If you ever had any respect for Mickey Kaus, you won’t after you watch this Blogging Heads episode where he smirks and grins his way through statements like “If torture were to accidentally happen.”
Total jackass. (via Sullivan)
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If you ever had any respect for Mickey Kaus, you won’t after you watch this Blogging Heads episode where he smirks and grins his way through statements like “If torture were to accidentally happen.”
Total jackass. (via Sullivan)
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norbizness
If you had any inherent desire to live, you probably wouldn’t want to check out Bloggingheads.tv in the first place. Two smarmy wonks enter, unfortunately two smarmy wonks leave.
The Other Steve
BloggingHeads is a waste of anyones time, and it propagates the notion that people like Kaus are important and worth wasting time listening to.
Cyrus
Clearly, somebody missed the one with Garance Franke-Ruta and Anne A!thouse. I felt sorry for Franke-Ruta, while at the same time being a little annoyed by how passive she was, but there was one at most wonk in that Bloggingheads, and it was far from being as boring as “two enter, two unfortunately leave.”
Tsulagi
No difference in the critical thinking of the 6,000-year creationist or the pro-torture tards. They both just know the truth. The only difference is that one group thinks that having others do torture somehow gives them a set of balls where there are none.
And the more they advocate torture, the more their balls grow. Sort of like Pinocchio’s nose. They have faith.
Dulcie
I saw that one. Ann Althouse is evil. And she’s obviously jealous of Franke-Ruta’s breasts.
JWeidner
Mad Mickey: Beyond Thunderdome?
Maybe it should be Thunderdrone.
Jimmmmm
“Two smarmy wonks enter, unfortunately two smarmy wonks leave.”
Same as when Norbiz takes a shower, only with the protagonists’ number cut in half…
Andrew
creationist : pro-torture :: divinely guided evolution : enhanced interrogation techniques
Sort of the lite version of each.
norbizness
Beyond Showerdome?
Unfortunately, that one infamous GFR/Althouse encounter only artificially extended the latter’s 15 minutes of fame; I mean, those in the know had an inkling she was fucking nuts before that.
Paul L.
To see a Total jackass and prick, watch Eric Alterman on Bloggingheads.tv.
As for Mickey and Sully’s thin skin.
Unreliable Narrator:
“Any Weapon to Hand”:
Keith
Much like when FoxNews says “This you will not believe”, when I read a headline like this, I just ignore it now. It’s too easy to be outraged these days, and I don’t want to contribute to its popularity…call it “outrage fatigue” I guess.
LITBMueller
Bob & Mickey…Brokeback Bloggers.
sglover
I don’t understand how Kaus could attend law school — Harvard, no less — and never grasp that one aim of due process is to establish who is guilty and who is not. He seems to think that there’s some magic process whereby one can tell, in advance, who rates the “accidental” torture, and who doesn’t.
Or, then again, maybe he doesn’t really think that. Maybe he’s just being the same disingenuous sack of shit that he’s always been. Then the real question becomes, why bother “debating” such a profoundly unserious and empty shell?
Bruce Moomaw
Okey-doke, Paul L.: you denying that Kaus made the cretinous-cum-evil comments he’s recorded as making on that new YouTube video?
Tom Hilton
I disagree. I thought Robert Wright’s eyerolls were totally worth the price of admission. Of course, I clicked off after maybe 30 seconds (when Kaus made the comment quoted by John), so it’s not like I invested a lot of time or anything.
Tom Hilton
Oh, and as for Bloggingheads ‘propagat[ing] the notion that people like Kaus are important and worth wasting time listening to’, I’m afraid that train has already sailed out of the barn. I don’t think the people featured on Bloggingheads are, on average, any more odious than the guests on any given Sunday bobblehead show. It ain’t the blogoverse that made Ann Coulter or Bill O’Reilly or Sean Hannity (etc., etc.) celebrities; it’s cable news.
Wilfred
At last, the Hilton of mixed metaphors.
Scumbags like Kaus, Reynolds and the RedState apparatchiks are part of the new torture chic crowd. I smell a reality show coming. How about a green card for any Arab who can stand up to what any American boy could?
HyperIon
always has been and always will be, it seems.
i do not understand why anyone on the left links to him, TPM, for instance. but then Josh Marshall also used to link to the Bullshit Moose…
Kaus is a fucking republican. some say he’s a holdover from the New Left (which i somehow missed entirely) but so what? he gets these obsessions (brokeback mountain, HRC, immigration, the liberality index of Plano TX) and will not let up. plus his stream of consciousness blogging style obfuscates whatever dim points he struggles to make.
what an elitist californicator jerk.
Tom Hilton
Thanks, I was rather proud of that one.
Barry
sglover Says:
“I don’t understand how Kaus could attend law school—Harvard, no less—and never grasp that one aim of due process is to establish who is guilty and who is not. He seems to think that there’s some magic process whereby one can tell, in advance, who rates the “accidental” torture, and who doesn’t.
Or, then again, maybe he doesn’t really think that. Maybe he’s just being the same disingenuous sack of shit that he’s always been. Then the real question becomes, why bother “debating” such a profoundly unserious and empty shell?”
I vote ‘B’ – he understands, and supports it. Quite deniably, of course (I forsee ‘I’m shocked! shocked! that innocent people were tortured!’).
As for linking to him, I vote for cutting him off. After his Krugman crusade against truth alone, any liberal should have cut him.
Kaus is sort of a bottom of the barrel example of the fact that one you’re in, you’re in forever.
Bruce Moomaw
We’re dealing with someone who, a few years ago, told LA Weekly that he still agrees much more with the Democrats than the Republicans, but that he aims almost all of his written criticism against the Dems because “they respond to criticism and the Republicans don’t.” This can only be compared to the scene in “Through the Looking Glass” in which the White King tells Alice, “There’s nothing like eating hay when you’re faint!” When Alice questions this, the King snaps, “I didn’t say there was nothing better. I said there was nothing LIKE it.”
Bruce Moomaw
Still, I must say that I never expected to see him giggling over how amusing torture is. I mean, that’s Tom Maguire’s turf.
The Other Andrew
Translating conspeak: if you oppose torture, you have “thin skin.” Also, if you oppose Bush’s various foreign-policy adventures, you’re “clutching your pearls” or “getting the vapors,” implying the weak, obsolete, and feminine…because conservatives are so very modern and cutting-edge. Creationism, anyone?
grumpy realist
Anyone who advocates torture as a mechanism for interrogation should undergo it himself so as to know what he is advocating.
canuckistani
I always thought the people clutching their pearls were the conservatives confronted by the left’s on-line “incivility”.
John S.
Don’t mind him, Bruce.
Paul is our resident zombie colon. And though he may have learned to type, he still lacks the brain function to properly form coherent posts.
Gus
Since I never had any respect for him I won’t watch the clip. Saved that 30 seconds.