{"id":901,"date":"2007-06-07T04:20:46","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T10:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/06\/07\/the-odd-couples\/"},"modified":"2021-12-15T16:07:08","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T22:07:08","slug":"the-odd-couples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=901","title":{"rendered":"The Odd Couples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the news that journalist <em>nonpareil <\/em>Eric Black has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/06\/05\/ok-seriously-now\/\">apparently changed his mind<\/a> about the place of overt bias in the media by joining the &#8220;progressive&#8221; Minnesota Monitor, I figured &#8211; if you can&#8217;t beat &#8217;em, join &#8217;em.\u00a0 Sorta like Black apparently did.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, conservative bloggers are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fraterslibertas.com\/2007_06_01_archive.html#84581776645616338#84581776645616338\">swooping in like vultures<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We understand that if Lileks hadn&#8217;t found a new bucket at the Strib, there was an agreement in principle for him to sign on at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nihlist.blogspot.com\/\"><strong>Nihilist In Golf Pants<\/strong><\/a>. And then there&#8217;s our open offer&#8211;made at JB&#8217;s behest&#8211;for Doug Grow to join the staff here at Fraters Libertas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the interest of smoothing the paths of the recent buy-out-ees (and possible future buyout-ees)\u00a0into non-monastic life, I figured I&#8217;d provide\u00a0a clearinghouse of blogs that&#8217;d be perfect in the same sense that MinMon<strike>ey<\/strike>itor was perfect for Erik Black [1]:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>DFL Shill Lori Sturdevant goes to <em>Minnesota Democrats Exposed<\/em>: <\/strong>Sturdevant&#8217;s pollyannaish faith in the eternal rightness of the DFL will play nicely against Michael <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com\">Brodkorb&#8217;s<\/a> invincible wall of facts the same way Eric Black&#8217;s ethos of objectivity will play against some of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moderateleft.com\">his new colleagues&#8217;<\/a> comically-overwrought partisan chauvinism.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Doug Grow joins <em>Kool Aid Report<\/em><\/strong>: Sane, predictable, sober, workadaddy-huggamommy mushy-lefty Grow would make a great match for the insane, unpredictable, high, non-mushy-non-lefty staff at KAR.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Katherine Kersten joins <em>Blog of the Moderate Left<\/em>:<\/strong> Talented writer meets the <em>real <\/em>guy who stands astride the forces of history in his basement in his underwear screaming &#8220;Pwned!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nick Coleman starts writing for <em>Anti-Strib<\/em>:<\/strong> Firm believer in the holy priesthood of &#8220;journalism&#8221; and relentless <em>faux<\/em>-populist dramaturge (emphasis on &#8220;turge&#8221;) meets congenitally-irreverent plate-throwers.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Minnesota Observer<\/em> signs on Doug Tice: <\/strong>The always-comically-overwrought and under-informed M &#8220;MNob&#8221; Nob engages an employee who actually knows something.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Powerline<\/em> hires Jim Boyd<\/strong>: Conservative bloggers whom the intellectually ungifted on the left call &#8220;hacks&#8221;, meet a <em>real <\/em>intellectually-ungifted hack who hates conservatives!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>[1] As a seeming repudiation of what had theretofore been a quasi-religious principle, that is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the news that journalist nonpareil Eric Black has apparently changed his mind about the place of overt bias in the media by joining the &#8220;progressive&#8221; Minnesota Monitor, I figured &#8211; if you can&#8217;t beat &#8217;em, join &#8217;em.\u00a0 Sorta like Black apparently did. 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