skippy the bush kangaroo: flame on!

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

flame on!

sometimes we wished we got flame wars in our comments, because then it meant that somebody actually read our blog.

on the other hand, such things can be messy. digby has cut off her comment section to avoid such:

i've been doing this for five years and i've taken enough controversial stances to have received my share of commenter ire. i even have a couple of internet stalkers. but i've never had to deal with the kind of abuse to which many others have been subjected, so i'm not complaining. my regular commenters are the greatest. it just got a little bit too heated and i don't have the inclination to referee flame war, which is what i would take.

a lot of criticism has come my way recently because i won't "endorse" anyone and this has led to people making assumptions about my position. but the truth really is that i am not invested in any of the candidates…

i've been closely following the sexist treatment of hillary clinton in the press --- i always monitor the media narratives and this one was indisputably powerful and instructive. (eric boehlert has a column up about the tweety effect today.) and i've also been critical of some of obama's post-partisan rhetoric because i just disagree with it as a matter of strategic principle, even as i understand why he is doing it. those two things seem to have led readers to believe that i am a biased, possibly paid, closet clinton shill, which is what turned the comment section into a war zone.

we understand. tho we haven't had anything close to a "flame war," we have had an obama supporter totally dismiss our post on how the mmm creates a false framing of racism as somehow negative towards obama (when the very next post was about how the senator actually won more delegates in nevada than sen. clinton).

so we can relate to the passion, and sometimes lack of perspective, of the voters in this presidential campaign. but we really mourn the lack of comments on digby's fine blog.

because it's one of the best blogwhoring venues we have, and now we'll just have to got to crooks&liars more.

Labels: blogtopia, digby, prez campaign, technology

posted by skippy at 8:41 PM |

5 Comments:

No comment.

commented by

Anonymous, 12:52 AM PST

How could anyone say such a mean spirited thing anon.? "No comment," indeed!

commented by

Connecticut Man1, 7:38 AM PST

Digby's post brought to mind a post I wrote a while back about Prophets and Kingmakers.

Incidentally, I got an e-mail from Jon Swift about the first anniversary of Blogroll Amnesty Day a little while ago. Unless there's a major shift in the alignment of the planets, I'm unlikely to have a post for that, but I ask that if you do post something, you please crosspost it at the Independent Bloggers' Alliance.

commented by

Renee in Ohio, 8:37 AM PST

Blogwhoring at crooks and lairs makes me feel twice as dirty. But I still do it. I can't look at my bloggy self in the mirror.

commented by

Frederick, 10:18 AM PST

I had wondered what happened to the Hullabaloo comments. Another example of why it always pays to check Skippy.

commented by

Dean, 10:18 AM PST

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