You are listening to another No Fair Remembering Stuff, the Tuesday edition of The Professional Left Podcast,

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And it's not safe for work. In our last episode, we left off with bands playing and flags flying, blogging had arrived. Yay! We had put the fear of God

into David Brooks and David Broder. Big-name politicians were courting bloggers and hiring

online content specialists onto their staffs.

The blogging community had clout.

The blogging community could move the national agenda.

And Drift class, can I just make a comment here?

I suppose so since it's our blog, Blue Gowl.

Yeah, I can say whatever I want. Gosh. It does seem to me like a lot of what we're talking about here is high school with money.

Oh, God, yeah.

Oh, absolutely.

I want to preface everything we're going to say here with, I don't have a lot of time for animosity against people from the past.

No.

I don't think about them all that often.

But these were heady days and there were betrayals.

There were.

Absolutely.

And that's sort of what this is about.

It's not done in animosity. We're speaking

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