Any publication that includes the cartoonish rantings of Mark Halperin is in absolutely no position to rate the "best" and "most overrated" blogs, unless said publication includes Halperin's blog, The Page, in a category of "the blog most impressed with itself despite that high opinion having absolutely no basis in reality."
Over at Huffington, Bob Cesca and Jason Linkins have great fun at Halperin's expense, but Halperin makes it so easy. Cesca:
For instance, I'm hoping that in 2009 TIME blogger and MSNBC contributor Mark Halperin is finally recognized as not just another very serious haircut amongst a media gaggle of masturbation-addicted cardboard standees, but in fact as a Drudge-caliber hackery-factory providing the establishment media with absolutely the most unforgivably ridiculous pearls of conventional wisdom in an already super-stupid media world.Jason's been deconstructing Halperin's musings on bipartisanship, here and here. This one of his best from last August:
Hey, kids! Late yesterday evening, Mark Halperin, who writes "The Page" for Time Magazine - which is like a comic book, full of listicles for children - had up on "The Page" a post that, in his Halperin-y way, suggested or spitballed that Obama had chosen his Veep, and that Veep was Dick Lugar.Yet, Halperin's magazine is out there rating other blogs. Please.
