The seeds of the new progressive blogosphere
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(cross-posted at Reclusive Leftist)
A list is taking shape of those political bloggers who are either pro-Hillary or at least fair in their coverage of the candidates — in other words, bloggers who aren’t raving Clinton-hating Obamabots. Versions of this emerging blogroll are popping up here and there; the one below is cobbled together from lists at Tennessee Guerilla Women, The Hillary 1000, and a couple of other places.
Why does this list matter? It’s not merely a question of knowing where to go for misogyny-free political commentary. These are the seeds of a new progressive blogosphere in the making. The Obamabots are poisoning the original netroots, transforming what used to be an arena for progressive politics into nothing more than a rabid, mindless He-Man Woman-Haters club. The Democratic Party — or at least the high-visibility Obamabot segment — is morphing into the Young Republicans: all the misogyny and callowness and ignorance and blind hero-worship of the old GOP, but with a self-congratulatory aura of imaginary cool to make the YouTube generation feel at home.
And where does that leave the women of America?
I’m going to have more to say about that in the coming days. But right now I just want to get a start on that list. It’s very much a work in progress, so feel free to help me out with suggestions. Who else should be here? Who doesn’t belong?
Acid Test
All Progressives (added)
Always For Hillary
American Girl in Italy (added)
Anglachel
Angry For A Reason
Anythings.org
Apostate
Astarte’s Circus (added)
Bartcop
Blather Watch (added)
Bligbi (added)
Blue Girl
Blue Lyon
Blue Spot (added)
Bud White’s World (added)
Buck Naked Politics
Buzz Machine
Clyde’s Place
Common Sense Gram
Corrente
Daily Howler
Delilah Boyd
Democratic Central
Democratic Daily
Democratic Wings
Digby
Donna Darko
Dorothy Surrenders
Doublejointed Fingers (added)
Echidne
Elizabitchez
Evil Nerdy Feminist Crap
Feminist Law Professors
Firedoglake
Heidi Li’s Potpourri (added)
Hillary Clinton News (added)
Hillary is 44 (added)
Hillary 1000
Hillary’s Bloggers
Hillary’s Voice
HillBuzz (added)
Hireheels (added)
Historiann
Horizontal World
Hot Brains for Hillary
I Have an Opinion
InsightAnalytical (added)
Iron My Vote (added)
Jac’s Notepad (added)
James Wolcott
Katalusis
Konagod
Korean Power 999
Lance Mannion
Liberal Rapture (added)
Mad Kane
Make Them Accountable
Men for Hillary
Meta Watershed (added)
Mojave Wolf
MOMocrats
MyDD
1950 Democrat (added)
No Blood for Hubris
No More Apples
No Quarter
NYC Weboy
Opinions Unlimited
Orcinus (added)
Pizza Diavola
Pocochina
Political Discontent
Politwix (added)
Positively Blasphemous (added)
Prairie Angel
Progressive Involvement
PunditMom (added)
Random Babble
Rebel Central (added)
Reclusive Leftist
Republic of Dogs
Riverdaughter
Rochester Turning
Roseanne World
Roxie’s World
Savage Politics
Seeing The Forest
Shakespeare’s Sister
Shapely Prose
Soap Box Blog
Suburban Guerilla
Sugar N Spice
Super Gram to the Rescue (added)
Talk Left
Taylor Marsh
Tennessee Guerilla Women
Texas Darlin
That’s me on the left! (added)
The City Edition (added)
The Crone Speaks
The Left Coaster
The Moderate Voice
The Political Vigilante
The Redstar Perspective
The Sideshow (added)
Third Estate Sunday Review (added)
Tom Watson
Unapologetically Female
Uppity Woman (added)
West and Divided
What Is Rhetoric?
WhiskeyTangoFoxtrotOscar
Winding Road (added)
Writhe Safely (added)



This is an awesome concept!! The idea that Obama has claimed to own (and been crowned by party powers entitled to) the progressive wing of the party has bothered me greatly for weeks.
Guess who’s campaign and work as President is going to empower the greatest number of followers?