Let me spin this all in a slightly different direction now.

Who’s opinion would trust as, let’s say, an evaluator of other bloggers? Who would you trust to deliver an objective assessment based upon pre-agreed criteria?

Kevin G Powell is extremely fair minded. Candace. Dazzlin Dino. And again, Mike.

James Bow, obviously, a true gentleman. And mine host. And the CC crowd, and the pogge crowd, and chet and mattt. And Red Tory. And Dave. And Bene Diction, under-read and underappreciated, IMO. And the creative revolutionaries. Hell, the list just goes on and on. I could name about thirty more. Check out my blogroll–those people are there for a reason, and trust is a good part of it. There’s a lot of integrity and attention to detail in progressive ranks.

Wrt the Right, I agree with others about Dust My Broom. As usual, the commenters are over the top, but Darcey is a solid, salt-of-the-earth type person, even if he’s usually wrong about things. I’d give that guy my back. And Daimnation and Tarantino are right up there, no pun intended. Thoughtful, intelligent. I read Daimnation the most. I miss Olaf: I would have listed him were he with us. And Andrew. Candace and Kateland (Last Amazon) are honest sorts as well.

Centre? Scott Tribe.

Sui generis? Sir Francis at Dred Tory.

i don’t read too many conservative or right wing blogs. i do miss olaf, i didn’t necessarily agree with him but he seemed honest and sincere. dust my broom would be about the best of the right that i can think of off hand. oh. and you can always trust patrick to be a douche, if that helps.

blog assessing? depends what the pre-agreed criteria are and what the assessment is measuring. just as i am aware that my opinions and assessments are slanted by my personal outlook, i don’t know of any bloggers that are exactly objective. most bloggers function from within the confines of their own individual reality. hence, suzie all-caps places her trust in a pack of screaming loons like pacheco and surely wouldn’t trust me and mine (we say teh swears). are you putting out the blogging yellow pages?

Who’s opinion would trust as, let’s say, an evaluator of other bloggers? Who would you trust to deliver an objective assessment based upon pre-agreed criteria?

I would add:

Dave et al at the Galloping Beaver. I’m a big fan of OC as well and of Ron Good from Northernsubverbia – Ron is a really good honest thinker and debater that really knows his stuff.

On the right, sadly, are few I trust. Andrew from BBG and Greg Staples have gone. and that’s a pity. Darcy at Dust My Broom is good, but I don’t get over there very often.

And yes the Canadian Cynic…CC, Lulu and PSA may be snarky, rude and nasty, but they are rarely, if ever, factually wrong.

P.S. I don’t trust any of yuz.

I can trust a particular blogger (even…*gasp*…Conservative or conservative ones) but find the blog repellent simply by the commenters the blogger attracts/indulges/panders to or alternately, censors. That unfortunately, is a problem with a lot of them (and disqualifies all the Blogging Tory blogs), which is why I haven’t bothered going out looking for new ones in a while, and can’t really think of any that haven’t been mentionned here.

I still rely on the mainstream media for serious political issues (you can’t discount access when it comes to politics, unfortunately) and rely on some political bloggers who seem to have a decent set of priorities for links to media I don’t follow regularly.

don’t know any on the right that i could say i trust.

KEVron

The political blogs I do like are the ones who take a running jump and stab the beast repeatedly with pointed sticks.

Like Zorpheous at The Wingnuterer.

The right write blogs?