NY Post columnist John Podhoretz credits the Internet with driving the Lott story, including props to Josh Marshall (of course) and Atrios.

The piece also gives Drudge a great deal of the credit. Drudge may still be the most influential of the web "journalists" (and I mean that in the loosest sense of the word), but I think this episode will help drive other blogs, especially Josh Marshall's, further into the eyes of the mainstream media.