…”they don’t boo nobodies.”
Which, if that’s the case, who knows? — maybe there’s hope for me yet…
Here’s wishing you all a great remainder of the holiday weekend. Now that I seem to have both the pragmatic right and the progressive left aligned firmly against me, I figure I’ve earned myself a bit of guacamole on my vacation burger.
OUTLAW!
(h/t Dan)
Comment by ushie on 5/25 @ 12:59 pm #
Sooo, the VV guy is a…dope? He couldn’t figure out what you were saying, and he says so publicly? Geez.
Comment by dicentra on 5/25 @ 1:06 pm #
Great defenses from Dan, serr8d, and Treacher, btw.
The light shineth in the darkness, and the darkness comprehendeth it not.
Comment by SBP on 5/25 @ 1:11 pm #
Good work, Jeff! Maybe you can get Rachel Mancow or Keith Olberdouche to hold a Two Minutes’ Hate for you on national television.
Comment by jcw46 on 5/25 @ 1:14 pm #
dicentra
That’s because of the left’s cranial::anal positional inversion.
Comment by Jeff G on 5/25 @ 1:14 pm #
Roy knew what I meant. He just wanted to take a shot at the italics and then pretend, along with all his friends, that I wasn’t inside their noxious heads.
Having commenters assure themselves that they’re all willing to pretend together means that the emperor with his dork out is still safe from public scrutiny, at least for the time being.
On the other hand, that Edroso has a gig with the VV is one of the signs of the coming apocalypse.
Comment by Darleen on 5/25 @ 1:21 pm #
Were they interested in convincing anyone outside their cadres, they might try a different approach.
Oh looky, another Leftwinger giving advice to how the NeoConRethuglicanZionistPatriarchists should act … I mean I’m convinced he has our best interests at heart.
Comment by Jeff G. on 5/25 @ 1:27 pm #
Not to mention, Darleen, that I was writing for people supposedly inside my cadre.
I don’t try to “convince” the dishonest. I try to expose them.
Comment by guinsPen on 5/25 @ 1:35 pm #
You’re not who he thinks you are.
Comment by Joe on 5/25 @ 1:38 pm #
If you are opposed by the Village Voice you can be pretty sure you are doing something right. Congratulations to you all.
Comment by Darleen on 5/25 @ 1:41 pm #
I don’t try to “convince†the dishonest. I try to expose them.
You would think after the last century of outright evil horrors, the scale of which mostly evolved because of “compromise” (Peace in Our Time!!) that people would become discerning in separating mere policy disagreements from invitations to slavery.
North Korea fires missiles, then yesterday does an underground nuclear bomb test and Obama’s response is to furrow his brown and promise to lower his voice a full octive if NK won’t stop being naughty.
That’ll show ‘em!
Comment by happyfeet on 5/25 @ 1:42 pm #
The Village Voice is still in business. That’s remarkable. They have what looks like a great deviled eggs recipe in the comments but there’s some kind of Yucatan sauce and I don’t know where I can get it and I guess I could google and find something maybe a lot like it but that seems like a lot of work. I’m just gonna make pasta salad I think cause of I have stuff thawed already. Have a great holiday all yous. This is my new thing on my youtube playlist. This one is I think a rendition of what is a Rufus Wainwright song. That blond guy with the unusual teef what sings is a Norwegian named Kurt Nilsen that I’ve been listening to and waiting to see if he grows on me. He’s a plumber what became the Norwegian American Idol or whatever in 2003 and now he’s famous except I just heard about him this week.
Comment by Dr. Samuel Sheppard on 5/25 @ 1:45 pm #
The Village Voice is still in business.
Well, sort of.
They’ve cut half their staff since December, so I’d advise against blinking if you want to be sure to catch their disappearance.
Comment by Andrew the Noisy on 5/25 @ 1:46 pm #
The Village Voice…ain’t they cute…
Comment by JD on 5/25 @ 1:46 pm #
Isn’t the VV the home of Musto, who does the fellatio segment with Olbergasm?
Edroso is either unable or unwilling to actually address the points raised.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/25 @ 1:49 pm #
oh. That was a Leonard Cohen song not a Rufus song.
Comment by Techie on 5/25 @ 1:59 pm #
Have a good Memorial Day everybody.
