July 21, 2006

THE UPSIDE OF WAR:

Bloggers Offer Unusual Take On Raging Conflict: Silence (JENNIFER SIEGEL, July 21, 2006, The Forward)

Bloggers — as the feisty class of Internet pundits are known — love to paint themselves as free-speech warriors who bravely tackle the hard truths that mainstream media outlets either ignore or distort. But as the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah raged on and conventional media outlets covered the news from the ground, major players in the liberal blogosphere were keeping, by their own admission, decidedly quiet.

However, even shutting up the moonbats isn't worth the war.

Posted by Orrin Judd at July 21, 2006 6:31 PM
Comments

Josh Marshall seems a little taken aback at becoming the blogosphere's Joe Lieberman (though it seems like neither he, nor others on the "near left" like Kevin Drum plan to do anything overt about it in the immediate future).

Posted by: John at July 22, 2006 9:55 AM
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