Is Rudy blaming bloggers for his crappy week (excuse the language, but it’s the NY in me)? I agree with him things get blown out of proportion at times because of the way the blogosphere works — constantly commenting, etc. — but this ain’t nothing and this is of his own doing. As we were discussing around here yesterday, he could have very easily made that CNN interview non-controversial. But he didn’t. And it’s not the “bloggers” who made it controversial, it was Rudy Giuliani.

UPDATE: This e-mailer may have a point:

I think you and Matt Lewis are totally misreading what is a very clear statement. How did Rudy “blame” anyone for anything? Asked whether this would be a rough primary, he agrees and says that the attacks will come from the blogosphere and the constant news environment generally. Which is undoubtedly true. He didn’t say the attacks would be or were unfair, and in fact re-states his standard line that he is who he is, and if you have to vote against him he understands that. He didn’t criticize anyone for attacking him, or suggest that people were making things up.
In other words, he astutely recognized that the real action in this primary will be constant scrutiny of candidates records and statements from the blogosphere, not traditional candidate-to-candidate negative campaigning, and did so without bemoaning it or attacking the people doing it in any way. Which should be a good thing, not a bad thing. I really believe you were very unfair to Rudy on this, and I think if you read his comments over again you’ll agree.