LYNN SISLO REINVENTS ANTI-IDIOTARIANISM:

I don’t think I’ve actually shifted to the Right. It’s just that since September 11 the Right has done a much better job of shutting up their lunatic fringe, while the common sense Left has gone into hiding and let their lunatics take over. So the Left is worried about the Right dominating the blogosphere. . . .

I come across lefty blogs all the time. I’ve even linked a few of them. The “problem” is not that the blogoshpere is dominated by the “Right”, it’s that the blogosphere is dominated by common sense. Let a blogger from the far right start preaching their own brand of lunacy – (Sept. 11 happened because God is angry…Creationism is just as valid as evolution etc.) – and that person is just as likely to get a severe fisking as any of the loonies on the far left.

She then offers some advice for lefties who fear that the blogosphere is hostile to them and their views.

UPDATE: Lynn wonders what I mean by reinventing anti-idiotarianism. I just thought her post resembled this one, from which the term originated:

What bloggers are more than anything, I think, is anti-idiot. That makes life tough for Noam Chomsky, Cornel West, and the Revs. Falwell, Robertson, Jackson, & Sharpton, for reasons that transcend traditional partisanship and ideology.

That’s all.