The Political Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Right Blogistan Universe
If you’re relatively new to this political blogging thing, and need a scorecard to keep track of the players on the opposite team, Roy Edroso’s guide is as indispensable as a Lonely Planet guide on your first trip to a third world country.
Roy Edroso of Alicublog has penned a lengthy (but worthwhile and nominally humorous) screed on the right wing blogosphere at Village Voice. His review of Michele Malkin is worth the price of admission (free) all by itself:
MICHELLE MALKIN (michellemalkin.com)
ORIENTATION: Nativist
TONE: Very, very angry
FUN FACT: In 2004, attacked Wonkette’s Ana Marie Cox and her protégée, Washington call girl Jessica Cutler, as “the female Beavis and Butt-head” and “skanks”; was thereafter subjected to years of mercilessly mockery by Wonkette scribes, including doctored photos of Malkin frolicking in a bikini, which were strenuously debunked by her (”updated: tracking the source of the bogus Flickr photos . . . Wonkette editors demonstrate further malice . . .”).
CANDIDATE: None—McCain’s too liberal
STUPID/EVIL RATIO: 97/3…
If you’re relatively new to this political blogging thing, and need a scorecard to keep track of the players on the opposite team, Edroso’s guide is as indispensable as a Lonely Planet guide on your first trip to a third world country.
i loved the Malkin review too, but I thought his ratio of stupid.evil was a little bit off.
This is after all a woman who drove someone to suicide, printed antiwar protestors’ addresses and phone numbers in an effort to intimidate them, and helped swiftboat a 12-year old for receiving S-CHIP.
I would say her stupid evil is 35/65. She’s very evil.