tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post3411872439661279542..comments2024-03-03T04:40:39.492-05:00Comments on Fire Megan McArdle: Our Missionbradhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907349163323395529noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-28981465549961708452011-10-21T01:12:42.037-04:002011-10-21T01:12:42.037-04:00Couldn't agree more.Couldn't agree more.Rank Checkerhttp://www.rankcheckerreviews.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-43664222563837804532010-11-26T13:24:20.478-05:002010-11-26T13:24:20.478-05:00missouri car insurance Hey, I read a lot of blogs ...<a href="http://mymissouriautoinsurance.com/" rel="nofollow">missouri car insurance</a> Hey, I read a lot of blogs on a daily basis and for the most part, people lack substance but, I just wanted to make a quick comment to say GREAT blog!.....I"ll be checking in on a regularly now....Keep up the good work! 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Keep up the good work!You can call me Elle.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15311886329852940342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-26309914874091914132009-02-08T15:15:00.000-05:002009-02-08T15:15:00.000-05:00Belatedly, I agree with the entirety of the critic...Belatedly, I agree with the entirety of the criticisms in your mission statement. For me the last straw was her saying the Johns Hopkins people like Burnham were making "frankly lunatic" statements when in fact they answered her questions accurately and backed them up very fairly.<BR/><BR/>I don't believe the fact that Michael Kelly died in a jeep accident should let anyone forget whose mentor he was, and whose tradition McArdle is maintaining.<BR/><BR/>But I would add neocon to her Maureen Dowd-but-libertarian credentials. The antiwar.com and ron paul and so on people are libertarians too, but they're not psycho hawks like McArdle. I realize she's denying W three times before the cock crows now, but she didn't back in the days of water-into-wine and roses.<BR/><BR/>I remember J School towards the end - most of the classes were mixed up - PR, marketing, journalism, advertising, all the same thing innit?<BR/><BR/>And the McArdles were their desired product.Marion Delgadohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09493068399042656060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-89031535697315471242008-09-16T17:12:00.000-04:002008-09-16T17:12:00.000-04:00Megan reposted my lengthy comment in its entirety ...Megan reposted my lengthy comment in its entirety as the subject of another post and refuted it by calling me a "twaddler" and then an "olympic twaddler!" Irony is, I had subscribed to her blog under the "food" section of my RSS reader because of something she wrote one time or another concerning animal welfare. The idea of anyone taking her commentary on economics or policy seriously is actually laughable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-71428255461878154152008-08-03T16:51:00.000-04:002008-08-03T16:51:00.000-04:00I agree with you that Megan's libertarian ideology...I agree with you that Megan's libertarian ideology doesn't belong in The Atlantic Monthly. It's an affront to loyal Atlantic readers, and amounts to cheap pandering to the right. <BR/><BR/>However, I disagree that her prose or syntax is any worse than anything else you see from professional bloggers on the web. She's a bright person and a talented writer, her distasteful libertarian pontificating notwithstanding. <BR/><BR/>I do agree, however, that she doesn't belong on The Atlantic in any capacity, because her viewpoint is out of place in that milieu. I am a liberal, and when I pick up the Atlantic, or visit its blogs, I expect generally liberal points of view. No, I don't want to be "challenged" in a condescending way by having libertarian or right-wing views shoved in my face with a battering ram. If I wanted that, I'd go to Drew Carey's blog. <BR/><BR/>Joe T.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-86355787834459237592008-05-15T05:33:00.000-04:002008-05-15T05:33:00.000-04:00I expect to be deleted but I had to lay one on her...I expect to be deleted but I had to lay one on her:<BR/><BR/>"Here's why I think you're an idiot:<BR/><BR/>"Hence the dueling factoids over whether Bush's tax cuts disproportionately benefitted the rich. The left likes to look at the average amount individuals got, which leads to the conclusion that the rich got a lot more. The right likes to look at who got a bigger share of the tax cuts, which leads to the conclusion that the poor and the middle class were the big winners. Neither of those ways to frame the question is obviously wrong."<BR/><BR/>This is why the right is wrong. It's simple. Try very very hard to think it through.<BR/><BR/>Tax cuts are given to individuals. Not to sectors of the community. Bush doesn't go "Here you are, middle class people, share sixty billion bucks". He goes "Here you are, person who earns 20K a year, have a dollar". Do you see? What's disproportionate is that the rich guys each get a truckload of money, and the poor don't.<BR/><BR/>Yes, I know, the poor as a group get more. But there are many more of them. I know you tend to think of them as one homogenous, horrible mass, but it remains true that they are a composite of many, many individuals. All of whom have been fucked by the Bush administration.<BR/><BR/>Ah okay. That's not the only reason I think you're an idiot. There are dozens of others. And I've only read maybe a dozen of your posts."<BR/><BR/>Keep up the good work, guys.Dr Zenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14447633362204112316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-60605949403246388682008-04-08T17:23:00.000-04:002008-04-08T17:23:00.000-04:00I'm so glad to find you folks!!!I have fond memori...I'm so glad to find you folks!!!