The Blogosphere: Progressive Echo Chamber?
By Jesse Lee
It was opening night of the GOP 30-hour judicial filibuster, just the kind of idiocy bound to be good for a few laughs in the loose network of online political journals known as the Blogosphere. The Republicans did not disappoint, allowing an internal memo to escape revealing that they were literally orchestrating their dramatic walk into the Capitol with - you guessed it - Fox News.
But that would not be the final humiliation for the Republicans. The blogger Atrios, who boasts a staggering 40,000 visits a day despite not even giving his name, got wind of a little pet project Majority Leader Bill Frist was concocting, and casually posted a 5-word entry at 2:12 PM entitled Dr. Frist Wants Your Opinion:
Go
give it to him.
The post was typical of Atrios' relaxed, sardonic tone, for
when the reader clicked on the hyperlink they found themselves on
Frist's website. Frist was attempting to gather ammunition for the
30-hour debate (meant to protest the Dems' filibuster of four judicial
nominees) by posting a
