{"id":8058,"date":"2006-07-28T12:35:32","date_gmt":"2006-07-28T16:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8058.html"},"modified":"2006-07-28T12:35:32","modified_gmt":"2006-07-28T16:35:32","slug":"maybe-he-wants-us-to-say-hes-sorry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/maybe-he-wants-us-to-say-hes-sorry\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe he wants us to say we’re sorry for the war"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Ezra said<\/a> that TNR’s Lee Siegel blamed bloggers<\/i> for the continuation of the war in Iraq, I thought maybe he had read it wrong. Alas, Ezra didn’t — Siegel actually wrote that<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All the bite-sized thoughts, rapid disses, and inanely meandering threads make it hard to concentrate on anything for very long. Linking is no substitute for thinking. So people scream because they can’t focus. You have the impression of bloggers who are so pacified by shouting their rage — and so appeased by smugly shared sentiments — that they turn off their computers at night and go to sleep feeling empowered and relaxed.<\/p>\n

No wonder, several years after the blogosphere allegedly became a people powerhouse, the country is mired even deeper in Iraq and successfully distracted by one false public alarm after another.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve read Siegel’s column a few times, hoping that I might fully understand what in the world he’s talking about. Maybe my mind is encumbered with too many “bite-sized thoughts,” and burdened by “smug rage,” to fully appreciate the argument, but it certainly sounds<\/i> as if Siegel believes bloggers are somehow responsible for the U.S. being “mired even deeper in Iraq.”<\/p>\n

I’m not one for TNR bashing, but this is just incoherent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Ezra said that TNR’s Lee Siegel blamed bloggers for the continuation of the war in Iraq, I thought maybe he had read it wrong. Alas, Ezra didn’t — Siegel actually wrote that. All the bite-sized thoughts, rapid disses, and inanely meandering threads make it hard to concentrate on anything for very long. Linking is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}