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.
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.
What a dope.
Oh, Planet Winger. How can I stay mad at you?
Winger. That reminds me, What happened to The Poor Man?
What happened to The Poor Man?
He was eaten by his redesign.
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”.
“…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.
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?
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.
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.
Hey, Belle, how come you never put useful recipes like that on your blog, huh?
Mmmm… crack-laced, formaldehyde soaked, chronic-filled blunt pie!
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?
Maybe Jet - but did they have to out two of our most successful fifth columnists??
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.
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…?
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
I think that I speak for many when I say that cock jokes of all persuasions, be they liberal or conservative, are A-OK.
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.
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.
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…
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
À Gauche
Jeremy Alder
Amaravati
Anggarrgoon
Audhumlan Conspiracy
H.E. Baber
Philip Blosser
Paul Broderick
Matt Brown
Diana Buccafurni
Brandon Butler
Keith Burgess-Jackson
Certain Doubts
David Chalmers
Noam Chomsky
The Conservative Philosopher
Desert Landscapes
Denis Dutton
David Efird
Karl Elliott
David Estlund
Experimental Philosophy
Fake Barn County
Kai von Fintel
Russell Arben Fox
Garden of Forking Paths
Roger Gathman
Michael Green
Scott Hagaman
Helen Habermann
David Hildebrand
John Holbo
Christopher Grau
Jonathan Ichikawa
Tom Irish
Michelle Jenkins
Adam Kotsko
Barry Lam
Language Hat
Language Log
Christian Lee
Brian Leiter
Stephen Lenhart
Clayton Littlejohn
Roderick T. Long
Joshua Macy
Mad Grad
Jonathan Martin
Matthew McGrattan
Marc Moffett
Geoffrey Nunberg
Orange Philosophy
Philosophy Carnival
Philosophy, et cetera
Philosophy of Art
Douglas Portmore
Philosophy from the 617 (moribund)
Jeremy Pierce
Punishment Theory
Geoff Pynn
Timothy Quigley (moribund?)
Conor Roddy
Sappho's Breathing
Anders Schoubye
Wolfgang Schwartz
Scribo
Michael Sevel
Tom Stoneham (moribund)
Adam Swenson
Peter Suber
Eddie Thomas
Joe Ulatowski
Bruce Umbaugh
What is the name ...
Matt Weiner
Will Wilkinson
Jessica Wilson
Young Hegelian
Richard Zach
Psychology
Donyell Coleman
Deborah Frisch
Milt Rosenberg
Tom Stafford
Law
Ann Althouse
Stephen Bainbridge
Jack Balkin
Douglass A. Berman
Francesca Bignami
BlunkettWatch
Jack Bogdanski
Paul L. Caron
Conglomerate
Jeff Cooper
Disability Law
Displacement of Concepts
Wayne Eastman
Eric Fink
Victor Fleischer (on hiatus)
Peter Friedman
Michael Froomkin
Bernard Hibbitts
Walter Hutchens
InstaPundit
Andis Kaulins
Lawmeme
Edward Lee
Karl-Friedrich Lenz
Larry Lessig
Mirror of Justice
Eric Muller
Nathan Oman
Opinio Juris
John Palfrey
Ken Parish
Punishment Theory
Larry Ribstein
The Right Coast
D. Gordon Smith
Lawrence Solum
Peter Tillers
Transatlantic Assembly
Lawrence Velvel
David Wagner
Kim Weatherall
Yale Constitution Society
Tun Yin
History
Blogenspiel
Timothy Burke
Rebunk
Naomi Chana
Chapati Mystery
Cliopatria
Juan Cole
Cranky Professor
Greg Daly
James Davila
Sherman Dorn
Michael Drout
Frog in a Well
Frogs and Ravens
Early Modern Notes
Evan Garcia
George Mason History bloggers
Ghost in the Machine
Rebecca Goetz
Invisible Adjunct (inactive)
Jason Kuznicki
Konrad Mitchell Lawson
Danny Loss
Liberty and Power
Danny Loss
Ether MacAllum Stewart
Pam Mack
Heather Mathews
James Meadway
Medieval Studies
H.D. Miller
Caleb McDaniel
Marc Mulholland
Received Ideas
Renaissance Weblog
Nathaniel Robinson
Jacob Remes (moribund?)
