02.12.2005 20:59

Left and Right blogs: united in ... helping Bush


Michael Barone's latest column, Blogosphere politics is up. He looks at what the leftist blogs target from their 'electoral cul de sac' (French for 'dead end', or 'bottom of the bag' according to google): Bush, from farther and farther on the feverish left. The rightwing blogs pant after Old Media.

Both sides wind up helping Bush: the right by discrediting the networks and major newspapers, the left by coming across as more and more deranged and irrelevant.

Barone discusses the 60 Minutes II Bush-ANG Memos story, but doesn't mention the tackling of Jordan Eason and CNN. Too bad: he could have contrasted the rightwingers swarming of Eason versus the leftists lifting up of Dean.