Comment by K on 5/25 @ 2:00 pm #
Jeff. Climb off the snark wagon and write a real book. You’ve got some great ideas and you can usually communicate them pretty well, but daily occupation with the poli-blog tit for tat BS isn’t useful or making near the contribution a book would.
I’ve done some creative stuff in my time, and one of the pitfalls is getting hooked on the ego-boo of the short term commenters and the arguing with critics. Screw that, get your work in print. Make it readable and entertaining. Work it till it’s very good but publish well before it’s perfect.
Do it.
Comment by dicentra on 5/25 @ 2:08 pm #
Yes. Book, Jeff. Book. Book. You have nothing better to do, I’m sure.
Comment by Jeff G. on 5/25 @ 2:15 pm #
Edroso and Wolly should start a fan club. I’ll send ‘em a pair of my undies.
Comment by The Castrated Republicans on 5/25 @ 2:28 pm #
The people who encourage one to write books the most normally read the least. Except for publishers…who can’t read at all.
Comment by McGehee on 5/25 @ 2:33 pm #
Edroso is “exploring” the “right-wing blogosphere”? I could have some fun with that notion.
I have swum in the Atlantic Ocean, therefore I have explored it.
I have eaten at Taco Bell, therefore I have explored Latin American cuisine.
I saw David Duchovny in “Twin Peaks,” therefore I have explored life as a transsexual. NTTAWWT.
Comment by McGehee on 5/25 @ 2:36 pm #
I’ll admit that since I all but stopped blogging I have begun making real progress for the first time in years at writing something book-length.
But I’m writing fiction, and for pretty much the same reason I (sorta) quit blogging. That’s different from what “K” has in mind for a number of reasons.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 5/25 @ 2:38 pm #
So this guy go to the doctor for a complete checkup fo a new insurance policy.
He’s talking to the nurse who says they’ll need a urine sample, a stool sample and a seman sample.
The guy says “Look, I’m in a hurry. Can I just leave my underpants?”
Comment by Tman on 5/25 @ 2:41 pm #
So is this Edroso fellow easily flummoxed by italics or something?
It’s funny how Jeff writes several posts about how the left is changing the message and intent of the speech from the right to fit their own agenda, and then this idiot comes along and completely proves Jeff’s point.
I expect to see more of this as the issue of controlling the message gets further explored during the Obama administration. Obama has been flailing straw men mercilessly, and more people are beginning to take notice.
Comment by Makewi on 5/25 @ 2:46 pm #
The Village Voice serves an important ideological service for very smart people. It exists to assure those of the right sort that they don’t need to examine opposing arguments because since they are made by the wrong sort they are vile, incoherent, and wrong. It’s like a nice pat on the head and a warm glass of milk. WINGNUT!
I find it amusing that there are some who believe that there is any ad or message that the RNC could create that wouldn’t be distorted to fit into the 2 minute hate.
Comment by Jeff G. on 5/25 @ 2:50 pm #
No. He was saying I overuse italics, Tman. It’s a bit of, well, drollery, on Edroso’s part, you see. Very hip to question the overuse of italics.
Separates the writers from the writers.
Comment by SBP on 5/25 @ 2:52 pm #
Ah.
I thought he was saying “I’m a semi-literate douchebag”.
That’s my interpretation and I’m sticking to it.
Comment by Mike on 5/25 @ 2:57 pm #
“Now that I seem to have both the pragmatic right and the progressive left aligned firmly against me…”
Heck, they’re both pretty much the same thing in the end, near as I can make out…
Comment by Diana on 5/25 @ 2:57 pm #
Uh oh … you struck a chord (B#). Which, is why you need to continue to strike.
Comment by ushie on 5/25 @ 3:15 pm #
They play so dumb. It’s kinda cute, except it’s annoying. A back view of a woman with bra straps? “She’s NAKED and the Rethuglicans are insulting women!” Write a teasing one-off about Andrea Mitchell’s fuzzing-out on Obama’s dijon-use? “OMG! The Thugnecks hate dijon mustard! Laura Bush used dijon on a devilled egg recipe! Those dumb thugniklans!”
Miss CA poses in panties? “What a hypocritical slutcuntwhore!”
As I said, cute, but really too annoying. Where do I get my license?
