I was looking for some old posts in the archives today and found a few posts about Conor Freidersdorf and his role in the smear of Shirley Sharrod by Breitbart, back when Breitbart was alive and the DC media thought he was “fresh” and “provocative”. In short, Conor treated it as a legitimate controversy rather than the smear job that it was, and along the way he got some very basic facts wrong out of laziness or the desire to get more hits. It wasn’t as bad as the Iraq War cheerleading, but it was the same kind of herd behavior from a guy that gets a lot of, to me, inexplicable respect from some progressive bloggers.
Also, too: open thread.
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