The Oil Drum

HuffingtonP is constructive criticism? Last time I checked it was a promotional tool, but hey, what isn't on god's green earth? It's just another website amongst a myriad of liberal websites that do nothing but make themselves feel good. It's as bad as the National Review, or worse, The Weekly Standard. Commentary is maybe better.

The O'Rielly Report
Hardball with Chris Matthews
Drudge Report
HuffingtonPost...

I sense a pattern here--mindlessness. That is to say, the diffusion of liberalism by the dilution of its ideals into the same type of extremist tactics the right makes use of, which the left is now attempting to use to disengeniously somehow prop-up Democrats. The Left uses this to its own detriment. HuffP is only one of many examples... I know this isn't supposed to be a political website (even if many of the issues involving PO dwell directly on politics)--I only made the snide remark because the Energy Bulletin article linked to the Learsy piece and was obviously published in HuffP in response to Learsay's drivel. I am a bleeding heart liberal who is simply voicing an opinion.

prole, you have a problem with me stating my opinion of Arianna Huffington? I'll do it again, then, because I like to be disobedient. She is fake. Her website of celebrities is a pox on liberalism. There is sincerity, concern, and then their is faking it for your ego. Perhaps I'm a bigot, and I cede that to you. I just think the "liberalism" and "conservatism" of this modern era is so overflowing with fakeness that it is disheartening to pile on in a partisan manner, since it takes a bipartisan effort to achieve this level of duplicity and cultural languish... IMHO the strong critical opinion against both parties from respective partisan sides are to a large degree so accurate--which is what creates the self-propogating feedback loop of political polizarization (along with, of course, a myriad of social and political issues which no one wants to, or can possibly, address...) There is an inability to stop bickering and start action precisely because the Democrats are unwilling, or don't have the power base (or both) to really push for change--for PO, let alone in Iraq--although they are sort of trying and it's not really clear what they would do if given commanding power of the war (the executive branch). We all go and push ourselves into our preconceived boxes of ideology because of childish indulgence epitomized by Huffington and her hideous website. I remember the day it first "came online", just a few years ago... Oh god, I thought, here is another lame liberal website which will do nothing to help the Left except allow Arriana Huffington to cast a wider social network to throw dinner parties for... The Carter Admin killed the real "liberalism" when it went Carter Doctrine and everything got mucked up with Iran, seeds planted in the 50s, during the Reagan 80s the Left creates the DLC to move rightward, the right moves further to the right, in anticipation of PO after Bush Sr. loses... Henceforth from Carter, rabid-eyed conservatives have been able to essentially run this country for the last three decades (save 8 years of corporate DLC blow-jobing and the occasional scud missile--see, the criticism is accurate, and they have the dress... whether it is constructive, you're right, an entirely different matter.) Liberals shouldn't hide behind the fact that "our party", the Democrats, as Lucy was repeatedly told, "has som explain' to do!"... Yes, the republicans are also frauds (creationist, science denigrating ones at that).

Do you want to defend Learsy or Huber? Go right ahead, lets start a reading club--it's going to be mighty boring because guess what? They're both goddamn idiots, period. You know it, and I know it. We all know it. How's that for denigrating? [Casting out some hearty flamebait, I wonder if I'll get a bite.]

And, for the record, in case anyone else wanted to know aside from you, I have founded zero "constructive criticism websites...lately"--nor do I plan to. And does this world need more "constructive criticism websites"? I don't think so. By your implication, aren't the celebs et al over at HuffyP already taking care of that for me? For now, I think TOD churns out enough constructive criticism--and I'm glad we're both here to do our part. :-D