Comment by mojo on 5/25 @ 3:59 pm #
It must be something about living in a converted warehouse that drives ‘em insane. All the light and space really puts a twist on their latte-soaked brains. That and the Arugula (shudder)…
Comment by mojo on 5/25 @ 4:10 pm #
Jeff. Climb off the snark wagon and write a real book.
“Enter The Armadillo”
But make sure the title is in italics.
Comment by dash rendar on 5/25 @ 4:22 pm #
yea for real jeff write the book and all of us willbuy it. You can’t do any worse than yglesias. For teh gravitas.
Comment by JHoward on 5/25 @ 4:24 pm #
It’s the urgent need they have to appear aloof, as aloofness indicates the tacit superiority of I-can’t-be-bothered. Dumb they don’t have to play at when intellectual dishonesty comprises the entire toolkit.
It’s all part of the keeping up of public appearances, that being the symptom of their political equivalent of character disorder. The left attracts that.
Had the writer expounded on the finer points of American leftism — and somehow avoided the eternal dilemma that side has with property and rights — that would have been impressive. The next leftist to do so will be the first. But he didn’t. Oh.
Comment by newrouter on 5/25 @ 4:26 pm #
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Comment by poon on 5/25 @ 4:36 pm #
Or they could just be laughing at us because we so funny.
No…they fear us!
That’s it.
Gotta run and tell my wife…Morgan Fairchild.
Comment by Salt Lick on 5/25 @ 4:39 pm #
First Wooly, then Roy. Now this guy says he can whoop Jeff’s ass.
Comment by Salt Lick on 5/25 @ 4:40 pm #
Uh. this guy.
Comment by bh on 5/25 @ 4:59 pm #
I’ll admit that I’ve expressed before that I think Jeff would write a fine work of fiction or an insightful work of nonfiction.
And, vicariously, I get the feeling that blogging at the level where people actually read your stuff and know who you are comes with an insane bullshit to compensation ratio.
That being said, comments like, “daily occupation with the poli-blog tit for tat BS isn’t useful,” fall into the bullshit category.
People read the VV. People real Wolcott. Same for the writers on the right. If they make statements about you, you can either retort or let it stay on the record uncontested. There’s not much of a middle ground.
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Comment by serr8d on 5/25 @ 5:09 pm #
newsrouter, that Yucatan Sunshine is great on scrambled eggs. But I’m indifferent to Cajun-style blackening, unless I’m in New Orleans, where it’s unavoidable.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/25 @ 6:13 pm #
I’ll look to find at Ralph’s the Yucatan Sunshine but I still want to find that Barabados one I had in Texas last year. I have a link for it somewhere probably on the laptop. I can take or leave the blackening I think. Cajun food isn’t something I get too excited about. I usually pretend I like it a lot more than I do cause usually when I have Cajun it’s cause there’s one of those people around what’s really enthusiastic about the food of the Cajun peoples. Like how they want to tell you every minute of how it takes like 870 hours to make gumbo and they always have to tell you that the key is the rue. Like I give a good god damn.
Comment by SBP on 5/25 @ 6:15 pm #
Rue, Britannia.
Comment by bh on 5/25 @ 6:21 pm #
Rue Roux, do you?
Comment by newrouter on 5/25 @ 6:48 pm #
rue the day cajin hater
Comment by newrouter on 5/25 @ 6:51 pm #
blackening catfish is good but blackface catfish not so much
Comment by Seth on 5/25 @ 7:23 pm #
Jeff: to hell with the both of them. I’m not sure I really like the left or right all that much. Both seem miguidedly intent on self-agrandizement, rather than the best interests of the nation.
Comment by newrouter on 5/25 @ 7:34 pm #
@47
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Comment by Bob Reed on 5/25 @ 7:52 pm #
Congrats on the full spectra criticism this week Jeff G…
If VV wasn’t such a niche rag it might be sweeter; NYT or WaPo it’s not…
I mean, they have to put NSFW photo spreads as teasers in the sidebar…
But still, It’s about as far left as they come…And your R4ggie J. quote is soooo apropo…
Best Wishes on Memorial day weekend. And keep it up! As SBP said, you may draw the ire of Olberdork or Dartmouth Racheal…
And consider the folks that they hate, you couldn’t be in better company!
