If Jonathan Guyer is wrong, I don't want to be right

A "rebuttal" on Foreign Policy to my Mideast Channel analysis piece on Palestinians and social media is now online.

One particularly delicious line from Schanzer of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD):

Guyer begins with an inaccuracy of his own: "The last time you visited your favorite blog, how wide of a cross-section of public opinion did the comments represent? It probably depended on the blogger, on the article, and on the mood of the day."

This is simply wrong. Take the online environment in the United States. Politically active bloggers support the Tea Party or MoveOn.org, depending on whether they lean right or left. Few can be classified as neutral. Accordingly, content is usually driven by ideology, not mood.

 And indeed, FDD seems to be driven by ideology as well.