Post's Weblog Review: Biased or Uninformed?

Now here's an interesting little oversight straight from the pages of the Washington Past's website. In a discussion over how poorly the Republicans are performing on reaching internet surfers, Mr. Vargas only mentions one of the two largest Leftwing Blogs Markos Moulitsas Zuniga's dailyKos(the one which has received the Democrat stamp of approval for reasons I'll get to later) and only one of several very successful Conservative blogs, Hugh Hewitt's "Townhall.com."

Notably missing is the largest Conservative political blog according to Alexa, Jim Robinson's freerepublic.com, and two of the largest second tier (maybe they are really the one-and-a-half tiered sites, the outrageous and even more hate laden Leftwing extremist blog, democraticunderground.com. and another Conservative blog Ace of Spades. Visitors to democraticunderground.com will quickly discover that the denizens that haunt that webpage are even more hateful, extreme, and more clearly typify the Left-wing Moonbat than do those who post their vile hatred on dailyKos. dailyKos has for that reason gained the unofficial stamp of approval of the Democrat Party and the website wields considerable power over the back channels of the DNC agenda.

Jim Robinson's freerepublic.com is perhaps the longest running political blog-site community on the web, it is certainly still the grand champion in rankings though it is now being challenged more and more by both dailyKos and Townhall.

Anyway, here is the Washington Past's article:

Online, GOP Is Playing Catch-Up
Democrats Have Big Edge on Web

By Jose Antonio Vargas
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, May 21, 2007; Page A01

When David All, a former Republican congressional aide, launched a blog recently that he hopes will spur his fellow Republicans to bridge the digital divide, he did his best to sound upbeat. "Today our Revolution begins," he wrote. "Tomorrow we fight."

But implicit in his cheerleading was the acknowledgment that there is a widening gap between Democrats and Republicans on the Internet, and that his party will have to scramble to catch up. "For the most part Republicans are stuck in Internet circa 2000," he said in an interview.

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If conservatives have mastered talk radio -- with Limbaugh as the undisputed king of the AM dial -- those on the left hope to achieve the same dominance on the Internet. Daily Kos, a sounding board for opposition to Bush and the Iraq war, among other topics, leads most political blogs in Web traffic and notoriety. Last year, the site spawned Yearly Kos, the first political blogger convention. Its founder, Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, refers to himself as the site's "mayor," with everyone else "doing their own thing, managing their own projects, while I keep the plumbing running.

Moulitsas will concede the influence of conservative blogs and Web sites in the successful attack on Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) during his 2004 presidential campaign, when he was accused of exaggerating his service record during the Vietnam War, and on CBS News for its reporting on Bush's war record. He also concedes that Republicans have their own popular blogs, such as InstaPundit, RedState and Michelle Malkin's -- sites, he asserts, that are parts "of the Republican noise machine, affiliated to talk radio and Fox News." Malkin, the doyenne of the conservative blogosphere, is a frequent contributor to Fox News.

Here is a graph from Alexa comparing these five weblogs by traffic rankings over the past 6 months.

Thought the colors are difficult to distinguish here, the Red line is dailyKos.com, the darker blue line is freerepublic.com, the lighter blue line is Townhall.com. the greenish line is democraticunderground.com, and the black line is Ace of Spades.

The article mentions Michelle Malkin's weblog which ranks right up there with Ace of Spades and DU (the denizens of democraticunderground.com are referred to a "DU'ers", and they refer to the citizens of freerepublic.com ans "freepers"). He also mentions the Huffington Post which is really the juggernaut of the Left-wing blogsites, though it is more of a mainstream Dem. site than DU or dailyKos.

Here are the Rankings according to Alexa:

1. Huffington Post - #2709
2. WorldNetDaily - #4222
3. dailyKos - #4394
4. freerepublic - #5365
5. Townhall - #6929
6. Rushlimbaugh - #9934 (of course it's his radio program which makes him so formidable)
7. littlegreenfootballs - #13466
8. democraticunderground - #14156
9. Ace of Spades - #16466
10. Michelle Malkin - #21488

It becomes readily apparent that neither side dominates the web. Of course this doesn't include the Left-wing non-blog Mainstream news sites like, CNN.com, New York Time, FoxNews, Washington Post, Forbes, and the Drudge Report, or the Leftward biased news wings of Google.com Youtube, and Yahoo.com all of whom are in the top 100 sites.

Perhaps where Mr. Vargas does get it right, is that the mainstream Republicans are not paying as close attention to their constituents' blogs as are the Democrats. The "Kossack" as they like to refer to themselves exert a huge influence upon the mainstream Democrat Party. They were the prime movers behind the "dump Senator Joe Lieberman" movement and were partially successful, as they and those who worked with them did manage to knock Senator Lieberman out of the Democrat slot during the Democrat primary.

If the Republicans want to win the next election, they need to begin to pay attention to what their grass-roots Conservatives are telling them. Rush Limbaugh has it right, the American people do not want this horrible immigration legislation as it stands now.

The whole reason there is a rush to get this bill through Congress is so that the American people cannot find out what it is really about to do. The Democrats have been listening to their grass-roots bloggers and it paid off during the 2006 elections however, I hope sincerely that they continue to listen to these most Liberal of bloggers for the next election and adopt more of their goofy extremist agenda.

Republicans are strongest when they hold steadfast to their Conservative base. By spending like drunken sailors and adopting "moderate" legislation, they have alienated their base. The primary reason Democrats w0n the 2006 election was the large number of stay-at-home Conservatives who believed that they would succeed in sending a message to the Republican Party.

Apparently the message failed to take hold, because those same Republicans are still trying to out Democrat the Democrats.

Wake up you Repbulicans and read our blogs or you will surely suffer the same fate that you suffered last year.

Long Live This American Republic!!

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