March 28, 2005

I HEART ARAVOSIS!!!!!
by Liza Sabater

John, honey, I love you.

I'm done with Viggo. I need a real sexy activist top in my life and that title will go to you. Take me, I'm yours. Yeah, I know ... but if it worked for Liza --my namesake!-- then it will work for me.

LustyLady, pass me the AstroGlide 'cause I have a new target for my lustmonkeyness : John Aravosis, publisher of AMERICAblog.

Just don't tell my husband.

AMERICAblog: Because a great nation deserves the truth

CORRECTION: The National Press Club *IS* a big MSM whore
by John in DC - 3/28/2005 03:56:00 PM

UPDATE: E&P now reports that GannonGuckert thinks he's on the panel as a blogger!

Gannon told E&P he "thinks it is a good opportunity for me to speak to issues related to bloggers." He also added that he was, "trying to stay out there where people can see me."

E&P has now confirmed it.

It's the National Press Club itself that is hosting Jeff Gannon and Wonkette as either mainstream journalists or serious political bloggers (as we had reported earlier today).

Gannon, of course, is neither, and the same goes for Wonkette. He's a male prostitute who parroted GOP press releases, and she writes a humor blog about sex in politics that focuses mainly on ass-fucking jokes. Neither of them is a serious political journalist (and I don't believe Wonkette, whose site I love, even claims to be), and most certainly neither of them is your first choice for a panel about how serious MSM journalism differs from serious BLOG journalism.

Go John Go!

I am in a mini debate with both Jerome Armstrong and Kos over this very issue over at MyDD :: Diversity and the Two Lefty Blogospheres.

I've felt for a while people are reluctant to say "Wonkette is not a political blogger" because "she is so much fun" with all of those ass-fucking jokes. Not that I don't enjoy a buggering joke now and then. Hey! I AM addicted to Defamer after all.

Well, I see as prescient that the National Press Club has invited Wonkette and Gannon/Guckert the male-whore-cum-conservative-guy-cum-White-House-reporter to the same event as alleged political bloggers. Unless this is an ambush in the making; it goes to show that he who has the biggest promotion machine wins. Or it could also mean you've got to take it up the ass in Washington to get access.

Jokes aside, it has to matter that Wonkette gets labeled as a progressive political blogger and is the only woman blogger from the DC area invited to these kinds of events. It does matter that Chris Raab's suggestions for including other bloggers of color get swiped aside. It does certainly matter that Jerome and Kos, along with Atrios, Josh, Steve Gilliard and Kevin Drumm, think that neither race nor gender should be a reason highlight a blogger.

Unfortunately, the country and especially the media are not as politically and philosphically advanced as these gender and color-blind bloggers. Still, when you look at how integrated the BushCo cabinet is; it is totally disingenious from their part to say that race or gender don't matter.

This is one of my comments over at a follow up on the subject at DailyKos :

Daily Kos :: Comments Diverging Lefty Blogosphere?

Sorry but who you are and where you come from will always color what you do --even if you pretend it doesn't.

What a lot of people don't get is that the real issues in the country are not about race but about money and ideology. It's all about social class --and not necessarily in the classical Marxist sense either.

Look at the Bush administration --it is the most integrated this country has had. But they all share a common bond of money, ideology and total disregard for democracy.

Which is why it is absolutely stupid for the left to content themselves with the false meritocracy it's been working on. Let's just nip it at the bud when we're still growing. Meritocracies will always favor men and mostly the kind of men that will sunburn in the shade.

So get over it. The blue blogosphere needs to get more traffic to bloggers that tan, can jump and/or have vaginas. Period.

So John, if I were a guy, I'd be lubing up right now. Just call me your honorary lustmonkey.

Viggo, I take it baaaaack! (Just don't tell my husband.)

Posted by Liza Sabater in Activism, Blogeratti, Blogs, Democrats, Ethnicity, Gender, Identity Politics, Media, Politics, Prejudice, Public Relations, Race, Shout Outs, Social Networks, Viggo Mortensen
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