Althouse: "I Guess I Don't Read the Lefty Blogs Enough"

I love Ann Althouse's blogging, but she's behind the curve in her entry this morning on the leftosphere's Clinton-Obama civil war:

"The harmony that existed between MyDD and Kos since the birth of the Netroots no longer exists today."

Writes TNR's Dana Goldstein. I guess I don't read the lefty blogs enough. I had no idea. Anyway, it seems that back in February, Jerome Armstrong (My DD) came out for Hillary Clinton, and the commenters on both sites have been fighting ever since. And then there was that "writers strike" by the pro-Clinton diarists at Kos.

After announcing her departure from the site, [strike leader] Alegre was the subject of insults by dozens of commenters.

Dozens! Ooh. Ouch.

[Kos's Markos] Moulitsas fumed on the site's front page, "People expect me to give a damn that a bunch of whiny posters 'go on strike' and leave in a huff. When I don't give a damn, people get angry that their expectations aren't being met." Of course, characterizing Clinton supporters, especially female Clinton supporters, as "whiny," didn't sit well with many. A Maryland mother of two in her mid-40s, Alegre said she won't publicize her real name because she fears harassment from anti-Clinton bloggers and commenters....

The Netroots has always had a hostile streak, and it's natural that as the Democratic Party and the Netroots themselves began to wield more power, some of that hostility would be directed inwards. Its denizens are also a relatively homogeneous bunch--largely male, middle-aged, college-educated, and upper middle class.

Really? Upper middle class? I can believe there are more men than women, but enough to make it "relatively homogenous"?

I guess Alegre wants back in at Kos, since the writer's strike didn't have much impact, to which Althouse notes:

The writers strike was a dumb idea that left its leader without a high platform to blog from. Now, she has her regrets. Sorry, that's not the big theme she wants it to be. If Alegre deserved the elevation she once had on that platform that Kos built, she ought to be able to blog independently now instead of whining — yeah, whining — about not having a place in his heart.

Now that's ouch!

Readers will recall that I've chronicled some of these intra-leftosphere battles, see "Radical Schizophrenia? Making Sense of Democratic Party Constituencies" and "Barack Obama and the Democratic Party Fracture"