The blogosphere jumped from one pseudo-controversy to another yesterday. First, the Edwards campaign won praise from the netroots for keeping its controversial bloggers, although Garance Franke-Ruta at TAPPED notes that the media war is probably far from over. Chris Bowers, in a post title "This Isn't Over," calls for the netroots to keep pushing on the media issue and supporting Edwards to make his decision worthwhile.

Next up in the world of over-hyped controversies: Air Pelosi. Josh started covering the way this story was spreading on Wednesday, and yesterday others chimed in with their own understandable exasperation. Kevin Drum called the story the beginning of the "silly season," although Matt Yglesias warns against dismissing such "silly" stories considering their serious effects as conservative propaganda. John Aravosis (agreeing with the Speaker herself) thinks the controversy is based on a very real double standard.

Away from the "silly season," Josh, Ezra Klein, Matt Yglesias and Robert Farley discussed the recent trend of downed helicopters in Iraq.

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What do you get when you combine the right-wing echo chamber with a complicit mainstream media, a confused presidential campaign and netroots credibility in the balance? An absolute flood of discussion.

I'm not crazy enough to try to summarize all of the commentary on the Edwards blogger issue yesterday, but suffice it to say pretty much everyone chimed in on this one and it's not over yet.

A few other things got people talking...

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This is the inaugural post for what may become a regular feature here in at TPMCafe: a survey of the previous day's discussion in the liberal (and occasionally conservative) blogosphere. Rather than trying to summarize a whole day's work, I'll focus only on the issues that generated engaged discussion and actual disagreement. Kinks, such as the possible lameness of the feature's name, will be ironed out as I go.

It was another bad day in the blogosphere for Joe Klein. His sole defender in a debate with Arianna Huffington over whether or not he opposed the invasion of Iraq, Andrew Sullivan, could only muster the consolation that at least he's not Mickey Kaus. Kevin Drum wonders why, if Klein is being honest that he opposed the war in private, he didn't have the courage to say so more forcefully in public. Atrios would like to see Klein turn his answer to that question into a column.

The political wisdom of policy details in presidential politics was the Big Think Topic of the Day.

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