skippy the bush kangaroo

Friday, January 13, 2006

isosceles a puddy tat

peter daou is still lamenting (perhaps rightly so) the lack of support for progressive bloggers from the top-down media and the democratic leadership:

the nsa scandal and the alito confirmation hearings are just two more examples of the left’s broken triangle and of the isolation of the progressive netroots. a flurry of activity among bloggers, online activists, and advocacy groups is met with ponderously inept strategizing by the democratic leadership and relentless - and insidious - repetition by the media of pro-gop narratives and soundbites. it's slow-motion-car-wreck painful, and most certainly not where the left's triangle should be a half decade into the new millennium, as the bush-propping machine hums and whirrs, poll numbers rise and fall, iraq bleeds, scandal dissolves into scandal, terror speech blends into terror speech. the landscape is there for everyone to see, to analyze. enough time has elapsed to make the system transparent. it is dismaying for netroots activists to see the same mistakes repeated despite the benefit of hindsight.

true, it's incredibly frustrating to read the blogs, find good, hard facts to support one's point of view, and also find incredibly well-thought out, succinct, and often times hilarious (certainly well-written) arguments and talking points to refute the lies and misinformation that is being bandied about on an hourly basis in the corporate top-down media.

but, as we admonished some dkos readers yesterday, it takes time to change the course of a huge battleship like the ss public opinion:

believe it or not, blogs are the media...

not a big part...not the most important part...not the loudest part...not even the part that works the best.

but you can bet that whatever shift to the left (however slight it has been, yet there has been such a shift) that has occurred in the past 4 years has been due entirely to skippy the bush kangaroo.

ok, we're speaking metaphorically here, and we never met a '4' we didn't rate, but all blogs (including our own) have had an effect.

why else would there be actual blogging segments on cable news shows? why else would print media reference the bigger blogs? why else would the corporate top-down media dismiss them so adamantly?

so, all we are saying is, don't feel powerless. be realistic. we still operate by the golden rule, ie, whoever has the gold makes the rules, and that goes double for media. we can't take on the corporate power structure face to face, toe to toe. they're billionaires. we're broke.

we have to do it like we're doing it...death by nibbling of a thousand thousand ducks.

we are making a difference. have patience, grasshopper.

we love quoting ourselves!

posted by skippy at 9:55 AM |