Ewww! Those blogs!!!

I do like a lot of David Gregory's work. But like many in the MSM, he has a habit of trying to lay blame for things on the alternative sources and Internet.

Crooks and Liars:

So Helen Thomas asked fellow WH pressroom regular David Gregory who is responsible for polarizing American politics. Gregory responded:

I think it’s because of the internet largely. The polarized atmosphere in the internet and blogs and whatnot have been a major contributor to that.

Words of Power has the appropriate response:

Yes, of course, it was the bloggers who polarized the US body politic. …In 2000, the bloggers stopped the counting of the ballots ordered by the Florida Supreme Court, and installed the man who lost, as the counting, finished later by researchers, would confirm. …In 2004, the bloggers made sure there weren’t enough voting machines in the poorest and blackest districts of Ohio. …The bloggers made Habeas Corpus and the Bill of Rights optional. …The bloggers established a Gulag system, instituted torture and rendition, and started disappearing people. The bloggers stayed on vacation while New Orleans drowned. Read more…

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John Amato: Yea, and it was the blogs that spent millions of dollars trying to impeach and indict President Clinton for years and years and of course, we accused him of murdering Vince Foster. Didn’t we? Or maybe it was Richard Mellon Scaife. Isn’t he a blogger too?

This has to be largely my response to. Granted, the online community can be loud, opinionated, and heated. But liberals and liberal bloggers wouldn't blame the troubles of today on the freepers and their kin. They play a small part, but there are far bigger fish to fry.

The likes of FOX news and Limbaugh have been provoking and spinning things for years. Look at the swift boating, an act of the blogs? Lies about Gore, the blogs did it? The French baiting, blogs? Your with us, or the terrorist, who pressed this idea?

The trouble for the media, I think, sometimes is that they are sore about being taken to task. That is something blogs are doing in spades. They didn't like Colbert coming to their little party and mocking them,a nd they don't care to have their hallf-asses work parsed through and shown as faulty work.

The blogs are polarizing things...I guess Gregory was too busy in the 90's to see when the political polarization really got running, and continues to today.