MSNBC-Wake Up!
(sorry, spell checker messed up the post) Now why would Dan Gerstein not like bloggers? (Jeopardy think music) Might it be because he worked for Joe
Gerstein: Well, it sounds like a simple question, but there's a big problem in the Democratic party right now. And let me preface what I'm about to say by saying I have a blog, I'm a big believer in the power of blogs in politics to make it more Democratic and empower people's voices, but for a lot of the Democratic bloggers there's extremism, anger, and there's a kind of lack of accountability for what people say and do and I think this is more and more going to become a problem in presidential politics as the blogosphere and the campaign world start converging. And I think, to sum it up, I think this is a warning sign there's a risk of getting fleas if you lie down with blogs.
Digby has the full transcript and explains:
MSNBC featured a lively segment this morning between Dan Gerstein, Joe Lieberman's personal WATB, and some other guy on the subject of the Edwards blogger brouhaha.
I know that we can't expect MSNBC to know that Bill Donohue is a date-rape defending crackpot or to know that Dan Gerstein is a far right neocon who represents about three nominal Democrats in the whole country --- Lieberman, Lanny Davis and Martin Peretz. Read on...
MyLeftNutmeg, CTBlogger, and Cliff Schecter add their two cents as well...