Huffington Post highlights difference between left and right blogosphere

[meegbear]

Wingers broke out the smelling salts today when a Huffington Post contributor put up a nasty blog post about Glenn Beck. (i.e. Trolling for dirt on the talk show host.) Newsbusters led the charge in the collective hand wringing, because a liberal writer posted something that was out of bounds! It showed how deranged liberals really are!

Well guess what? Editors at Huffington Post acted quickly and pulled the blog post because it did not meet the sites's standards.

Now, try to remember the last time anyone at Newsbusters or Daily Caller or Drudge Report or at any of Andrew Breitbart's sites pulled down a BS blog post or an "exclusive" report on their site because it didn't meet journalism "standards."

Ha! Of course, this is a trick question because the right-wing blogosphere has no standards. People who occupy that realm virtually never take responsibility for the provable lies they publish, let alone the nasty smear campaigns they launch. But on the left-leaning side, editors at the Hufffington Post immediately corrected what they saw as a breach of protocol.

So while conservative laugh and chuckle and point to the HuffPost today as the latest symbol of liberal hate, the joke is actually on them because the HuffPost today did everyone a favor by showing what standards on the blogosphere should look like.

Not surprisingly, conservatives didn't notice.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201008300062

[SoxFan]

1. HuffPo is "liberal"?

No.

Like its namesake, HuffPo is all about being the center of attention and creating faux drama.

[virgogal]

4. + 1

[vi5]

5. It is by and large liberal....

..just because it's not 100% pro-Democrat and 100% pro-Obama doesn't make it's overall bent not more liberal than not.

Most of the positions I see expressed and advocated on it's pages are a lot more liberal than any ideas or thoughts I see put forth by most of the Democratic party leadership.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. There certainly is a difference between the RW hate sites and liberal blogs...

Having standards is merely one of the differences...

[T Wolf]

3. Difference aside, what exactly was wrong about seeking information on the asshole?

They were not soliciting for a crime (a hit or the manufacture of false information).

They simply offered a reward for the return of lost information.

But, as usual, the left surrenders at every turn, whenever challenged by even a weak and empty attack.

At times, it is embarrassing to be on the same side as people who will not stand up against the right. Another reason why we are getting our asses kicked.