"Liz...Liz...if it's just blogs, drop it. If you have something that's hard reporting, share it."

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Tweety on "Hardball," talking about the Caroline Kennedy withdrawal.

[Mika]

1. But Tweety is the one who teased the segment with those rumors.

He's a piece of swill.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. That's why I constantly remind the "Tweety is one of us" posters...

...that Tweety is NOT "one of us."

You're right, he DID, he IS.

:patriot:

[bullimiami]

3. pitiful. they wouldnt have much to infotain with 24/7 without the blogs.

chris is living in the distant past.

[sandnsea]

4. If the blogs have hard facts, share it

Would have been more appropriate. But they shouldn't report every stupidity that comes from the blogs, like the birth certificate shit or the swearing in shit. As often as not, what comes out of the blogs really is pure shit. Hopefully the White House blog will change the standards.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

5. The blogs changed the face of reporting

We're not talking about Perez Hilton.

We're talking about Crooks & Liars, Digby...

...their level of reporting is OFTEN higher than Tweety's.

:patriot:

[sandnsea]

6. And it's OFTEN lower

and pure speculation and leaping to unsubstantiated conclusions.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

7. Agreed.

The best of the best ARE the best, and the rest are...well, they're "speculative blogs."

I'm not offering mass praise for the "Blogosphere"...that would be unwarranted. A monkey could write a blog if you gave it enough bananas.

I'm just saying that there are blog practitioners who have chunks of "journalists" like Tweety in their stool (hat-tip to the late, great Phil Hartman and "The Sinatra Report")...

:patriot:

[ErinBerin84]

8. I think what he meant

Was not to drop any "affair gossip" thing...but yeah, the disdain of blogs by the MSM is annoying and happens often. But I think that's what he was getting at....but it was def weird. My local news in upstate NY mentioned affair rumors.