Rove's lawyer spills the beans on who Karl's real enemies are.
"Actually, it's the media?not the prosecutor's office?that he's angry at, and especially the bloggers. Mr. Luskin was eager to portray the suffering of his client as a function of media attention and speculation, rather than real danger of a conviction.
Mr. Rove, Mr. Luskin said, had fallen victim to partisans and?more importantly?the bloggers who became their enablers."
Ever think about just how quickly blogs achieved a real political significance? Ten years ago, hell five years ago, no public official uttered the word, much less could they speak of them as a significant agent without causing all in the room to snicker. Within five years of the introduction of the term into the English language, they have become entities so potentially powerful as to qualify as the MOST important domestic enemy turdblossm has; or at least sufficiently enough to allow him to pursue the strategy of saying this and not have it sound too much like claiming martians or fleas were his worst enemies.
(I guess he did have his lawyer drop the quote for him, so perhaps it is still the case that no self-respecting powerplayer in Washington can refer publically to blogs as their scapegoats, even as it has become acceptable -- in fact, apparently unquestionable -- to make use of this strategy through transparent mediators.)
And just like that this most incredible experiment in human communication heretofore attempted, this interglobalnet if you will, shows itself to be its fucking opposite: a prominent political institution with absolutely no real political power since its only public function is to serve as a repository of blanket redemption for all strawman arguments provided by a public official.
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Indeed. Luskin's statement itself is practically dialectical, although, it is just stupid. The blogoshpere is so powerful that poor Karl sheds a tear everytime he turns on his computer. And its because they enable the partisans, whoever they are. Some sort of non-internet type creature, I guess. Yet, somehow, the bloggers are the more important part of this equation, because they enable the partisans. So, as you've already noted: Bloggers are powerful, so powerful that they can't change anything. In addition, they, being the self-congraulatory type, will likely take all this as a complement, even though the reason Luskin seems to be giving for the blogs' power is that they spread lies so fast. If only it were true...A powerful liar.
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