Fictional Assassin a Fan of Daily Kos
The protagonist of a new novel about assassinating the President is a fan of two popular political weblogs: Assassination Porn - Nicholson Baker’s irate new novel.
I won’t apologize for giving away the ending because, as with Day of the Jackal, Frederick Forsyth’s thriller about an imagined attempt to assassinate Charles DeGaulle, readers will understand from the start that a successful assassination would shatter the book’s very deliberate realism. In Checkpoint, that realism is deeply unnerving. George W. Bush really is the president; Daily Kos and TalkingPointsMemo, which Jay reads faithfully, really are political Web logs…
Purely a coincidence, I’m sure. It could have been anyone with a weblog.