Why People Ridicule Liberals, 6/13/06 Edition
I was checking out Instapundit's gleeful and triumphant Rove's not in jail and Bush is in Baghdad roundups, which took me to Pajamas Media (I know, I know), which took me to this comment at DKos.
I mean now really. Look, I've got nothing but contempt for Karl Rove, and the most I can muster for Mr. Bush is, on a rare day, just shy of no respect whatsoever. But, um, look: if this is the kind of thing that transforms you into a sniveling weepy-man who needs to be comforted by your daughter...then...then...that's...BAD, see?
CheChe, you ain't doing us any favors here, bud.
Anyway, for a different kind of hoot, do go check out the chest-thumping triumphalism at Pajamas Media. It's almost as funny/sad as CheChe's crying jag...but not quite. See, apparently the fact that one guy in the Bush administration was actually innocent of something means that the Bush administration is a success! Garsh.
I was checking out Instapundit's gleeful and triumphant Rove's not in jail and Bush is in Baghdad roundups, which took me to Pajamas Media (I know, I know), which took me to this comment at DKos.
I mean now really. Look, I've got nothing but contempt for Karl Rove, and the most I can muster for Mr. Bush is, on a rare day, just shy of no respect whatsoever. But, um, look: if this is the kind of thing that transforms you into a sniveling weepy-man who needs to be comforted by your daughter...then...then...that's...BAD, see?
CheChe, you ain't doing us any favors here, bud.
Anyway, for a different kind of hoot, do go check out the chest-thumping triumphalism at Pajamas Media. It's almost as funny/sad as CheChe's crying jag...but not quite. See, apparently the fact that one guy in the Bush administration was actually innocent of something means that the Bush administration is a success! Garsh.
posted by Winston Smith at
12:51 PM
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Why People Poke at WS
WS goes to PJMed, takes what they say at face value even in the face of the blogosphere's tendency especially on the right to take any comment out of context, and then is embarrassed on behalf of liberals by a commenter on DailyKos, something that literally anyone with an Internet connection can be.
CheChe is a satirist, of what I can't quite figure out. He's building some tearful, lip-quivering net avatar for himself that reflects nothing on anyone but himself.
WS, is there any event in the possibility of imagination that would move the chip on your shoulder from left to right? Or off entirely. You're a smart guy; can your conservative childhood reflexes really be this hard to overcome?
Uh, ya know, LL, your "it's a joke" hypothesis would explain a lot...but even looking at the links you provide, I'm still not sure it's true...
And I didn't really have that many conservative childhood reflexes...I've always had a kind of mixture, anti-totalitarianism and anti-authoritarianism being foremost among them.
Anyway, you just keep hoping that CheChe's a joke, and I'll just keep hoping right along side of you.
I'm sorry, WS, I was too harsh and assumed too much.
It is still true that you expect more of nobodies on liberal sites than you do of somebodies in the right-wing blogosphere. I think you have the log-mote-eye story inside out.
No prob.
But I don't think I expect more of the liberal nobodies...CheChe *if he's serious*...it a total nut.
At least he's not a vicious nut like, say, Coulter, so that's in his favor.
Anyone else looking to encapsulate the event would do well to carry these points forward. This is how we begin to take control of the new narrative coming out of Plame Gate. Enough with mental mediocrities like world-class buttfucker Ana Marie Cox disparaging Joe Wilson to score points with Instahack. This is the new narrative. Lather, rinse, repeat.---Jane Hamsher, firedoglake
Yup. This is characteristic of the left.
Holy sh*t... "take control of the...narrative" is enough by itself to make me go elsewhere... And I'm afraid I don't get that "lather, rinse, repeat" part at all...
But I'll go look.
Oh, and: I didn't say, suggest, or believe that CheChe was characteristic of the left. But, then, I don't even think that Coulter is characteristic of the right, despite how popular she is.
I admit Ms. Hamsher of firedoglake lost me at the buttfucking. Ann Coulter's latest offense was at least relevant to her case, and to me far less brutally rendered. (Not that she wasn't brutal.)
But first, I did read former prosecutor Christy Hardin Smith's unfounded insinuations and innuendo about why Rove might have got off the hook.
Rove will break omerta, testify, and send Libby to jail. Yeah, right.
So, I was offended both esthetically and intellectually. What else you got?
Like Ward Churchill, I defend Ann Coulter mostly out of principle. But I will not drink Kool-Aid for her.
I understand your disappointment about Rove. I was there, too, in my own way---I tee-heed as I read issue after issue of the American Spectator as they rounded the "evidence" against Bill Clinton.
One day it occurred to me that it was all sound and fury, a bunch of disconnected facts, signifying nothing.
The Spectator, after enjoying a blush and the greatest commercial success of its 20-odd year history, shortly thereafter went bankrupt.
I saw it as a form of justice. Shelley. Ozymandias.
Sand.
And I do recognize and really appreciate being called Mr. Van Dyke above. In reciprocation of y'all's courtesy, I invite those here gathered to call me Tom, if you so choose. But there is a certain obligation accrued with accepting familiarity---only if you don't call me a buttfucker. Such things should remain a personal matter, apart from one's philosophy or politics.
(Jim, I look for a reason to vote Democrat these days, even based on Sturgeon's Law. Perhaps you can point me in the right direction.)
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