Patrick Ruffini writes that the Clinton administration would have been much less effective in its perfidy and corruption had blogs existed at the time. I'd go (and have gone) further than that. Had the blogosphere existed in anything resembling its current form in 1992, he couldn't have been elected. But the web didn't exist in any useful form fifteen years ago.

It was Usenet doing all the work through the Ozark Long March.

What's really awful is that the maimstreamers *knew* it. They were watching the Whitewater group -- we know this because of how they occasionally ripped us off for lines in the New Yorker or Washington Post or New York Times -- and they never copped to what we were showing them.