Let freedom ring
Even ignoring a few ramblings by people who seem to think I'm always writing about them and focusing on their party...
Ah, but the strawberries! That's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes, but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt, and with geometric logic, that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox did exist! And I'd have produced that key if they hadn't pulled Caine out of action! I-I-I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow officer and......
But I digress...
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... there's been nothing so far to indicate that there's anybody in Minnesota -- Democrat or Republican -- in the Minnesota blogosphere, who is getting paid by a campaign or a party to write a blog (OK, so we haven't heard from everybody yet). There is nothing so far to indicate that any political blog in Minnesota would fit the concerns of FEC Commissioner Bradley Smith, who suggested last year that blogs may be treated differently "in the next election" (meaning this one). So while I penned the questions that were asked, Bradley Smith authored the concerns.
E.J. Dionne wrote about this today, "FEC decides to regulate ads and `soft money' but to exempt blogs"
It would be wonderful if the Internet proved to be as brilliantly self-correcting as its enthusiasts claim it will be. Let's hope partisan bloggers on the one side help expose abuses by partisan bloggers on the other.
And let's hope they can figure out how to do it without making it up. Amen.
I take that back, the good ones have learned how to do it without making it up. It is the one area where the blogosphere mirrors MSM. The good ones rise to the top, the questionable ones end up preaching predictable sermons to a unexpectant choir.
Same as it always was.