As noted by Xrlq, Jonah Goldberg ends an otherwise thoughtful article on the campaign finance reform decision with a gratuitous swipe at all bloggers not named Reynolds or Volokh. Here is the paragraph:
By the way, where the hell is this much-vaunted blogosphere? If three freshman congressmen from Wisconsin hinted that they wanted to regulate the use of umlauts on the internet in honor of Leif Ericson’s birthday, bloggers would be on the steps of Congress up-ending cans of gasoline on themselves in protest at such an infringement on free speech. But here we have all three branches of the government severely restricting independent speech outside of the dinosaurs of Old Media and the relative silence
Not to mention that virtually all of us had posts on this within an hour or so of the announcement. Bizarre.
Or maybe he forgot where he’d seen the posts. Why don’t you ask him? Wow, one thing we bloggers are not is investigative reporters.
Doug: if he did forget where he saw the blog entries and falsely reported the wrong ones, how is that any better? In any event, falsely stating that Instapundit blogged on the topic was a relatively minor error. The major one was falsely stating that the Blogosphere as a whole was largely silent on the matter. A quick visit to Daypop or Technorati would have made it clear that this was not the case.