Mark A. Kilmer (the weblog)

…yesterday’s news:

They open the piece with Dean and Harkin, speechless in post-defeat Iowa.

Two weeks ago.

They try their best to explain what happened to Howard Dean, but unlike most of the (at least temporarily) myopic set, they don’t use it as an excuse,

Howard Dean was a product of the anti-war, anti-Bush media. Like so many investors who lost their shirt when the tech-bubble burst, they bought into the notion that something they could not understand — blogs, ‘Net fundraising, chats, meet-ups — was more powerful than it was. It blinded them to Dean’s blatant deficiencies.

The press did the build-up, and the pundits off them, then off each other. Inevitability ruled the day — until the bubble burst.

Don’t feel bad about it. Dean’s done. Time to move on.