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The power, glory, and weakness of the bloggy Left

M ARKOS MOULITSAS is describing a frustrating period in his life. It was 2002, George W. Bush was in the White House, and in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks no one in Washington – Democrats included – seemed willing to criticize the president. Moulitsas, a passionate liberal, couldn’t believe what he was seeing. “I was driving my co-workers and my wife and my friends crazy, ranting and ranting and ranting about how terrible things were,” he says. “There were no liberal voices in the media landscape – there were none.”

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Byron York is a former White House correspondent for National Review.

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The power, glory, and weakness of the bloggy Left

M ARKOS MOULITSAS is describing a frustrating period in his life. It was 2002, George W. Bush was in the White House, and in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks no one in Washington – Democrats included – seemed willing to criticize the president. Moulitsas, a passionate liberal, couldn’t believe what he was seeing. “I was driving my co-workers and my wife and my friends crazy, ranting and ranting and ranting about how terrible things were,” he says. “There were no liberal voices in the media landscape – there were none.”