I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Yeesh... all those people who say InstaPutrid is influential to them? Then again, this isn't a poll on the most intelligent, just the most influential.
Aren't automated rankings much more accurate?
Well, considering Atrios was a star in the Trent Lott episode cited in the lede, it's kind of absurd that he wasn't included.
And what's Lileks doing left of center? And why is Talking Points on the blogging side instead of the journalism side?
Hmmm....
I think this column was written by Jayson Blair...
Atrios, yours will always be the #1, best darn blog in the universe, even if those crazy cats don't know it.
Glad to see Slashdot's in there, so it's not just a politico bias.
If they would let you that club, why would you want to join?
STUPID SID'S FIND WRITING
WHAT A FUCKING DOPE
(FROM AN AMUSING REVIEW IN CITY JOURNAL OF SID THE SHARK'S UNINTENTIONALLY FUNNY BOOK)
Here he is recalling Hillary Clinton’s decision to run for the Senate, doing his hilarious impression of a twittering West Wing sycophant: “She was, like millions of others, drawn to the greatest city of all. (She discovered that her Rodham ancestor from England had landed on Ellis Island.) Her running there could not but flatter New Yorkers’ self-conception. Hillary had spent eight years in Washington. She was shaking those ‘little town blues.’ Now it was time for Broadway.”
Blumenthal also presents his zany overview of history, past and future: “Just as the presidents of the late 20th century operated in the shadow of F.D.R., those of the first part of the 21st century will stand in the shadow of Clinton.” Then there are his pages of ludicrously self-referential photos
Among other blind spots is the vexed issue of Bill’s alleged indiscretions, which Hillary dismisses as agitprop by diabolical foes jealous of her husband’s Christlike aspiration to transform earthly life. Hillary and her advisers have yet to realise that her indifference or malice towards aggrieved working women like Juanita Broaddrick (who claims to have been injured by Bill in an Arkansas hotel room) compromises her status as a proponent of women’s rights, as enunciated in her 1995 speech against sexual violence at the UN World Conference on Women in Beijing. Hillary’s studied avoidance of Broaddrick’s allegations simply strengthens the Clintons’ myriad right-wing enemies, who have taken up Broaddrick’s cause.
But this is only one of many evasions and erasures in the book, which would need a line-by-line Talmudic commentary in the margins to supply all the needed corrections and amplifications. Numerous scandals are given short shrift or go unmentioned: we hear nothing, for example, of Bill’s end-of-office pardons (in which Hillary’s own brother was involved) or the flap over the Clintons’ trucking away of White House furniture, which had to be returned. When Hillary’s missing billing records from the Rose Law Firm, which were long sought by prosecutors, mysteriously turn up in an office near her White House bedroom, she vaguely blames it all on a hapless assistant.
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I know what everybody says, "dont feed the trolls." But: If 21st century presidents are not bound to stand in the shadow of Clinton, why can't you stop talking about him? Also, what's the deal withthe nickname "sid the shark?" It's like you think he's a gangster or something.
Wait - you really do think he's a gangster. That's why you're nuts.
I wouldn't worry about being left out of a classification system in which Calpundit is missing, Kos is conservative, and Lileks is liberal. And Drudge is journalism, for Jebus' sake. Sheesh.
I condemn any rating system that allows Dave Winer to rate his OWN blog as most influential.
Sully rates himself number 1? That about says it all as to the warped-ness of the whole article.
No worries, A. Those of us who know, know.
yeah, letting someone include themselves in a list is ridiculous. it reminds me of Year's Best Fiction where the editors put themselves in. that's so high school literary magazine of them.
don't they know people see right the fuck through that?
Sullivan may rate himself number one, but we all know that I am the internet's most influential blogger. I happen to know that I am read by people from Cleveland, Ohio to Lancaster, PA on a semo-regular basis.
This blog is far more fun and is scary to trolls which means it is effective. Ha.
Also, what's the deal withthe nickname "sid the shark?"
Troll jumps shark. Ha twice
can you say "circle jerk"? I knew you could..
Someone still reads Instacracker?
Oh, it's from USC! That explains a lot...
Silliest lists I've ever seen. And meaningless. Atrios, you rule. And that's why they've tried to make it look as thought you don't count.
yesh. you weren't even on some lists, therefore irrelavent. A blog that brings down a majority leader is clearly the most influencial.
lists are stupid.
I think the professional bloggers, working journalists and pundits like Sullivan, Conason, and Alterman should be in a different catagory. There's an advantage to having a blog on the MSNBC site vs an unknown blogger who's influence has spread by word of mouth or whatever the internet equivilent is.
Word of finger?
and Lonewacko in the sidebar commenting on it all.
Yeah, sounds like a scientific enterprise to me.
Kos is a blog and Drudge is journalism (wouldn't Kos and Steve and Ron's background in journalism count in the stated criteria as, oh, I don't know . . . journalism?). Right. And no Calpundit??
That list/ranking is a joke (with appologies to jokes, which are at least funny).
I am so with you,rolex watch
luxury watch yesh. you weren't even on some lists, therefore irrelavent. A blog that brings down a majority leader is clearly the most influencial
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