The Good Left Blog?

I've been looking for a long time now, trying to find a lefty blog that just plain gets its facts straight.

The contenders came and went in droves. For a while, I blogrolled Oliver Willis - but he developed a distressing tendency to take the intellectually-facile way out of the hard questions. I even had Kos on my blogroll, briefly, until he began showing his tendency toward begin a amoral jagoff. Atrios isn't Satan, but the only interesting thing about his site is the lunatic ward that lives in his comment section. Pandagon are a couple of giggly fratboys who are on the verge of perfecting the "Big Quote, Snide Quip" school of blogging - which we can file under "advances nobody really needs".

No, the great hope for a responsible, rational lefty blog was always Kevin Drum, formerly of Calpundit.

Hewitt has him dialled in:

Which is why I fear Kerry's election. He would be accompanied, as Clinton was, by many Kevins, bringing with them many serious errors of history and policy. This is the crowd that viewed the Framework Agreement of 1994 as a great breakthrough, who are indifferent to the starvation of the North Koreans, the genocide in Rawanda, and the mass graves of Iraq. I fear they would bring --again-- the same nonchalance to the nation's defenses.

Again, Kevin's not a bad guy --in fact, he is pleasant, like most Democrats-- but he doesn't know what he's talking about.

That's the problem with so many lefty blogs; leave out the ingenuous acceptance of their party's spin, and scratch beneath the surface, and often as not there's just no there, there.

Someone prove me wrong.

Posted by Mitch at June 24, 2004 07:24 AM