Liberal Bloggers Holding Reality Accountable

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For the past several months the twice-weekly Janesville Messenger ran editorial pages that would make the average right-wing blogger jealous with envy. Sunday’s edition was no different than the rest when they printed another article by the Heritage Foundation titled They’re Keeping Democrats Accountable.

Apparently, a couple of congressional staffers are fed up with the “liberal bias” of reality and have vowed to make things right by telling the untold truth about Congress, but only the democratic members. They’ve called their Website “Majority Accountability Project” (MAP) and intend to emulate left-wing blogs by supposedly punishing the other side, in their case the Democrats who happen to be in the “majority.” I don’t know what they would call their propaganda project if the Republicans became the majority again, possibly the “Minority Accountability Report” since the two guys starting this are rabid right-wingers.

Keeping Democrats Accountable Excerpt:
But to keep their Web site humming with a steady supply of information, the duo realize they must have access to the same information available to the Capitol Hill press corp. Thus, Brady and Giuliani intend to apply for congressional press credentials -- a notoriously difficult process for anyone who falls outside the traditional definition of a reporter.

This is the fundamental difference between what these guys want to do and what citizen-run left-wing bloggers like myself do. Why liberal bloggers have done so well has nothing to do with reporting stories and news as much as sifting through the garbage that most of the right-wing mainstream media produces and discovering a different truth, a more consistent truth to base reality on. For liberal bloggers, reality has worked quite well.

If MAP, acting as investigative journalists will report “scoops” and news stories with a right-wing slant (in their view the media establishment is liberal), they will be veering away from the “liberal” reality. What they are trying to do is as old as the hills and instead of disproving Republican corruption (in their view the stories are fabricated or over-reported) they will be attempting to justify and validate Republican action by digging up stories on democrats that are unreported or under-reported.

Keeping Democrats Accountable Excerpt:
While the Majority Accountability Project is only in its infancy, the Web site holds great potential as a pioneer in the online world. While most liberals will probably hate it, and some conservatives will complain about its support for Republicans, its model is one that others could emulate.

Nothing like slapping yourself on the back for what thousands of other political media bloggers have been doing for years on the Web. Liberals won’t hate this site, its not in our vocabulary to hate, but we will get a good hearty laugh if the hypocrisy and faux news is as consistent as expected.