Fraters Libertas

Not A Good Alternative

SwanBlog notes that the City Pages (a local "alternative" weekly) has recognized the brouhaha between Power Line and a certain Star Tribune columnist. The CP article by Mike Mosedale doesn't really add much to the mix, although it does manage to slip in a shot at the man City Pages regards as Public Enemy #1:

For the past month or so, the unreconstructed Minnesota liberal Coleman has been engaged in a mutual shin-kicking contest with the neo-cons at Power Line. In various posts, the Power Line bloggers have called Coleman "the Star Tribune's worst columnist," "a partisan hack," and "a prevaricating scoundrel." When the feud spilled into the vast right-wing echo chamber known as the blogosphere, the tone became even nastier. (David Strom, president of the Taxpayers League, set the bar lowest, declaring on his blog that Coleman "is a prick. An asshole. A shitty writer.")

I'm exactly not sure how "the feud spilled into the vast right-wing echo chamber known as the blogosphere", since it started when Coleman took offense at a post at Power Line that criticized Senator Mark Dayton and wrote a frothing screed against the Power Line guys and bloggers in general. It would be more accurate to say that the feud originated in the blogosphere. And I imagine that the thousands of lefty bloggers and lefty blog readers out there would take exception to the characterization of the blogosphere as "the vast right-wing echo chamber." I guess that the "alternative" media can be just as clueless about blogs as their mainstream counterparts.