Housekeeping note

May 12, 2007

I alluded briefly yesterday to something interesting going on today. Sorry for being cryptic.

The “news” is that Josh Marshall has asked me to help out at Talking Points Memo on weekends, and today’s my first day. It’s an exciting opportunity to contribute to one of the blogs that inspired me to start this site in the first place.

What does this mean for you, weekend Carpetbagger reader, in terms of what will change? Not much. I’m still going to post the usual amount of content here, along with Morbo’s words of wisdom and a Sunday Discussion Group. I’ll also be writing similar content for TPM, though my posts will probably be much shorter over there (you know, when in Rome…).

I haven’t worked out all the details about cross-posting, but I’m sure it’ll come together. And now, back to the news.

Congratulations! That’s a real plum of an assignment.

  • Hmmm… First WashMo, then C&L, now TPM. While I take great pride in your Napoleon-like romp across the blogosphere, knowing that I and many others were behind you back when you were just a little Corsican with dreams of empire, I’m getting frustrated that your ubiquity on the sites I read is cutting into the total number of posts I read. It’s like having ST: TOS on every channel. Great stuff, but what happened to NG and DS9 and Voy (you can keep the blue-gel nonsense that was the last one). Me, I think each site should get new posts. We’re hungry here.

    BTW, when will there be CBR merch?

  • Congratulations Steve! TPM is one of the only other blogs I read. Keep up the great work.

  • Admit it – you just wanted to be able to post somewhere where you wouldn’t have to ‘listen’ to our comments! 🙂

    Congratulations!

    angry young man wrote: “Me, I think each site should get new posts. We’re hungry here.”

    Be careful what you wish for; the demand for a constant stream of new news is what has reduced CNN and the other cable news networks to inanity. I can imagine the Carpetbagger political roundups of the future under this restriction:

    “And today’s top story: Nancy Pelosi’s cat got himself into one heckuva mess!”

  • Steve, you truly are The Carpetborg! Blogs will be assimilated and their ideological distinctiveness will be added to your own. Resistance is futile.

    But seriously, congrats. Your voice deserves the widest possible audience.

  • Oh come on, CB, this is nothing new. Your posts crop up all over the place in the blogosphere these days – such as C&L at 5:08 a.m. this morning. Just shows that people recognize quality when they see it. At least Dems do. reThugs, not so much.

    Congrats, CB.

    When I saw your name at TPM today I immediately flashed on the amount of cross-posting by the best progressive analysts these days – a very healthy thing. While we still need the traditional media to do boots-on-the-ground journalism, for coherant analysis the blogosphere is miles head of most of the msm (with the notable exceptions of the NYT editorial board and Paul Krugman). Just witness the witlessness of the Klein-Greenwald spat that’s been going on recently. Klein persists at trying to sustain transparently wrong arguments in the face of Greenwald’s relentless logic, and Klein is supported by his superiors at Time. Time had an opportunity to show us their quality and, sadly, they did.

  • Congratulations…..to Josh Marshall – his already great site just got better.

    Steve, you might have to start another column on the left side: “Sites Where You Can Read My Stuff”

  • Again, the sun rises; affording the evil forces of Bu$hylvania yet another chance to be very afraid, as they seek to hide from the searing glare of Truth. Congrats, Dr. Benen, on another coup. You are hereby annointed the mantle of PhB—your “Doctorate of Bloggery….”

  • One of my favorite bloggers on my favorite blog! Awesome!

    Except, you’ve never worked weekends. Did Josh bring you on board so you can put up one post on Sunday on the discussion topic of the day?

  • Maybe you can persuade TPM to offer entire posts in its RSS feed rather than just the first two lines…?

  • This is as close to winning an Oscar as blogging gets. Congratulations Steve! I’m sure that feels as great for you as you asking me two years ago to post for you here for a weekend while you were out of town. That felt damn good, but I am sure this feels a thousand times better.

  • Josh and the folks at TPM have been doing exciting work and real, envelope pushing journalism. It’s great to see that TPM and TCR will be close allies in the war on ignorance, hypocrisy and misinformation.

    Write on Mr. C, write on.

  • Congrats Steve. You were a role model for me when I started with John Cole and pleases me immensely to see your good work get the recognition that it deserves.

  • Your teaser yesterday brought me in today, just to see what the big deal was all about. Wow! Big deal, indeed. Congratulations! TPM just got one fantastic blogger better.

  • The cream rises to the top. My heartfelt congratulations, an I’m not surprised at all.
    We see the evolution of the blog before our very eyes, in this case consolidation of quality.
    You guys keep this up & those right-wingers might start selling some MSM outlets to Dems.

  • I’ve been watching TPM on and off all day and I’m very happy with Steve being there; it’s not at all the same stuff as here and I like Steve’s slightly-longer-than-two-lines postings. But, whatever happened to David Kurtz, who had been posting on weekends for the past few months? I liked his postings too…

  • I pray it doesn’t detract from TCR. Though I like reading TPM and think they are one of the best they pale by comparison to TCR. I certainly hope you will continue to pour all your expertise into TCR because it is the Number 1 site. I read all the ‘others’ after I’ve read this one. It’s the best. Keep up the excellent work and please don’t get distracted from what you’ve built. Of course Josh proves once again to have excellent judgment and taste.

  • What a nice surprise to see your name at TPM–for my money one of the best blogs on the internets. Congrats!

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