It’s All About the Wa$hington$

Why do I blog?  It isn’t for the money, that’s for certain.  I run no ads, I do not “bleg,” nor do I lament the time and effort I have contributed to posts within these pages.  I blog to maintain my freedoms, and to highlight abuses or potential restrictions of my freedom, and, if by extension my concerns about individual freedom are in alignment with other individuals concerns about individual freedom, and we therefore contribute to protecting individual freedom from its many State sponsored assaults, so much the better.

Other blogging individuals, who may be referred to as “big liberal bloggers;” for example Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos; associated with the Democratic party, who are willing to spread the ideological socialist idea of the day, appear to be blogging for the big payoff, or for at least a few coins typically so liberally sprinkled by the left to the “needy” of the day.  Case in point.

Some of the leading liberal bloggers are privately furious with the major progressive groups — and in some cases, the Democratic Party committees — for failing to spend money advertising on their sites, even as these groups constantly ask the bloggers for free assistance in driving their message…

“They come to us, expecting us to give them free publicity, and we do, but it’s not a two way street,” Jane Hamsher, the founder of FiredogLake, said in an interview. “They won’t do anything in return. They’re not advertising with us. They’re not offering fellowships. They’re not doing anything to help financially, and people are growing increasingly resentful.”...

“Most want the easy way — having a big blogger promote their agenda,” adds Markos Moulitsas, the founder of DailyKos. “Then they turn around and spend $50K for a one-page ad in the New York Times or whatever.” Moulitsas adds that officials at such groups often do nothing to engage the sites’s audiences by, say, writing posts, instead wanting the bloggers to do everything for them.

So, does this mean that if the “big liberal bloggers” do not receive any lucre from the Democratic party they are simply going to shutdown their blogs, or begin blogging about kittens?

Big Liberal Bloggers Tee Off On Progressive Groups For Not Sharing Ad Wealth

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