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Politics > Jeff Jarvis Takes on the Liberal Credentialing Committee

The loony left (as opposed to the moderate left) has decided that Jeff Jarvis hasn't been a loyal party member. So despite the fact that he voted for Kerry they're re-educating him, they being Oliver Willis and Armando at Daily Kos. First up: Jarvis's response to Armando:

Gee, Armando, I didn't know you were the official arbiter of what's liberal. If I'd passed your test, would I have gotten a Liberal License? A Liberal T-Shirt, perhaps? A Liberal Membership Card?

On Williams: Gosh, I did say a lot about him but I didn't say it on the blog. I said it, for example, on WNYC. NPR. I think that is Officially Liberal. Right, Liberal Cop?

Note, well, Armando that you did not make this judgment based on a SINGLE issue or stand. You made your Official Liberalometer Meter Reading based on whether I criticized your enemies or praised your friends.

I repeat: You and Oliver and Kos and company look upon the Democratic Party as your little club. What did Groucho say again?

For Oliver Willis's anti-fans, Jarvis's response to Willis - The Politics of Immaturity - is not to be missed. Read the whole thing, but this one excerpt explains the Democrats' entire problem writ large:

[Quoting Oliver Willis]"I will always believe that the legacy of the George W. Bush years is one in which he and his party decided to simply defecate on half of the populace."

And what are you doing, Oliver? You're not only pissing on Republicans, you're pissing on Democrats you don't like. You're pissing on more than half of the country. In your game, you win. (But in the game that matters, you lose.)

UPDATE: Jarvis doesn't like the progressive re-branding of liberalism, either. "What wimpery. What balllessness. It's as if liberals are ashamed of being liberal."