As everyone who reads this site undoubtedly knows, a few weeks ago a few of my ‘friends’ on the left-wing side of the political spectrum launched their new website, the California Majority Report. .jpg)
Actually, I spoke on several occasions with the Democrat activists who were putting this site together, giving them some general input on a collegial level. They invited me to come up to Sacramento last month to their big, glitzy "launch party" which was attended by a couple hundred members of the Sacramento liberal elite, including many socialist-policy-embracing officeholders like State Senate President Don Perata, Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez and many others. This group was so left-wing that former Gray Davis/Steve Westly advisor Garry South stuck out as the reasonable one of the bunch.
One cannot help but try to make a comparison between this new website and the FlashReport. In doing so, one wants to try to compare our blog page to the main page of the CMR, where their various contributors have featured columns. In trying to do this, it becomes painfully obvious that our Democrat friends have a huge hurdle to jump if they want to create a dynamic blog site — their own liberal ideology!
Republicans believe in certain basic principles that give us a natural edge in the creation of a great blog site — we believe in decentralization, local control, and individual responsibility. These principles manifest themselves in the fact that we have twenty different bloggers on the site, each of whom directly post their own material to the website. None of this content is reviewed by me, or Managing Editor Nick Romero, before it goes up, and in almost a year online, we have had nearly 2000 unique posts made, and I can only recall one instance where I asked the blogger to pull it down, and that was only because it had no nexus to California politics — and I gave them the choice. I guess another way to say it is that when I log onto the FlashReport – I never know what I am going to be reading, even though I am the publisher!
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September 10th, 2006 at 12:00 am
Amen to your comments. Let’s not forget that freedom doesn’t come from central planning. It’s too great a place for “borgs” to hide. No responsibility, no accountability. Free thought, naaaaah!
September 10th, 2006 at 12:00 am
LOL, Jon! A very apt analogy indeed! Let’s send them and their collective to the far side of Pluto!
September 10th, 2006 at 12:00 am
I think the CaMajority site peaked at its launch party. Looiking at their thin list of advertisers, they may not make it past Election Day.
September 11th, 2006 at 12:00 am
My college’s crosstown rival is reportedly responsible for the Borg (the real Borg with Jeri Ryan, not the boring Borg online). See:
http://www.pomona.edu/Welcome/Trek/borg.shtml