Top 20 Most Influential Liberal Blogs

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Filed Under (Information) by Ben Grivno at 11:15 pm - Mon Mar 23, 2009

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The following list is based on Technorati rank, Alexa.com rank, and educated guesses on my part. The list is in descending order of influence. Enjoy! 3/27/2009 UPDATE: Missed Krugman’s blog and Americablog. They have been added. WashingtonNote and Oliver Willis dropped off the 10 worthy mentions list. Top 20 Liberal Blog/Op Websites
  1. Huffington Post | wiki | about Founded: May 9, 2005 Founder(s): Arinna Huffington, Kenneth Lerer Editor: Roy Sekoff Note: Originally competed with Drudgereport.com but that didn’t work out so well so it morphed into a left slanted news/opinion site. -
  2. Democratic Underground | wiki | about Founded: January 20, 2001 Founder(s): Democratic Underground, LLC Editor: David Allen Note: DU and the internet are very mum on who actually founded it, it is known for the extreme vitriol of some members. There is also scant info on David Allen. Odd that for such a popular site there is surprisingly little public info available. I’d like to know more about Mr. David “Mysterious” Allen. -
  3. Daily Kos | wiki | about Founded: May 26, 2002 Founder(s): Markos Moulitsas Zuniga Editor: Susan Gardner Note: Major conflict erupted on the site between supporters of Hillary Clinton and Barry Obama during the the 2008 US election primaries. -
  4. The Daily Dish | Andrew Sullivan | wiki | about Founded: September 2001 Founder(s): Andrew Sullivan Editor: Andrew Sullivan Note: Sullivan says he is libertarian conservative, but he endorsed Obama in the 2008 election and Forbes ranked him the 19th most influential liberal. -
  5. Talking Points Memo (TPM) | wiki | about Founded: November 12, 2000 Founder(s): Josh Marshall Editor: Josh Marshall Note: The site was a big pusher of the manufactured scandal of the firing of nine US Attorneys who were inappropriately protecting Democratic interests. TPM won a Polk award for it’s efforts. -
  6. Think Progress | wiki | about Founded: February 28, 2005 Founder(s): Center for American Progress (CAP) Editor: Faiz Shakir Note: Thinkprogress.org is the friendly face for the hard left CAP think tank. -
  7. The Conscience of a Liberal | Paul Krugman | about Founded: September 17, 2005 Founder(s): Paul Krugman Editor: Paul Krugman Note: Krugman is also one of the most influential liberal economists. Krugman favors Keynesian economics, using the shaky school of thought to justify bad policy: direct economic intervention through governmental deficit spending. -
  8. Crooks and Liars | wiki Founded: August 2004 Founder(s): John Amato Editor: John Amato Note: One of the first political Vlog sites. -
  9. Wonkette | wiki Founded: January 2004 Founder(s): Nick Denton, Ana Marie Cox, Choire Sicha, Alex Pareene, David Lat, Ken Layne, John Clark Jr, Jim Newell, Megan Carpentier, Sara K. Smith, John Fruhlinger Editor: Ken Layne | also Note: Wonkette is significantly more vitriolic than most of the popular left wing blogs. For example they “jokingly” wished for Chief Justice John Robert’s death when he was hospitalized in July 2007. -
  10. Glenn Greenwald | wiki Founded: October 2005 Founder(s): Glen Greenwald Editor: Glen Greenwald Note: Glenn took a hard left turn in 2005, which he blames on the Bush administration, Karl Rove and the Valerie Plame affair. -
  11. Washington Monthly | Steve Benen | wiki Founded: January 25, 1999 (thecarpetbaggerreport.com) Founder(s): Steve Benen Editor: Steve Benen Note: Washington Monthly is a political mag founded in 1969, but, as of August 24, 2008, The WM website/blog is the new home for lefty blogger Steve Benen, formerly of thecarpetbaggerreport.com. -
  12. Kevin Drum | Mother Jones | wiki | MoJo wiki Founded: January 24, 2003 Founder(s): Kevin Drum Editor: Kevin Drum Note: Like John Kerry, Drum was for the Iraq war before he was against it. He was previously at Washington Monthly. Before that Drum blogged at is own site, Calpundit. -
  13. Pharyngula | wiki | about Founded: June 19, 2002 Founder(s): Paul Zachery “PZ” Myers Editor: PZ Myers Note: Myers was expelled from the screening of the Movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. An active atheist, Myers blog has the tagline, “evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal.” -
  14. Matthew Yglesias | wiki Founded: January 10, 2002 Founder(s): Matthew Yglesias Editor: Matthew Yglesias Note: yglesias.blogspot.com was the original home of Yglesias’ blog. The Harvard grad was editor of the Harvard Independent prior to venturing into the blogsphere. -
  15. Firedoglake | wiki | about Founded: December 2004 Founder(s): Jane Hamsher Editor: Jane Hamsher Note: Hamsher co-produced Natural Born Killers and has worked closely with Glenn Greenwald. -
  16. AMERICABlog | wiki Founded: April 2004 Founder(s): John Aravosis Editor: John Aravosis Note: Americablog outed gay conservative Jeff Gannon (James Guckert’s pseudonym) in 2005 and disrespectfully published Gen. Wesley Clark’s cell phone records in 2006. Aravosis is also a gay rights advocate. -
  17. Feministing | wiki | about Founded: April 2004 Founder(s): Jessica Valenti Editor: Jessica Valenti Note: Feministing was started while Third-wave feminist Valenti was working for NOW to give a voice to the younger feminists who were being shut out by the older ones. -
  18. Truthdig | wiki | about Founded: November 29, 2005 Founder(s): Robert Scheer, Zuade Kaufman Editor: Robert Scheer Note: Barbra Streisand and 299 other people protested Scheer’s firing from the LA Times in November 2005 right before he and Kaufman started Truthdig. -
  19. Informed Comment | wiki Founded: April 21, 2002 Founder(s): Juan Cole Editor: Juan Cole Note: Cole was denied a teaching appointment to Yale in 2006 because of his controversial viewpoints on his blog. -
  20. Digby’s Hullabaloo Founded: January 2003 Founder(s): Digby (pseudonym) Editor: Digby (pseudonym) Note: Her real name still unknown, “Digby” of Santa Monica, CA showed up in person in June 2007 to accept an award on behalf of the progressive blogsphere at the Take Back America Conference in DC.
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RaiulBaztepo says... on 31-03-2009

Hello!
Very Interesting post! Thank you for such interesting resource!
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Your, Raiul Baztepo

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