible themes:

Do write if you need help doing research and stuff.

Love always,
AltHippo

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2 Responses to “Dear Washington Post”

  1. babygreen9 Says:
    August 3rd, 2006 at 3:14 pm

    Dear Washington Post

    nice..

  2. KCinDC Says:
    August 3rd, 2006 at 4:25 pm

    Are there actually country clubs in Connecticut that don’t have a predominantly white membership? Is there something wrong with having a predominantly white membership in a place where the population is predominantly white?

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