We’re at the phase of the election where Glenn Reynolds apparently just makes stuff up. Although it frankly always feels like we’re at that phase.
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You can’t gripe about Edwards being ignored when the same treatment has been given to Sarah Palin’s affair with her husband’s ex-business partner. (The Enquirer was right on the former, and given the rush to seal the divorce papers on the latter, well….)
Oliver, I’m not a big fan of Mr. Reynolds, but what exactly did he “make up” in the post you linked to?
A close friend in the media emailed me this: “Glenn Reynolds is a tool and a serial liar. I hear he also hates puppies.”
I said apparently because I can’t prove it, but so-called anonymous smoking gun emails like that never pass the smell test.
So, where ARE the investigative journalists looking into Obama’s tenure at the CAC (carefully omitted from his resume’)? Where are the stories about how the Obama campaign official web site is being used to coordinate suppression of those looking into the matter? How many reporters have discussed the continuing “evolution” of Obama’s relationship with Ayers from “just some guy in my neighborhood” to “just some guy I served on a board with” to — at last word — the guy who hired Obama to head up the CAC AND hosted Obama’s political launching?
If you base your “smell test” on “it’s just some anonymous e-mail,” then yes, it fails. But if you look at it and ask “is this congruent with the known facts?”, then it is perfectly reasonable.
J.
Jay Tea,
Congrats on your excellent article on the Democratic House’s and Nancy Pelosi’s huge screw-up yesterday that was posted on the award-winning Instapundit this morning.
Well done.
“is this congruent with the known facts?” the anosmic Republican asks.
True. Glenn Reynolds is a KNOWN tool and a KNOWN serial liar. I hear he also eats puppies. Sounds congruent and reasonable to me.
But if those same ‘anonymous sources’ say that McCain had an affair, or that Palin charged victims for their rape kits, or that Bush is secretly invading Pakistan, then Oliver eats it up like candy!
The post reads like an insecure liar who claims simultaneously that his homework fell down the sewer and his dog ate it.
For starters, what does it mean for “a reader at a major newsroom” to report on the MSM? If s/he’s not part of the MSM, in what sense is the reader at a major newsroom? Is the reader hanging out in a lobby of a major newsroom?
And what else did the “team of 4″ fail to find in those dumpsters Alaska and Arizona? They are getting confirmation for crackpot theories based on what they fail to find in those dumpsters? What else aren’t they finding there? I sense numerous MSM coverups confirmed!
There are other details of language suggesting precision “reporting” from the field (including that he asks for permission to print without attribution), but on a certain level I like the idea that somewhere out there a “team of 4″ is dumpster diving to prove things based on what is not found. Like black holes
“…those dumpsters *in* Alaska and Arizona …”
Congrats on your excellent article on the Democratic House’s and Nancy Pelosi’s huge screw-up yesterday that was posted on the award-winning Instapundit this morning.
The sound you hear is Dennis and Jay T. offering each other cigars after a rousing round of bridge in the lounge of the SS GOP as the water starts to cover the a-deck portholes.
Lifeboats have left, gentlemen, enjoy that stogie.
Eh, Instapundit just sounds like a garden variety paranoid schizophrenic. Usually, this kind of political “discourse” is limited to city street corners and Greyhound buses.
Sheesh, you people can’t even get your facts right.
Glenn Reynolds doesn’t eat puppies.
He puts puppies into a blender and makes smoothies to DRINK from them.
Don’t believe me? Go to Wikipedia and search for “puppy blender.”
And I’d still love to see the mainstream media delve into Obama’s background at CAC, as well as the highly-organized efforts run through his campaign to suppress investigations into it. But that ain’t gonna happen any time soon.
J.
What annoys me most about Mr. Reynolds is the complete failure to look at the full 360 of the various issues he comments on.
One of the hallmarks of a well trained attorney is the ability to see all sides (or potential sides) of a problem. Mr. Reynolds clearly lacks this ability. As a law professor, he has the chance to mold the thinking of perhaps hundreds of future attorneys every semester. When you go to law school, your critical analysis should be both challenged and expanded. The simplicity and predictive nature of Instapundit’s brief memos just screams a lack of full circle thinking.
I wouldn’t want to be a student participating in one of his law classes. You would learn how to be a single line of attack douche. You might as well go to the Liberty University School of Law…you’ll probably get the same concave approach for significantly less tuition cost.
