I had to smile when reading how the liberal blogosphere–convoking in Philly at Eschacon ‘08 under the aegis of, one assumes, the mighty Eschaton–have got their knickers in the proverbial twist at the namby-pamby way the media treats McCain (except when they don’t). The libobloggers aren’t going to put up with this nonsense. They’re going after… wait for this… Chris Matthews who apparently likes McCain “as a person.” That’s better than a lot of Republicans. Of course, there are few the right despises more these days than Matthews. Meanwhile, I wonder what the Eschaton crowd would think of Hillary consorting with Richard Mellon Scaife, who seems to be playing namby-pamby with Clinton. My poor head is spinning here. I can’t keep up with all this. I think I’m going to go call Woody Allen and see if he remembers my mantra.
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1. srlucado:I see how intolerant liberals can be, seeking to destroy us heretics and apostates, and it justs saddens me.
I suppose conservatives can be as bad, but I don’t see the right moving increasingly rightward the way the left is accelerating into radicalism.
It’s as though no one has a right to even disagree with liberals. When they start screaming for the head of Chris Matthews, is even Keith Olbermann safe? They’re becoming our very own Taliban, with and endgame that’s just as pointless and destructive.
Angry young men have always been angry young men, I suppose–but when have they been so miltantly anti-war, so intolerant of intolerance, so busy shouting too loud to hear anyone else, even each other?
Mar 30, 2008 - 5:48 am 2. Grover Norforms:If you actually took the time to read liberal blogs, you would have known this. And that, al-Simon, is your biggest problem: you have no credibility on matters such as this because you are too lazy to actually look into the facts.
Mar 30, 2008 - 6:48 am 3. Lightnin' Hopkins:“Credibility” and “facts” - the cornerstones of liberal blogs. Ah, it’s good to have a hearty laugh on a Sunday morning.
Yeah, progressives are always getting their facts straight, like with McCain “plagiarizing” himself, or defending that super accurate Lancet study on Iraq war casualities. Jesse Macbeth anyone? Can I get a Beauchamp? Don’t forget the big heist in 2000! The hits just keep on coming.
Roger, in the words of that immortal fact straightener whose name escapes me because I too am an ignorant apostate who spends insufficient time reading all those hyper-factual liberal blogs, I say “screw them!”
Mar 30, 2008 - 9:32 am 4. Captain Hate:Credibility on the liberal blogs: The 21st century Heart of Darkness.
Mar 30, 2008 - 10:14 am 5. Buddy Larsen:Alas, in amongst writing novels & screenplays, executing rather intricate and difficult business start-ups, running a popular & influential blog, and raising a family, Roger’s just plain too lazy to cultivate his credibility with Grover Norforms.
Mar 30, 2008 - 11:38 am 6. David Thomson:“Of course, there are few the right despises more these days than Matthews.”
I almost forgot that Chris Matthews even existed. He barely registers on my personal radar screen. I generally ignore him like I do Andrew Sullivan.
There is only one reason why the MSM is mostly leaving John McCain alone: they can’t find any legitimate scandals! The real action is currently taking place within the rapidly self destructing Democratic Party. John McCain’s biggest challenge may be the picking of his running mate. Will it be Mitt Romney or somebody else? Such a question pales in comparison to the Democrat’s ongoing bloodbath.
Mar 30, 2008 - 12:31 pm 7. Neo:There are resistors ..
Wow ! This guy is about to be flushed out of the Matrix.
Mar 30, 2008 - 1:42 pm 8. Dishman:Wow, are they questioning Chris Matthews’ “loyalty to The Party”?
Mar 30, 2008 - 1:48 pm 9. Jeffersonian:The Democratic bus hurtles inexorably toward the cliff, with Barack and Hillary wrestling for the wheel. It’s like Christmas Eve.
Mar 30, 2008 - 7:26 pm 10. Buddy Larsen:Hurtling toward that cliff, i don’t think it’s a bus. i think it’s a train. A bus can always be steered away from the cliff, even at the last moment, even accidentally. But not the Peace Train — it gotta follow its tracks — laid years before, starting way back when ‘identity politics’ seemed like a good thing.
Mar 30, 2008 - 10:50 pm 11. Michael Smith:Regarding the conservative blogosphere, the depressing thing is that Obama and Clinton are both overt socialists/pacifists with plans to expand government control of our lives, loot still more of our wealth and surrender our right to defend ourselves to international bodies like the U.N. — yet so far, as near as I can tell those on the right remain focused over relatively minor scandals like Obama’s refusal to denounce Wright and ClintonÃs lying about her “experience” in foreign affairs.
When is the right going cease the scandal mongering and begin denouncing these socialist/pacifists for what they plan to do to the country?
Mar 31, 2008 - 5:45 am 12. Lem:Hey Roger, Check Drudge using “The Big Fix” as a headline.
Mar 31, 2008 - 7:51 am 13. JB:“When is the right going cease the scandal mongering and begin denouncing these socialist/pacifists for what they plan to do to the country?”
Once there’s a nominee. The longer they bloody each other, the more their unfavorables go up.
Mar 31, 2008 - 11:24 am 14. TomTom:Grover Norforms is aptly self-named: Norforms are vaginal suppositories. But Grover got the orifice wrong; his is slightly more posterior.
Apr 1, 2008 - 8:11 am 15. Buddy Larsen:CH, re “…liberal blogs: The 21st century Heart of Darkness” — how ’bout, “liberal blogs: the Fart of Heartness”?
Apr 1, 2008 - 2:17 pm