TAS Online Article: Farenheit 411 - A must read!

Jay Homnick's excellent article in The American Spectator Online today, about how the Old Media wanted McCain/Feingold to consolidate their political power but didn't count on bloggers is a must read. Well written and funny, Mr. Homnick rubs in the irony and lauds the hutspah of the 'pajama-clad bloggers', and lampoons the Old Media's bumbling:

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=7157

Here's my response, emailed to TAS:

Subject: Old Media got 'owned'

Rather amusing, Mr. Homnick! This blogger (http://sanityanyone.blogspot.com/) thanks you for so cleverly illuminating what has become a thriving community on line. The Pajamahadeen have developed into a watchful, 24/7 media police, a force with which to be reckoned as CBS recently found out. "Ratherizing" and "freeping" (lying/forging and getting busted by Free Republic (and now, any) bloggers, respectively) have recently become well known verbs in cyberspace.

Another phenomenon of the blogosphere is its ability to drive stories into the news, stories the Old Media attempt to ignore in their quest to elect John Kerry. The Swift Boat Vets charges against Kerry are a prime example. Kerry's friends in the media completely discarded their principles long before the Rathergate mess with regard to the Swifties, but the Pajamahadeen's ruthless R&D was enough to convince at least Fox News and a few others. This left Old Media no alternative but to break out the DNC-led attack/distract/smear machine against the Swifties, but the Vets stood strong anyway.

There are also a lot of bloggers (here's one of my favorite neighbors: http://www.pajamajournalist.blogspot.com/) showing the other side of the war in Iraq; the side that includes new schools, women in business and government, a free press, a new electrical and transportation infrastructure, grateful and brave Iraqis, and more. This side cannot be found on Old Media and even Fox News doesn't provide nearly the amount coverage this news deserves.

The bottom line is that Americans can FINALLY get their news, analysis, and information on their own via the Internet, getting ALL sides and easily avoiding becoming stooges of the Old Media. My hero Drudge regularly scoops Old Media on big stories; now we can add Free Republic to the list of Davids against the liberal/socialist-dominated Goliath of the CNN/CBS/New York Times/Washington Post/ABC/NBC/NPR/LA Times/Boston Globe/USA Today leftist media cabal.

There's a new movement, also started I believe on Free Republic, to pitch in and get Dan Rather some snuggly pajamas to assist his fact checking. I've already pledged an old pair - I recently went out and bought a WHOLE BUNCH of new PJs for myself...

Doug
Harpers Ferry, WV