Putting the Nut in Wingnut

The Village Voice weighs in on the stars of the conservative blogosphere. Sample: Powerline features...

dissertations on moral and political topics (“the Clinton-Gore lack of seriousness about issues”), personal essays (“Being a child of the '50s, I don't recall a time when Sammy Davis was not a celebrity . . .”), and the occasional attempt at investigative journalism, some of which were howlingly unsuccessful (“Bin Laden is dead. More leaks are starting to come out . . .”—July 27, 2002). Sometimes they struck pay-dirt, however, including the “Rathergate” controversy over George W. Bush's alleged military service, which figured in the blog's 2004 Time award. Thereafter, Powerline sometimes attempted to recapture the old magic, most notably by unsuccessfully debunking the damning “Schiavo memo” from Senator Mel Martinez's office, which was laid to rest with the admission “Real Memo, Fake Story” (“While [it] . . . didn't turn out to be a Democratic dirty trick, the media's treatment of the memo was misleading at best”). Mostly covered other people's reporting from a right-wing Republican perspective, like Fox News with a scroll bar.

As another righty blogger might say: Heh.

I look forward to the leftwing guide follow-up.