For a peek at what the blue-staters are thinking these days, check out Noemie Emery's summation.
I was amazed how feeble the coverage by the liberal mags was during the conflict. Each day I pop round to the half dozen most popular sites (Prospect, TheNation, and so on) just to keep my hand in. Other than an occasional virtually irrelevant article about Richard Perle, one could hardly tell a war was on. It contrasted strikingly with the daily analysis coming out of sites like the Weekly Standard, FrontPageMag and National Review.
It's interesting to reflect how much the "Counter-Establishment" (as Sid Blumenthal called conservative groups in his lucid days before his rants about vast Right-Wing conspiracies) has grown since Gulf War I. During the last war, conservatives were restricted to a few print journals, talk radio was in its early stages of growth, Fox News didn't exist, online activist networks like Freep weren't around, there were no Web-based news sources, etc.
What a difference a decade makes.
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