I HADN’T PAID MUCH ATTENTION to the Bush White House / Blogger kerfuffle — Danny Glover has a roundup here — until I got an email from CBS public eye asking my opinion. Here’s my response:

It reads like wishful thinking to me. The White House — like the GOP generally — has been extremely lame in dealing with the blogosphere, which is why the left blogosphere has done better since 2004. I get the usual PR stuff, but if they’re doing anything more blog-sensitive than that, I haven’t been seeing it.

Further proof of their ineptitude, of course, is present in the very bragging that is at issue.