Christopher Sheil
Red Ted
Time Travelling Is Easy
Brian Ulrich
Shana Worthen
Computers/media/communication
Lauren Andreacchi (moribund)
Eric Behrens
Joseph Bosco
Danah Boyd
David Brake
Collin Brooke
Maximilian Dornseif (moribund)
Jeff Erickson
Ed Felten
Lance Fortnow
Louise Ferguson
Anne Galloway
Jason Gallo
Josh Greenberg
Alex Halavais
Sariel Har-Peled
Tracy Kennedy
Tim Lambert
Liz Lawley
Michael O'Foghlu
Jose Luis Orihuela (moribund)
Alex Pang
Sebastian Paquet
Fernando Pereira
Pink Bunny of Battle
Ranting Professors
Jay Rosen
Ken Rufo
Douglas Rushkoff
Vika Safrin
Rob Schaap (Blogorrhoea)
Frank Schaap
Robert A. Stewart
Suresh Venkatasubramanian
Ray Trygstad
Jill Walker
Phil Windley
Siva Vaidahyanathan
Anthropology
Kerim Friedman
Alex Golub
Martijn de Koning
Nicholas Packwood
Geography
Stentor Danielson
Benjamin Heumann
Scott Whitlock
Education
Edward Bilodeau
Jenny D.
Richard Kahn
Progressive Teachers
Kelvin Thompson (defunct?)
Mark Byron
Business administration
Michael Watkins (moribund)
Literature, language, culture
Mike Arnzen
Brandon Barr
Michael Berube
The Blogora
Colin Brayton
John Bruce
Miriam Burstein
Chris Cagle
Jean Chu
Hans Coppens
Tyler Curtain
Cultural Revolution
Terry Dean
Joseph Duemer
Flaschenpost
Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Jonathan Goodwin
Rachael Groner
Alison Hale
Household Opera
Dennis Jerz
Jason Jones
Miriam Jones
Matthew Kirschenbaum
Steven Krause
Lilliputian Lilith
Catherine Liu
John Lovas
Gerald Lucas
Making Contact
Barry Mauer
Erin O'Connor
Print Culture
Clancy Ratcliff
Matthias Rip
A.G. Rud
Amardeep Singh
Steve Shaviro
Thanks ... Zombie
Vera Tobin
Chuck Tryon
University Diaries
Classics
Michael Hendry
David Meadows
Religion
AKM Adam
Ryan Overbey
Telford Work (moribund)
Library Science
Norma Bruce
Music
Kyle Gann
ionarts
Tim Rutherford-Johnson
Greg Sandow
Scott Spiegelberg
Biology/Medicine
Pradeep Atluri
Bloviator
Anthony Cox
Susan Ferrari (moribund)
Amy Greenwood
La Di Da
John M. Lynch
Charles Murtaugh (moribund)
Paul Z. Myers
Respectful of Otters
Josh Rosenau
Universal Acid
Amity Wilczek (moribund)
Theodore Wong (moribund)
Physics/Applied Physics
Trish Amuntrud
Sean Carroll
Jacques Distler
Stephen Hsu
Irascible Professor
Andrew Jaffe
Michael Nielsen
Chad Orzel
String Coffee Table
Math/Statistics
Dead Parrots
Andrew Gelman
Christopher Genovese
Moment, Linger on
Jason Rosenhouse
Vlorbik
Peter Woit
Complex Systems
Petter Holme
Luis Rocha
Cosma Shalizi
Bill Tozier
Chemistry
"Keneth Miles"
Engineering
Zack Amjal
Chris Hall
University Administration
Frank Admissions (moribund?)
Architecture/Urban development
City Comforts (urban planning)
Unfolio
Panchromatica
Earth Sciences
Our Take
Who Knows?
Bitch Ph.D.
Just Tenured
Playing School
Professor Goose
This Academic Life
Other sources of information
Arts and Letters Daily
Boston Review
Imprints
Political Theory Daily Review
Science and Technology Daily Review