Trolling for Signficance

Interesting bit on the Fraters blog yesterday about what the City Pages collection of blogs calls "the first cybermooning":

"Apparently last week there was a coordinated effort among Left leaning blogs across the nation to protest the lawsuit filed by Fox News against Al Franken, his upcoming book, and his use of their trademarked phrase "

Or as the City Pages (in their blog edition, Twin Cities Babelogue, puts it:

Fair and balanced? Was it ever! Blah3 has the best list — over 500 participating blogs letting Fox News know how very, very much we love them. In conjunction with National Fair and Balanced Day, Bush Wars conducted a poll on Bill O'Reilly (more at the Couch Pundit), but the big news was the scope and success of the first-ever cyber-mooning. Exposing their ass cheeks to power, the online Left may have just come of age.

Seems trite and trivial? Maybe, but I think it points to something larger.

Blogs on both sides have gotten into big group activities like this. Let's compare them:

• Right Blogs - Coordinated blogging on Iranian independence day, to draw attention to the anti-theocracy protesters and their suffering, and to support their yearning for freedom.
• Left Blogs - Coordinated blogging on behalf of comic Al Franken, to support his yearning for relevance.
• Right Blogs - Gang fact-checking the New York Times, eventually helping to lead to the exposure of a culture of PC and disregard for the truth at the Old Gray Lady.
• Left Blogs - "Cyber-mooning" Fox News.

As a tribute to the brave efforts of our cyber freedom fighters of the left, I'm going to co-opt trademarks from both the City Pages and Al Franken, for purely satirical purposes (see the top-right side of the page).

I'll await their applause of my courageous stance for my beliefs.

Posted by Mitch at August 17, 2003 11:36 AM