Liberal bloggers declare war in Philly over media, McCain (Eschaton}

[babylonsister]

Liberal bloggers declare war in Philly over media, McCain


The primary battle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama seems far from over (no matter what the numbers say), the war in Iraq just marked its grim 5th anniversary with renewed bloodshed, and a host of issues from domestic spying to the U.S. attorney scandal are still up in the air, too.

No matter. A group of some 150 top liberal political bloggers gathered in Philadelphia this morning, and they declared a new war before there is anything remotely resembling a ceasefire in the old struggles. The focus is GOP presidential candidate John McCain – but that’s the strategic goal of the campaign, not the new tactical weapons.

The left-wing blogosphere is declaring an all-out war against the mainstream media – desperately concerned that inside-the-Beltway reporter-love for D.C. fixture McCain is already creating too large a mountain for any Democratic nominee to scale.

“This campaign is not going to be between the Democrats and the Republicans,” said Philadelphia’s Duncan Black, who writes under the name Atrios and whose highly popular progressive political blog, named Eschaton, inspired the gathering of bloggers and political activists called Eschacon '08.

It’s between the Democrats and the media.”

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http://www.attytood.com/2008/03/liberal_bloggers_declare_war_i.html

[stellanoir]

1. He's right

McCain has been awarded total carte blanche on the Keating 5, his fundraising practices, his war mongering, and Vicky Iseman who's completely fallen off the planet entirely.

Both Clinton and Obama have had droves more scrutiny.

The media wants 100 more years of war or so it seems.

[creeksneakers2]

2. Fantastic

The media won't ever let go of its bias for the right until the public puts an end to it.

[riverdeep]

3. Well, there's a race on the Dem side, hence, still intrigue.

There's nothing the media loves more than a horse race. The time they spend talking about strategy could be spent on informing, but hey, that's no fun. Not that I don't think the media isn't going to give McCain a lighter hand, but right now it's other factors at work, too.