Protesting too much?

YOU ARE VISITING THE OLD MALKIN(S)WATCH. THAT'S FANTASTIC. PLEASE VISIT THE NEW MALKIN(S)WATCH WHEN YOU GET A CHANCE.

Malkin is hopping mad. Emphasis mine:

CANDIDATE FOR DUMBEST NYTIMES PIECE EVER

...Based on a single "expert" source--"liberal activist Matt Stoller"--Crowley makes
sweeping assertions about the content, nature, effectiveness, and media penetration of partisan blogs. Liberal blogs criticize Democrats more, while conservatives march in lockstep with the GOP leadership to "to provide maximum benefit for their issues and candidates," the piece asserts...

Anyone who swallows the idea that conservative bloggers are an organized arm of the Republican machine who are easily mobilized at the command of Karl Rove does not read conservative blogs--and should not be paid by the NYTimes or anyone else to write about them.

Rove may have no sway over the ever-so-independent-minded right blogosphere, but an alert reader (whose name rhymes with Chivaral Kaschmenger) points out the ending to this particular complaint:

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Conservative bloggers easily mobilized? It is to laugh.