Left vs. Right, Sith vs. Jedi, "Us" Vs. Them
In politics, it's a left vs. right, red vs. blue kind of day, with columnist Keith Thompson ranking as today's burstiest person for his essay about giving up on the left. Democrats, meanwhile, are heartened by Chairman Howard Dean's appearance on Sunday's Meet the Press with Tim Russert, while conservatives focused on his name slipups.
In movie theaters, it's Star Wars mania. Following the movie's record-setting box-office weekend, six of the "Revenge of the Sith" actors/characters appear among today's top personalities, and five of today's most trafficked blog links refer to official Star Wars web sites and blogger reviews, beat out out only by the buzz-building spoof "Grocery Star Wars."
So in the showdown of all times, who's winning...the Force or the Dark Side?
And in international affairs, it just gets messier, with bloggers now hammering Newsweek's Japanese edition cover that describes "The Day America Died," an international-edition piece that examines whether the U.S. is losing its leadership position in the world.
Meanwhile, way down near the bottom of today's top links is the Ballon Juice blog, whose author -- a proud U.S. veteran -- nonetheless takes on blogger Hugh Hewitt for Hewitt's claims that the media is "anti-military." In his "don't shoot the messenger" posting, the Balloon Juice blogger points out the big difference between actual military abuse of detainees and prisoners (and the ramifications of those acts) and the act of reporting them, editorial corrections and all.
Posted by Sue MacDonald at May 23, 2005 10:00 AM
