The conservative end of the blogosphere has always outshone its opposite counterpart with respect to flamboyance of sentiment. It's true that you can go check out Daily Kos on most any given day and find a few recommended posts of dubious logical worth - user diaries too often fall under the general categories of Stories About People The Diarist Knows Who Have Lost Their Jobs or Rambling Demands For the Public Option, and of these, way too damned many end with angry/triumphant/offended rhetorical flourishes expressed in bold and all caps. But as an entity, Daily Kos works - hundreds of regular contributors continue to do an incalculable amount of exposing, advocating, fundraising, muckraking, organizing, and all those other things that a political movement needs done, and the vast majority of the official content in particular is reasonably expressed and thoroughly sourced.
The conservative equivalent of Daily Kos would be RedState.com, which has far fewer users but nonetheless makes up for its logistical shortfalls by way of an absolutely mind-blowing failure of collective self-awareness. For instance, this user diary was posted last week to general acclaim and endless upvoting:
Earlier this evening, as most of you now know, one of our own, Rush Hudson Limbaugh, while taking withering fire, crashed and burned.
Tonight, Rush is no longer just a radio personality.
Tonight, Rush is no longer just a NFL owner denied
Tonight, Rush is us. And we are him.Tonight Rush became the metaphor for all of us
every man woman and child in this great nation of ours.
A quick reminder - based on the number of recommendations made by users, this is one of the best-received pieces that Red State has ever run. But I'm interrupting:
The enemy of this great nation, the enemy of you and me, Rushs enemy
those on the left, inside and outside of this nation abhor success
and when faced with it will destroy it
by any and all means possible.
We all have our dreams in life
such as they might be. Rush dreamed of being an owner in the NFL.
Tonight the left proved that they will stop at nothing to end our dreams. Our dreams of success and happiness devastate their need to dominate and control you and me
and well everything and everyone.
Even beyond Red State, the piece was heavily forwarded, quoted, cited, praised and promoted by some great number of our fellow citizens.
Chrysler bondholders
GM dealers
Bankers and stockbrokers
Small business owners
Medical Doctors
Oppressed people wanting freedom around the world
The left can not and will not allow anyone to realize their dreams
Tonight a light went out
a dream died
it died from political correctness
Tonight we are under withering fire, we on the right those in the middle,
Tonight our values are under withering fire, those thoughts ideas and dreams that made this great nation are under withering fire
Will your light of your dreams be next?
Will my dreams be next?
Inevitably, the article ends with the old poem that begins, "First they came for the communists..." And it does so without a hint of irony or even the sense that such a thing as irony exists.
Anyway, there you have it. Our nation must be cleansed by fire. END TRANSMISSION LOL