Wednesday, February 16, 2005
They Can't and They Won't
To the skirmishers of MSM, who have taken to lumping all bloggers together and attributing to them the basest sort of bloodlust, Hugh Hewitt has a simple deal:
Here are the rules: Don't serially slander the military as assassins and torturers, and you can say whatever you want at Davos. Don't pass off obviously forged documents as super-"Scoops!" in the middle of a presidential election, and you can intone all the absurd "anchor" sayings you want. Don't cover for plagiarists, and you can be the off-the-cliff lefty editor for as long as you want. Don't say the memory of Christmas-Eve-in-Cambodia is "seared, seared" in your memory and then say "oops," you were mistaken, and folks won't question your credibility on other war-stories. Don't appear to endorse segregation, and you can be the
Leader. These aren't high bars. Cross them.
# posted by mds : 8:18 AM
