Do liberal blogs deserve credit for Lou Dobbs’ downfall?
When listing the accomplishments of the conservative blogger, the fall of Dan Rather seems so far to be their crowning achievement. Greg Sargent at the Washington Post wonders if lefty blogs deserve similar credit for Lou Dobbs’ resignation, seeing as they provided a constant drumbeat for his firing, systematically and tediously reporting his more outlandish and inaccurate statements.
The only difference, of course, is that the right blogosphere was able to seize upon one particularly large error while the left had to settle for a series of incremental ones, making credit harder to assign. While they certainly lobbed quite a few stones, the right was able to use a catapult to bring down the entire fortress wall in one fell swoop.
I’ve noticed a depressing trend on CBS since the Rathergate scandal: Credulous Breathless Stenography of conservative talking points with zero fact-checking.