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The increasingly irrelevant Oliver Willis whines:
Wizbang attacks me.
So does the idiotic and childish Jeff Goldstein (in a post whose vitriol makes Freepers seem calm and collected). My only question is, how much soap does it take to completely scrub off the feces you guys throw around?
I'll just submit this without further comment.
The hell I will.
Read Wizbang and Goldstein's pieces. Are they dismissive? Perhaps vitriolic or childish? Sure.
But read Goldstein's piece, and go through a couple of weeks' worth of Willis' perfunctory, childish output - the equal in every way of the most vapid of the Freepers Willis constantly harps on - and tell me the point Goldstein makes amid the obvious anger...:
Left unanswered, as always, is not only HOW such a stupid regime could pull this off—but of course WHY, if they have such world-controlling superpowers, they wouldn’t just put those powers to work to ensure that the elections actually were “real” and fair.
But then, who can explain the motivations of pure evil?
...isn't right.
Willis continues:
Pardon me if I've had enough of these Iraqi "turning points". I work in Washington, D.C. so I can't just pretend and make the terrorists go away like the other sheep.
Help me out here - what's the latin term for "non sequitur"? I keep forgetting.
So many responses:
- So now Oliver Willis does link Iraq with potential terror in the US?
- How does your geography make your opinion worth more than anyone else's?
- Oh, what the hell, let's count for geography, Oliver. Since you voluntarily choose to live somewhere near a potential target, let's weight your "writing" more heavily than those of us who don't. Fine. Accord these guys and this and this and this and this and this and this and this the same consideration. To do otherwise would be inconsistent, or as Willis might say, "Hypocritical and dumb".
- No, I'll not "pardon" you for having "had enough" of turning points. You are on the wrong side of history, as your intellectual forebears were twenty years ago. And as the democracy you so fear starts taking hold, bit by bit over the next decade, we'll be reminding you. Assuming any of us reads you by then, which if the dull headache that going throug the last week of your postings has given me is any indication, is probably a stretchy assumption.
Why does Oliver Willis hate people who are seeking freedom?
Posted by Mitch at
January 30, 2005 01:41 PM
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Mitch,
Why do you torture yourself so?
Posted by: Paul at January 30, 2005 06:01 PMSo irrelevant you spent how many words on me?
Posted by: Oliver at January 30, 2005 06:30 PMBecause, with all due respect, you represent a current of thought among the lefty blogosphere that people need to be aware of. It's something we conservatives encounter a lot when dealing with the far left; know-nothingism that calls itself intellectual; snarkiness that believes itself witty; sloppiness that considers itself definitive.
Posted by: mitch at January 30, 2005 07:30 PMOllie has been throwing a tantrum since about Nov 2. He's a "Proud Member of the Reality Based Community" and his reality sucks these days. And he can't make a new one, only Bushies are stupid or crazy enough to believe they can do that.
Posted by: Terry at January 30, 2005 07:59 PMA few days ago he posted the tired old line about how true patriotism is criticism of your country. The thing a lot of these dems don't realize is that the political relationship that defines a nation is between human beings, not abstract social classes, and in relationships between human beings love or at least affection has to come before criticism. Love your country first and foremost, and you can criticize it to your heart's content. That's what mainstream republicans do.
At least Oliver posted more on the elections than say, Atrios.