Teen Blogger Turns Heads Online (Liberal media swoon BARF Alert)

Wired Online ^ | Jan. 27, 2004 | Ryan Singel

[LiberalSlayer99]

Stephen Yellin posts a minutiae-filled analysis of Senate, House and gubernatorial races across the country almost weekly on Daily Kos, the most-trafficked liberal political blog on the Net. Other posters laud his thoroughness and debate his conclusions.

He has landed a spot as a political operative with a major Democratic presidential nominee. He's walked precincts, volunteered for campaigns and run for office.

He is also 15 years old -- too young to drive to his local polling station, let alone cast a vote there.

Yellin is just a sophomore in high school, but in the blogosphere he is already a veteran.

Yellin, who goes by the handle MrLiberal and calls himself a Hubert Humphrey-style Democrat, has been hanging out with political junkies online since he was 13.

Yellin's posts are not of the "me too" or "your candidate flip-flops" variety. Instead, they read like memos written by a Democratic National Committee senior staffer.

[LiberalSlayer99]

Contrast this article swooning over a liberal teen (who doesn't have to pay taxes, etc) to this teen posted before on FReep. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36760.

[The G Man]

If you're not a liberal by the time you're 20, you have no heart ...

[Falcon4.0]

This just proves the "Liberals are people who haven't grown up yet"!

[Gil4]

I always thought that saying was at least half right (the other half)

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Just where did I leave that damned thing?;-)

[freebilly]

Yellin's posts are not of the "me too" or "your candidate flip-flops" variety. Instead, they read like memos written by a Democratic National Committee senior staffer.

Exactly....

[pabianice]

If you're not a liberal by the time you're 20, you have no heart ...

If you're not a liberal by the time you're 20, you're way smart...

[jtminton]

He is also 15 years old -- too young to drive to his local polling station, let alone cast a vote there

As if that will stop him.

[Cowboy Bob]

Instead, they read like memos written by a Democratic National Committee senior staffer.

Is this meant to praise the teen, or blast senior staffers?

[mountaineer]

they read like memos written by a Democratic National Committee senior staffer.

And that's a good thing?

[proudpapa]

Sounds like a bright, but misguided kid. I'd bet within 10 years he'll overcome his youthful idealism for a more conservative stance. Probably once he has to pay his own way.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

That would be hilarious if it weren't so true...

[cyborg]

Kyle Williams BTTT
our conservative teen beat up their liberal teen LOL

[JRjr]

If you're not a conservative by the time you're 40, you have no brain. Winston Churchill

[newgeezer]

I'd bet within 10 years he'll overcome his youthful idealism for a more conservative stance. Probably once he has to pay his own way.

I'd bet it's already too late. He's been embraced by and brought into the power structure, and it's probably already gone to his mush-filled head. He may never need to pay his own way.

Nothing short of Divine intervention will straighten this kid out.

[Dionysius]

Here that sound? It's MrPedophile coming for MrLiberal!

[cyborg]

future metrosexual

[CasearianDaoist]

Or you went to private school.

[Seruzawa]

Is this the cutting edge of the next Great Cultural Revolution?

Put AK-47s in thr hands of kids like this and you will have another Camobodia.