I’m off to Japan for a week of meetings, so I don’t expect to be posting much until I get back. I can recommend all the blogs in the right-hand column, especially Blogs for Bush, Roger L. Simon, Terrorism Unveiled, Red State, and The Fat Guy.
Simon has done yeoman’s work covering the Lyin’ Joe Wilson story, and I hope that it continues to unfold in the days to come. The blogger triumphalism that emerged following the downfall of Trent Lott has suffered a major blow in the failure of Big Media to follow the lead of bloggers in exposing Wilson for what it is, lending credence to my theory that Trent Lott was primarily a product of Democratic activist Sid Blumenthal acting through Josh Marshall. The Democratic Party blogs (Marshall, Atrios, Kos, and Kevin Drum) are shying away from the Wilson story because he’s their man and the centerpiece of the “Bush lied, people died” hysteria.
As they will continue to do that, we’ll see whether the center and right blogs have the power to make the media go where it doesn’t want to go in the next few days.