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April 10, 2008
Oh Boo Fucking Hoo
I meant to blog about this earlier, but being the lazy SOB that I most certainly am, I felt that sitting back for a bit, cracking open a Guinness and watching the fallout would be good for a few laughs. So, this morning I stumbled across Mona's comment on it all, which is more like the opening scene from Hamburger Hill, as is her wont. Mona is a fierce admirer of Greenwald, and is as loyal of a friend as apparently they make these days. So when you attack Glenn Greenwald, you're going to feel Mona's teeth sink into your hind quarters and she will not let go until she pulls you down and tastes the blood gushing from the throat she just ripped out of you.
At issue is that Daniel Drezner and Little Miss McMegan feel that Glenn has been terribly unfair to them both in his rather long screed in which he places them both front and center as object lessons as to why the main stream media is so fucked up. I had read the post Drezner squeezed out between venti mochas and about half way through it my own mocha was splurting out my nose as I was laughing at the kind of half assed way that Drezner was trying to compose an argument. Because rather than an argument, what Drezner invariably does is really more of a high brow sneer with some flimsy veneer as he dashes off to somewhere terribly important.
Little Miss McMegan's response, I'm sad to say, has not graced the monitor of my bitchin' Mac Book Pro nor has the pixels of my incredibly cool iPhone been manipulated by the utterly innane ramblings of someone just a little more intellectually advanced than Paris Hilton and not nearly as "hot". I've found that my IQ level literally drops 10 points whenever I inadvertently read a sentence or two of hers that someone has quoted as they laugh at what passes for logical thought in McMegan's head. And seeing as how I'm just about topping off at the low grade moron level, I really can't afford to lose those IQ points - even if it's only temporary.
In any event, Drezner's response certainly is a prize and a classic model of what can only be described as an adolescent hissy fit. I mean, here's the rub. If you really think that someone isn't worth your effort to respond to, and that you think they really are being such a jerk that you're not going to bother with them ever again, then you simply - you know - just shut up, ignore them, don't respond and never look back in the mirror at them. If you don't, then it's simply painfully obvious that you DO care about them, you DON'T want to ignore them and you're only responding because your feelings are hurt and you want to lash back out at them and give them a smack or two to let them know how hurt you are. Dan's response is essentially a real life enactment of the little boy blue who's crying out that he's going to take his ball and go home because everyone is so mean.
McMegan's response is significantly more manly - from what I can tell - than Drezner's. Again, not surprising as she wears the pants in their relationship (hey, they walk each other home, according to Dan's post, so they be cozy). As she is wont to do whenever someone points out the obvious fallacies of what ever the fuck she is squeezing out on her blog, she drops back into this pseudo intellectual pose and provides the mirror image of Drezner's response. She stomps her high heel down on a picture of Greenwald and pulls out the Pajamas Media Response Kit and uses Wing Nut Defense tactic #275. That being, of course, the assertion that Glenn Greenwald is really just a very angry liberal who's really even more self obsessed than McMegan and Drezner.
Then she goes back to filing her nails.
In any event, it's actually pretty fascinating to see what Drezner thinks is serious self criticism that doesn't pull any punches about his position on the war with Iraq. I remember quite vividly the whole evolution of Dan's terribly serious position as his baby unraveled in the hands of frickin' incompetent bastards who can't even wage a war right. I think my favorite high point was when he held a "debate" between Sebastian Holsclaw and some other dude regarding whether or not the administration had used the phrase "imminent threat" or not. The whole spectacle was truly a performance art that has never been topped since. It was, in a nutshell, the perfect symbolic essence of the entire fiasco. A masterpiece.
And it happened under Drezner's tender care.
Myself, I also found it so very appropriate that Dan was the dude who came up with the idea. I mean, imagine if someone had had the foresight during the Clinton impeachment trial to have a high profile blog debate about the meaning of the word "is" - they would have gone down in history and these blog entries would have been preserved for future generations as a monument to the inanity that was the republican "revolution" of Newt Gingrich and his merry band of hanging judges.
In any event, I just find Drezner a prototypical example of pretty much everything that is wrong with the way things are in this world, and that his BFF McMegan was dragged into it along with him a perfectly fitting tribute to pretty much everything that has happened in this shit storm of the last 8 years. Drezner is a conceited prick of the highest order who simply can't be bothered to even finish the argument that he went out and started with Greenwald. I mean, really. It's like he's a poseur bully who has to run back to his panel discussions on how we're going to continue to rape the working class in ever more expansion of free trade. He doesn't have the time to actively engage the ravenous wolf that he's been poking with a sharp stick because he really has to write about how terribly important it is to continue extracting wealth from society as a whole and placing that wealth in the top 0.001% of the world's populations bank account.
I mean, the man has things to do.
McMegan? Well, she has her nails to file and writing the blog gets her lipstick money. And besides, she has to meet Yglesias and Buetler for coffee with Tyler Cowen. Ta!
Posted by Azael at April 10, 2008 7:11 AM
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