Wolcott (here and here) is all over David Corn for agreeing to join the editorial board of the odious

Wolcott (here and here) is all over David Corn for agreeing to join the editorial board of the odious

Pajamas Media, future web home for war hacks not yet indicted. Like Michael Ledeen. Corn’s response

makes it clear that he has no idea what he’s getting into: “I look forward to a new Internet

enterprise that seeks to promote varying views, even if the idea came from conservatives.” Well, as

Wolcott says,

Does Corn really want to be assoNIKE SHOXted with fun blogs like Little Green Footballs and Gates of

Vienna (“At the siege of Vienna in 1683 Islam seemed poised to overrun Christian Europe. We are in a

new phase of a very old war”)? I guess he does, because he’ll be appearing on a panel at Pajamas’

gala conference in November in Manhattan, where Roger L. Simon and company will break out the ginger

ale and announce their new monicker. Then everybody will adjourn to invade Syria, if they can arrange

transportation.

The weird thing about Pajamas Media is that it doesn’t even know what it wants to be when, if ever, it

grows up. Originally, it was an idea for right-winger and warblogs to make money selling advertising,

but they appear to have jettisoned their advertising guys — one of whom fortunately blogs so that we

can read the entertaining story of that backstabbing. (Also see the links here – Blowing the cover off

Top Secret Pajamas Media Foreign Correspondents.) They claimed to be the “New Media” but the keynote

speaker for their New York City gala launch party is none other than Old Media icon Judy “The Aspen

Roots of WMD” Miller, who possibly works for the New York Times, which last I checked, was almost the

definition of Old Media, according to the New Media.