Liberal Bloggers Want Bailout - Sorta

It appears that pure left bloggers are puckered with the Democrat Party and activist groups for not pumping advertising dollars their way.

Some of the leading liberal bloggers are privately furious with the major progressive groups — and in some cases, the Democratic Party committees — for failing to spend money advertising on their sites, even as these groups constantly ask the bloggers for free assistance in driving their message.

In essence, left-wing bloggers are resentful for not getting paid through advertising revenue for their unflinching support of the Democrat establishment.

But there's more as another source sees the liberal blogosphere's frustration as threatening.

The implicit threat—maybe we'll stop promoting your stuff!—is nothing short of a shakedown. [...]

The bloggers complained that liberal advocacy groups have no problem buying $50,000 ads in the New York Times, or making huge television ad buys. But the little guys who do all the work get nothing!

It's understandable that liberal political machines don't advertise on left-wing blogs since there is no real benefit derived from advertising in your own house organ. However, there is reason to throw them the occasional bone, just to keep them around. Despite any symbolic farthing, though, the liberal blogosphere should probably get used to looking at the undercarriage of a bus.

Regarding the imagined threat to the Democrat establishment from the liberal bloggers, it's not clear what they could do. I don't think they'll change stripes and start supporting conservative viewpoints. Liberals are ideologically tattooed with utopianism.

In summary, although liberal bloggers are described as privately furious, they are whining in public about being taken for granted by Democrat movers and shakers. To hell with hopey changey, they want cash.

Companion post at The Jawa Report.