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Not so long ago “Red” used in it’s capital form usually referred to Communism. So since the name of this new blog is “Red America”, I must ask–Red as in Red China?
March 21st, 2006 at 1:15 pmNo Red as in squinty-eyed, subhuman, bigoted Red Neck.
March 21st, 2006 at 1:19 pmThey can put up a thousand rightwing bloggs, it won’t change the truth. 29% and falling, the people have spoken.
March 21st, 2006 at 1:20 pmHoward Kurtz in the Washington Post looks at the buffeting of John McCain (”Maligning McCain”) and claims “the left is trying to rough him up a bit.” The growing criticism of McCain is not without good reason.
For the full story, see:
March 21st, 2006 at 1:21 pm“The Prostitution of John McCain.”
Ah yes, those confederate flag-waving “patriotic” Red Necks.
March 21st, 2006 at 1:23 pmGo liberal media!!!!!!!!!!!
March 21st, 2006 at 1:27 pmJust waht we need ANOTHER right wing blog.
March 21st, 2006 at 1:34 pm#5 You got that right. Wherever there is a trailer park and a gun rack in the back o f a pickup here in TN, there are republicans. The beer swilling dunderheads that beat their dogs to the tunes of Opryland. Yeeeeeeeehaaaaaaw
March 21st, 2006 at 1:35 pmThey should rename that blog to White Power.
March 21st, 2006 at 1:37 pmThis sounds like more a business decision than one based on political motives. If the post wants to draw more readership, what better way to do it? I thought there was this thing called freedom of the press in this country or do liberals want to suppress that?
March 21st, 2006 at 1:37 pmWho cares, they are just a bunch of drooling rednecks with little to say. They even bore each other. Why else would they spend so much time here?
March 21st, 2006 at 1:39 pmWasn’t there a time when the south voted democratic?
March 21st, 2006 at 1:41 pmI notice that blog, unlike every other on the post, does not allow comments. Is silence of dissent part of the new America red staters envision?
March 21st, 2006 at 1:42 pm#12 That’s right. These rednecks like to call themselves the “Party of Lincoln” but if you look at Lincoln’s electoral map, it is nearly identical to John Kerry’s and Al Gore’s.
March 21st, 2006 at 1:43 pmWhat – the Post hasn’t been conservative enough? They have one opinion writer who is liberal and they feel the need to offset his writing with an ultra- conservative blogger. The name is a little reminiscent of the old communist scare isn’t it, where everything “red” was wrong?
March 21st, 2006 at 1:51 pmThey prove over and over again that the media is not liberal, and has not been liberal since the days of Richard Nixon.
Edsall’s “defense” of the new blog reads like he’s typing with a broomstick handle from the far side of the room.
“Not my job. Mumble, mumble. Publishing’s a funny business. Hem. Haw. Say, how ’bout them Steelers?”
March 21st, 2006 at 1:52 pm#12 – Dems lost the south when LBJ decided to pursue JFK’s civil rights cause. I’ll see if I can find a link.
March 21st, 2006 at 1:55 pmRight wing morons who think they can write seem to be something of a national resource.
March 21st, 2006 at 1:57 pm.
Do you think he’ll take the time to post this great little FLASH ditty I found that details the usual string of frickin’ GOP criminal legal battles that are currently ongoing or have already wrapped with GUILTY VERDICTS?
I wonder.
Click below to check out the video:
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March 21st, 2006 at 1:59 pmI sent the following email:
Why no comments on your Red Crap blog?
I promise to be nice:)
March 21st, 2006 at 2:06 pmman read the track backs underneath the article – scary (I can see why they won’t allow comments, unable to spin bs with out getting covered in shit)
March 21st, 2006 at 2:09 pmCan thinkprogress leave a trackback? No? No comments either. This man does not like dissent!
