And this I did not know:
Alex Pareene's annual Hack List is so popular -- and useful -- we thought we should spread it out over the year. This column is a regular feature taking a deeper look at our media's most pernicious hacks, which we'll rank in order at year's end.
Bookmark that, because obviously. And here's the complete 2011 Hack List, in case you missed it.
[Update 2021-09-21 13:46] Backup copy of image (because old image host is going sour):
While looking for something else, I came across an old note to self. I thought you might enjoy it. The date of the original post was 4 Nov 2008.
Prediction [Jonah Goldberg]
Now that McCain has lost, and Sarah Palin has time to reintroduce herself down the road, the anti-Palin conservatives will almost surely look foolish in retrospect.
(x-posted)
Can't make this stuff up. Jonah Goldberg -- yeah, him -- says (via) about the use of this by Instapundit Glenn Reynolds and Sarah Palin:
... I’m not sure either of them intended to redefine the phrase, or that they should have.
(x-posted)
For reasons beyond my understanding, this was the logo atop a recent post at America’s Shittiest Website™ (I have enlarged it):
I can only think of this:
Which, IIRC, was Photoshopped from this:
Who knows. Given that it was an Andy McCarthy post, maybe it was meant to precondition the reader for the batshit craziness to follow?
Remember the last time we took notice of this sad clown?
Believe it or not, it gets even stupider.
We may need to amend Roy's Rule.
Great moments in conservative journalism
K-Lo posts:
K-Lo tweets:
the mustard instead of mayo substitute doesn't work 8 out of 10 times.
— Kathryn Jean Lopez (@kathrynlopez) June 25, 2010
Try not to think about those two things together.
Look what National Review Online is trying to ram down your throat:
Those emails contain a virus which will leave your hard drive intact, but within fifteen seconds of opening, will crash your brain.
Look what Amazon's auto-suggest offers up when you put "liberal" into its book search window:
(embiggen)
On a related note, you might have a look at a longish article* in today's NYT, "Tea Party Movement Lights Fuse for Rebellion on Right."
The price of freedom, and so forth ...
__________
* [Added] I didn't notice the byline at original posting, but Gavin M. points out that the article was written by David Barstow. Yeah, that guy.
Should add some credibility to the reporting.
What wakes liberal writers up at night -- I mean that eye-snap of soul-gnawing, nauseating dread -- is not social injustice, is not the fear of creeping fascism, is not rage against corporate greed ...
It is the haunting certainty that Jonah Goldberg will die happily in his sleep without ever comprehending that he's an idiot.
-- John Rogers, via Instaputz
Great follow-up from JR, too, in response to one of his whining commenters.
When not advocating violence to achieve his political goals, or lining his pockets by selling products to people even dumber and more deranged than he is, The GHEMRotRSTF sometimes likes to put on his intellectualizin' cap.
And when he does, he sees that Obama = Hitler.
And how does he know this? Jonah Goldberg told him so!
(x-posted)
... when they finally shut you down for good, you will have to admit that a big chunk of the last of your money went into paying Jonah Goldberg to write for you ("119 articles since 2000," and that's what you're willing to admit to).
This Jonah Goldberg:
SHORTER JONAH GOLDBERG: Liberal scientists want us to die, so they're wasting time on this global warming baloney when meteors are the real menace. Here, intern, put in some P.J. O'Rourke-type similes and send it to TownHall. But don't make them too good -- we don't want anyone to catch on.
(The worst part for me is knowing the hee-haws it's going to get from the dimmer half of denialist set (yeah, there are dumbers and dumberers); e.g., when the killer meteor is compared to the size of John Edwards's house. And, oh yeah, the only reason he didn't use the house belonging to the person you'd think he would have was because he wanted to name-check him thus: "… no time to defrost Al Gore's frozen head …")
This Jonah Goldberg:
… the spectacle of Jonah Goldberg citing "science writer Gregg Easterbrook" (I wish I were dead) …
(And if you don't know from Easterbrook, see here and especially here.)
