The Angry Left?

Oh, Please.

A very good dissection of the Washington Post's attack on liberal bloggers.

"When I first read this article , I thought: what's the point of this? I have nothing against Mary Scott O'Connor, though the Daily Rant is not my style. But why this profile? Why go on and on about 'the Angry Left', as though there was nothing else out there -- or even as though the biggest liberal blogs have much of anything in common with this?

So: a reporter wants to write a story about blogs. He has never actually read a blog, but he had "a phrase weaving in and out of his mind: 'The Angry Left.' Where did this phrase come from? We've already established that it couldn't have come from actually reading blogs. I think we can exclude omniscience, mind-reading, and divine revelation. What's left? All I can think of are: the reporter's preconceptions. He had this idea that there was an 'angry left' out there, and he set out to find it."

And they got a photo of Mary Scott looking wild-eyed and splashed it all over. It reminds me of the press's destruction of Howard Dean. So he yelled, so the fuck what? Is there something wrong with being very angry? I think not.