Blogging liberals tie shoelaces together before the big race.
It really is a hoot that lefty bloggers seem to have become quite adept at holding the grenade and throwing the pin. So far, they've taken down a "reporter" for Talon news, that bastion of confused GOPUSA conservatism. Are they neocon? Are they conservative? Can they make up their minds? It's doubtful. It doesn't smell like much of a "victory" for liberal bloggists. The left has coordinated its blogworld into the same sort fraternity of cloistered back slapping idealogs that hold tenured professorships at far too many universities. They're Ward Churchills of the web.
On the other hand, Conservative Bloggers now have the heads of Dan Rather and Eason Jordan hanging above their virtual mantles. They wage guerilla webfare, don't routinely stick together, but always back each other up. If you want diversity of thought in blogville, go to the conservative sites. If you want trite, repetitive pabulum, look up the leftists.
Blogosphere politics
Michael Barone, USNews.com
On the other hand, Conservative Bloggers now have the heads of Dan Rather and Eason Jordan hanging above their virtual mantles. They wage guerilla webfare, don't routinely stick together, but always back each other up. If you want diversity of thought in blogville, go to the conservative sites. If you want trite, repetitive pabulum, look up the leftists.
Blogosphere politics
Michael Barone, USNews.com
"The right blogosphere's greatest triumph came after CBS's Dan Rather on September 8 reported that Bush had shirked duty in the National Guard and the network posted its 1972-dated documents on the Web. Within four hours, a blogger on freerepublic.com pointed out that they looked as though they had been created in Microsoft Word; the next morning, Scott Johnson of powerlineblog.com relayed the comment and asked for expert views. Charles Johnson of littlegreenfootballs.com showed that the documents exactly matched one he produced in Word using default settings. CBS defended the documents for 11 days but finally confessed error and eased Rather out as anchor. MSM tried to defeat Bush but instead only discredited itself. The Pew Center's post-election poll showed a sharp decline in the credibility of newspapers and broadcast TV and a sharp increase in reliance on cable news, especially Fox News, and radio.
So what hath the blogosphere wrought? The left blogosphere has moved the Democrats off to the left, and the right blogosphere has undermined the credibility of the Republicans' adversaries in Old Media. Both changes help Bush and the Republicans."
