Jeff Bercovici: Retire 'Pajama Jokes'

Jokes about bloggers in pajamas were already a cliche by 2005, when a group of blogs banded together to form Pajamas Media. They were even more hackneyed by 2008, when Sarah Palin swatted at “some blogger probably sittin’ there in their parents’ basement in their pajamas.” Now it’s 2010. Paul Krugman blogs. So does Hendrik Hertzberg. So does James Fallows. So does…well, everyone.

To paraphrase Jerry Seinfeld, who was offended by his dentist’s bad Jewish jokes as a comedian rather than as a Jew, I object to characterizations like Risen’s not as a blogger but as a reader.