The Benefits Of Being Too Small To Notice

There are times when I quite enjoying being a one man "dog and pony show" of a blog. For starters I attract far fewer assholes than higher traffic blogs do. People could come here and spout off offensive, mean spirited drivel in the comments, but they would have a small audience, and God knows the point for these folks seems to be to make an ass of themselves in front of the largest group of people possible. It is a very wussy kind of exhibitionism when you think about it...

The other thing you don't get is a target painted on you by the MSM. Take this outright lie perpetrated against Power Line by the Star-Tribune:

Today's Minneapolis Star Tribune has an article on the recent Twin Cities controversies involving taxis and check-out lines. Like so many "news" stories in the Strib, it's an editorial posing as reportage. It begins with an anecdote about a Muslim teenager who decides not to "change who [she is] for $7 an hour" by working for Target, and presumably, scanning bacon. The theme of the article is that the recent incidents are unimportant; the implication is that those who express concern about them are bigots.

I wouldn't bother to comment on this except that the reporter brings us into it:

And the backlash, Bihie says, has struck fear in his Somali community. He says it's hard not to bristle when you read the hundreds of blog postings at the Star Tribune's community Web site, www.buzz.mn, or items like this one, culled from the locally-based Power Line site: "Poor babies can't touch bacon ... boo hoo. Refuse to scan my bacon, and I guarantee you will be wearing it!"

Such vitriol bubbling up from a few incidents has drawn undue attention from non-Muslims, according to Atia Ibrahim....

There you have it. We're vitriolic, and have struck fear into the Somali community. Odd thing, though: I didn't write that line about "poor babies" who "can't touch bacon," and neither did Paul or Scott. That quote never appeared on Power Line.

Of course the intent is to discredit Power Line because they have given the Star-Trib a hard time over the years. Is this really he way newspapers should be devoting their resources? No wonder they are going broke.