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Left Beating Right for Online Viewers

by Terrence O'Brien on May 31, 2009 at 09:03 AM

Left Beating Right for Online Viewers, Thanks to Huffington Post

According to comScore, a company that tracks Internet traffic, Dems are controlling not just the House, Senate, and White House (oh, and more governorships), but they're also tops on the Web.

This is primarily thanks to the king (or should we say queen) of the political blogs -- The Huffington Post. Left-leaning sites collected 6.4 million unique views in April, as compared with 4.8 million for blogs on the right. But of those leftist blogs' 6.4 million visits, 5.6 million can be attributed to The Huffington Post, which crushed its nearest rightist competitor the Drudge Report. For it's part, Drudge collected 1.7 million unique views in April. That's, of course, nothing to shrug your shoulders at, but it's not even close to the juggernaut that is HuffPo.

Right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson (famous for his role on CNN's Crossfire, wearing bow-ties, and getting chewed out on TV by Jon Stewart for ruining political discourse in America) will be launching his own site styled after HuffPo, but with a right-wing slant. Carlson hopes to close the gap between right and left in the battle for online readers, and compete with Ariana Huffington's brainchild. But, if his past career is anything to go by, he'll garner some cheap attention for a while, until someone (like Jon Stewart) points out that he is in fact just a "big dick." At which point he and his bow ties will go back to doing what they do best: Whining on second rate, basic cable news shows. [From: paidContent.org]

Tags: huffington post, HuffingtonPost, politics, top, tucker carlson, TuckerCarlson

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