Ultimate Wingnut Challenge: The Blog Stars
Okay, I put these guys off until last because I find them tedious (but not in a good way). And then I got sick - and while I can't actually blame it on them, it was probably their fault.
And that's why they will get short shrift in today's contest, in that they will only be allowed to present a sentence (or paragraph, max) upon which to be judged. You are to evaluate each blogger's work for vapidity, ego, stupidity, and general annoyance, and then vote two of our contestants off the island.
If you want some addititional info upon which to base your decision, consult this this piece from Fables of the Reconstruction, which concisely describes many of our contestants' work (and which therefore which has got their panties in a bunch).
Here's part of Powerline's reaction to it:
This post by a left-wing blogger apparently is what passes for discourse on the other side of the blogosphere. ... The blurb on Michelle Malkin tells you all you need to know about the blogger who wrote it and more importantly those, such as Atrios, who linked favorably to it.
Of course, what The Bishop really means is that the blurb on Powerline tells you all you need to know about the blogger who wrote it and those who linked favorably to it: that they are big poopie heads.
But anyway, if we get through this team, then we've presented all of our contestants and can, in good conscience, start the purge we've dreamed of.
So, let's meet our Blog Stars! (And they all are men, because, as we all know, there are no women bloggers.)
1. Our first contestant is Hugh Hewitt, author of the book Blog, and the guy who invented blogging a couple of years after Glen Reyonds made it popular.
His selection comes from a post in which he waxes indignant about allegations that, while investigating John Roberts' background, the NY Times looked into the adoptions of the two Roberts' children.
Every time I think that MSM has finally hit bottom and cannot find a way to fall off the floor, some part of it digs a new cellar to dive deeper into.
Because it's just plain evil to investigate allegatons that Roberts and his wife stole the children from a 1940s movie. The media should just assume that the White House would never nominate anybody with anything untoward in his or her background, and should just ignore claims that the Roberts children are being cared for by Bernie Kerik's nanny.
2. Our next contestant, Glenn Reynolds, announces that his blog, Instanpundit, turns four today.
How has the blog changed? You may have a clearer sense of that than I do. I think it's become a bit less opinionated -- the older entries were mostly opinion; now I'm more likely to link to somone's actual reporting, or to an item of news without commenting on it much.
Indeed.
3. Hindrocket from Powerline (now with 500% of the RDA of kerning) brings us a story about an army sergeant who got a Cub Scout pack in the U.S. to collect donated shoes, which were then given to an orphanage in Djibouti.
I like this story for what it says about the Scouts; suffice it to say that there aren't any African orphans who are wearing shoes, for the first time in their lives, courtesy of the well-funded, prestigious groups that have done their best to destroy the Boy Scouts.
So, the next time your civil rights are being violated, don't call the ACLU, call the Cub Scouts -- they'll get Birkenstock to give you some shoes.
But HIndrocket isn't done. No, he has a little lecture for us about how African kids aren't stupid just because they didn't have the good sense to be born here (and YOU said they must be idiots because they chose to be orphans!):
These kids aren't stupid, and they aren't hopeless. They share the natural optimism of youth with every other kid born anywhere else in the world. Their optimism and ambition aren't misplaced, but they require a few basic preconditions to be realistic--a normal government, and a normal free-market economy. Given those fundamental realities, and with an occasional helping hand from the Cub Scouts and others who wish them well, there is no reason why these girls' hopes should be futile.
So, I guess the plan is for the Cub Scouts to overthrow the Djibouti goverment and institute a free-market economy there.
4. Now, here's the LittleGreenFootballs guy. (Sure, I said that he was out of the game and would be replaced by one of the women from The Cotillion, but it turns out they are even more annoying than he is.)
"Every One of Them Knows How to Use an AK-47"
Britain has a problem—a huge problem that has been growing for decades, while British authorities worshipped at the altars of unrestricted immigration and willfully blind multiculturalism: Intelligence chiefs warn Blair of home-grown ‘insurgency’.
If only Blair had listend to Charles! He's been saying for the last 3 years (or however long he's been blogging), that the only good Arab is a dead Arab. Now maybe somebody will believe him!
5. Our challenger is Jay Tea of Wizbangblog. His topic is the previously mentioned Fables of the Reconstruction post. While he has a lot to say on the subject, here are a couple of highlights.
But where are the thinkers of the left? Where are the serious essayists, the scholars, the contemplators who would provide balance to the sheer intellectual power of the above? {...]
I went looking through the big liberal blogs, and was left wanting. Atrios? Nope. Eschaton? Nope.
Yes, Jay checked the blogs of both Atrios and Eschaton, and neither one was a serious essayist. Obviouxly Jay did a lot of research before concluding that the Left lacks thinkers.
However, here's some serious thinking on the part of Jay, as he answers the FotR charge that Powerline is "led by someone who nicknamed himself 'Hindrocket.' Talk about being manly in that protests-too-much way."
The guy's name is "Hinderacker." He was probably hung with the nickname "Hindrocket" in grade school. Which makes the sophomoric insult very appropriate.
So, if HIndrocket got the nickname in grade school, then it proves that he actually is manly?
Um, okay. That's telling 'em, Jay!
Anyway, let's give a round of lacklustre applause for the members of our Blog Star Team: Hugh Hewitt, Glen Reynolds, Hindrocket, the LittleGreenFootballs guy, and Jay Tea.
Now, vote off two of them, using either the above examples of their work, whatever you already know about them, or your six-sided dice. Just get rid of them of them! Because once we're done with that, we can have another elimination round, and get rid of everybody on this team.
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