The irony to all of this would be his part-time focus on new technology developments. You’ll see a few blurbs here and there on hybrids, computer tech and other such scientific issues. What’s particularly galling is he’s a right-winger who votes routinely for candidates who abhor the advancement of science (knowledge). Just the other day he wondered when hybrid-diesel cars would make it to the US. Well…we could be driving them right now if we lived under a Gore Administration. But he chose and pushed for Mr. Bush II, who clearly had no interest in advancement of knowledge and critical thinking.
How could a trained (and supposedly well heeled and respected) law professor be supportive of ignorance?
Clearly there’s a disconnect going on here.
“Congrats on your excellent article on the Democratic House’s and Nancy Pelosi’s huge screw-up yesterday that was posted on the award-winning Instapundit this morning.”
So it seems Dennis, finding his mouth insufficiently full of John McCain’s cock, finds succor on Jay Tea’s. Lovely.
But now that we find that (a) Pelosi’s speech had nothing to do with the whiny-ass-titty-baby Republican opposition to the bill, and (b) as we all knew, the sleazy treasonous Republicans planned to push a bill thru with minimal support so that they could stab the Democrats in the back and run against them on it, I wonder what the esteemed Mr. Tea’s next article will be?
The next time John McCain even breathes the word “bipartisan” in a debate or talks about how he can “reach across the aisle”, Barack Obama needs to calmly, rationally, kick him square in the nutsack.
BTW, sorry for apparently forgetting to close that italic quote. The preview font is really small and it’s kinda hard to see what’s italic and what ain’t.
Questioning people’s patriotism: always a winner. You stay classy, Rheinhard.
Questioning people’s patriotism: always a winner. You stay classy, Rheinhard.
This coming from you? Bwahahaha!
“Congrats on your excellent article on the Democratic House’s and Nancy Pelosi’s huge screw-up yesterday that was posted on the award-winning Instapundit this morning.
Well done.”
“award-winning Instapundit”? Pulitzer? Peabody? MacArthur Fellowship?
More like the Somewhat Newsworthy Award from the Close Cover Before Striking Institute of Journalism and Gun Repair.
-And take the love over to his clown car.
“Questioning people’s patriotism: always a winner. You stay classy, Rheinhard.”
Kind of like Nancy Pelosi, who said that House Republicans were “unpatriotic” for not attending a meeting on the relief package — a meeting they were specifically excluded from attending?
“We didn’t want you at this meeting, and you’re despicable for not trying to barge in anyway.”
Good god, of the 231 Democrats in the House, THIS is who they chose to lead them?
J.
“award-winning Instapundit”? Pulitzer? Peabody? MacArthur Fellowship?
More like the Somewhat Newsworthy Award from the Close Cover Before Striking Institute of Journalism and Gun Repair.
The 2007 Weblog Awards: Best Individual Blogger
It’s why he’s attacked so often. There’s even a blog dedicated to attacking him.
Glenn Reynolds Derangement Syndrome.
There’s a glittering prize if ever there was one.
So it seems Dennis, finding his mouth insufficiently full of John McCain’s cock, finds succor on Jay Tea’s. Lovely.
So every time someone here compliments Oliver on one of his posts, it REALLY means that they are sucking him off (after finding Obama’s appendage to be insufficiently filling)?
Thanks for the clarification.
Douchebag.
Dear Dave, I’ll try to use the small words so you’ll get it.
Complimenting Jay on the mighty achievement of being linked to by Glenn Reynolds on Jay’s own blog would be one thing.
Complimenting Jay on the mighty achievement of being linked to by Glenn Reynolds on Oliver’s blog is another.
The former would be a direct communication from reader to author. The latter is a rather pointless demonstration of suckup-itude in front of a bunch of people who couldn’t give a rat’s ass.
Get it, assclown?
And as to Farris feigned offense at “questioning their patriotism”; when the Republicans themselves and especially the leader of their party run around saying that this bill is critical for the financial security of the nation, and then can stand up and say they are willing to throw over that great national matter because their little feelings are hurt, they demonstrate a high level of hypocrisy at minimum. When we then learn that they also planned to shiv the Democrats for passing the bill IN ADVANCE (by sending out attack ads BEFORE the bill was passed), while claiming it was great national import etc., that is hypocisy and betrayal rising to the level of treason (at least by the standards Republicans themselves have advocated the last eight years anyway)!
You obviously do give a rat’s ass, Rheinhard, or you wouldn’t comment on it.
So it’s obvious just who the assclown is.
I complimented him here 1) because he did write a good blog post, 2)because Glenn Reynolds doesn’t have comments on his blog, and 3)because before just a few days ago, I didn’t know Jay Tea was even a blogger, nor am I signed in to comment on his blog.
ARF! ARF! ARF! ARF! ARF!