This Jonah Goldberg:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, JONAH GOLDBERG:
Unmockable. Just read it. Holy shit. Holy shit.
That Doughy Pantload.
[Added] Doghouse Riley also weighs in.
[Added2] And follows up.
How far have wingnut fortunes fallen? The Pantload, among other gripes about the White House Correspondents' Dinner and all the funny MEAN things that were said about his heroes, whines:
Also, neither The Weekly Standard nor NR [National Review] had a reception this year, which was too bad.
Fear not, however. The Wingnut Welfare Gravy Train has not yet ground to a halt. Remember that our Doughy continues to be paid handsomely to write. Even sentences like this:
Biting humor is fine at events like this, so long as it's humorous.
Tautologies-Я-Us!
(h/t: Sadly, No!)
You might have heard about the recent DHS report that's causing Wingnuttia to order up another sixty tons of batshit, stat. But he who dines out on wingnut welfare checks also knows that building the world's bestest collection of Star Wars collectibles means keeping the MSM coin coming for wearing his "thoughtful conservative" costume, too. So what is Lucianne's boy to do?
If you said "punt" or "flee," you know him all too well. Following is his entire post on the matter. This is Doughy to the P to the L-O-A-D:
The DHS Report [Jonah Goldberg]
This Powerline analysis looks like the best criticism so far.
I'm off to deal with edits to my magazine piece, and then I'm taking a nap or launching cocktail hour, whichever comes first.
Is flip-flopping the new spine?
Concerning whiny Judd Gregg's bailing out of a job offer he actively sought and accepted, here's Dumbass Doughpants, playing the wingnut "up is down" song, turned up to 11:
Judd Gregg has more backbone than anyone in politics today.
And:
You know what? He ought to think very seriously about a presidential run. I mean it. This is an act of courage. That’s what we need.
(h/t: Jim Newell/Wonkette)
While looking for additions the big time movie list, I came across the a canonical Jonah Goldbreg post:
Will Wilkinson has an interesting response to the discussion around here.
I have some objections to it, but I'll wait until morning to digest. As always, Will's worth reading.
Read the whole thing. No, wait. That was the whole thing.
[Added] Follow-up. Snicker.
Roy Edroso observes that Jonah Goldberg saw fit to bitch on Christmas Eve about a bad review of his magnum offal that ran … last March!
Turns out that the review was picked by TNR as one of their bests of 2008. I remember loving it back then, and I'm about ready to enjoy it all over again: Michael Tomasky's Jackboots and Whole Foods.
BTW, if you read Roy's post first, whatever the problem was with the link that's mentioned in his footnote seems to have been addressed. The link to the review above is directly from the article site, in any case, so there's nothing to worry about.
Doughy's mom's website wants to infect you! And your machine!
For the time being, I've removed Lucianne from the list of sites comprising Wingnuttia Search.
Here's a live link to the Google search results, same as I used to get the above screen grab, to see if the status of her site remains the same.
Here's Google's report on the site.
Can you say ... censorship??? You can if you're a wingnut.
Jonah Goldberg on The X Files: I Want To Believe: "Now there's still the politically correct angle of the pedophile priest. I don't want to get into the weeds debating the role of the Catholic Church. I can understand why people are angry about priests diddling little boys, though I wonder why no one examines the role of gay rights groups in this abuse, which I hope to address in a future column. But I Want To Believe is really about faith, no matter how much the filmmakers try to get away from it, and I think it's ironic that Hollywood is so adamantly against religion and yet they keep making these movies about people who want to believe. There's a tradition of this in science fiction that I hope to get to in my new book. The head transplant thing also addresses conservative doubts about science and where it goes when it's left unregulated -- though liberals are all for regulation when it comes to banks, you never hear them speaking out against this sort of thing."
Actually, the above was written by Roy Edroso. Does he have Doughy down or what? He also does a mean Amity Shlaes.
