"Digby" has been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a writer whose political and cultural observations have entertained and informed the blogosphere since 2002. They can currently be found at www.digbysblog.blogspot.com and www.laweekly.com.

"Digby's blog is a Paul Revere gallop through the pitched night of the Bush years." James Wolcott

Blog Entries by Digby

The Elite Media Still Don't Know They're Being Played

Posted March 24, 2006 | 02:10 PM (EST)


I have never been much for blog triumphalism. Aside from being self-aggrandizing, it didn't seem to me to be particularly ralistic that blogs would replace the mainstream media. But I am actually beginning to think that what we know as the mainstream press might end up going the way of...

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Feingold Rides the Zeitgeist Over Eleanor Clift

Posted March 20, 2006 | 08:49 PM (EST)


Eleanor Clift has penned a column that sounds like she wrote it after playing spin the Jameson's with Chris Matthews and John McLaughlin at Bob Shrum's St Paddy's Day bash. A bigger puddle of misguided conventional wisdom I have not seen in quite some time.

Democrats must...
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The Dems are missing the boat on Feingold

Posted March 17, 2006 | 03:17 PM (EST)


It appears there is still a lot of angst both in Washington and the blogosphere over Senator Russ Feingold's censure motion. Substantively, the majority of Democrats agree that Bush broke the law and deserves to be censured, but there is a division among most of the blogosphere and virtually the...

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