March 21st, 2006 at 2:14 pmThat seems terribly irresponsible for a publication like the Washington Post to do, especially given the division in our country today. I’ve never associated right or left to many of the major old media outlets. I had thought the goal of our media was to present ideas from all sides, to inform and educate the citizens of this country, so they could make intelligent, informed decisions. I mean, how can you have a Democracy if there isn’t transparency and informed citizens?
I would hope they would see the benefit of then also a left-wing blog, libertarian blog, Green blog, etc.
March 21st, 2006 at 2:20 pmBelieve it or not, people down here in the Southern states are starting to catch on to the Republican Party’s BS. Of course, there is no telling how long that might last. As soon as the Republicans start bringing up social issues like gun control, gay marriage, and abortion again, these same people are gonna whore themselves out yet again to the GOP. When are these people in the South gonna realize that voting for politicians based on one’s stance pretaining to social issues doesn’t put food on the table, gas in the tank, or produce healthy national parks.
I’m from Alabama. I was born and raised in the rural South. I’ve lived around Republican voters my entire life. I used to be a Bush-lover. Bush ensnared me with his rethoric centered around the gun-contol issue. Of course, I grew out of all of it. I stopped being a Republican. I started seeing Bush for what he really was: A lying, heartless, corrupt, dominionist, athoritarian, facist, phalienx. I became a Libertarian Party member and later after leaving the Libertarian Party, I started reading Al Frankin, Bill Moyer, Micheal Moore, and Ralph Nader. I became a public citizen, a civil activist, an anarchist, and a staunch Progressive Liberal Economic Populist Democrat. I started watching Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now and logging on to AlterNet.org for my news. I learned my history and took a philosophy class. I read books by Noam Chomsky.
Looking back at myself 4 years ago, it is hard to believe that I was ever a Bushite. What on God’s green Earth was I thinking?! I’ve matured mentally and phisically, and since then I have devoted my life to the fall of the Neo-Con/Corporate Cabal that now runs this country. All Republican voters have one thing in common: They are all very ill-informed.
What I am trying to say is that if I was able to change, there is hope yet for all my other fellow RedNecks. I’m a RedNeck. I changed. There is real potential for radical Leftist social change here in the South. I know there is. Look at me. I’m living proof.
March 21st, 2006 at 2:32 pm#24 The South voted for Clinton. And yes, they are certainly not happy here in TN with Frist and the like.
March 21st, 2006 at 2:35 pmThe South was heavily Democratic at one time, and in a way it still is. The Republicans never did pull off a complete 180 in the Southern states and they never will as long as there are a few Southern folk like Bill Moyer and Jim Hightower who never gave up their common sense. Believe me my Leftist Brethren. The fun has just begun. I’m fightin with tooth and nail.
March 21st, 2006 at 2:39 pmI read the Wa Po’s links on line. I won’t pay for their stuff though.
It isn’t a blog if you don’t allow comments…..
March 21st, 2006 at 2:41 pmWelcome to the “club” Matthew. one thing about us “progressives”, we don’t agree with each other 100% of the time either.
So if someone gets a little shrill about something you don’t like….let ‘em know. That’s a way to keep each other on a reality check.
March 21st, 2006 at 2:45 pmIt’s time to dump the Washington Post. They were among the chief cheerleaders for this war, and time and time again they shill for this administration. Woodward, Vandehei, all the rest of them are Republicans. They have no shame, and we should move on. May their circulation go down, down, down.
March 21st, 2006 at 3:51 pmwhat are they gonna Blog about Bush Spending? Fiscal Conservation? Lobbyists? Hmm.
So they are creating a Blog that supports Large Government, Backloaded taxes, Huge Increases of Deficit, Corrupt Lobbyists,
Shadow Budget ['emergency' spending] and a President who Lies?
I guess also they could talk about creating ‘tax free’ charities for fraud, or Maybe like the republican junior college they can also set up fraudulent charities and funds.
