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May 16, 2006
Lorie Byrd Leaves Polipundit
Topics: BlogosphereLorie Byrd, one of our favorite political bloggers, has left Polipundit:
I received a lengthy email from Polipundit tonight alerting us to an editorial policy change that included the following: "From now on, every blogger at PoliPundit.com will either agree with me completely on the immigration issue, or not blog at PoliPundit.com." I would provide additional context, but Polipundit has asked that the contents of our emails not be disclosed publicly and I think that is a fair request. There has been plenty written in the posts over the past week alone to let readers figure out what happened. Polipundit ended a later email with this: "It's over. The group-blogging experiment was nice while it lasted, but we have different priorities now. It's time to go our own separate ways."From today's post at Polipundit, it seems that other than not being able to "poke holes" in other poster's views (called speaking your own mind), the divide is over immigration - not a huge surprise since it's also divided the whole right side of the blogosphere.
My own take stems from the fact that I can understand a little of where Polipundit is coming from - we're much of the same mind on the issue. However, the only way we can achieve a workable plan is to listen to other voices, and have a little back and forth dialogue. That's healthy for the blogosphere and healthy for the nation. Having said this, I still think everyone who disagrees with me is nuts!
But those nuts have good ideas too. In short, I'll continue to enjoy Polipundit, and would welcome Lorie to Hyscience any time she wants to stop by. We can always use some one with more than a little common sense to join our otherwise rowdy outspoken bunch.
Posted by Richard at May 16, 2006 12:42 PM
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