Tom Watson

Red America?

Ben Domenech is a communist, or maybe just a socialist. And the Washington Post's publishers are cowards. Those are the two big take-aways from today's launch of Red America, the newest political blog from the Post. Domenech, who seems earnest, actually proclaims at the top of his first post: "This is a blog for the majority of Americans." Well excuse me, I'm not as plugged in as a WaPo columnist, but I'm guessing that even if you combine the voting registries of the Socialist Workers and American Communist Parties, you wouldn't even come within a tenth of the numbers in either of the two major parties. Just a guess. I skipped quickly to the kicker on Domenech's post and he proclaims: "Red America's citizens are the political majority. They're here to stay. It's time to start paying attention to what they believe and why." Well, I do respect my socialist and communist comrades - we all should - and many of their ideas may well have some merit and deserve public debate. But I think it's a gross overstatement to claim they're the political majority - I mean, there's not even a socialist in the California state house, for heck's sake! Jeesh. Oh, and that cowardly publishers thing? For such a "controversial" blog (it seems to have been written about extensively on all the big political blogs today) it's shocking they don't accept comments...that ain't red, it's yellow.

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Posted at 7:22 PM, Mar 21, 2006 in Media
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