The Unreality-Based Community, Blog Analysis Division

This is so funny I cut out the update from the previous post and copied a bit of its other text to create a new post here.

This really is the howler of the day — Chris “I’m Incredibly Full of Myself” Bowers at MyDD, thinks the independent right-wing blogosphere is dead (”There Is No Right-Wing Blogosphere Anymore”):

I still believe this, only now I feel it has developed to such a degree that the right-wing blogosphere itself has been all but annihilated. Most major right-wing bloggers have now been incorporated into the established news media apparatus.

Two thoughts:

1. Locally, ask Paul Hackett how dead we are (yeah, we had help, but it all started with local blogs; besides, Rush is a five-days-per-week blogger who just happens to have a radio show. :–>).
2. You would think a “reality based” guy would at least look at the numbers. Bowers’ ignorance of blog traffic stats is even more stunning (if that’s possible) in this statement:

   In short, there is almost nothing in the way of an independent right-wing blogosphere operating outside of existing, established news media outlets. The days of the rise of Free Republic have long passed.

   Really?

   

   I mean, really?

   

   And compared to the leading lefty forum site:

   

   And a free bonus — Just one person’s conservative site vs. The Left’s Big Cahuna:

   

   If this is “annihilation,” let’s have more of it.
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   UPDATE: Hugh Hewitt also noticed Bowers’ hilarity, and therefore deserves his own comparison. Remember, this is just one guy and a very able apprentice compared to Chris “Mr. Big” Bowers aggregating operation at MyDD:

   

   Give it up, Hugh. You’ve been “annihilated.” It’s hopeless.