James Wood gets it all perfectly right, as he often does:
So we have a heaven-made circularity: Colbert, abjuring comedy for bitter irony, attacks the MSM like the bloggers do; the MSM decide not to mention Colbert, or decide that he wasn’t funny, or was rude; and the bloggers get to cry foul, charging that this shows, at best, exactly what is wrong with the cloth-eared MSM – or, at worst, that a conspiracy to silence Colbert has begun. At which point the MSM, in their stolid, evenhanded way, write up the "controversy." Who can blame the bloggers?
James can also write a sentence like the following:
On this, I’m with the foul-mouthers, the underground men, the crazies, the semi-literates with their paranoid monikers.
Me too. James: get thee a blog.
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