An idiot at the Minneapolis Star Tribune attacks Power Line and LGF today, in a blatantly dishonest “opinion” piece: Tamara Baker: Article on blogs should’ve said more on political divide.

After praising Daily Kos and Eschaton (two of the most hate-filled lefty blogs), Baker writes:

Black’s article also didn’t mention ‘Little Green Footballs,’ a right-wing blog whose founder, Charles Johnson, claims that he and not John Hinderaker’s PowerLineBlog was the first to lead the charge against Dan Rather last fall.

This is a lie. I challenge Baker and the Star Tribune to prove it (they can’t, because I’ve never written or said anything like this), or retract it publicly. They may label this an “opinion,” but that does not give the Star Tribune license to publish libelous, patently false statements.

To Baker, all “right wing” blogs are tools of Karl Rove, and we’re just like Stalin and Hitler.

In other words, Republicans for decades have wanted to control the press much as Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler did, by attacking and attempting to discredit independent journalism, and for them blogs are just the latest tool in their war.

Yawn.

UPDATE at 3/19/05 10:09:25 am:

You can let the Star Tribune know your opinion about this dishonest piece here: Feedback. (Hat tip: not neo just conservative.) I wrote to them, demanding a retraction.

And if you’d like to know a little more about Tamara Baker, the author of this attack, get a load of her web site: American Politics Journal. She makes Daily Kos look sane. (Hat tip: axiom.)