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Motley Moose
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The Motley Moose is a collaborative progressive political blog, primarily though not solely focused on American politics and issues. "The Moose" was established on Wednesday September 10, 2008 by twenty five regular bloggers who had already been writing at progressive sites like DailyKos and MyDD. Origin: The Primary Wars The impetus for founding The Motley Moose was the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries, and the "flame wars" that raged on political blogs (most notably MyDD). During the heated contest between candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, many Democratic and progressive blogs ended up aligning with one or the other candidate (TalkLeft, for example was a primarily Hillary Clinton site while DailyKos was primarily a Barack Obama site). Part of the history of the origin of the blog is described towards of the end of Flaming for Obama a piece in Prospect Magazine by Peter Jukes, about the primary wars of the nomination process. In the meantime, some flaming occasionally flares on Daily Kos, led mainly by so-called purity trolls disappointed at Obama’s shift to the centre. MyDD has fewer diaries, and the comments are less rapid and intense. But another round of Republican trolls has moved into this vacuum (they came back in the summer just as they promised), and as a result a joint band of Obamaites and Clintonistas have had enough. They’re forming a new progressive blog called Motley Moose to provide a troll-free and properly moderated site in which to roam... Aims After the primaries, a group of the more prolific bloggers for both candidates came together and decided to attempt a new type of collaborative blog with the following properties: o Tolerant of diverse opinions within a broad definition of political Progressivism o Founded by a consortium of active bloggers rather than an individual o Actively moderated The term "Motley Moose" arises from the definition of the word "Motley" (Having elements of great variety or incongruity) and a reference to the Bull Moose Party. History to Date Since its foundation in September 2008, Motley Moose has, according to Alexa, began to match other well know US progressive blogs in terms of page hits. See Also
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