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Thursday, September 16, 2004
 
"Pajamahadeen"

is a word coined by National Review's own Jim Geraghty, to describe the many Internet bloggers gratuitously insulted by a former CBS News executive.

The full story, thanks to the Wall Street Journal's John Fund:

A watershed media moment occurred Friday on Fox News Channel, when Jonathan Klein, a former executive vice president of CBS News who oversaw "60 Minutes," debated Stephen Hayes, a writer for The Weekly Standard, on the documents CBS used to raise questions about George W. Bush's Vietnam-era National Guard service.

Mr. Klein dismissed the bloggers who are raising questions about the authenticity of the memos: "You couldn't have a starker contrast between the multiple layers of check and balances [at '60 Minutes'] and a guy sitting in his living room in his pajamas writing."

Let the record also show that many of us bloggers write in our spare bedrooms.

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