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Evening, my friend, I hadn't thought this through as thoroughly as you and others. This just may be more than merely another example of the blogosphere pushing an issue into the MSM. Instead, most of the action, this time, occurred mostly within the blogosphere.

And THAT, as you and others have noted, IS a paradigm shift different from what has come before. As the Chinese say, may we live in interesting times. John / Billybob

And THAT, as you and others have noted, IS a paradigm shift different from what has come before

It is on two levels. First of all, the story got legs without MSM involvement. And second, and even more telling, it got legs without video. It used to be that there had to be coverage on TV with visual images that the great unwashed could understand in order for a story to get noticed. There was no video of a smoking gun here. But it didn't matter. Eyewitness accounts of the gun being fired sufficed for enough people to notice.

Which means the blog audience is both larger than the MSM ever thought and they are also more analytical and more capable of connecting the dots without relying on visual imagry to form an opinion - and also don't require the guiding hands of the anchor and the correspondents to connect those dots. And THAT scares the MSM types as much as the fact that the blog world can now perform a 60 Minutes-style colonoscophy on those accustomed to performing such, not receiving such.