Nathan Gardels responds to his critics the "piously correct left"

[devilgrrl]

Remember his lame dispatch Bush Disarms Comedy Central's Colbert from last week and the hilarious responses from readers? Check out his bitchy reaction...

Now that blogs have been around a while, let's coin a new term: the blog mob. Reading the hundreds of vitriol-laden attacks over my last blog (Bush Disarms Comedy Central's Colbert) makes me feel like a Danish cartoonist who has wandered into a Taliban parade.

When I write a serious blog I can almost count the responses on my hands, like "Globalization's New Left," (4) about the planet of slums or "Dim Hopes for a Secular Iraqi Constitution" (14).

Insulting the Prophet is one thing, but insulting Stephen Colbert, the patron saint of the piously correct left! That's really blasphemy. Doesn't this blog mobbery alarm anyone else? It can't be such a good thing if this is where the heralded evolution of the new media is leading.

more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-gardels/insult-the-prophet-ok-b_b_20234.html

:eyes: What a pussy.

[BOSSHOG]

1. Gosh

Its a good thing that "conservatives" don't have anything comparable or he wouldn't have much of an argument huh?

[tanyev]

2. He should be happy he has proof people actually read his column.

[gratuitous]

3. I thought criticism from both sides was good

That means he's running right down the middle of the road, with the yellow stripes and the squashed possums. It's a good thing, Nathan! Unless, of course, you take the time to actually read what people are writing, and come to the uncomfortable conclusions that (a) they're right and you're wrong; and (b) they're smarter and better informed than you. In which case, you're kind of a fraud, aren't you?

[reichstag911]

4. Heh...

...hehhehheh...The girl said "pussy." Heh heh. (The heh's are to be imagined emanating from Beavis and/or Butthead, in the appropriate pubescently amused tone.)

:freak: