As is not uncommon in blog postings, Bauerlein quotes at length from another source, here an article from the Los Angeles Times about the Occupy Wall Street movement, after commenting on it. Why might...

As is not uncommon in blog postings, Bauerlein quotes at length from another source, here an article from the Los Angeles Times about the Occupy Wall Street movement, after commenting on it. Why might he have included the passage after he has commented on it? How would the blog be different if he had quoted the passage first and then commented on it?