Byron York on YearlyKos

Byron York on Daily Kos on National Review Online:

"The reason bloggers might do well on TV and radio, Trainer 1 continued, is that they aren't afraid of speaking their minds. And they can stand up to some well-known media figures. "If you're on with John Gibson, Bill O'Reilly, Chris Matthews --

"You're in hell!" said someone in the audience.

"They are hosts with a point of view," Trainer 1 said. And by the way, Trainer 1 continued, liberal bloggers shouldn't avoid appearing on the Fox News Channel. "If Fox TV asks you to go on, you should go on. The American people are smart, and they can see what's going on."

Not everyone in the group found that terribly convincing. "I was just wondering what world you were living in," said one man who raised his hand, "if you said the America people are smart..."

Oh those smug intellectuals over at Kos and the enlightened left. How much better this world would be if it weren't for those ignorant American people!