Inside the Bubble: Political Journalism Will Eat Itself
• Study finds that television news turns liberals into terrorist-smiting Freepers. No wonder Rather had to go. [Univ. of Wisconsin]
• "I think that you would be hard pressed to read through the, uh, the blog and really see it take any sort of political take at all." GraffGate begins. [CNSNews.com]
• Frank Rich to head "back" to Op-Ed page. [E&P]
• 56 percent of those polled "not at all familiar" with blogs. Lucky, lucky them. [Gallup]
Deleted Comments: In Which Wingnuts Do Sarcasm At Us
The Comments Czar's in Town
Even Dinsdale was frightened of Doug ... He used sarcasm. He knew all the tricks: dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and satire.
Yr Wonkette is no stranger to the double-edged weapon of sarcasm, we'll admit. OR WILL WE? It's part of our postmodern toolkit, with which we seek to undermine patriotism, faith, the free market, the family, and ultimately America itself. Duh. But we would never be so naive as to think we have a monopoly on irony and sarcasm, oh no, far from it. This week, we dip into the sludge of deletia for some brilliant examples of cutting rightwing wit turned back on us, with devastating results. Hope you're not all TRIGGERED so much you have to go find a SAFE SPACE, libs!