The point of my previous posts quoting from DailyKos and Atrios was not to use them as an occasion to print offensive language. The point was to illuminate the thinking and means of expression on websites that are widely read and quite influential on the Left. These are not fringe or far-out forums; they are the bulletinboards of the newly energized “progressive” movement. A report, The Emergence of the Progressive Blogosphere, released last month by NDN, formerly the New Democrat Network, claims that DailyKos, “now easily the largest political blog in the world,” receives about 3.8 million weekly views. (NDN and DailyKos work together on some projects.) Atrios, according to the report, receives about 880,000 weekly views. If those numbers are correct, they are quite impressive; what is written on those sites reaches a large audience. It may be a closed loop of like-minded believers, but it is a big loop.