The National Journal's Beltway Blogroll points us to a humorous illustration of why right-wing bloggers do not have the same relationship dynamic with Republican politicians that liberal blogs have with Dems. The apparent reason is that Republicans in Washington don't know anything about blogs.
Senate Republicans held their latest chat session with a few friendly bloggers yesterday, but at least one of them went away both unimpressed and irritated.A blogger from Townhall complained that Rick "Santorum" Santorum handed them a sheet of talking points and took no questions. There you go, Ricky! Way to get the blogosphere behind your doomed re-election campaign.
The reason: The senators who participated apparently thought they were reaching out to a bunch of lapblogs rather than smart, free-thinking members of Estate 4.5 who might actually want to ask an unscripted question and get an unscripted answer.
Robert Bluey of The Right Angle at Human Events Online said the "quasi-presser for bloggers -- staged by the Senate Republican Conference -- was by far the most bizarre" and ultimately concluded that most Senate Republicans "really have no idea about blogging." That's why so few of them do it themselves and why they aren't too keen on interacting with bloggers, either, he said.
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