LOTT STORY HITS MAJOR NEWS CHANNELS BECAUSE OF BLOGGERS
Bloggers and LottTHE INTERNET'S FIRST SCALP By JOHN PODHORETZ (much sniped here)An enterprising leftist blogger named Atrios (atrios.blogspot.com) spent the weekend digging up interesting tidbits about Trent Lott's home state of Mississippi and its record on the matter of segregation. That included the official 1948 Mississippi Democratic Party sample ballot, which asked residents of the state to vote not for Democratic nominee Harry Truman but rather for Strom Thurmond. A vote for Truman, the sample ballot reads, "means . . . anti-lynching and anti-segregation proposals will become the law of the land and our way of life in the South will be gone forever."

By Monday morning, the blogosphere had gone ballistic. Most impressive was the fact that conservatives didn't circle the wagons, claiming that Lott was being mistreated and he'd already apologized and Bill Clinton did worse. Rather, they turned their wagons outward and commenced firing at Lott. (more sniped here)

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