I read the new Time online magazine blog because it keeps me off the streets. More specifically, it keeps me from reading that HotSoup thing. See, I have a job, and kids, and diverse other interests, like enjoying bacon and calling Ann Althouse a dink. HotSoup is a whole ocean of stupid. Swampland is by contrast merely a puddle of dumb. It's far more manageable for the busy irresponsible incivil liberal snarkblogger-on-the-go, like me. Very handy, really.
The Big Fun is of course the Joe Klein stuff, now that AMCo(x) {honk! honk!} can't talk about buttfucking anymore. This, I'm sure, you will find especially choice: Joe cracking the whip, instructing the rabble about what he will and will not consider worthy of his attention. The substance of the issue in play is interesting -- that violence in Iraq has for the past few years diminished in the winter months, so if that cycle reasserts itself, the Bushites will likely claim some of the same sort of disingenuous "victory" that they always have, and that wanker pundits like JK will probably fall for it because they're clueless dipshits.
Which is a reasonable assumption. But let's examine instead Klein's febrile response to his anonymous interlocutor's closing comments, because shriek! they are Incivil. The unnamed emailer ends his remarks by saying
Of course the naive and unserious pundits will buy it hook, line, and sinker. You don't have to thank me for giving you a head's up Joe, just go tell some guy without legs you are sorry for being an enabler.
Got that? Cutting, sure. But unfair? You decide. Anyway, let's look at Joe's response:
As for the dopey denoument--Henceforth, any and all ad hominem "pundit scum" arguments will be automatically ignored. You want to argue substance, fine. You want to make an onanistic fool of yourself, you have my sympathy but not my attention.
Huh. On a blog, he says this. Seems like someone's impaled himself on Irma's injection. Or else, the cut worm whines at the plow.
Listen, you useless cobag. We don't give a flying fuck what you consider worthy of your attention. No. You are now subject to our attention, and we find you wanting, you poisonous little toad.
Klein doesn't quite get that he's been tested, and that he failed. He should have been out in the streets with the dirty fucking hippies back in '02, but he wasn't. Hell, if you don't like stupid chants and giant puppets, and I'm no big fan myself, fair enough, he should have fucking STOOD UP and put his ass where it fucking belonged, and said NO to this retarded war in unweaselly terms. You know why I was out on the streets at those freaking ANSWER marches, run by a group I still want to piss on? Because NOBODY ELSE WAS FUCKING DOING OR SAYING ANYTHING, that's why.
The anger and, yeah, the venom of the guy who gave Klein the willies is real, and yes, that IS an issue. That guy has far more credibility in my eyes, and in those of the blogosphere, and of the AMERICAN PEOPLE, than does Joe fucking death-enabler amoral Klein, and that fact is Right and Good and Proper and even Patriotic.
Let me cop to a charge. Folks on the Left are often accused of trying to destroy certain people's reputations.
Yep. Anything I can do to make people like Joe Klein an unemployable hack laughingstock, I'll do, gladly. Why? Something about the not getting people killed for insane delusions, maybe.
Why do we read your blog, Joe?
We come to bury you, not praise you, because the evil your words does lives on, you hopeless prick.
