Blogging Royalty

I have the utmost respect for Bob Somerby at The Daily Howler. He is known far and wide in the liberal blogosphere as the expert in documenting and deconstructing the worst-of-the-worst episodes of the mainstream media, such as the trashing of Al Gore prior to the 2000 election. Make sure you read this example to see how these things "just happen":

“I invented the Internet!” That was the way “his enemies” projected it, Blitzer slickly said—failing to note that it was really his own mainstream colleagues who rode this mocking, “distorted” paraphrase for the next two years. And sure enough! Right to this day, more than nine years later, Blitzer and Kurtz refuse to describe the actual history of this monumental event. They forget to say who really drove this history-changing “distortion.”
Within the press corps, everyone knows he can say it now: Al Gore never said he invented the Internet. But Daddy, what did you say in real time? What did you say when it actually mattered? Isn’t it true that you cowered and quaked? That you didn’t say sh*t at the time?"