The Blogosphere wimps out

A reader writes:

It's interesting; you hear a lot in the Right blogosphere and on talk radio about the things that wouldn't have gone the way they did had the alternative-Right media (ie, Fox News, talk radio, and the Right blogosphere) existed at the time. Things like Robert Bork's rejection, the spin on the Tet Offensive, etc. All would have been resisted like Dan Rather's attempt to pass off fake memos, etc.

So here's Katrina and now comes the time to resist another Great Society and another rallying point for decades of race hustling, and I really don't see the principal and most triumphal voices of the alternative media doing the right job--the story they are resisting is that this is the end of Bush's presidency and an enduring wound for Republicans in general. They're fighting that one but in so doing are not necessarily fighting the one about how American racism caused this disaster and recovery can only be accomplished through a rejuvenated welfare state. That's not what I expected when they claimed Tet could not happen again. But then, I have also long thought that reports of the MSM's decline were well ahead of themselves, and the power of the alternative-Right media was self-exaggerated.

Peter Brimelow's almost-instant reaction to the chaos in New Orleans was that it would turn out to be another Tet Offensive, in which the historical reality is rewritten by the liberal media. That prediction appears highly accurate at this point.

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