March 21st, 2006 at 4:25 pmMaybe they can blog about ways to screw casinos and build bridges to nowehere. Maybe they can talk about Bushes poll numbers?
A firestorm of people laughing @ A right Wing Blog is more like it.
Especially when that Blog is coming from “Librul” Media no Less!
hHahhHHHHHHAAAAA!!!!!
March 21st, 2006 at 4:28 pmTooo Damn Funny.
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Rep. Bob Ney (R-Ohio), for having his spokesman issue an ex-planation for a curiosity on his financial disclosure forms, which showed that the representative had reported a $30,000 debt but then experienced a conspicuous streak of luck during a fleeting visit to a private high-stakes casino. The congressman, according to his flack, placed two bets, the first at $100, and won $34,000 in a three-card “game of chance.â€
Rep. Jeff Miller (R-Fla.), for taking issue with Katrina survivors at a congressional hearing when they compared their temporary housing to concentration camps. “Not a single person was marched into a gas chamber and killed,†Miller explained.
Senator Larry Craig (R-Idaho), for eliminating the $1.3 million funding (and all future funding) for the Fish Passage Center, which carried out a simple count of endangered salmon on the Columbia and Snake rivers, calculating the fish’s decline. Craig—who, during his last campaign, received more money from energy groups than from any other industry and was honored by the National Hydropower Association as “Legislator of the Yearâ€â€”accused fisheries scientists of “advocacy,†arguing that “false science leads people to false choices.â€
Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas), for claiming that he’d never met Jack Abramoff when it became public that political fixer Ralph Reed had assured Abramoff in an email, “We have also choreographed Cornyn’s response.â€
WINNER! Bob Ney, who allegedly helped Abramoff’s casino clients, has refused to elaborate on his casino visit because of the “national security implications.â€
March 21st, 2006 at 4:28 pmThe right have to call every thing threy own RED because of the 8.200,000,000,000 debt they have. Man that is a hell of a lot of red ink in those books, and since they had to buy all those red pens they figgered that they might as well use it to cover their party.
Red ink = Red Party
March 21st, 2006 at 4:35 pmI guess the Washington Times is really starting to bite into their circulation.
Please.
The once mighty paper has lost its nads. I’ll be Woodward has his own parking spot at the WH.
More on the WH morons that have rolled the media: “Connecting the Dolts.”
March 21st, 2006 at 6:45 pmJust what America needs, another right-wing blog. I don’t care how they spin it, this “administration” will go down as “worse than Nixon”. Don’t fall into Republican thinking, become a DISSENTER.
March 21st, 2006 at 7:54 pm#13,
Yes, everytime I post comments on conservative blogs, they delete them. My comments are civil and within terms of use.
March 22nd, 2006 at 11:44 am…couldn’t resist sending this email to WaPo (blogs@washingtonpost.com):
I don’t particularly care that red state al Crackers need some place to go to make them “feel good” about themselves. What bothers me is when they have to LIE to do it. Red America is about as mendacious, intellectually disingenuous, and politically rabid as its predecessor redstate.org.
Someone should put that inbred Bushite TRAITOR Domenech in touch with reality. Bushite Republiscum and red state conservatives aren’t being treated like, ” pachyderms in the mist – an alien and off-kilter group of suburbanite churchgoers about which little is known”. They’re being treated like the lying, treasonous, anti-American, freedom-hating, criminal Bushite cultists they are.
Lincoln should have finished the job on these racist al Cracker, red state scumbags, then Domenech’s incestuously engineered gene pool would’ve been eradicated.
Shame on the Washington Post for trading in its journalistic integrity for a Faustian bargain. I’ll wager their “bargain” will cost them dearly, as does any bargain that involves the cursed George W. Bush.
March 22nd, 2006 at 12:46 pmMichael
Wow! This was a really enlightening article.
March 27th, 2008 at 12:03 pmMichael
Bravo! Finally a great blog.
April 8th, 2008 at 4:07 am