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Don't read this immediately after eating. Citing the pajamadeen's only real triumph, Rathergate, as an example, Bush cited the value of the "alternative media" that saved his sorry butt from having to explain his imaginary Guard record. Bush seems to think they can fulfil that long held wet dream of repeating such a coup to prop up his failed presidency and pull the GOP's bacon out of the oncoming electoral fire.

“I think what’s healthy is that there’s no monopoly on the news,” Bush said. “There’s competition. There’s competition for the attention of, you know, 290 million people, or whatever it is.

Yeah, and whoever they are, as if our fully insulated president would know. And spare me the disingenous surprise that the trained lap dogs in the media turned it into an indictment of CBS instead of focusing on the real story, which was the White House couldn't and still cannot to this day produce records or even one solitary witness who actually can attest to Bush's "service" to our country.

The "brains" of the Greedy Old Party have a more pragmatic take. You gotta love this line.

“It also, frankly, gave us an opportunity, frequently, when things came out in the media that we didn’t believe or didn’t like, to say, ‘It’s another CBS story,’” said Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman, who was the president’s campaign manager. “I mean, it gave us a serious response to bad news.”[emphasis added]

Well, serious is debatable but at least it's an all purpose soundbite that plays well with the ill-informed Greek chorus. Rove joins the cheering section for his bloggy excusers but sees the rise of the left's blog power as a threat.

“There is so much ugliness and viciousness and fundamental untruths that the blogosphere transmits,” he lamented. “It also is a vehicle for ugly rumors, for scurrilous personal attacks, an avenue for the creation of urban legends which are deeply corrosive of the political system and of people’s faith in it.”

Right Karl. When they serve your purpose they're an army of self-appointed experts looking over the shoulder of the mainstream media and bringing to bear enormously sophisticated skills to the table. Those that challenge you are riff raff pushing "another CBS story." Anyone who thinks the sudden reaching out by the White House to the pajamadeen is not an attempt to take over the blogland, think again.

Mark my words lefty bloggers and watch your backs. Uncle Karl has us in his sights.