<BR/><BR/>I have fond memories of reading the Atlantic in early adulthood, but Michael Kelly's abominable editorship was the last straw for me. Since McArdle's further tarnishing of the brand, I've been pulling my hair out in frustration. Are they just trying to stop us from reading altogether? Or is she part of some elaborate joke designed to prove the Peter principle?<BR/><BR/>Anyway, thanks for your efforts.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06254085752967725917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-51584044997168204832007-11-08T14:50:00.000-05:002007-11-08T14:50:00.000-05:00I just viewed a video on The New York Times where ...I just viewed a video on The New York Times where McArdle discusses public education with Mark Schmitt. Her argument and reasoning are quite strange. She says she doesn't care about having a public school system, but then says she would like to get rid of public schools in the inner cities. She says it does the worst job at the thing that is hardest. She says it has been failing for fifty years. Then she says a hundred years ago it was educating ghetto children. Listening to her one gets the idea she knows very little about what she talks about. She haphazardly compares the present system with a system from 100 years ago. She says kids were taught to read and write 100 years ago. She does not know what she is talking about. She says she is interested in the tails. This is absurd reasoning.Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06358148789923303009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-59407489676243083302007-09-14T01:10:00.000-04:002007-09-14T01:10:00.000-04:00Well, if you want to join up and post about Yglesi...Well, if you want to join up and post about Yglesias, by all means do so. We don't have to focus only and absolutely on Mizz McArdle here, but in order to maintain a somewhat... uniqueish sense of purpose we have to focus on bloggers or columnists writing for supposedly lefty content providers. <BR/>Paglia springs immediately to mind, and I dibs her next column at Salon, provided I remember and no one at S,N! beats me to it.bradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06907349163323395529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-30765591039647857852007-09-13T23:48:00.000-04:002007-09-13T23:48:00.000-04:00I'm not too impressed with Megan McArdle, but why ...I'm not too impressed with Megan McArdle, but why target her and not Yglesias? How is he any better, just because he's more of a lefty? He's still a sloppy writer, and arrogant to boot.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-90233482757416929152007-09-13T20:50:00.000-04:002007-09-13T20:50:00.000-04:00And yes, by all means chronicle deleted snarky com...And yes, by all means chronicle deleted snarky comments here. Maybe just preface the comment with *Deleted* or summin.bradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06907349163323395529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-57673438447845618572007-09-13T20:49:00.000-04:002007-09-13T20:49:00.000-04:00I'll put up a brief summary of Gavin's posts at so...I'll put up a brief summary of Gavin's posts at some point in the near future. It'll be fun to do a shorter Gavin.<BR/>As to letting others post, it appears I need the email attached to your blogger or google account to do so.<BR/>Put it in a comment in a spam safe format and I'll delete the comment when I see it, or wait until I make a spam account somewhere for this.bradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06907349163323395529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-60986873992664347292007-09-13T20:15:00.000-04:002007-09-13T20:15:00.000-04:00Crossposted over there:How's that defense working ...Crossposted over there:<BR/><BR/><I>How's that defense working out for you? A few days ago you claimed "typo" to cover your shameful laziness and inability to correctly summarise someone else's work. Today's excuse for your laziness is "I was joking"?<BR/><BR/>So, does that explain why you left out Biden, Dodd, Gravel and Kucinich, Hunter and Tancredo? Is that part of your clever joke?<BR/><BR/>Or is the right explanation that once again, you screwed up and will lie to cover it up?<BR/></I>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-32097960627493762962007-09-13T20:14:00.000-04:002007-09-13T20:14:00.000-04:00I see Megan is now just banning negative comments....I see Megan is now just banning negative comments. Boohoo!<BR/><BR/><I>This comment has been deleted for rampant trolling, and the IP address of its author's bridge has been banned.<BR/><BR/>Posted by Fishbone McGonigle | September 13, 2007 8:04 PM</I><BR/><BR/><BR/>I suggest we document our comments for her here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-26379677730803549762007-09-13T20:05:00.000-04:002007-09-13T20:05:00.000-04:00Thank the FSM you did this. There really does need...Thank the FSM you did this. There really does need to be a blog like lgfwatch or instaputz just for cataloging her ongoing idiocy.<BR/><BR/>Suggestion: some posts that link all Gavin's previous fine work? Those need to be tied around her neck like a cowbell.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-21204298592274807632007-09-13T19:57:00.000-04:002007-09-13T19:57:00.000-04:00Dude, I totally want to contribute on this blog. P...Dude, I totally want to contribute on this blog. Please please please plllllllleeeeeeeeeeeeze.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-6929519364602371162007-09-13T17:59:00.000-04:002007-09-13T17:59:00.000-04:00Nicely said. In total agreement. To think that T...Nicely said. In total agreement. To think that Twain and McArdle could be mentioned in the same sentence is absurd.Shanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08586103803744832750noreply@blogger.com