Conor Friedersdorf on his constructive InstaPundit criticism:
I am a writer. When I critique people or sites, it isn’t because I’ve got a personal grudge against them, or because I want them to fail, or because I want to divide and conquer them, whatever that means — it is because I think they are wrong on some matter of substance.The very same Mr. Friedersdorf on something closer to my heart:
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Oh, that's just classic. "Excuse me while I come down off my high horse and poop on you, you disgusting thing."
Oh man. I actually took the time to make a login there so I could post this and they haven't sent a damn confirmation email yet. True/Fail.
Rule 1: Kiss up, kick down
Oh, there's the email. Stuck in my spam filter. Yeah! I introduced Conor to himself! So happy!
He doesn't know what divide and conquer means?
Trust me, Conor is a thin skinned public intellectual wannabee.
I recall several anguished emails I received when I dared to notice that his Culture11 fiasco, however widely propped by Sullivan, couldn't be taken seriously as an observer of culture with zero focus on science.
As Denis Healey once remarked of Alec Howe, being attacked by Conor is like being savaged by a dead sheep.
Conor, you're nobody. Unless you consider a virtual sucker of Jonah Goldberg's cock to be a 'somebody'.
Douchebag's a writer, not a speller or a punctuator:
Though I find even the knew Instapundit worth reading, and Professor Reynold’s non-bloggy writing reliably good, I sure miss what Instapundit used to be.
Fuck him.
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