The American Prospect is Angry at the Blogosphere

In "Blogged Down," Garance Franke-Ruta  expresses dismay with the Conservative Bloggers who brought down Jordan Eason.  Her main complaint seems to be that they pretend to be "citizen-bloggers", i.e., ordinary Joes, whereas they are really political astute conservatives.  Surely one can't be both. 

Powerline demolishes this nonsense.

Here's what Franke-Ruta had to say about Power Line:

Power Line, another conservative blog deeply involved in the Rather controversy, helped push the Jordan story as well. Described by Time magazine as “three amateur journalists working in a homegrown online medium [who] challenged a network news legend and won,” Power Line was voted Time’s “2004 Blog of the Year.” In reality, its three writers are all fellows at the conservative Claremont Institute who attended Dartmouth College in the early 1970s and now work as attorneys; two of them have been writing articles as a team for conservative publications such as the National Review and The American Enterprise for more than 10 years.

I love the use of the phrase "in reality" followed by a series of biographical facts that have nothing to do with the material the author purports to challenge -- i.e., whether we are amateur journalists, whether our medium is homegrown, whether we successfully challenged Dan Rather, and whether we were Time's blog of the year.