This cheap hit piece on Bill Clinton in Vanity Fair is making the rounds. But Municipalist wants to make the case again: The best way to fight back is to blog. So, Bill Clinton: Get a blog! I'd read it, wouldn't you? The real value is in building a conversation that circumvents the media. Go straight over their heads to the American people. Oh, wait. Didn't Clinton as president do that all the time!? The guy's staff could contribute to it as well. And his pals. In no time Bill would have created his own Huffington Post-style blogging community. Of course, when you are saving the world, and getting paid, and campaigning for your wife, your orientation may be elsewhere. But c'mon, Bill. Fight back. And blogging is the way to do it.
It is, in fact, the mainstream news media that truly is need of an intervention these days. One of the subheads for the Vanity Fair piece is "A Cavernous Narcissism." Meaning Clinton. But that term perfectly describes the Vanity Fairs out there, self-deluded relics from the industrial age, feeling the heat of the new media universe, unable to survive without gleefully launching themselves into the mud. Continuing to blindly flail away, like a punch-drunk boxer moments from being counted out. "A huge force of nature," Purdum writes. Indeed.
[Even better: How 'bout a blog by Chelsea?]
A blog would be a good idea for Bill. It would give him an outlet and also the ability to hit "undo" as often as necessary.
Posted by: Rick | June 03, 2008 at 07:33 AM