Blogs, what are they good for?

Maxspeak;

This politics by other means takes the form of a scalp-hunt. The game is to find or invent pecadilloes in a member of the opposition, then mobilize everything to grind him or her into dust. Genuinely important issues and ideas are left to languish. The driver here is not maverick journalism, but rabid, vapid political partisanship.

Right now the score is Right, Dan Rather and Eason Jordan; Left, some dude in his skivvies. Trent Lott is doing just fine. My impression is that the Left is playing catch-up, still trying to redeem itself for the rubbishing of Michael Dukakis. I can identify with the need for pay-back. But who knows when it started. The Right is sore about Nixon and Bork. Me, I remember Abe Fortas and Ted Sorenson.

The "self-correcting blogosphere." What rubbish. Blogs are a cesspool of rumor, half-truth, innuendo, and deliberate falsification. All in the name of unearthing unutterable truths. The ones with the biggest pretensions to truth are the biggest liars.

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