Powerline

Over in the Twin Cities, our friends at Powerline (you know, Time's "Blog of the Year") have been in a running battle with a rather obnoxious columnist for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune for quite some time.  Here's the latest exchange.  I thought this salvo from the Trib columnist quit rich:

Time magazine's "Blog of the Year" is not run by Boy Scouts. It is the spear of a campaign aimed at making Minnesota into a state most of us won't recognize. Unless you came from Alabama with a keyboard on your knee.

Anyway, read the exchange if you want.  What's interesting to note is that a certain political columnist in South Dakota has come in for some tough criticism from the Dakota Blog Alliance for the past few years, but has not responded in his column or ever really addressed the criticism (although he does complain behind the scenes that bloggers are out to "get" him).  Whatever.  What's important now is, as Michael Barone noted, the MSM doesn't have a monopoly anymore and can't get away with what they used to.