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April 15, 2006

WaPo’s Finkel, Online and Overpaid

by AltHippo @ 1:50 pm. Filed under rhetorical fallacy, hacks

Subtitle: The “Angry Left” my left [Expletive].

I was going to let this pass, but then over at Fablog, David Ehrenstein sliced and diced the latest from the Washington Post-It-Note, and I was frankly infotained:

Impotent rage is so entertaining, isn’t it Mr. Finkel. Instead of carnival “geek” biting the heads off of live chickens we have Maryscott O’Connor — smokin’ likea chimney, eyes ablaze with hate. And all because (they claim) she has–

A Rant With Results

Now, I understand why Finkel would write about My Left Wing instead of, say, TPM. It’s the same reason that Tom Sietsema writes about Two Amys instead of Bertucci’s. Everyone knows about Bertucci’s. There’s nothing colorful about Bertucci’s. Though, if they changed the name to Bertucci’s [Expletive], maybe Tom Sietsema would write about it. If not, maybe Finkel would. I’m just saying, he seems to like the [Expletive]s.

I should point out that Maryscott O’Connor wrote about the piece at the Daily Kos, and pointed out that Finkel was a blog newbie:

Finkel said he got my name from an email someone sent him, which led him to My Left Wing. He’d never been to a blog before (gasp! I thought EVERYBODY read the blogs!), and was intrigued not only by the medium but by my particular ‘blog voice,’ if you will.

By not looking at a spectrum of the lefty blogosphere, Finkel is committing a rhetorical fallacy. I’m going to have to call Dicto simpliciter on him. Excuse me, I meant [Expletive] Dicto simpliciter.

There are, of course a variety of purposes that the lefty blogs serve. Some, like Unclaimed Territory go into the kind of detail on domestic espionage that McPost should aspire to. Some, like Factesque, go into local politics, in eRobin’s case Pennsylvania politics. The Sideshow uses links to tell a story about current events. Bullworth uses his blog to write hyper-linked essays which I would distinguish from blogs like Corrente or Firedoglake, which are more about the outrage du jour.

I would argue that in that last paragraph I just told you more about the lefty blogosphere than you would glean from Finkel’s entire story.

One of the points that Finkel makes is that the Left is angry. That might be true. I’ll say for myself that I waste a lot of time pointing out the disinformation and propaganda brought to you by the likes of Jonah Goldberg, John Hinderacker, Michelle Malkin, and Glenn Reynolds. That does make me peevish at times.

Which brings me to an interesting point: why doesn’t Pravda on the Potomac do an article about the fundamental dishonesty of the rightie blogosphere? Or how they create an echo chamber using Bushie’s talking points? That could make for an interesting Saturday afternoon read.

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2 Responses to “WaPo’s Finkel, Online and Overpaid”

  1. fletch Says:
    April 15th, 2006 at 11:11 pm

    And on Daily Kos and My Left Wing, the responses keep rolling in.

    “Thank you, Maryscott.”

    “Thank you for the kick in the [expletive].”

    “I wrote to my [expletive] so-called representatives.”

    “I also wrote to my [expletive] congressman to get off his [expletive] [expletive] and do the right [expletive] thing.”

    “You know what?” O’Connor says. “I did a good thing today.” And for a moment, anyway, she isn’t angry at all.

    Blogs as “Moonbat therapy”- and nobody else is forced to pay for it…

    Two thumbs up!

  2. Sudoku Solver Says:
    April 21st, 2006 at 10:50 pm

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