Popping the left's Internet bubble

POPPING THE LEFT'S INTERNET BUBBLE
[SOURCE: Los Angeles Times, AUTHOR: Jonah Goldberg]
[Commentary] Back in the day (the late 90s), when the Internet ran on a series of pneumatic tubes and hemp-rope pulleys, conservatives were patting themselves on the back for seizing the commanding heights of the digital frontier. The argument was that because the Liberal Industrial Complex maintained a stranglehold on the Old Media, conservatives had, with Ninja-like stealth, mastered the fledgling forms: direct-mail, talk radio, cable news and, now, Al Gore's newfangled invention, the Internet. Today, we're constantly being told that it's liberals who have conquered the Internet. In fact, that they are somehow uniquely suited to dominating the Web. But enough with the metaphysical mumbo jumbo about how the Web and liberalism were made for each other. The real story is much simpler: Liberalism is having a nice moment. It's because the Republican president and the Iraq war are very unpopular.
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