Are bloggers the rats or the children?

Andrew Sullivan, not thinking through his words of praise for Glenn "Instapundit" Reynolds:

We've had our differences, but Glenn is a very rare creature: someone who has managed to build a remarkable media empire from scratch and still exhibit all the enthusiasm of a complete newbie. We could do a lot worse in a blogospheric Pied Piper.

A Pied Piper. Like the one who made rats and then children from the defaulting village disappear?