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Political Wire "invited some of the best political weblogs to be part of a new Political Wire feature called Blog Scan. This is one of the fastest ways to see what the political blogosphere is writing about."
TalkLeft is proud to be included in a group that includes such politically astute bloggers as Daily Kos and MyDD. Thanks to Taegan Goddard for setting this up. We are going to add it to our blogroll.
Salon staff writer Eric Boehlert is guest hosting Eric Alterman's Altercation today and he's good!
We'll be back there Friday filling in for Eric with another "Slacker Friday"-- a mix of our thoughts and readers' letters. Eric will be back Monday, unless he's decided to become an ex-pat -- unlikely, he is way too much a New Yorker.
We are guest hosting the vacationing Eric Alterman's MSNBC weblog Altercation today. It's Slacker Friday over there, meaning the column is mostly reprinting selected letters received from readers during the week. He sure does get a lot of mail.
The column will be up around 5 pm EST and stay up through the weekend.
Check out the new TAPPED weblog. They've moved to Movable Type and it looks so much better. They've added a relatively short list of blogs on the right hand side, including TalkLeft and many of our favorites, like Atrios, Daily Kos, Rittenhouse, Maxspeak, Matt Yglesias, Cooped Up and MyDD, and of course, Law Professor Glenn Reynolds's InstaPundit and Eric Alterman's Altercation, which were our role models and inspiration in revamping TalkLeft into a blog.
Tapped has a new url and would like you to update your bookmarks.
The vacationing Eric Alterman, author of MSNBC's weblog Altercation and Nation columnist, writes in from Paris today about Bruce Springsteen's concert in Paris last night.
"The highlight for me, however, was the searing “Born in the USA,” restored to its rock ‘n roll roots and placed — as far as one could tell — as a warning against war in Iraq. But it also seemed to be a cry of patriotic solidarity with the men and women about to have their lives ended — or at least badly messed up there. Perhaps this is conjecture on my part.
"Springsteen’s comments have been limited to decrying the loss of civil liberties attendant with Attorney General John Ashcroft’s exploitation of the war on terrorism. But nobody in Paris seems to support going to war, and America is not terribly popular here now for a whole set of reasonable and a few unreasonable reasons."
"Yet, I dunno, 18,000 or so French people were thrusting their fists in the air singing “Born in the USA” and appearing — in some inexplicable fashion — to mean it with all their hearts."
Altercation will have a guest host every day until Eric's return on October 28. We will be doing Fridays, including his famous "slacker friday" where selected responses from readers to his columns are posted. Your mail should go to alterlinks@aol.com.
If you disagree with Bush's war policy or his and Ashcroft's erosion of our civil liberties, or if you care about who sits on the Supreme Court and determines the law that will apply to your children as they grow into adulthood, the best way to show it is by voting for democratic candidates for the House and Senate. And by financially supporting the candidates in the closest races, like Tom Strickland of Colorado, so they can afford to run a final tv media blitz.
We're taking advantage of the three day holiday weekend and will be lightly and only sporadically posting. You can read some of our earlier posts by clicking on the subject archives or searching for a particular topic. We also recommend you visit the blogs we've mentioned on the right. If we've missed some good ones you think should be listed, let us know.
Many thanks to South Knox Bubba for its praise of TalkLeft's "updates on the latest assaults against our constitution and civil rights" and our Sunday CNN discussion of the Buffalo Six, enemy combatants and military tribunals.
Brian Linse of the Lefty Directory conducts an interview with Jeanne D'Arc of the blog Body and Soul--it'a great read, we highly recommend it.
Jim Capozzola over at Rittenhouse is in top form today.
It's Slacker Friday on Altercation, Eric posts his top mail of the week, and check out some of his new links. We're proud to have had a hand in their selection.
Skippy has a bunch of opposing comments going on to one of his posts about the "Buffalo Six" and a very funny piece on a recent Ashleigh Banfield MSNBC interview.
Lisa English of Ruminate This has been writing great stuff all week about Bush and the probable war with Iraq.
A special thanks to Cursor for making our Buffalo Eight post its lead story today--we've had over 1,400 hits since this morning.
For those of you who got here some other way, check Cursor out--it is a topical, relevant and essential read every day.
We've been blogging all through the weekend. So much so that we just went in and edited the posts from the past few days to divide the really long ones into two sections so you don't have so much to scroll through. The second half of these posts now begin when you click on "more."
We're taking a break, probably until Monday night. We invite you to hang out as long as you want, click around the site, read, post comments, and check out the other blogs and sites we link to on the right side of the page.
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