It's Official...

So then; manufacturing a hot-button issue is wrong, but only if your name isn't Dennis The Peasant. I've never visited LeShawn Barber's blog...have been sent enough snippets to form an opinion and it was not a favorable one...but Den is having conniptions over her hive-mind approach to blogging.

There aren't really all THAT many ways to feed people the real deal and at the same time get your hit count into the stratosphere, but calling everyone who doesn't agree with you a bigot, or racist, or commie, or Hitler-Chimp seems to be the trend as of late, and Dennis is aghast that the Malkins and the Barbers have apparently resorted to such tactics. The fact that he has as well cannot escape the glance of even the most casual of observers, but breaking free of the echo chamber means you can employ the same methods as those you find objectionable, because, after all, your setting yourself up as a GENUINE critic.

I tend not to see commies under the bed or bigots in the woodpile, and perhaps I am blind to it but my take on the matter is the simple premise that extremism gets noticed, regardless of whether or not the extremist is doing it for the cash or the audience. The newer blogs that have hit paydirt are the hang-em-by-the-neck-until-dead variety, and that IS why American Idol garners a far larger audience than Masterpiece Theater. We'll stop to watch a train wreck, but pass by a dozen billboards a day without noticing them if they don't have a hook, a buzz, or some pretty skin. Dennis feels that is okay for the Texas Rangers to do as THEY please all in the name of marketing, but let a Conservative blogger employ an outlandish approach and it's evil.

Or I could be dead wrong and he isn't switching to LOON-ACY just for the notoriety.

He's jumped ship. Crossed the border. Switched sides.

He's a liberal. Probably always HAS been, but beating the hand that once fed you is better than winding up a has-been, particular if you are a never-was, peeking up at the big boys as only a true wannabe can.