I can’t remember who said it or where I read it but someone mused that blogs are the nearest thing to what the founders intended when creating the first amendment to the Constitution. Sadly, over recent decades the mainstream media has failed the citizenry. The New York Times showed poor oversight of Judith Miller who was in the thrall of Washington insiders intent on attacking Iraq, and Bob Woodward of the Washington Post has been shown to have feet of clay by playing footsy with pretty much the same wrecking crew.
So blogs, fair and foul, fill the electronic ether with their frothing about George Bush, Michael Moore and a million and one other topics and readers have turned away from traditional media outlests - clearly under the control of special interests - and begun follow their favorite opinion makers. Right wing giants such as Drudge and Limbaugh are now seen as mere hacks for those who would turn us into a theocracy akin to Iran West, and poor Al Franken rails about the unfairness of it all while he throws equally foul bombs at Rush and Matt.
Quietly, small fry like Wild Bill, speaking only truth – as you well know – from the center of the political spectrum, are picking up readers one by one. Bill’s rants – actually calming oil on the water of nasty discourse – simply and gently labels them all idiots and calls for a new Enlightenment where reason rules once again. Sadly, Bill’s blog is being captured by the profit minded and evil SPLOGGERS intent on piggy backing on Bill’s pearls by showing how each of you, dear readers, can earn big bucks at home by merely licking closed envelopes to other suckers.
Bill has basked in the glow of your compliments and acknowledgement of his superior qualities and has chosen to ignore the very rare comments demonstrating the lack of analytical ability of a few, but that must all end. The SPLOGGERS are overwhelming the site, and I must restrict comments. I will know that you are virtually unanimous in your praise, so don’t feel badly about being unable to post it for all to see.
As long as Brennan’s Syndrome (Blogus Bovinus Wastus) forces me to grind out these gems, you’ll have them at your service and never have to comment. Of course you love Bill.
Blog on!
Wild Bill