“I didn’t know Jay Tea was even a blogger”
What? his linked user name didn’t clue you in? You don’t have to sign in either, that would put nearly all his subscribers in a funk, turnin’ over them special shoeboxes muttering “Password, Password…”
Give it a whurl, Dennis. You won’t be missed.
Get it, assclown?
Thanks for taking Obama’s cock out of your mouth long enough to split hairs and tell us that WHERE a compliment occurs (i.e. on his own blog vs. someone elses) apparently makes all the difference in the world whether one is a cocksucker or not.
You’re still a douchebag, though.
I think I see the root of Oliver’s continuing heartburn with Reynolds.
You’d give your left nut to have a fraction of Instapundit’s traffic, wouldn’t you Oliver? That way, you could be more than a Media Matters IT guy and wanna-be BIG LEFTY BLOGGER that is your current lot in life.
If I wanted to emulate people’s traffic, I would far rather want to emulate Kos or TPM or Atrios than an intellectually dishonest person like Reynolds.
Of course, if I’m the wannabe with a respectable amount of visitors and you’re the one commenting on my site without anything constructive to say…
And I’m not the IT guy at Media Matters, though he’s a smart and witty guy too.
Man, I love it when people lose their shit and pull out the “UR BLOG SUX SO HARD NOBODY [except DaveinSocal, the fuckwit actually typing this comment] EVAR CUMZ IN HERE LOLAMIRITE???”
Dave, please go upstairs and eat the lunch mom made for you. Then go outside and get some fresh air.
Gee, I go away for a few hours and you boys start rolling in the mud and gouging each other’s eyes.
Dennis, Oliver’s not the only one who makes fun of Glenn Reynolds. The ol’ Perfesser is a national laughingstock.
I think Oliver’s doing pretty damn well with his blog. Hundreds of posts on diverse topics, witty commentary and hundreds of responses. No need to emulate anyone else. I’d also be proud to be associated with Media Matters in any capacity. Oliver, keep up the good work!
To paraphrase Sean Ryan (the creator of TV’s ‘The Shield’), I consider being an OW reader sort of like being an REM fan in the 80s. Gobs and gobs of site hits does not = good or factual or useful. Britney Spears probably sold more of a single album than Warren Zevon did over his entire career.
I’ll confess, politics aside, I just don’t see the link farmer’s appeal. How do you get 12 million people to visit a site the only original material on which is a few ‘hehs’ and ‘indeeds.’
Look, I didn’t mean to take a stab at this blog when I complimented Jay Tea on some good work, though I admit if it pissed off someone like the vulgar Rheinhard, it didn’t particularly bother me.
This is a decent blog and I wouldn’t post here if I didn’t think so, but it seems to me that since Glenn Reynolds, according to OW, lacks intellectual honesty, he would provide specific examples of that accusation. Intellectual honesty would dictate that an accusation of his having made up that he received an email from someone in a newsroom that claims the organization is totally in the tank for Obama be followed up with some sort of example, background, or evidence of prior fabrications from this respected man.
Intellectual honesty would also dictate that having hollered to high heaven about the injustices served on Obama by George Stephanopoulos in the ABC Democratic presidential debate, ABC’s Hannitized Debate, that he would take a similar stand about the fact that Gwen Ifill was chosen as a moderator for tomorrow night’s VP debate, given the fact that there is no question who she is voting for after having just written a book about Obama and that is set to go on sale the day of his inauguration. The Breakthrough
Politics and Race in the Age of Obama
Further evidence of Reynold’s contention that the fix is in.
Thanks for the morning laugh, Oliver.
IS there a more intellectually dishonest site on the net than Kos? Good lord. That is the site that deliberately publicizes the most obscenely wrong smears against anyone it opposes, then quietly deletes and buries the evidence when they are proven — yet again — to be completely and utterly lying scumbags. And they’ve even openly bemoaned that they aren’t lying enough.
I’d love to have Kos’ numbers — or even a significant fraction — for Wizbang. But I’m nowhere near ready to sell my soul to do it. I’ll stick to getting my traffic numbers in ways that let me continue to sleep at night.
J.
You’re right as usual, Parthenon.
McDonald’s is the Number One restaurant in the world. Does that make the food good, or nutritious?
It’s not that your site doesn’t lie, jt. Everything is a lie or distortion in the Wizbang clown car. The reason you don’t get a high level of traffic is because frankly, you aren’t that interesting.
I’d love to have Kos’ numbers — or even a significant fraction — for Wizbang. But I’m nowhere near ready to sell my soul to do it.
Not like you could, seeing as you already sold it for a $500 tax rebate.