Interesting from LAT: Convention "Blog Watch"

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Convention Blog Watch
Views of the Republican National Convention from cyberspace.

By John Kephart and Joseph M. Russin
Monday, August 30, 2004 | 6:45 p.m.


For those seeking a view of what all the key bloggers are up to, Technorati is keeping track of the most linked subjects and blogs. It's all laid out in pretty charts and graphs. Topping the charts is a New York Times story reporting two degrees of separation between conservative columnist Robert Novak and the publisher of the anti-Kerry book "Unfit for Command."

Joshua Marshall of Talking Points has some interesting things to say about Sen. Kit Bond's speech this afternoon, and he has a sharp comparison between President Bush's claim a month ago to have a "clear vision" on how to win the war on terror and today's admission that "I don't think you can win" the war.


Closely-watched Republicans
Monday, Aug. 30 | 12 p.m.

Matt Stoller, blogging forBlogging of the President found cognitive dissonance in the hall:

So I'm watching the Republican delegates do their waddling dance to disco music, which is the music coming from the fusion of gay and black culture in the 1970s, and I can't help but thinking that there's something not only surreal but completely disconnected in their rhythmic movements. At the DNC, the delegates were awkward, but it was an awkwardness borne of a lack of talent. Here, it's a cruel awkwardness, as the mean-spirit nature of the party platform is completely divorced from the music and rhythm of the convention. Hearing Reverend Louis Sheldon speak ill of homosexuality and then praise Dick Cheney's compassion for his daughter in opposing the FMA was similarly surreal - this is not about principle, for principled hatred would turn on Dick Cheney for traitorous thoughts. No, this is weirder. This is gay-baiters dancing to disco, suppressors of the black vote bringing on black performers, draft dodgers attacking true heroism, all the way to Abu Ghraib voyeurs and perpetrators talking of freedom, democracy, and accountability....

(Excerpts from quite a few more blogs follow.)


http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-election2004-rncblogwatch,1,978784.story?coll=la-home-headlines