TPM Reader PB on the Siegel Meltdown …
Isn’t the basic problem with Siegel that he is an elitist whose relevancy is being challenged by people he considers his “lessers”? Isn’t the issue for Siegel’s ilk that people who didn’t go to the “right” schools and get the “proper” journalistic training are now being allowed a place at the table? There is more than a whiff of classism in his take down of Markos.
I do find the hostility and the “I’m right, you’re wrong” tone of Daily Kos tiring. But it is clearly a long way from being fascist. And there is too much intra-left squabbling that goes on there to consider the site even vaguely authoritarian. But given that anyone can participate in the dialogue on sites like Daily Kos, I see it as a kind of democratization of political discourse, which is exactly what Seigel has a problem with.
Yep.
