I’VE GOT MORE ON SENATOR HATCH’S UNFORTUNATE ENCOUNTER with the Internet over at GlennReynolds.com. Meanwhile Howard Kurtz has the last word on the O’Reilly / Internet war. (“O’Reilly loves to stir up trouble, of course, but many of his targets don’t have a megaphone to shout back. That’s hardly the case online, where almost anyone can crank up the volume.”)

Both Hatch and O’Reilly seem to have come off the worse for dissing the Internet. Is there a lesson in that?

UPDATE: More on Hatch here, where we also learn that the story has made the Salt Lake Tribune.

ANOTHER UPDATE: This whole affair is restoring one blogger’s faith in the blogosphere. Well, good!