Centerfield

Push-blogging at Poligazette

Over the last month or so, I've spent a fair amount of time surfing Poligazette because of the number of interesting political threads they provide. This despite their wretched interface which disallows much html and will not recognize my paragraph breaks. Our good friends and expatriates at Stubborn Facts are semi-regular visitors there, as well as being some sort of partners. Good site, contentwise, or so it seemed until recently.

Over the last couple weeks, Poligazette has undertaken an increasingly relentless anti-Obama push-blogging effort. In the last week, each day holds multiple posts negative to Obama, almost invariably including the featured above-the-bar headline post. I found the "liar, liar, pants on fire" backdrop especially mature.

IMO, several of their regular posters have utterly abandoned any semblance of objectivity. It seems primarily focused against Obama, and not all that interested in actually plumping Hillary in most cases. So I'll be interested to see where these obsessions migrate after the conventions.

The most interesting and indeed amusing part of Poligazette's blatant push-blogging efforts is the comments they elicit. I've done my best to deliver the hearty skepticism they deserve, but I'm far from alone. Many responses range from doubt to ridicule. Not too many folks seem eager to agree, but they've been blithely ignored by the thread leaders in the vast majority of cases.

So I gotta say, it smells a little stoogy over there these days. But then I think Mike VdG would cheerfully acknowledge his eagerness to stop Obama. Maybe if he'd just sprinkle in a soupcon of objectivity, just for variety's sake. In that absence, they've got me feeling cranky.