And then in the other corner is the staunchly conservative blogger, so starchy and dorky in his Ezra Taft Benson glasses and suit.

He then goes on to deliver the same old Republican talking points at great length with lots of softball questioning followup. Jane is given very little time to do much more than introduce herself and make a brief comment.

It hardly matters, because the actual truth is catching up with the right wing media slant faster than they can wiggle their way out of it.

And I have to go back to how dorky he was .. surely this is not lost on the younger generation? Do they really expect to this to appeal to the next generation of voters?

OkiDave @ 181

Dave in Okinawa delurking here. Here’s the e-mail I just sent to Bluey:

Bluey,

I just saw your You Tube clip of your CNN appearance opposite Jane Hamsher. Here’s a quick question for you: Have you ever served in the U.S. Armed Forces? My guess is no.
…

Semper Fi,

Dave Leipold
Retired grunt,
USMC
Kitanakagusuku,
Okinawa, Japan

Thank you for your service.

Once de-lurked, no going back. Nice piece!

Thank you Dave for your service and loyalty to our country. I am deeply sorry that your loyalty has been manipulated by the Bush administration. They owe all service people an apology for starters.

Hopefully they will pay in hell for the lives that have been lost due to their endless lies.

What was puzzling was CNN’s choice of Bluey.

Why Bluey? Was he the only willing right-wing blogger? Was he the one most likely to reflect a specific point of view, a la Heritage Foundation?

Actually I liked Bluey. I thought both he and Jane shared their perspectives respectfully.

Was that a stupid and biased ‘host’ or what?! First of all, she gets all flustered by a couple of blog names? Dumb. Then she clearly favored Blooey, dismissing Jane’s comments with those little phrases such as “the jury’s still out” or “some would disagree”. Ick.

We need better media, folks!

Efforts like hers to manipulate the conversation are not working as well as it used to. The majority of Americans are fed up with this obvious strategy to spin the facts.

We need better media, folks!

Christy Hardin Smith @ 10

btw, just to get a sense of it — how many folks are going to be at YKos2?

Count me in.

Count me in too. I may be helping with the Pub Quiz. Most disagreements among the netroots cannot be easily settled — which candidate would best bring change to Washington? What region of the country hosts the most active political grassroots? What website has the most interesting analysis?

On Thursday, August 2, however, some of these scores will be settled, albeit in another realm. That night, YearlyKos will host its first annual Political Pub Quiz, a trivia contest in the British tradition to allow teams of 4-8 to test their knowledge of current events, civics and American history in a fast-paced, fun format. Without the aid of Google, which teams will remember the purpose of the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, or the number of the Constitutional Amendment which bars Hillary Clinton and Eliot Spitzer from running as a ticket for the presidency?

The event will consist on multiple themed rounds of trivia questions of increasing difficulty to test the teams’ knowledge of fundamental and arcane facts. Teams can organize on whatever basis they choose — preferred websites, regions of the country, preferred candidates — and the organizers will also form teams onsite for unaffiliated participants as an exciting opening night icebreaker event.

Prizes will be awarded for the winning teams. They will be shiny. More importantly is the title of “Biggest Nerds In The Blogosphere,” which the winning team may trumpet until YearlyKos 2008