In today's post for Salon, liberal blogger Glenn Greenwald savaged a dinner recently held by neo-conservative luminaries for President George Bush. Greenwald highlights a long list of ridiculous and/or failed neo-con ideas like George Bush's special closeness to God, the ultimate success of the war, and the extreme necessity of confronting Iran that made neo-con luminaries like Norman Podhoretz and Irving Kristol look like complete idiots. George Bush looked like an even bigger idiot for taking "lessons" from the neo-cons in precisely these bankrupt ideas.
This is what the world is like for the neo-conservatives and the Bush administration in general. What Rush Limbaugh used to be to the Clintons, the liberal blogosphere is now to the neo-cons. The neo-cons can't sit down for a little self-congratulatory ritual without having liberal bloggers like Greenwald pummel them for their arrogance, hypocrisy, and lazy thinking. The lazy thinking of the neo-cons especially caught the eye of Jacob Weisburg as he trashed the annual dinner of the American Enterprise Institute for Slate.
The same thing goes with neo-con opinion journalism. A few weeks ago, a neo-con think tanker named Frank Gaffney proposed the seemingly clever idea of hanging anti-war Democratic Congressmen like Carl Levin only to find himself hammered by Greenwald and Alan Colmes (of all people) on Fox.
I don't want to say that the impact of Greenwald or any other liberal blogger has Limbaugh's kind of audience. The last figures I saw had Limbaugh's audience at 13 million. However, the liberal blogosphere has succeeded in turning neo-conservatives into professional punching bags.
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