Angry Liberal Blogger Covered by Washington Post

Maryscott O’Connor of My Left Wing (and who previously blogged at the old Kerry Blog) is featured in an article at The Washington Post:

In the angry life of Maryscott O’Connor, the rage begins as soon as she opens her eyes and realizes that her president is still George W. Bush. The sun has yet to rise and her family is asleep, but no matter; as soon as the realization kicks in, O’Connor, 37, is out of bed and heading toward her computer.

Out there, awaiting her building fury: the Angry Left, where O’Connor’s reputation is as one of the angriest of all. “One long, sustained scream” is how she describes the writing she does for various Web logs, as she wonders what she should scream about this day.

She smokes a cigarette. Should it be about Bush, whom she considers “malevolent,” a “sociopath” and “the Antichrist”? She smokes another cigarette. Should it be about Vice President Cheney, whom she thinks of as “Satan,” or about Karl Rove, “the devil”? Should it be about the “evil” Republican Party, or the “weaselly, capitulating, self-aggrandizing, self-serving” Democrats, or the Catholic Church, for which she says “I have a special place in my heart . . . a burning, sizzling, putrescent place where the guilty suffer the tortures of the damned”?

The article was run to read and its always great to see coverage of the blogosphere, but I wish that the mainstream media had something more to say about liberal bloggers than being angry. In their defense, there certainly are parts of the blogosphere which encourage this description, as well as many legitimate reasons for anger. Now that they got the angry blogger article down, perhaps they can look at more aspects of the blogosphere, such as that we were the ones trying to hold the Bush Administration accountable while the media was asleep, accepting government statements without questioning their truthfulness.