February 3, 2006
THE STRONG HORSE VERSUS THE SICK PUPPY:
It is amusing to consider this annual litany of left-wing hate (warning: link contains some bad language) that has become popular among many of the Internet moonbats currently running the Democratic party, and contrast that with their assertions that their message is popular but poorly delivered. In fact, the above list is articulate and gets its point across quite clearly: the problem is that it is inherently loathsome, repulsive, and only intermittently funny.
Posted by Matt Murphy at February 3, 2006 4:05 PMThey are right about one thing: spammers do "[w]ast[e] billions of minutes of time and millions of dollars in bandwidth" and deserve to have their "[f]aces repeatedly smashed into keyboards until dead."
Posted by: Mike Morley at February 3, 2006 4:48 PMOne out of 50, that's a 2% success rate.
Posted by: Mike Morley at February 3, 2006 4:53 PMYou'll notice that the author of this thing didn't have the guts to list Mark Steyn.
Posted by: Matt Murphy at February 3, 2006 4:54 PMIt would be funny if R. Kelly got trapped in a closet.
Posted by: Mike Beversluis at February 3, 2006 5:20 PMTwo observations:
1. Loving people write about people and things they honor and praise. Hateful people write about people and things they find "loathsome."
2. Note that the #4 most loathsome thing is "You," i.e., the reader. They hate even their friends. They hate everyone.
Posted by: pj at February 3, 2006 5:22 PM. . . the author of this thing didn't have the guts to list Mark Steyn . . .
. . . or Lileks. Interesting . . . .
Posted by: Mike Morley at February 3, 2006 5:32 PMI agreed with about of a third of his picks. Geraldo, Martha Stewart, spammers, how can I argue with that.
Posted by: Robert Schwartz at February 3, 2006 5:54 PMHe is on the money about Thomas Friedman and Oprah.
Posted by: Ali Choudhury at February 3, 2006 6:03 PMSteyn and Lileks are big names in the blogosphere but don't have much of a public image beyond that.
David Brooks is probably more well-known than either of them.
Posted by: Ali Choudhury at February 3, 2006 6:06 PMKinda funny. I chuckled. I always give points for that.
Posted by: Andrew X at February 3, 2006 8:22 PMsteyn is more widely published than lileks and is well on his way to bigger things, but brooks is definitely "biiger". on the other hand, brooks is much less trenchant than steyn.
Posted by: toe at February 3, 2006 9:14 PMInteresting that Jesse Jackson made his list.
Posted by: PapayaSF at February 3, 2006 10:17 PMC'mon. This guy is funny. And some of the stuff he says is right on. He's wrong about Limbaugh's mendacity, but Limbaugh's sentence is funny as heck. Who he is right about is Michelle Malkin. Anyhow, the guy's making me laugh, not hate him. This is good stuff. Don't be a stiff. Krauthammer's sentence? Funneee! Funnee! The spammers' sentence? Hoo! Funny!
Terri Schiavo? Not a bit funny. Not. Funny. Not, you rat scum.
(See how it works?)
Barbara Bush: If I ever run into this guy, I break his legs. Then his nose.
Fun-nee! Funnee!
Posted by: Hank E. Ponghee at February 3, 2006 11:43 PMInteresting that he would list Sensenbrenner for hating free speech (where that from?) and not the poo-bahs of speech restriction themselves, John McCain and Russ Feingold.
And putting Cheney ahead of Bush? That's so 2001.
Posted by: jim hamlen at February 4, 2006 1:38 AMI give him credit for landing a few punches on the Hollywood crowd, with Cruise and Lucas, but he left way too many out. Clooney and Cameron Diaz belong on the list for being the most clueless political commentators in America, but they are lefties, so they get a bye.
Posted by: Robert Duquette at February 4, 2006 6:18 AMI didn't find the Malkin stuff funny ha-ha. It was funny strange in that he apparently doesn't understand the difference between Filipina and Japanese, or why a Filipina might not empathize with Japanese suffering during WWII.
Posted by: David Cohen at February 4, 2006 10:00 PM