Blog of the Year

Unfortunately, the same issue of Time Magazine that all but heralds 2004 as the year of the blog also names George W. Bush the Person of the Year (may require a subscription). Clearly, the year not only produced an oil shortage but a dearth of admirable people as well. To be fair, Time doesn’t require admirability in their Person of the Year. Perhaps they figured that winning the election (sort of) with so many failures on his record was the most remarkable achievement of the year. Daily Kos sums up the topic rather neatly.

On the blog side, Power Line, the blog of John Hinderaker and Scott Johnson, unofficially gets Blog of the Year, theirs being the blog that began the questioning of Dan Rather’s sources on the forged Bush memo. In the end, their “investigative journalism” merely led them to wondering if the forged memo came from the Kerry campaign.

I think (meaning I have no proof or sources, just a feeling in my gut) that the forged memo came from the Bush campaign. In the spirit of Deep Throat’s advice to “follow the money,” I can think of no one else who had more to gain than the Bush Camp. No one but the most devout of Republicans believes that George W. Bush actually served all of his time in the National Guard. But here was this forged memo and there was Dan Rather, too excited to do due diligence, and then the story became about Dan Rather’s dereliction of duty rather than W’s.

Brilliant, Karl. Really brilliant. You probably should have been chosen as Person of the Year.