Sunday Blogger Sunday

Two media items are worth noting today for the benefit of readers who do not spend hours surfing the blogosphere.

First, ur-dweeb Mike Kinsley nails down the reason why blogs are intrinsically better than traditional commentary for honest intellectual debate. Second, Powerline was named "blog of the year" by Time magazine - a de facto admission that the Rathergate Memo scandal was a watershed moment in journalism.

Sooner or later blogs will play a role in discrediting Republicans; but not with something fraudulent, like the National Guard memos. Bogus scandals wont survive. But a real example of corruption, greed, or stupidity which damages the Right? Hell itself will be unleashed.

The bloggers who uncover that scandal will be carried aloft down Madison Ave, while Pete Jennings and Katie Couric feed them grapes.