O, how I love being right-brained

The blogosphere is an amazing phenomenon. The decentralized power that hundreds of bloggers collectively wield is exhilarating to be a part of. (Not that I've contributed anything important, but I've been a part of the dialogue in my own little corner of the blogosphere) Now that bloggers have had such explosive success in uncovering scandal/impropriety (Trent Lott, Jason Blair, Rathergate, Easongate, Armstrong Williams, etc..), Peggy Noonan eloquently predicts the next step in the evolution of the blogosphere:

But coming down the pike is a blogstorm in which the bloggers turn out to be wrong. Good news: They'll probably be caught and exposed by bloggers. Bad news: It will show that blogging isn't nirvana, and its stars aren't foolproof. But then we already know that, don't we?

The blogosphere's beauty is in the inherent accountability built into the system. Noonan writes:

It is not true that there are no controls. It is not true that the blogosphere is the Wild West. What governs members of the blogosphere is what governs to some degree members of the MSM, and that is the desire for status and respect. In the blogosphere you lose both if you put forward as fact information that is incorrect, specious or cooked. You lose status and respect if your take on a story that is patently stupid. You lose status and respect if you are unprofessional or deliberately misleading. And once you've lost a sufficient amount of status and respect, none of the other bloggers link to you anymore or raise your name in their arguments. And you're over. The great correcting mechanism for people on the Web is people on the Web.

Jim Geraghty notices that the right brain of the blogosphere is (generally) more intellectually honest than its left brain counterpart. He cites the plethora of right-wing and libertarian-leaning bloggers whose views are quite diverse.

...there’s a wide variety of opinion and a lot of brainpower. The chances of all of them collectively running off half-cocked seems pretty unlikely.

Does the left half of the blogosphere have that kind of internal debate, dissent, and ability to correct itself?

The way I see it, that question is rhetorical, but I'll answer it anyway: No.