Monkey mail, round two.
A bit more polite this time, but other than a bit of name dropping zero substance.
Dear Mr. Atrios:
Is that your name?
Anyway, you are dumber than rock salt but nonetheless I for one welcome
you to Blogistan where far-left opinion is rare indeed. Kuttner's
American Prospect is unreadable and The Nation has descended into deep
anti-Semitism. But Atriosblog so far is quite amusing. And you are
deeply right about Blake.
Toobin is a liberal, by the way. I knew him when he clerked for Judge
Lumbard a thousand years ago and I'm sorry to say his judgment hasn't
improved since he was a lawyer-egg.
My somewhat hyperbolic response (what the hell):
Toobin is liberal, he's just scared to play one on TV.
As for me being far-left? Only in Blogistan am I far-left, populated as it is with libertarian whiners writing their endless screeds about the evils of taxation and their Randroid tributes to personal freedom, ironically all on Al Gore's internet.
I'm a pissed off moderate Democrat who is tired of watching the feudalists and theocrats fight each other for control of the country. But, since the right wing loons have hijacked the media, and all debate is the center vs. the right, it's time to start screaming a little more loudly.
I appreciate the polite insult - I guess Lucianne jr. hasn't updated his "liberal insult of the day" email, and you couldn't come up with another one.
If I'd thought I bit more, I would have replaced the third paragraph with:
I'm a pissed off moderate Democrat who is tired of watching the feudalists and theocrats fight each other for control of the country. But, since the right wing loons have hijacked the media, and all debate is the center vs. the right, and the true "far-left" is utterly ineffective at spreading their message, it's time to for the center to start screaming a little more loudly.
And, I'd also add that I agree - The Nation is a combination of loony left anti-Semitism, fascist pompous drunk bully Chris Hitchens, and all sorts of limo liberalism at its worst. Oh, it does have Eric Alterman, who is the closest thing to a red meat liberal out there. I thought TAP would improve under Harold Meyerson, but whether he's been emasculated by Bob Kuttner, I was simply wrong, or he has yet to find his groove I don't know. Still some hope it'll get better.
I like Katha Pollitt too, but she descends into irrelevancy too often.
