Comments on: Where blogosphere triumphalism meets the Dolchstosslegende

By: jvp

jvp — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 02:18:39 +0000

My god…could you write any less clearly?

By: Michael Uman

Michael Uman — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 00:10:06 +0000

Looks like Bush is toast… HALLELUJAH!! Goodbye to the worst president in history and hello to opportunity and hope. Bush was aweful and Kerry will remind us why we voted for him instead of Bush. The difference will be felt by the end of next year… Lets get over this and work together to make America stronger and an enviable leader in the world. Michael

By: VeniVedi

VeniVedi — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 19:41:14 +0000

Yeah what this reminds me of are the “New Economy” internet boys of a few years back. Brick and mortar is dead; long live the internet. Blah, blah, blah.

By: Threegoal

Threegoal — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 18:21:44 +0000

It looks like all those whining right-wing bloggers got used to a predd tht did not question anything Bush & Cheyney did, and are having probems when their words and actions are subjected to the fact test. You’re pretty weak when you can’t handle your guy being tested against reality. Deal with it.

By: Sparkie

Sparkie — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 16:22:39 +0000

Is anybody else getting an image of Dr Evil and his “plans”? What’s really scary is that the Republicans think that people are gullible enough to believe some of the BS that they have been peddling.

By: Jadegold

Jadegold — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 14:18:33 +0000

Yes, we too have “plans.” Perhaps these “plans” involve losing the ridiculous fedora in favor of a Reynolds Wrap chapeau.

By: derek

derek — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 10:55:24 +0000

I have a lot of sympathy for the Republican party supporters who feel frustrated that the demise of the Fairness Doctrine, and the concentration of the media into the hands of a tiny number of extremely wealthy men, has enabled those men to use their ownership to corrupt the noble profession of journalism and set it to blasting their propaganda across the country (propaganda which is really grossly unrepresentative of the way Americans actually feel). I look forward to standing shoulder to shoulder with them as we bring back the Fairness Doctrine, and break up the media oligopolies into small independent companies staffed by genuinely professional journalists, reporters and editors! What a great day that will be.

By: BigMatt

BigMatt — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 10:21:42 +0000

Some months ago, in an effort to balance my left-heavy blog reading, I started reading Reynolds and Simon. Hoping for intelligent analysis from the right, I instead read screed after screed attacking the media bias of the left, adding fuel to the fire to any possible anti-Kerry story, and generally staying aloof from any substantive analysis whatsoever of pro-war, conservative values. Simply put, Simon and Reynolds are pompous, self-righteous blowhards. Incessantly harping on the media gives them an excuse to not examine their own biases and to feel that anyone who disagrees with them simply lack the relevant data. There are enough good conservative and hawkish blogs out there to leave Simon and his creepy, echo-chamber commenters in their own corner of the web. As for Reynolds, well, he at least occasionally has nice photographs.

By: Sam Boogliodemus

Sam Boogliodemus — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 08:20:55 +0000

Kerry has no prostate gland and is on estrogen therapy to prevent the cancer from recurring. He’s less potent than a popcorn fart. We need a President with SPUNK. Vote Bush!

By: mona

mona — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 08:00:49 +0000

Play it backwards and you get, “If Bush wins, we the warbloggers will have got him elected on the basis of our convincing suave manners, flawless logic and intellectual honesty…” Speaking of intellectual honesty, is that Glenn Reynolds moaning about big liberal media the same Glenn Reynolds who got his little lunatic piece on the ‘anglosphere’ published in the Guardian?

By: um

um — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 07:47:55 +0000

Maybe what they have in mind is a reverse of the Sinclair boycott.

By: um

um — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 07:46:14 +0000

Maybe what they have in mind is a reverse of the Sinclair boycott.

By: Buck

Buck — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 07:14:43 +0000

Nice catch! But Simon is just one of a whole bunch. Just scroll down a bit for comments and you find some like this: “My take is the MSM will see a Kerry victory as validation for their Soviet style tactics and it will only further encourage their perfidy. A Bush defeat will signal that the Gramscian left is winning by installing a fifth column in the fourth estate, Hollywood, and academia. I believe it will mean that the wheels will be set in motion for an almost unimaginable catastrophe. This is the seed of the internal defeat of America in Viet Nam come to fruition.” There is a certain perverse irony in this lunatic refering to “Soviet style tactics” for “MSM”. If anyone’s been guilty of Soviet style tactics for the past five years, it is the Bush 2000 campaing and the presidency that it gave birth to. Let’s hope today will put an end to this.

By: jay boilswater

jay boilswater — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 07:07:56 +0000

“So the tactic is massive voter suppression through every means available and at the same time accuse the other of voter fraud. It would be funny if it were not real.” Yes that is the tactic, always has been. There are variations on the theme, but you have indentified the mechanics correctly.

By: Boronx

Boronx — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 06:45:23 +0000

They’ll never match drudge, who at the very least is a great clearinghouse for timely information on earthquakes and other disasters.