Comments on: Political Blogging http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2008/11/political-blogging.html A Conservative-supporting thinking blog. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:34:43 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Tom Paine http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2008/11/political-blogging.html/comment-page-1#comment-2301 Tom Paine Thu, 06 Nov 2008 09:38:06 +0000 http://thethunderdragon.co.uk/2008/11/political-blogging.html#comment-2301 It's interesting that she referred to "samizdat" in that way. Based on the Russian for "self-publishing" (a good description of blogging), the samizdat publishers who defied the Soviet Union's censors are surely heroes to all right-thinking people. Oddly, Ms Blears seems to think of them as trouble makers, which suggests she has more sympathy with the Soviet authorities. I don't want to infer too much from that. If she's stupid enough to use a compliment as an insult, she probably doesn't understand what she's saying. As a means of encouraging ordinary people to take more interest in politics, attacking those bloggers who do is not the action of an intelligent person either. It’s interesting that she referred to “samizdat” in that way. Based on the Russian for “self-publishing” (a good description of blogging), the samizdat publishers who defied the Soviet Union’s censors are surely heroes to all right-thinking people. Oddly, Ms Blears seems to think of them as trouble makers, which suggests she has more sympathy with the Soviet authorities.

I don’t want to infer too much from that. If she’s stupid enough to use a compliment as an insult, she probably doesn’t understand what she’s saying. As a means of encouraging ordinary people to take more interest in politics, attacking those bloggers who do is not the action of an intelligent person either.

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