If Left-Wing Bloggers Were NYTimes Photo Editors

Chuck Olson of Blogumentary and The People's Patriotic Blogging Collective New Patriot takes a swipe at conservative bloggers.

Now, I've met Chuck a couple of times. Nice enough guy. His take on conservatives as photo editors is as subtle as a Serbian jazz combo, but like a lot of leftybloggers he's really not such a bad guy.

But the photo-editor bit? Well, in the interest of equal time...

When Charles "Little Green Footballs" Johnson wrote about the NYTimes' infamous photo series of Mahdi insurgents shooting at US troops...:

Incredible courage? Well, far be it for me to question such self-congratulatory enthusiasm, but it seems to me that actual “incredible courage” would have entailed, say, Joao Silva getting word to US troops, or his bumrushing the sniper and beating him unconscious with a heavy telephoto lens.

...Chuck wrote...:

That's right. Apparently, the right wing blogosphere thinks photographs of the enemy are a new development; a morally reprehensible act limited to the New York Times. Also, journalists should now take active part in the war and beat snipers with their weapons of choice (cameras, pens, laptops, etc.) rather than observe or report on events. Do not seek to document or understand - only seek to kill. [I think most of us would settle for journalists remembering what side won't behead them and mount their heads on pikes when the war is over and the "journalists'" use as a propaganda vehicle is exhausted - Ed]

What a sea of dangerously uninformed idiocy.

If a conservative blogger ordered a pizza in the woods and no liberal were there to hear it, would he still be dangerous and uninformed?

Anyway, let's take a shot at Chuck's game.

NY TIMES: U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raise the American flag atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima on Feb. 23, 1945.

LEFT WING BLOGGER: Yet again, the President has sent US troops into a quagmire while the real enemy, Emperor Hirohito, remains at large.

NY TIMES: Karl Rove.

LEFT WING BLOGGER: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! It burns us! Must kill, my precious...

NY TIMES: Fire in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

LEFT WING BLOGGER: Fucking tax cuts continue to fucking hurt the "Burned-out American" community.

Maybe if they were fucking selling Yellow Cakes.

Heh. Yellow fucking Cakes.

NY TIMES: "Removal from Gaza...we really feel her feelings."

LEFT WING BLOGGER: Who fucking dressed this girl? A conservative fucking fundamentalist?

NY TIMES: While Marines continued to push deep into a southern part of Falluja where the last elements of Mujahadeen fighters are holed up, four men surrendered saying they were students trying to escape the fight.

LEFT WING BLOGGER: Did anyone fucking marandize him?

NY TIMES: Police use water canons to disperse rioters in Place de la Republique in central Paris on March 28, 2006.

LEFT WING BLOGGER: What? There was a Tapes and Tapes show at the Quest, and nobody told me? Douchebags.

NY TIMES: A man refuses to be evacuated from his home in New Orleans without his missing cat.

LEFT WING BLOGGER: Oooh, I hope he's a fundamentalist! C'mon! Get him!

NY TIMES: "Life goes on amidst the rubble from the tsunami. Heart-wrenching."

LEFT WING BLOGGER: My parents spent $175,000 sending me to Macalester, and all I got was this lousy sarong.

NY TIMES: Prisoners sleep in cramped positions before being woken up at dawn inside an overcrowded cell in the Maula Prison in Lilongwe, Malawi, where certain cells have as many as 160 prisoners.

LEFT WING BLOGGER: Conceptual performance art drives the wingnuts crazy.

Fucking fucking fucking fucking crazy.

NY TIMES: Phan Thi Kim Phuc, center, with her clothes torn off, fleed with other South Vietnamese children after a misdirected aerial napalm attack on June 8, 1972

RIGHTWINGER: More victims of fucking Governor Pawlenty's tax cuts.

NY TIMES: Iraqis chanted anti-American slogans in Falluja yesterday as burned bodies of Americans were suspended on a bridge over the Euphrates River.

LEFT WING BLOGGER: "Heh". That's what Kos said. "Heh".

No, wait. It was "Why does the President hate poor people?" That's it. Kos said it, and nobody says it like Kos. Why DOES the President hate...

No, wait. That wasn't it. What DID Kos say?

Help me here.

LEFT WING BLOGGER: Heh. Fist.

Fist fist fist.

Fist fist fist fist fist fist!

Fist!

Hahaha! Fist!

I could be a leftyblogger!

Well - after I lobotomize myself with a spork...

(joking. I'm a joker, I joke...)

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