There’s Blogs Against Hillary and Blogs For Hillary.

Both mimic a variety of features used by Blogs For Bush. Each clearly notes the importance of building a blogroll, and adopts similar procedures Blogs For Bush used in order to build it. Blog Against Hillary even “borrowed” the stylesheet of Blogs For Bush…

I don’t know who started either site, but both need a lot of work.

The Democratic primaries of ‘04 were almost indifferent to new media because new media doesn’t connect with those voters on anywhere near the same scale as it does with center-right electorate. The would-be presidents ought to be quizzing the newly elected senators about new media, as well as everyone who managed the process at Bush-Cheney ‘04. The serious ‘08 players, for example, should be courting Patrick Ruffini the way Notre Dame is hunting for a head coach. [Aside: Other candidates/consultants and news organizations ought to be trying to tie up the blogging talent of Ed Morrisey, Matt Margolis, any of the RedState gents, Wizbang boys, Polipundit people or Slantpoint. Some bloggers are clearly not for hire, but others might be, and it is a skills set crucial for politics on a going forward basis.]

I wouldn’t mind working for a Republican nominee for president as a blogger… Sign me up!

Have fun, Scott.

The right-wing bloggers proudly dubbed themselves [pajamahadeen], — a play on muhajadeen, as in Muslim guerrilla fighters — when former CBS exec Jonathan Klein, in the wake of the scandal, complained to Fox News that “bloggers have no checks and balances.

“You couldn’t have a starker contrast between the multiple layers of checks and balances (on network news) and a guy sitting in his living room in his pajamas writing.”

By checks and balances, Klein meant the rigours of professional journalism — and not the opinionating of the blogosphere.

Ironically, bloggers mostly feed off the work of professional journalists who do the legwork. But, like parasites too stupid to realize they are killing off their hosts, the pajamahadeen don’t get it every time they dig more dirt for our mass grave.

Hindrocket at Powerline noted how the author of the aforementioned column, which blasts right-wing bloggers, had only two weeks prior praised “left-wing internet rumor-mongers for trying to get to the bottom of how the Republicans stole the 2004 election.”

Hindrocket notes,

So “journalism is dead,” and only the bloggers are digging for the real story. Except when “solid, stolid” mainstream journalists are busy forging documents; then, bloggers who expose the fraud are “stupid” “parasites” who engage in “opinionating.” That’s not a word, by the way.

I assume Zerbisias gets away with this kind of thing because no one reads her column.

Also via Radio Free Blogistan, I found this CBS article which looks down upon bloggers…

Big plans and big claims are to be expected from folks – pajama-clad or not – who are dabbling with new technology and new modalities of public expression. As a retired mainstream media (“MSM”) journalist – and thus a double-dinosaur — I don’t begrudge these knights of the blog-table their grandiose dreams. But I worked on a school paper when I was a kid and I owned a CB radio when I lived in Texas. And what I saw in the blogosphere on Nov. 2 was more reminiscent of that school paper or a “Breaker, breaker 19″ gabfest on CB than anything approaching journalism.

The article then mentions a few “blogs” – which for some reason he included Drudge, which is hardly a blog in my opinion, as well as a short but telling list of virtually all liberal blogs. No mention of Powerline, Little Green Footballs, or even Blogs For Bush…