On Punditry

As I tell anyone who will listen, the reason I can't stand telivision is because it essentially amounts to a self-fellating contest. For that reason, I like blogs a lot more. They're more independent, and you can find quite a few good ones.

That doesn't mean that there are blogs with an overhyped sense of self-importance, who are more than willing to step in and say, "Look, TV Pundits, I can self-fellate too!"

For example, via Crooked Timber Roger L Simon had this to say about the election:

If the Kerry does win, the mainstream media will have gotten him elected with their biased coverage and they will pay for it more than they could imagine. And it will be the blogosphere and you, our supporters, who will make them pay. Our strength will grow incremently [sic] with a Kerry victory in terms of influence and even economic power. And both will be at the expense of the mainstream media. Yes, we too have “plans.”

Glenn Reynolds says a similar thing. Basically, the media, which has constantly focused on Kerry's "flip-flops", allowed a clearly lying group of Swift Boat Veterans and overly political archbishops their anti-Kerry say, and gives a basic clearance to so many of Bush's obvious lies, are biased against Kerry since they refuse to simply report that things are going swimmingly in Iraq, which they clearly are because Dear Fatherly Leader says so!

Yeesh.