Here’s some more self-aggrandizing nutroots hooey at Daily Kos by “mcjoan,” who explains that the left-wing blogosphere is just so much cooler in every way: Daily Kos: I guess I’m not in Kansas anymore.

Another factor of in this movement vs. pundit aspect that occured to me later is that the right blogosphere is dominated by professional political types — many had already been media figures or relatively prominent GOP politicos before starting in on the blogging. In contrast, the majority of prominent left-wing bloggers came to it from outside of the political system … Extrapolating further, the “roots” in the netroots is thus almost entirely on the left. While Red State, Free Republic, and LGF are arguably community-style blogs, only Red State is taken seriously by GOP politicians, and its community is dwarfed in terms of numbers to any number of blogs on the left. Spurred by the “You have the power!” mantra of Howard Dean, Democrats and progressives seemed to have listened and flocked together in vibrant, influential, and activist online communities.

“Progressives” really love to lie to themselves.

I’ve just replied to Brandon Leonard of the Washington Times, who’s doing a story on this issue; here’s what I wrote to him:

Before my blog became popular, I was not any kind of “media figure” or pundit, and I can name numerous examples of other so-called “right wing” bloggers who don’t fit that characterization: Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit, Power Line, Allahpundit, and many more.

I can’t speak to the traffic at RedState, but our traffic at LGF has been rising steadily, until we’re well ahead of every left-wing blog except for Daily Kos. See this page that ranks the top blogs by traffic: Truth Laid Bear.

And if we’re not taken seriously by GOP politicians, someone should tell those politicians to stop sending me all of these emails every day.

Another absurd statement: “Red State, Free Republic, and LGF are arguably community-style blogs…”

There’s nothing “arguable” about the fact that LGF is a community blog. We have nearly 16,000 registered users, and the number of comments posted can exceed 5,000 per day. There’s such a demand for registration at LGF that I can only open it to new people for short periods.