Kurtz coins phrase: "the Liberal Blogosphere"

[Leopolds Ghost]

I'm sure Howard and Joe Klein have many common interests.

In defense of Joe Klein, Howard Kurtz writes:

The columnist found himself on the defensive last month after suggesting
on ABC's "This Week" that a nuclear option against Iran should remain "on the table."

Klein later wrote that he'd made a mistake and was forced to admit it by "all the
left-wing screeching" from "frothing bloggers." While bloggers can be "a valuable
corrective," he wrote, at other times "your vitriol just seems uninformed, malicious and disproportionate."

He had already drawn the ire of the liberal blogosphere by writing that
former House speaker Newt Gingrich has plenty of great ideas. A one-time liberal
who concedes in his book that he once might have been "in the tank" for Bill Clinton,
Klein says he is now a moderate -- but not, he insisted in the interview,
"some sort of creepy, covert conservative."

[Syrinx]

1. wow, the "blogosphere" is liberal too?

We control everything. SWEET!

[shance]

2. Definition of anyone who disagrees with Kurtz = "The Liberal Blogosphere"

"Right versus Left" and "Liberal versus Conservative" and other labels are essentially used to divide people and keep individuals pitted against one another.

[Syrinx]

3. you have succinctly summed up basic Republican strategy

Good work. :hi:

[hfojvt]

4. you are joking, right?

The term is surely much older than a recent column. In fact when I googled it I found a mention of DU saying the liberal blogosphere was going to raise money for Hurricane Katrina relief.
Wiki has the history of the root word, although no mention of the first person to modify it with the adjective 'liberal'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogosphere

[watrwefitinfor]

5. "creepy, covert conservative"

is a much more innovative and useful phrase. Any way to make it stick where it needs to?

Wat

[Senator]

6. It takes a Creepy, Covert, Conservative...

...to deny being a Creepy, Covert Conservative.

Because the creepiest part is not realizing you've become one.

If it quacks like a duck...

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