Laid Out like a Fruitcake

A merry-go-round of stupid. It begins, appropriately enough, with Kurt, of Flopping Aces, a good place to search for the start of something that begins dumb and ends up insane. The context is the William Arkin stuff I discussed below. Ol' Floppy searches the comments thread to Arkin's post and makes a Thrilling Discovery:

it appears you are in good company when the mighty KOS comments on your original post the following:

I agree with this blog. Bill Arkin hits it right on the money with his port. That said, I feel nothing over the death of merceneries. They aren't in Iraq because of orders, or because they are there trying to help the people make Iraq a better place. They are there to wage war for profit. Screw them.

Obama 2008. The Democratic revolution is here and now!

Kos

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Posted by: Markos Moulitsas Zúniga | February  1, 2007 03:55 AM 

From one nimrod to another.

From there we go to the apparently pro-slavery, pro-treason Confederate Yankee, who wants to know if the post is genuine, after breathlessly reminding everyone that this is exactly the sort of thing Kos would say. It falls to none other than Glenn Reynolds to clear up the confusion:

I emailed Markos and he responds: "Yeah, it's bogus. I alerted the WaPo about it but my email seems to have been ignored. There's been a rash of that lately -- people impersonating me. I suppose it's an occupational hazard."

So what remains? Why, for Charles Johnson of LGF to put the delightful cherry atop this sundae of idiocy (no link, of course; did I ever tell you about the time an LGF commenter found a picture of my daughter on my wife's blog and said she "looks like a spinal bifida baby"? What fun!) :

Right on the money, Kos. It is an occupational hazard. Your fellow travelers on the left have been impersonating me for years, posting obscene and racist comments all over the internet under my name, signing up my email address to listservers and spammers, Google-bombing LGF to make anti-LGF sites come up in search results, and all kinds of other harassment tactics.

I could almost sympathize with Kos on this one, but the fact remains that he did originally write those words about “mercenaries,” and he still stands by the statement. So in this case, that comment at the WaPo qualifies as “fake but accurate.”

"Fake but accurate": your right-wing blogosphere, ladies and gentlemen! Give them a hand! They managed to invent, debunk, and then resurrect a bullshit "scandal" all in one day!

So who left the bogus Kos comment? I'm betting it was either Ignignokt the Mooninite or Jamil Hussein.  Lord knows both had the means and the motive.   

UPDATE: The footage from the second Japanese TV show discussed in the clip below provides a visual image of the Right Blogosphere that is chilling in its absolutely precise metaphorical accuracy.

Comments

[Ripley]

Which is, of course, the fall back position for all the nitwits on that side of the blogosphere: 'Well, we may have been wrong, but at least we were right about it!'

It's a dizzying sort of intellect and a sparkling example of ethical immaturity, really. I've never quite understood their phobia of admitting a mistake or self-correcting an error. That they attach such shame to being 'wrong' (intentionally or not) and such importance to being 'right' (in reality or perception) makes me question their ethics in other relationships - business dealings, etc. I get the feeling that a lot of these folks get awfully close to the definition of Scam Artist.

I avoid those sites, generally, and get my fill vicariously thru the posts of others with a stronger consitution for right-wing drivel. I've tried to read some of them before, but decided that it would be less annoying, and a better use of my time, if I just chewed aluminum foil for a while.

[The Kenosha Kid]

I need to move to Japan and buy a Tivo.

[Bas-O-Matic]

I'm astounded that anyone, even for a moment, consisdered that that was really Kos.

That's super dumb.

[skippy]

fake but accurate? you mean, like the cbs memo's about bush's tang duties?

[Steve]

You failed to note one other correction to the truth-challenged Mr. Johnson: Markos does not, of course, "still stand by the statement," and in fact he apologized for it nearly immediately.