The Black Republican

Bill Sammons' new book Strategery is really starting to make some waves inside the beltway and other Blue-state bastions. Just as a snippet, via Drudge comes evidence that the big guy himself (GWB) sees the affect of the new media and Blogosphere all too well:

"I think what’s healthy is that there’s no monopoly on the news. There’s competition. There’s competition for the attention of, you know, 290 million people, or whatever it is.

And the amazing thing about this world we live in is that there’s a kind of free-flowing, kind of bulletin board of ideas and thoughts out there in the ether space, sometimes landing on somebody’s desk and sometimes not, but always available. It’s a very interesting period."

He is so right, we do live in interesting times! And the Architect Carl Rove not only considers Memogate a watershed in the rise of this new media, but he actually hat tips the Pajamahadeen in the process...

"The whole incident in the fall of 2004 showed really the power of the 'blogosphere'...

Because in essence you had now, an army of self-appointed experts looking over the shoulder of the mainstream media and bringing to bear enormously sophisticated skills..."

Rove also points out, however, the one thing that all of us in the blogosphere either know instinctively or have been forced to learn:

"There is so much ugliness and viciousness and fundamental untruths that the blogosphere transmits...

It also is a vehicle for ugly rumors, for scurrilous personal attacks, an avenue for the creation of urban legends which are deeply corrosive of the political system and of people’s faith in it."

The responsibility we have as bloggers seems like common sense to me, and a concept that everyone could grasp, that I wonder why the MSM and liberal elite don't seem to get it. It actually reminds me of one of the most profound and instructive phrases to come out of a popular form of cultural literature... With great power comes great responsibility.