Sad to see Instapundit become a biased hack. While he writes reasonably well on social issues, his foreign policy stuff is sadly ignorant. I liked Chapati Mystery's excellent take on David Brooks' column. [a must read] He hit the nail on the head, and identified the problem that afflicts the far-right, Instapundit included. Note how a vast majority of the "good news from Iraq" is always by Americans (including the armed forces) and hardly by Iraqi bloggers.

Andrew Sullivan is much more smart. He has done a nice CYA job on both sides of the aisle and takes pot shots which are relatively safe. For instance, Abu Ghraib (everyone condemns it), Maureen Dowd (easy target for anyone but, the far left), Rick Santorum (easy target for anyone but, the far right) and so on.

All this means is that you end up reading more and more sources to give you a balanced view. For example, I read many more American and Iraqi blogs to get a better perspective on the stories behind the framing of the awful Constitution. And as these blogs become mainstream they in turn become easy prey to partisan viewpoints.

Then you have to begin the process all over again.

We castigate MSM, but we forget that MSB (Mainstream Blogs) often have agenda that are more partisan. In other words, for readers of blogs, it becomes a catch-up game - identify the sources which seem authentic, balance it out with other sources but keep moving. Reliable sources become less reliable when they begin to get credibility from many bloggers.

It is tiring and time consuming. Quite Rashomon like.