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Wonkette is sneering at Jonah; he replies in the Corner.

She's just on a high from being mentioned in two major newsweeklies this week. Time salutes her for her interview with Jessica Cutler, a.k.a. Washingtonienne, who gained fame and a major book deal for sleeping around on Capitol Hill.

Newsweek does a whole interview with her, and she says the anti-Dan-Rather bloggers "did a disservice to the debate because they made the debate about the documents and not about the president of the United States. There was another half to that story that had to do with verifiable events of what Bush may have been up to."

Gee, I guess next time the Pajama-clad bloggers ought to try to elevate the debate the way Wonkette does, and try harder to get a real story, like that big Washingtonienne interview.

UPDATE: A wise voice who has had his (or her) battles with the mainstream media for years gently chides me for being surprised, or irritated, by these mags.

Time has run cover stories asking if [voices on the right] are good for America, followed the next week by a cover praising Castro on his efforts to save his lovely island nation. For years they have predicted conservative talk radio hosts will fall to Cuomo, Hart, Hightower and Franken. They all eat the dust. Newsweek is Newsweek, as a tiger is a tiger. You can’t tame them. [The audience for places like NRO, Rush, Fox News, etc.] has been said to be mind numbed robots, stupid hayseed hicks, etc. Just keep doing what you are doing. It is the audience that counts, not Newsweek.

This wise voice is right.

Also, Powerline observes that "the other half of that story" wasn't much better than the fake memos.

UPDATE, AGAIN: Before I posted this, I pointed the interview out to some of my favorite bloggers... Bill from InDC Journal just took this ball and ran with it all the way to the end zone, collecting a lot of links.

[Posted 12/20 03:08 PM]