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Penske out of the mainstream
I'm still not here, but I saw this Business Week article over the weekend and thought I'd pass it on.
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The Right and Miers: Sound, Fury, Yawns
Big-name Right-wing bloggers and pundits are livid about Bush's latest Supreme Court pick. So why do polls find only 9% of the GOP faithful oppose her?
For several years, political bloggers of the Left, Right, and interplanetary variety have scorned Washington elites and what many dismiss as "MSM," the Mainstream Media, as hopelessly out of touch with America.
But when it comes to Web-driven furor over President Bush's selection of White House Counsel Harriet Miers for a Supreme Court seat, it's the right-wing blogosphere that looks out of sync with its own grassroots.
While conservative bloggers have sliced, diced, and otherwise eviscerated Miers, Bush's surprise pick to replace Sandra Day O'Connor, new polls show that the Web's chattering classes are magnifying her troubles. Out in the Real America, the one where "online" can still mean the place to hang your wash, conservatives don't share the bloggers' disdain for the unassuming Texas lawyer.
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