Howard Kurtz notes the bizarre blogmospheric activity that occurred after President Bush nominated that guy from Seventh Heaven to the Supreme Court:
The lightning-quick attacks came after 50 top liberal bloggers held a 45-minute conference call Tuesday night. . . . The conference call was arranged by BlogPAC, a political action committee that got some of its members on the phone with Sen. Ted Kennedy on the day that Sandra Day O'Connor announced she was leaving the court. The group has also held calls with Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.), Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.) and the liberal organizations involved in the nomination battle, including MoveOn, Alliance for Justice, NARAL and People for the American Way.No kidding, conference calls? I'm sure that my roommate qualifies as one of the top 50 liberal bloggers and I don't seem to recall him muttering passwords into the phone that night. And shouldn't it be an A/V conference conducted via AIM or holograms or the Matrix?
Anyway, can we please swarm about/at something? Is there outrage to be mustered over this? The Getty, Boston MFA? The people must be made to feel the displeasure of the art blogging community.
RELATED: Todd Gibson notes the much-discussed, extraordinarily convenient timing of the SCOTUS nod in light of recent revelations in l'affaire Plame. (At the other blog I likened the intervention to el Matador staging a bullfight so that the rodeo clown can escape.) And clever bastard that he is, Gibson applies the Bush touch to the art world to distract us from the summer doldrums.
Posted by Kriston at July 21, 2005 10:21 AMLet's swarm! But we need video conferencing. How else shall I make up for that bitch-slap of a photograph posted on Anna Conti's site recently? Well, I suppose that one's my own damn fault, anyway...
Posted by: sarah at July 21, 2005 12:26 PMYou were with Susan at La Casona when the call went down. I was on the 92 bus going to Keelin's house, the driver told me to stop talking on the phone, I said "we're plotting strategy for the Supreme Court nomination," all the other passengers started laughing at me, and I hung up in shame.
Posted by: Matthew Yglesias at July 21, 2005 8:43 PM
