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March 3, 2006

A Bit On Mr. Heh, Indeed

by AltHippo @ 2:10 pm. Filed under Uncategorized

So, I’m back from the land of which I cannot speak. I must say, I’ve missed my hippopotamus digs here in the People’s Republic of Our Nation’s Capitol (PRONC).

I’ve got a lot of catching up to do. I haven’t even heard news for most of the week. Imagine my surprise, then, when I turned on my trusty iPod and saw that next on the queue was a CSPAN interview with Glenn “Insty” Reynolds (link to their podcast page here).

“Do I dare?” I asked myself. Or more to the point, is my digestive system up to it? Not at full force, I decide. So, to mitigate Reynolds’ personal brand of reality twisting, I do the Friday Express crossword puzzle at the same time. One of the clues is “a kind of cracker.” “How appropriate,” I say to myself.

“How do you stand on the war?” Glenn is asked. “It’s the right thing to do,” Glenn reductio ad absurds. In fact, we learn that the only reason that His Instiness is accused of being a conservative is his support of the war.

Is that right, Glenn. You don’t think maybe could be it has something to do with being a constant defender of all things Bushista? See, it’s not just the war, per se. Though, just the war per se, and your support thereof makes you look like a Busista shill. But now picture the abmonination that Iraq currently is wrapped up with all the trimmings: the deception, the incompetence, the arrogance, the torture, the death, the destruction, our loss of moral authority, our loss as the voice of reason in the world.

When I contemplate that whole package and hear your propagandist brain justify a disaster on a monumental human scale with trite phrases like “It’s the right thing to do,” then you’ve lost me Glenn. Unless you mean it’s the right thing to do if you hate all living things. Then, I’d agree.

All that said, he did make an interesting analogy: You remember how the homebrewing revolution started when the enormous suckitude of industrial brewed beer was at an all time high, and how that kicked off the microbrewery backlash? Blogs could play a similar role in the media, helping to reinvent and reinvigorate our media heathers.

Of course, when Reynolds says that he’s really thinking that the Washington Post should be remade in the image of Redstate.org.

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One Response to “A Bit On Mr. Heh, Indeed”

  1. KCinDC Says:
    March 4th, 2006 at 9:58 am

    I think he made that microbrewery analogy on Kojo Nnamdi this week too.

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