Althouse picks apart Kos’s response to the New Republic article. Kos now seems to have declared war against The New Republic for simply reporting on a letter that Kos does admit to existing.
223pm UPDATE: Jeff Goldstein has more here. He also summarizes his previous day’s post:
In yesterday’s post on this story, I noted that what was being slowly revealed here—moreso, perhaps, than any evidence of wrongdoing on Kos’ part—was a progressivist mindset that is fanatical about controlling the narrative, and especially about defining the parameters of identitarian “authenticity”. Of course, little did I know at the time that Kos would be so eager to make my point for me.
Many bloggers feel that they are in a great position to dictate the news, whether it’s by determining what in the MSM deserves their attention or debunking or by starting the stories that the MSM are too “scared” or “biased” to touch. But when a story comes out of the MSM on one of their own they go into damage control.
How care the MSM try and change the way the blog works by targeting one or us or revealing some of the inner workings? The nerve…
255pm UPDATE: And it seems Mickey Kaus over at Slate has some thoughts as well. It’s traditional media bloggers versus the “progressive” bloggers.