While Charles Kennedy's live, on-air, admission of alcoholism certainly broke new ground in British political television, it also provided a "perfect wave" for the bloggers – an unexpected spike of news just before the end of the working day.
The Militant Moderate – perhaps with his rose-tinted glasses on - writes that the TV performance seems to have created "an electrifyingly positive feeling in the country at large. People have always liked Charles, and they now like him even more. When Tom McNally declared that Kennedy was brilliant on his good days, but that we needed more good days, he identified the only problem."
The Derbyshires – a 20-something husband-and-wife team of Lib Dem bloggers – are almost in tears. Under the heading : "Oh Charlie!" they write:
"So I hope all those who brought about the leadership contest are happy with themselves. Personally, I can't think of a worse time for us to have a leadership contest. There's only four months to go until the local elections in London and the Tories seem to be consolidating. It's not good."
Knowsley Lib Dem councillor and blogger Dave Smithson is similarly supportive, although calling his thoughts "One for the road" probably won't help a recovering alcoholic.
Dismay at the behaviour of some of Mr Kennedy's parliamentary assassins comes from Stephen Glen, who was a Lib Dem candidate at last year's general election for Linlithgow & Falkirk East. On his Linlithgow Journal, he writes of his parliamentary colleagues: "I wouldn't want Jenny Tonge as my doctor after her comments on the BBC site today. Clearly, if I were a recovering alcoholic she would say nobody should employ me as I am the equivalent to some one-legged Tarzan."
But some of the self-proclaimed Lib Dem bloggers have egg on their faces, and are not ashamed to admit it. The A Liberal Goes A Long Way blogger has pride to swallow, and owns up admirably: "Three weeks ago, I posted an article, 'If you've not got anything nice to say...', urging 'those MPs indulging in reckless media briefing against CK [to] shut the fuck up, or else show some backbone, and say in public what you're whispering in private'.
"I feel I owe them at least a half-apology. It's now pretty clear that many of our MPs have witnessed at first-hand – in a way that members like me could not - Charles Kennedy too frequently underperforming in his job owing to his drinking problems."
Of course, Mr Kennedy wasn't the only politician making a surprise TV appearance on Thusrday evening. Will Howells on No Geek Is An Island writes: "Sometimes politicians can really surprised you. There he was on live TV, both shocking and disconcerting."
Who would that be, Will? "Gorgeous" George Galloway in the Celebrity Big Brother House, of course.
The most interesting gossip, however, comes from the non-Lib Dem-affiliated bloggers. Visit Iain Dale's site (a Tory candidiate and David Davis's former campaign manager) - for an account of where the leak of Mr Kennedy's treatment may have come from.
