Blogs are a relatively new medium and a lot of people don't seem to know how to handle them. Recently there have been several stories by journalists as well as entries by various bloggers attacking other blogs for things readers said in the comments on an entry. As if a popular blogger like Charles Johnson from LGF should really be responsible for the probably thousands of comments his blog gets each day. If a couple of assholes get on a right wing blog and write comments like, "We should rip off all their heads and shit down their necks," is that a reason to condemn the blogger, or the person that actually wrote the comment? And why should that even affect your opinion of the blogger? Does the blogger get attacked by a journalist when a left wing asshole gets on a right wing blog and says things like, "You are all ignorant fucktards and deserve to die for supporting the traitorous murderer George W. Cunt!" Does that comment on a right wing blog mean the right wing blogger shares that opinion, too? Cuz I see that sort of junk all the time.

Bloggers, journalists, pundits, politicians, and people everywhere.... The comments section of a blog is open and relatively uncensored and there are going to be some jerks who take advantage of that. This is a good thing. It provokes discussion and it helps separate nutcase extremists from thinking people who simply share differing opinions. You cannot ascribe comments written by other people to the blogger. I don't understand why I should need to point this out, but what is obvious to me seems to be beyond comprehension to others.