Political Blogging – Blogitics

Politics has changed. But, it ain’t changed enough just yet! That’s why I call on all you feller bloggers to form a Blogitics consortium. Don’t get too worried about that big word – it just means we’re gonna do some consorting and such.

I been readin about a feller named David Perlmuter. He wrote a book called Blogwars and does some consorting on his own talking to folks about what he calls Online Social-Interactive Media (OSIM). (Note: don’t go looking for him at blogwars.com cause you’re gonna find an adult site that’ll make your eyeballs sweat.)

Anyhow, Mr. David said, "I have been traveling, giving speeches about blogging and other online social-interactive media (OSIM) and Campaign 2008. Either in person or in tele-video or Webchat connections, I have spoken to groups in Germany, the Netherlands, the Philippines, and Afghanistan. In the United States, my audiences have varied widely, from high school teachers to the New England Journal of Medicine. All have asked questions about accuracy and responsibility in our new world of media."

Everybody is asking questions about the accuracy and responsibility of this new world media, meaning us bloggers. And I’m wondering why that has become an issue all of a sudden. Are bloggers less accurate and responsible than "regular" media? Let’s see, we got Fox News on one side and MSNBC on the other. We got The Weekly Standard, National Review, American Spectator, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Sean Hannity, Ed Schultz, Rush Limbaugh, Keith Olbermann, Laura Ingraham and Rachel Maddow. Is this the standard of accuracy and responsibility he’s talking about?

Now, I ain’t pickin a fight with any of those folks. I like some of ‘em and watch ‘em on the TV set every day. But…if Mr. Limbaugh says it’s black Mr. Olbermann will say it’s white. If the whole world says waterboarding is torture but Mr. Hannity says it’s not, who is the most accurate and responsible? I visited Laura Ingraham’s blog and there was a great big headline, "Obama Family Tree Extends to Germany." What would you think that meant? Well, let me tell you what it really is. Mr. Obama had an uncle who fought in World War II and went to Germany to help liberate one of the concentration camps. Yeah, let’s talk responsibility.

Let’s take a short walk back in time to Rathergate. Y’all remember that, don’t you? Old Dan Rather jumped right up on 60 Minutes and challenged President George Bush’s military service records. I mean, right there on the TV set he was showing documents that proved Dubya was lying. Bloggers to the rescue! The Online Social-Interactive Media, as Mr. David likes to call ‘em, jumped higher than ol Dan had jumped…and proved his documents to be fake. CBS apologized and so forth. Would CBS be the standard of accuracy and responsibility Mr. David is talking about?

The American Truth Squad

Whilst I like to think that Uncle Brice’s Blog is probably the most entertaining thing outside the TV set, there are some other blogs that I like. Here are a few:

Ed Schultz: Insurance Companies Are At The Table, Why Not Single … – Ed Schultz asks why Max Baucus is ignoring the majority of Americans who want single-payer healthcare.

Ed Schultz To Be MSNBC 6 PM Host – UPDATE 8:55 PM The #1 story on Countdown was Keith Olbermann introducing Ed Schultz as the new host of “The Ed Show” on MNSBC weeknights at 6PM ET.

Cafferty File – Jack Cafferty on CNN tells it like it is.

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