Frum on Klam on the left wing bloggers

What's Klam's motive?

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So what's bugging Klam? Let me hazard a guess: Klam is witnessing
the failure of a revolution-that-never-was. When liberal pundits began
hailing the emergence of left-wing blogging as a counterweight to
conservative talk-radio (and for that matter the pro-war blogging of
sites like LittleGreenFootballs.com, Instapundit.com, HughHewitt.com,
BelmontClubBlogspot.com, AndrewSullivan.com, NRO, and so many others)
they did so because they hoped to find in the left blogs a substitute
for the fading dominance of the old-line liberal media.

But that was never going to happen. For conservatives, the advent of
Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity and FoxNews and the blogosphere is all
good news. But for liberals, the move from a world dominated by three
big liberal networks, two big liberal newsmagazines, and two great
liberal newspapers to a world in which bloggers can bring down a network
anchor and the Times' own executive editor is an absolute and utter
catastrophe, even if some of those bloggers happen to be liberal
themselves.

American are living now in a world of media diversity. It's the worst
thing to happen to Democratic hopes since the Sunbelt went Republican.
It's understandable that the Times would feel surly. The only wonder is
that this time it chose to vent that surliness against bloggers who
want nothing more than to contribute their mite to the Times' own team.

I say:

Defeat is an orphan. Nothing fails like failure. So now they're
eating their own.

Kos is breathing fire against Klam and calling for dirty tricks against
the Republicans. (We've long known this talk of Karl Rove moles was just
the loons on the left projecting.) These are the tactics of the
desperate. The left in this country is doomed as a viable political
force. Even if Kerry wins in November, it will only buy them a little
time.

Maybe they can commiserate with Pat Buchanan. Or Ralph Nader. Scratch
that - they've already dissed Nader too badly to expect any sympathy
from him.

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