It Depends On What Your Definition of Capable Is

This week's Isthmus carries a letter by one Gregor Mieder in which he disputes the notion that Isthmus blogger David Blaska's Manichean view is somehow conservative and asks the paper to "Please choose a more intellectual or at least convincing writer to represent conservative viewpoints."

This follows on the heels of another letter to the editor by Louisa Emmett which asks if Blaska's blog is a put-on like The Colbert Report.

Unlike the most current criticism, Emmett's generated a response by Bill Lueders, Isthmus news editor, who offers something of a beau geste by saying that "in our opinion David Blaska is a capable writer and commentator."

Yeah, but capable of what?

This "defense", as it is, comes from the same man who accused Blaska of lying in an article last autumn. It is also the same Bill Lueders who bemoans the decline of print and the "shallow expression" perpetrated by bloggers.

I just don't understand why Isthmus publisher Vincent O'Hern and his majordomo Bill Lueders piss and moan about how awful bloggers are and then A) turn around and assemble a stable of bloggers and can B) defend one that lies as Lueders himself has pointed out.