Shorter Anti-Greenwald Irregulars

When last we left our story, Glenn Greenwald had tolchocked Misha for advocating the lynching of five Supreme Court justices, and shamed the right-blogosphere for their usual relaxed and carefree attitude toward the espousal of murder, genocide, and the dismantling of the American political system in favor of an authoritarian one-party state.

An uproar ensued against Greenwald, primarily citing the pivotal decisions in cases such as You Are v. What Am I, and Smelt It v. Dealt It.

Then on Sunday, Glenn whacked them again even harder (leaving as collateral damage our long-worked post on the Joao Silva affair). But Glenn, dude, it’s too late — you were ‘Fisked’ this weekend. That’s the gantlet in which the WingNet dishonestly claims that you’re lying and/or makes deranged attacks on your mental state, while rudely calling you uncivil, nit-pickingly accusing you of nit-picking, or writing multithousand-word jeremiads about your ‘obsessiveness.’ Your reputation is forever ruined in the blogosphere. Actually, no — it means you’re getting to them.

Here we go ’round the stupidberry bush:

Shorter Xrlq: “Greenwald asserts that ‘five ropes, five robes, five trees — some assembly required’ is an allusion to lynching. Yet another example of the dishonesty of the Left!”

Shorter Patterico: “So-called ‘Constitutional scholar’ Greenwald links to someone called ‘Retardo.’ Game over! (Bwaha.) Oh wait, I thought of another thing…”

Shorter Ace of Spades: “Gay Gaywald is an obscure unknown nobody who is gay.”

Shorter Perfesser Flowbee: “Here’s an essay I didn’t read. Say, the first sentence reminds me of something.”

More Shorter Xrlq: “He says ‘tomato’; I say ‘to-mah-to.’ Yet another stinking lie!”

Shorter Misha: “Blar-har! Puny human Greenwald. Hey, let’s run that old rope/tree graphic again.”

Glenn, we present you with a laurel and hearty handshake. Vous êtes arrivé.

 

‘The main mode of communication will be death’

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Shorter David Brooks: In a sense, Israel’s current foes lack a little something that most people describe as humanity.

 

Neoconservatism Explained

So I’m watching a rerun of this morning’s Meet the Press. Tim Russert just asked Newt Gingrich if the current situation in Iraq limits our military options with Iran and North Korea. Gingrich responded by saying, “Only in our minds.”

What. A. Nutter.

 

‘Not just anybody can summarize the news’

Oh, wow. I was cleaning out the fridge here in the Sadly, No! break room, and I found my lunch from the other day in this Tupperware container. Hmm. I think it might still be good:

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Dude. Retardo, you are totally cleaning out the refrigerator next year.

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And No One Ever Heard From Sully Again…

Andrew Sullivan launched a missile test yesterday, entering as a late combatant into the great Sucky Video Wars of Aught-Six. Oh yes, he did! No, we don’t know what he’s trying to pull either.
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As we’re all so grimly aware, vast territories of the earth are now uninhabitable, although chronologies differ as to who launched the first scorching fusillade. Some say Atrios, some say The Poor Man. We would admit that as a European-based blog, our time stamps are not as they might seem. Regardless, the fault is unquestionably The Poor Man’s, because we can blame him for things and he seldom does anything about it. Witness:

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The truth comes out:

While I’m not familiar with “the editors� blog, I think that I read somewhere that the proprietor is an ex-lover of Andrew Sullivan.

I think you may have read that in The Unexpurgated Book of Truth. In the comments, please post any other things you’ve read somewhere about the proprietors.

Sullivan’s ‘bad video’ was, as it happens, taken uncredited from The Poor Man. Was its relaunch by Sullivan a mere velleity, or a desperate act of heartsick vengeance? The world, charred and blasted though it is, yet holds many interesting questions.

Yes. Where were we? Oh right: left-blogosphere becomes giant robot, destroys alien space monster. Roxanne in effect! Este País Estéril en efecto! Pandagon in effect! The Axis of Really Annoying in effect! (Bakayaro!) We’re plenty mad.

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But What About the Good News?

Uh, wow. (My emphasis):

Gunmen wearing camouflage uniforms abducted about 50 people, including the head of Iraq’s national Olympic committee, while they were holding a meeting in Baghdad on Saturday, police sources said.

Details of the mass abduction were sketchy, but police said the incident took place at a major conference center in central Baghdad. Some mass kidnappings reported by police have later turned out to be arrests made by other security departments.

Wow. Now that’s what I call dysfunction. I promise to never bitch about my own government again, no matter how many more tunnels cave in.

 

Advantage: Right-Wing Lunatics

You are now one evidentiary hairsbreadth from being literal terrorists.

NEW YORK, July 14 (Reuters) – The New York Times (NYT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Friday it had received in its mailroom an envelope containing white powder, raising fears of a possible recurrence of anthrax-tainted letters sent to newsrooms and other offices in late 2001.

“At about 12:30 p.m. (1630 GMT) this afternoon … an employee opened an envelope that contained a white powdery substance. The envelope was handwritten and addressed to the New York Times, not to any individual. The postmark was from Philadelphia with no return address,” said Times spokeswoman Catherine Mathis.

Emergency vehicles and an ambulance were parked outside the newspaper’s offices on 43rd Street to investigate the incident. The New York Police Department confirmed it was investigating the incident.

Conservatives have criticized the Times recent weeks for writing about the Bush administration’s covert efforts to stamp out terrorism financing.

This week protesters rallied outside the newspaper to object to its decision to publish details about terrorism financing and secret government programs to monitor phone conversations of U.S. citizens.

Starting one week after the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001, there was a series of anthrax attacks in the United States.

We’d say that we eagerly await condemnation of this act from the shit-stirrers and eggers-on of the right wing’s online commentariat, but it’s gone far beyond that now.

 

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Into-A-Robot Watch

No, for your information, I will never stop finding this hilarious:

CLICKING BY THINKING: A successful brain-computer interface.

posted at 08:37 AM by Glenn Reynolds

Just imagine! Glenn could blog without ever having to exercise his fingers! No more Cheetos stains on the ol’ keyboard!

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“I envision a brave new world populated entirely by dorks like this guy.”

UPDATE: Christ, guys, I’m not against brain-computer interfaces. My point was to laugh at the Ole Perfesser’s not-so-hidden desire to be downloaded into a robot and blast into space. See here for context.

Gavin adds: Dammit Brad, the irony made Glennbot 0.7 Beta start malfunctioning again.

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“Hehindeed[boink]Hehindeed[boink]Heh[blat]Heh[sproing]…”

 

Talk Drrrrrty 2 Me, Associated Press Poll

Yeah, sugar. U know what Bradrocket likes 2 hear:

Republicans are in jeopardy of losing their grip on Congress in November. With less than four months to the midterm elections, the latest Associated Press-Ipsos poll found that Americans by an almost 3-to-1 margin hold the GOP-controlled Congress in low regard and profess a desire to see Democrats wrest control after a dozen years of Republican rule.

Ooooh baby, I’ma sit u down by the firrrrre place, pour u some wine, put on some Barry White…

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Dear New York Times: Can You Fire Tom Friedman Soon?
Pleasepleasepleaseplease?

Shorter Tom Friedman: “America’s experiment in exporting democracy to the Middle East is failing because the people of Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine have inexplicably elected governments that are hostile to our interests.”

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Above: The Moustache of Understanding has finally started to short-circuit.