30 September 2008

A Nation of Riflemen

"Whatever happens on Oct. 14, the 2008 election will be remembered as -- among other things -- the collective coming out party for Canada's blogosphere. Amateur Web scribblers have been making their mark on Canadian politics for years, but never on the scale we've witnessed this month."
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RELATED: Of course... not everybody agrees...
"What worries me, though, is that we're seeing the "democratization" of politics, in the most literal sense of the word: The people -- the great idiocratic mass of mouth-breathers out there frantically swiping the drool off their keyboards as they Google around for "dirt" -- are running the campaigns now."
Yeah, Andrew... that's the sort of commentary that'll drive subscriptions through the roof.

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LAST WORD: The next big thing?

Oh, Lizzie... where art thou?

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