Comment by newrouter on 5/25 @ 7:56 pm #
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Comment by bastiches on 5/25 @ 8:17 pm #
Jeff,
Why not challenge Allahpundit to an ad contest? Challenge him to write an attack ad that he thinks would be suitable for the GOP. I would be curious to see if he could write one that does not have potential openings for Lefty hysteria but my suspicion is that he can’t help but step on his own fingers. This is too easy, Jeff. Do it!
Comment by ThomasD on 5/25 @ 8:35 pm #
If you can’t find Yucatan Sunshine then either Melinda’s Habanero hot sauce, or Marie Sharp’s mild is a good substitute.
Comment by pdbuttons on 5/25 @ 9:23 pm #
it takes a village voice idiot
to raise debate with jeff
Comment by Swen Swenson on 5/25 @ 9:30 pm #
And carp are very good smoked but they’re hard to keep lit..
Comment by psycho... on 5/25 @ 9:33 pm #
Back before there was an internets as we know it, I was interviewed for a Voice thingy. Their fine journalistrix and/or her editor assembled her whole “Who are these yappin’ fucks?” introductory text from the good parts of my responses to her questions, and left me with only what looked like “What she said!”-type repetitions of stuff she’d just said for quotes.
I was peeved. Because she was hot.
RABID
Comment by Swen Swenson on 5/25 @ 9:42 pm #
But surely the funniest part is that the VV includes Protein Wisdom in and exploration of the right-wing blogosphere. Better dig out the red pills and wake the ‘dillo, might help ‘em relate. Assuming you want to help them relate. Might also make their little heads explode but I think that would be a good thing, they really should get out more. Unless you want to be part of the right-wing blogosphere, but wouldn’t all those obligatory Rush quotes get tiresome?
Whatever
Comment by Swen Swenson on 5/25 @ 9:53 pm #
But if you were a member in good standing of the right-wing blogosphere you could interview Hugh Hewitt’s mighty man-teats. Gotta admit there’s huge potential there.
Comment by Swen Swenson on 5/25 @ 9:57 pm #
Huge
Comment by Swen Swenson on 5/25 @ 9:58 pm #
Probably sweaty and jiggly too, but there’s things we don’t need to know..
Comment by ushie on 5/25 @ 9:59 pm #
Jebus Cripes, Swen, what a hideous mental picture.
Comment by Swen Swenson on 5/25 @ 10:00 pm #
And Andy Sullivan needs something to do. He’s a conservative you know.
No, really.
Comment by Swen Swenson on 5/25 @ 10:04 pm #
Yeah, I know. I can’t picture myself as part of the right-wing blogosphere either. Sends chills down my spine.
Comment by Swen Swenson on 5/25 @ 10:05 pm #
Although the jackboots would be nice..
Comment by Swen Swenson on 5/25 @ 10:17 pm #
Polishing boots sux though and only Sully would wear patent leather jack boots. OTOH, Hugh Hewitt is probably a wood peg nazi..
Comment by David R. Block on 5/25 @ 10:20 pm #
The Jackboots appear to be more in fashion on the left these days. And those days.
Comment by Swen Swenson on 5/25 @ 10:21 pm #
Help me, I’m channeling happyfeet and I can’t seem to stop!
Comment by SBP on 5/25 @ 10:29 pm #
Said it before, I’ll say it again: I’m not going to join unless I get one of those bitchin’ Hugo Boss uniforms.
Comment by dicentra on 5/26 @ 12:42 am #
Indirect Instalanche!
Comment by dicentra on 5/26 @ 12:43 am #
Whoopsie! This link
Comment by serr8d on 5/26 @ 4:55 am #
Heh.
That’s the funniest post the Orange-Bleeding Professor’s ever written. That I’ve read.
Comment by serr8d on 5/26 @ 5:16 am #
@64 Swen Swenson
Your link provides much hilarity! From the About page..
and
Comment by SDN on 5/26 @ 6:46 am #
As I told Jeff in an e-mail, a visit from our scaly mascot in a Rumpleminze moment might be just what the VV needs…..
I’d pay good money to see that on a hidden camera!
Comment by SarahW on 5/26 @ 7:26 am #
Hifalutin’.
Comment by Bilwick1 on 5/26 @ 7:34 am #
If you really want top confuse the State-shtuppers at the VOICE, use the word “liberty” frequently. They don’t have a clue what that means.