February 01, 2005

Internet Liberal Bloggers

Posted by Henry

Crooked Timber aren’t the only lefties to be attacked for failing to celebrate the Iraqi elections before the sun hit the yardarm yesterday morning. Intrepid sleuth-columnist, Justin Darr, of Renew America, is on the case. He outs Stephen Bainbridge, that notorious radical and bête-noir of the Republican establishment, and Stephen Green, the saturnine Svengali behind Bolshevik agitprop collective Vodkapundit, as undercover members of the “Let’s Pretend It Didn’t Happen Faction” of the allied Internet Liberal Bloggers of America.

a group who broke with the traditional liberal habit of talking endlessly about anything so long as it can be twisted into a childish penis reference about Vice President Cheney, and said nothing.

Still, Mr. Darr is more charitable than Ms. Malkin - he acknowledges that there may be an innocent explanation for the Vast Left Wing Conspiracy’s failure to blog on Iraq by lunchtime.

Perhaps it was unfair of me to look into their sites on Sunday afternoon when so many liberals are just beginning emerge from the drug induced haze of their traditional weekend medicinal marijuana benders.

Posted on February 1, 2005 04:44 AM UTC
Comments

According to the bio blurb at the end of his article:
“Justin is an expert in political philosophy, western world history, and the development of American society. He has worked on various political campaigns at all levels, served as an election official to verify ballot counts, and is a well know “aggressive debater” to all that know him. He is also a fountain of relatively useless knowledge due to years of University study.”

Well, at least now we know one of those sentences is accurate.

Posted by nadezhda · February 1, 2005 05:03 AM

What a dope.

Posted by George · February 1, 2005 05:08 AM

Oh, Planet Winger. How can I stay mad at you?

Posted by Ted Barlow · February 1, 2005 05:14 AM

Winger. That reminds me, What happened to The Poor Man?

Posted by Sven · February 1, 2005 05:36 AM

What happened to The Poor Man?

He was eaten by his redesign.

Posted by Delicious Pundit · February 1, 2005 06:07 AM

There’s nothing medicinal about my weekend marijuana bender.

But now I’m up, it’s good to know that once again we can say “Mission Accomplished”.

Posted by Nabakov · February 1, 2005 06:12 AM

“…when so many liberals are just beginning emerge from the drug induced haze of their traditional weekend medicinal marijuana benders.”

Marijuana? For CT I thought it was heroin.

Posted by H · February 1, 2005 06:15 AM

Egad, I just read the actual article. In keeping with CT tradition, I’m going to assume that it is a hoax because a real conservative could not be so in character — smug, clueless, belligerent and boring at the same time. Nazis in Argentina? Liberal bloggers hate God? Brandon and Brittany?

Posted by George · February 1, 2005 06:17 AM

MAN that quote captures exactly what I was thinking earlier today… Crooked Timber is an okay website and all, but can’t you turn up the dial a bit on the Dick-Cheney-penis jokes? Come on, it’s like Ms. Waring’s pony — every post could be that same post PLUS a DICK-Cheney joke! Just think it over.

Posted by Chris · February 1, 2005 08:39 AM

hey chris—I like your thinking. speaking personally, we here in Singapore are hours ahead of US time, and I was still up from the night before, when I had been hitting the crack-laced, formaldehyde soaked, chronic-filled blunt pretty hard. plus lotsa meth and rye.

Posted by belle waring · February 1, 2005 12:08 PM

Hey, Belle, how come you never put useful recipes like that on your blog, huh?

Mmmm… crack-laced, formaldehyde soaked, chronic-filled blunt pie!

Posted by des von bladet · February 1, 2005 01:09 PM

Wasn’t CT just bitching at the war-bloggers the other day for the same thing? What was it about? Oh yeah, CT ran a thread ranting about how the war-bloggers hadn’t mentioned anything about the end of the WMD search in Iraq. Maybe they were just taking a cue from you?

Posted by jet · February 1, 2005 01:58 PM

Maybe Jet - but did they have to out two of our most successful fifth columnists??

Posted by Henry · February 1, 2005 02:52 PM

The Poor Man is back up in some sort of form after being dumped by his provider.

Not to excessively site-pimp, but I did post a few “sufficient enthusiasm” tips over the weekend.

Posted by norbizness · February 1, 2005 03:29 PM

Er…am I the only CT reader who did get the impression the response to the elections was a bit slow in coming…and that that might just mean a case of sour grapes…?

Posted by IanJ · February 1, 2005 04:15 PM

I had never thought to be thankful that the liberal blogs I frequent do not regularly feature jokes about Dick Cheney’s penis. I am though and I am torn between wanting to know which sites do in order to avoid them and not wanting to know such things exist at all.

EEEEUUUUUUW!

MKK

Posted by Mary Kay · February 1, 2005 06:09 PM

I think that I speak for many when I say that cock jokes of all persuasions, be they liberal or conservative, are A-OK.

Posted by perianwyr · February 1, 2005 06:13 PM

Henry,

You are absolutely correct. They crossed the line when they blew the whistle on some of your deepest undercover writers.

A completely unwarranted escalation. I say you fight fire with fire and let the world know Andrew Sullivan is a pnc fr Bsh.

Posted by jet · February 1, 2005 06:52 PM

Here in Oklahoma, we incorporate childish penis references into law! We get national coverage!

CockfightCockfightCockfight!!! who needs Cheney?

We started using lots of marijuana to help us come down from our workweek meth binges, but now that it’s harder to make meth we will probably stay high on weed all the time.

Life in this red state is a constant celebration of other nation’s ghost elections.

Posted by Ereshkigal · February 1, 2005 08:29 PM

We had the same rubbish spouted on Australian RWDB sites.

There were plenty of lengthy lefty posts on the topic, but they were completely and selectively ignored.

I used trackback to send my own post to about 10 of the conservatives running this line, but none bothered to amend their posts. I noted plenty of them popped over for a look though…

Posted by Martin Pike · February 3, 2005 01:37 AM
Followups

→ ADVANTAGE: IRAQ (AND THE HAWKOSPHERE).
Excerpt: Henry and John Q. note some blogger triumphalism from the pro-war bloggers. I'm not terribly surprised or worried about the fact that liberals have been quiet on the issue; to apply a very crude characterization to the political axis, liberals...Read more at Begging To Differ
→ CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM.
Excerpt: Henry and John Q. of Crooked Timber note blogger triumphalism among pro-war bloggers. There's nothing terribly surprising or worried about the fact that liberals have been quiet on the issue; to apply a very crude characterization to the political axis...Read more at Begging To Differ
→ Lancet Update.
Excerpt:

Sagenz has joined the very small and select group of critics of the Lancet study with the honesty to recant and withdraw their criticism.

...

Read more at Deltoid
→ under the radar.
Excerpt: I can't be a serious lefty. No-one has accused me of failing to post on the Iraq election so that I could feel that this is invisible. This particular crappy claim is showing up on Crooked Timber as well....Read more at BARISTA

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