Vanity Fair has an amusing article by James Wolcott about bloggers waging war over Hillary and Obama, entitled “When Democrats Go Post-al.” Mr. Wolcott has in the past performed psychosexual ananlysis on this onion bulb, here. Among the cast of characters are:
Match them with their descriptions:
a) accused Hillary of cult membership in “the sinister heart of the international right.â€Â
b) celebrity clubhouse of Obamamania.
c) managed to annoy the Hillary partisans without even trying!
d) Master of the hyperbolic mood swing
e) Supreme ruler of the liberal blogosphere
This after the watershed South Park episode featuring YouTube celebs. It’s an interesting phenomenon, a magazine covering blogs rather than the common, reversed situation, though Wolcott writes an associated blog. Imagine picking up a copy of “Blog Week in Review” at the grocery store checkout. I don’t think so, right? Still, slowly, inexorably, the MSM are becoming aware of the power of the massive parallel processing that goes on in the blogosphere. In fact, they are becoming dependent on it.
UPDATE: Fair’s fair. By popular request, the comely James Wolcott:
I did my part. I pimp-handed the Clintonites to tears over at Kos.
Hmmm. The only two I recognize are Arianna Huffington (b) and Joshua Marshall (e?).
I don’t know who the rest of those ugly people are. I like the surprised and slightly angry/terrified look on the face of the guy next to Arianna: “Is that my ass you are handing to me?!? Take it away, you fool!”
Well d) has to be attached to the first photo, the perpetually gobsmacked Andrew Sullivan.
The rest strikes me as a pick’em.
Left to Right: D, C, A, E, B.
Looks like a police lineup.
You got the second and third pics reversed, Mikey.
Thought it could be that way Dan, because I was guessing with those two (I don’t know who #3 is).
So then Left to Right: D, A, C, E, B.
Lisa – You do not know who Markos “screw ’em” Moulitsas is?
I thought we already had a Blog Week in Review set up.
Dennis Kucinich, with his red-tressed, tongue-pierced, statuesque wife, seemed like a Happy Meal compared with furrowed Republican also-rans such as Duncan Hunter and Tom Tancredo.
You just can’t make this shit up.
And Dan, damn you all to hell for making my eyeballs bleed. Or, for Lisa, Et Dan, rien que vous tout àl’enfer pour faire mes globes oculaires saignez.
It’s like a special edition of “Hot Chicks with Douchebags”.
Except without the Hot Chicks.
I skimmed through this Wolcott character’s article, and while he had some interesting little tidbits to pass along about the nutroots (Koz, HuffPo, etc.), what I really found amusing was how he (Wolcott) is just like every other proggie I’ve come across. That is, they just love to wallow in their profligate ignorance of the world around them, particularly in the case of conservatives.
To him and others like him, people on the Right are all just mind-numbed robots, taking their orders from Limbaugh, Hannity or Coulter, incapable of independent thought.
I guess that’s why nearly all the blogs he cites are moderated so closely, and any posts that do not fit The Narrative are either deleted very quickly or never see the light of day at all. Makes one wonder what it is they are afraid of…
LOL @ #11. Excellent!
JD I know who he is, but I have never seen him. I rarely actually “see” bloggers. I met Jessica Valenti and the girl who used to run Wonkette (Ana Cox) in Adams Morgan once before – I also saw Glenn Greenwald (whom my ex calls “Princess Tinymeat”) at an event.
You beast! Waaaaaaahhhhhh…
Is it just me or is Sullivan starting to resemble a gay Lenin?
Don’t know the two dingbats in the middle-left.
Moulitas always looks like he just smelled a fresh one.
And Huffy needs to fix her plugs. Because, damn.
Princess Tinymeat – Instaclassic. Your ex was smart.
Not for being your ex, but for knowing to mock the gleeens.
Wolcott is the guy who wanted a hurricane to hit the US to show us what for. He also lives with cats. And he wrote a novel about living with cats.
Should tell you right there.
who’s the second person, the woman with the knowing smirk?
Barbara Ehrenreich.
check the comments at Talkleft.
going postal
euwwwwwwww!
the “dry pussy brigade”
#15: Ha ha!
#17: Yeah he is a funny guy.
So the guy whose glasses are worn with such impetuous insouciance is Josh Marshall?
Princess Tinymeat. Heh.
Were you able to strike up a convo with Ms. Cox and did the topic quickly turn to anal sex? That’s the only way you could know whether you were talking to the real deal.
Speaking of Wolcott, does anybody have iowahawk’s delicious send-up of that twat anywhere? I can’t find a search function on his site because a) I’m not very bright or b) he doesn’t have one. Either way it’s too bad. A classic.
In regard to the Iowahawk search function, I recommend reading every post until you find what you’re looking for. It can’t hurt and is well worth the trip,(seeing as how Big Al is gone).
Kelly I think that was Jessica Cutler (The Washingtonienne) who got famous blogging about being fucked in the ass by a powerful politician on her lunch breaks while working as an intern on Capitol Hill. Ana Cox made her famous by gossiping about her escapades.
kelly, The Pussy Always Purrs Twice
Kos is the constipated one, Wolcott is the fat one, who used to complain about left orthodoxy in the New York Press. Joshua ‘reality community’ Marshall started out as a Clinton flack during impeachment, and he’s gone much worse. Sullivan has
the ‘cat ate the canary’ self satisfied look.
We’ve been observing the Dems eating their young for nearly half a century. Wolcott’s piece does demonstrate that there is a change.
Now they are eating themselves.
Mange, mange ya beasties.
Just another bit of evidence that there’s a swatch of the political spectrum where the crazy left and the crazy right overlap.
I like Wolcott. I want one of his jowls, when he kicks, because I could really use a nice pavilion for my side yard. It might need some cutting, to fit, because I’ve only got about sixty feet to work with.
Oh, here‘s a more recent picture of Wolcott. Small wonder he likes to go with the one Dan posted. Which, by all appearances, is at least a decade and a half old.
“To him and others like him, people on the Right are all just mind-numbed robots, taking their orders from Limbaugh, Hannity or Coulter, incapable of independent thought.”
I always wondered: I don’t listen to talk radio, have NEVER (seriously, never) watched Fox News, and I don’t read Coulter. So from where am I getting my marching orders?
Percy, obviously you keep forgetting to wear the tinfoil — otherwise you’d be a progg.
From all of the conservatives who bathe in Fox news 24/7 while reading Coulter and listening to Limbaugh.
Occasionally they take a few hours to go out and oppress poor, brown atheist transsexual children.