Now, however, it would seem as though they've dis-invited one of their own after he dared to criticize one of the DNC's up-and-coming stars (via Wizbang).
BOSTON -- The authors of the online diaries known as Web logs, or "blogs," are known for their fierce independence -- but one was so true to that tradition that he quickly lost his slot on the official blog of the Democratic National Convention Committee (DNCC) this week because of a critical comment on an unrelated group blog. Senior Writer Drew Clark reports that the deleted blogger, Matt Stoller, was the "blog community coordinator" for the DNCC, which organized the convention here. On Monday, opening day, he critiqued convention keynote speaker Barack Obama by unfavorably comparing him with Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, the Democratic candidate for vice president.
It would seem as though the Democrats are becoming quite good at creating PR debacles for themselves.
Somebody should tell the Democrats that it is possible to have a political movement without having all the members of said movement agree on all things all the time.
For example, I am pro-life. Bill of INDC Journal and Glenn of Instapundit are pro-choice. On this issue I disagree with both of these men to the extreme. I don't think they could be more wrong. However, because we tend to have the same type of philosophy toward a majority of other issues I'm not going to shun them because they disagree with me on one issue.
I'm not sure many on the left are able to grasp this kind of thinking.
Update:
The Rooftop Report has pointed out this comment from Mr. Stoller himself about the event.
There's a story in the National Journal on me.
I am a volunteer and I didn't get fired. We decided that after the Convention started I wouldn't post to the DNCC blog (I had been using it somewhat to help coordinate the blogging component) so that I could post freely to my own. I'm a bit puzzled by the whole story, actually because we still have a great relationship and I'm still helping out the credentialled bloggers. Or as I said in the article:
"I just didn't want any confusion between what I say and what the DNCC says," he said in an interview. He added that the DNCC "wants bloggers to say whatever they want to say. The difference was that I was associated with the DNCC."
Well, that's a possible explanation. To me it seems more likely that Stoller was asked to step down and that he's now offering this expalantion as a way to protect his political party and his candidate from criticism.
He's taking one for the team, as they say.
But that's just my opinion.
As for the Rooftop Report's implication that I'm skewing this story I'd point out that I wasn't aware that Mr. Stoller had responded. Now that I am aware I have posted the other side of the story.
This is a blog, not a news wire.