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Bloggorhea?! This is the first time I have come across that word, used by Frank Rich in his Sunday column. He was writing about the power of YouTube, particularly in helping to bring town George Allen's political prospects, noting the power of images and video over, well, bloggorhea.
I actually like the term. A diarrhea of the keyboard? I have been thinking anew about a title for my journal, and if I had a little more spirit, I think I may have found it: Bloggorhea. Ah, it would not be the MSM if there were not that arrogance, especially toward the little pajama-wearing guys.
Well, Frank Rich is good, as well as very liberal, and I will close this latest bit of bloggorhea with an excerpt from his celebration of the 2006 elections:
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Bloggorhea?! This is the first time I have come across that word, used by Frank Rich in his Sunday column. He was writing about the power of YouTube, particularly in helping to bring town George Allen's political prospects, noting the power of images and video over, well, bloggorhea.
I actually like the term. A diarrhea of the keyboard? I have been thinking anew about a title for my journal, and if I had a little more spirit, I think I may have found it: Bloggorhea. Ah, it would not be the MSM if there were not that arrogance, especially toward the little pajama-wearing guys.
Well, Frank Rich is good, as well as very liberal, and I will close this latest bit of bloggorhea with an excerpt from his celebration of the 2006 elections:
The macaca incident had resonance beyond Virginia not just because it was a hit on YouTube. It came to stand for 2006 as a whole because it was synergistic with a national Republican campaign that made a fetish of warning that a Congress run by Democrats would have committee chairmen who are black (Charles Rangel) or gay (Barney Frank), and a middle-aged woman not in the Stepford mold of Laura Bush as speaker. In this context, Mr. Allen’s defeat was poetic justice: the perfect epitaph for an era in which Mr. Rove systematically exploited the narrowest prejudices of the Republican base, pitting Americans of differing identities in cockfights for power and profit, all in the name of “faith.”
... What a week this was! Here’s to the voters of both parties who drove a stake into the heart of our political darkness. If you’ll forgive me for paraphrasing George Allen: Welcome back, everyone, to the world of real America.
