Blogging Scoops ’08
ByThe right-wing blogosphere. You’ve got to love them. After all, these guys suffer for you. They bear the terrible burden of knowledge, of watching from the sidelines as dhimmi Europeans bow to the inexorable coming of the next Caliphate and now, as a radical, Muslim, socialist, backed by liberal media elites, seeks to steal the White House (no doubt, so that he can turn America into a crypto-Marxist, Islamic state). What must it be like to live in a world where only you (and your fellow bloggers and army of readers) are prescient enough to see the West’s gradual fall to Communism and Islam? (Could you attend the same self help groups as 9/11 Truthers? Would they even let you in?)
Over the past four years I have tried to follow the illogic of these blogging masterminds. But all too often the mental power necessary to make two and two equal five fails me. Either that, or I suddenly realize that the exercise is worse than a waste of time, more pointless than a broken pencil.
Thankfully, Jon Swift has not given up. Oh no, he has been eagerly following the right-wingnutosphere’s presidential election coverage (so you don’t have to!) and rounded up the major stories that the mainstream media has been too conniving, lazy or cowardly to cover. My personal favorite is the revelation that Barack Obama had an underage, gay “affair†with a pedophile. But I would not fault you if you were more impressed with the scoop that Obama had cocaine-fueled gay sex in the back of a limousine with a not-very-attractive disabled man with a criminal background. You be the judge.
8 Comments
October 25th, 2008 at 2:11 am
Certainly there is some silly stuff out there but on the other hand these are just bloggers who have no real status even among right wingers.
To be compared to say the Atlantic Monthly’s Andrew Sullivan’s intrepid investigation into Trig Palin’s maternity.
October 25th, 2008 at 9:05 am
It’s very, very sad. Is Europe like this? Do Europeans care about inane things such as how much their politicians spend on shoes and sensational made up stories?
October 25th, 2008 at 9:22 am
“To be compared to say the Atlantic Monthly’s Andrew Sullivan’s intrepid investigation into Trig Palin’s maternity.”
Don’t be absurd. Andrew Sullivan doesn’t claim this to be true, he just asked for some proof it wasn’t. And the fact is, something like this means a lot to the kind of person who would vote for Palin, so it is not entirely irrelevant. If Palin’s only credentials are her ‘family values’ and there’s a chance she has the most dysfunctional family out there, don’t the religious right need to know this? (I don’t care either way, by the way! We already know she’s a liar and a redneck, so this adds nothing for me.)
And yes, in Britain if a politician spent countless thousands on shoes in a recession the tabloid press would have a field day with it. That is the kind of thing they thrive on. For better or worse.
October 25th, 2008 at 9:47 am
Woooaah!!!! Andrew Sullivan is such an ass. There is nothing else I can say on this topic without blowing a gasket.
The Europeans… Would they also be all over the price of faux Greek columns? I don’t really care either way, ladies shoes, Gucci suits, Greek columns. Who cares. It’s all marketing and that is part of a campaign. I hate what they did to Edwards with his expensive haircuts while ignoring more important matters at hand… I guess Americans aren’t the only idiots.
October 25th, 2008 at 10:55 am
What do you have against Andrew Sullivan? He’s right of center like you, no? He’s a little impulsive sometimes, but I can’t think of anything he has done that would make you think he is “such an ass.”
October 25th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Cretin, Cretin, Cretin
Sullivan simply asks the question. However the question is plainly insane.
This is the sane sin as is being imputed to those “crazy wingnuts”. Actually this allegation is way beyond anything that those “wingnuts” have come up with.
Let’s set it out so we can see what kind of fools you and Sullivan are -
Sarah Palin decided to fake giving birth to her daughter Bristol’s child in order to have her daughter avoid the stigma of being an unwed mother. This apparently was covered up by the entire Palin family and friends, hospitals , schools, what have you. The fact that at this time Palin was a State governor of perhaps the most media obsessed, reporter riven country in the world was an additional difficulty.
And for what ? We now know that Bristol is pregnant again (in an amazingly quick period after she clandestinely gave birth to Trig).
October 26th, 2008 at 12:40 am
Fair point, Simon Simon Simon. It’d be awesome if it were true though.
October 26th, 2008 at 9:21 am
Be a hell of a story for Trig to tell his kids.