Take a look at the Think Progess blog. Then read Red State.

Most days, the two political blogs don’t even agree on what the news is never mind how to interpret it. The Internet can be a partisan place. Not always, but often.

This morning, at a discussion on The Impact of the Internet on the Presidential Race, the former media advisor to President George W. Bush said he had tried to start a bipartisan website.

Last year, Mark McKinnon and Joe Lockhart, one of President Clinton’s press secretaries, and others launched what the Wall Street Journal described as a social networking site by “a bunch of political consultants devoted to giving wonks and opinion drivers outside the Beltway a place to chat about social issues.”

It was called Hotsoup.com.

And it was supposed to be an advertising-supported for-profit venture that would draw in people through the participation of celebrities, politicians and business leaders.

What happened?

Today McKinnon called the creation gazpacho. It became another wreck on the Internet highway, he said.

Other things may have contributed.

But McKinnon said: “In a sense we’re shutting down a 360-view of news and information that we used to get because that’s the information that we want.”

“It really is a dialogue for partisans.”