The problem with being the sort of blogger who never posts criticism of local media election coverage is that if you ever do venture into that territory, concerned friends who themselves yammer on from morning til night on the subject tend to take you gently by the arm and lead you to a quiet corner where you’re expected to drink Ovaltine and play Chutes and Ladders until all the grownup talk is done.ÂÂ
All well and good, but occasionally there comes a time when even political naifs like me need to make a comment, which is why I’d just like to take the opportunity this morning to say:
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OK, now where’s my fucking Ovaltine?
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on Oct 26th, 2006 at 9:14 am
I don’t have any Ovaltine, but you can have some of my oatmeal.
I can’t finish it.
on Oct 26th, 2006 at 12:08 pm
I’ll pass on the oatmeal, Bob, but there is something you can do for me:
you can stop blithely pulling your items from the likes of MDE and KvM without supplying any caveats — as if they’re “just a couple of local blogs” and not the blog-in-name-only party hack attack dogs they actually are.
Or do you think that nobody reads Polinaut except the people who already know what MDE and KvM are?
on Oct 26th, 2006 at 3:11 pm
Sorry, can’t do. Too many people think the “bad” blogs are the ones they disagree with and the “good” blogs are the ones they like.
I’ve written plenty in the past about Brodkorb and I’m not going to waste time with boilerplate in every post.
People can judge for themselves whether they find the information helpful or not. They’re intelligent.
They can follow the links and learn what you think they need to learn.
Face it. The reason I’m a “twit” is that I don’t fall in line with partisan bloggers. I call attention to things others’ political opponents are saying.
Your link above doesn’t lead to an attack dog, by the way, it links to my post on what Michael Barone had to say. Michael Barone said something with which you disagree. Michael Barone is a legitimate observer of the political scene.
He just happened to say something you didn’t like.
The only thing we have to fear: is an opposing point of view, apparently.
on Oct 26th, 2006 at 3:11 pm
I think that there’s a “Pipe Dreams” joke in here somewhere.
on Oct 26th, 2006 at 5:49 pm
Uhh no, Bob — you’re not understanding from whence comes your “twit” designation.
The point is not that you posted a link to some article that I may or may not agree with. Hey, go right ahead and link to posts written by baby-eating Satanists or Precious Moments fetishists, or [insert your own example here], or whatever happens to catch your interest.
Listen hard here, Bob: whatever Michael Barone has to say IS. NOT. THE. POINT.
The point is that you’re giving hat tips to attack sites like MDE and KvM for pointing you in the direction of stuff you find blogworthy.
You don’t seem to understand that each and every acknowledgement these “blogs” manage to get feeds their desperate attempts to achieve legitimacy as sources of information.
Hell, they’d settle for even the appearance of legitimacy, and that’s what your acknowledgements give them.
And that’s what makes you a twit.
on Oct 26th, 2006 at 6:26 pm
So if I understand you correctly, I am a twit, but at the same time I am also someone who confers legitimacy to others merely by the very act of speaking — blog-like — their name.
I am a twit… a fool…. of no intrinsic value. Not to be believed and certainly not to be considered.
And yet….
I am the conveyor of legitimacy, for my words are powerful and my legions abundant and strong.
It’s rather fun being a twit.
on Oct 27th, 2006 at 5:28 am
I’ve always thought so, and I have years of experience to back me up.