McCain Disses the Blogosphere

Sen. John McCain (Media-AZ) spoke at the commencement yesterday of Jerry Falwell's hangout, Liberty University. Given McCain's vitriol toward Falwell in 2000, it's a little surprising to see the two of them together now. Of course, it's all about 2008, and with everybody pandering to everybody else these days (such as Howard Dean's pandering to the Christian right), seeing McCain on that stage isn't really that surprising.

The conservative blogosphere has not been a fan of McCains, and after this part of his speech, he didn't win any friends (h/t The Corner):

When I was a young man, I was quite infatuated with self-expression, and rightly so because, if memory conveniently serves, I was so much more eloquent, well-informed, and wiser than anyone else I knew. It seemed I understood the world and the purpose of life so much more profoundly than most people. I believed that to be especially true with many of my elders, people whose only accomplishment, as far as I could tell, was that they had been born before me, and, consequently, had suffered some number of years deprived of my insights. I had opinions on everything, and I was always right. I loved to argue, and I could become understandably belligerent with people who lacked the grace and intelligence to agree with me. With my superior qualities so obvious, it was an intolerable hardship to have to suffer fools gladly. So I rarely did. All their resistance to my brilliantly conceived and cogently argued views proved was that they possessed an inferior intellect and a weaker character than God had blessed me with, and I felt it was my clear duty to so inform them. It’s a pity that there wasn’t a blogosphere then. I would have felt very much at home in the medium.

It's a new media world, Senator, and you insult the blogosphere at your own risk.