Three Years of Hell to Become the Devil: What passes for 'nonpartisan'?

The Columbia Political Union today sent out an email linking to Filibuster, its weblog.

Simple pro-school patriotism demands that I linke to its website (if I can find/create an RSS feed), but what I find amusing is the disclaimer:

The Filibuster is the Columbia Political Review's weblog. The Political Review is the magazine of the Columbia Political Union, a non-partisan student organization seeking to enhance involvement in the political process and to foster political discourse. The CPU does not endorse the ideas contained herein; their worth is for our readers to determine. The Filibuster welcomes arguments, rebuttals, and denunciations...

Which is, I suppose, true as far as it goes. But given that a cursory study reveals a 'personal essay' with the tagline "Al Prescott-Couch exposes ignorance in a right-wing Christian Group," there's not an article in the current issue that gets close to being pro-Bush, and the weblog reads like the yin to The Corner's yang, it's a pretty tepid belief in 'non-partisanship,' and it would be a braver conservative than I that would try to storm its bastions.

But heck, it's a group blog at Columbia Law School, I think I'm honor-bound to love it, even though it shares Crestcat's disdain of comments.

Update: I've received an email calling me a 'hypocrit' for talking about a left-leaning weblog when I'm so right wing. Let me make it clear: I have no problem with a left-leaning weblog. Indeed, I love Ambivalent Imbroglio, and no one would consider him remotely right-wing. But I don't call myself non-partisan, and that's what I find pretty difficult to maintain.

Let me make this clear: this weblog is partisan. I'm partisan. I have some definite political beliefs, and I write about them. If you're of the left, you can think of me as the all-singing, all-dancing right-wing corporate whore. I club baby seals for breakfast, think Emily's List should have groceries on it, oppress ladies by holding open doors for them. I'm the man your momma warned you about, if your momma was Hilary Rodham Clinton. This site is partisan, and you have been warned

Then again, I allow comments, and you're always welcome to disagree.

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It's your weblog, be as partisan as you like! Being non-partisan in politics is like watching a football (or hockey, whatever) game featuring two teams you don't care about. Sure, you can appreciate the sportsmanship and strategy, but you're no where near as involved as when your home team plays an arch-rival. All you non-partisans: pick a team and root for it.

Posted by: falconred | November 11, 2003 11:58 AM

Oh, not saying there's anything wrong with truly 'non-partisan' websites: they're usually great sources of information. I just have a problem with something that's blatantly partisan calling itself anything else.

Posted by: A. Rickey | November 11, 2003 12:08 PM

"If you're of the left, you can think of me as the all-singing, all-dancing right-wing corporate whore. I club baby seals for breakfast, think Emily's List should have groceries on it, oppress ladies by holding open doors for them. I'm the man your momma warned you about, if your momma was Hilary Rodham Clinton." Truly hilarious! The only part I quibble with is, clubbing baby seals. How about attacking some non-mammals instead? Like birds. Or insects. That way you can speciest as well!

Posted by: Tung Yin | November 11, 2003 2:04 PM

I disagree! Sorry, but it just seemed appropriate.

Posted by: ambimb | November 12, 2003 7:32 AM