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You are here: Home / Breathtaking Moments In Online Punditry

Breathtaking Moments In Online Punditry

by John Cole|  August 11, 200710:40 am| 17 Comments

This post is in: Assholes, Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, General Stupidity

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The Powerline:

Indeed, the affair illustrates the power of ideology as a source of intellectual corruption rivaling that of money.

“The quote:”

“It must be very strange to be President Bush. A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius, he can’t get anyone to notice. He is like a great painter or musician who is ahead of his time, and who unveils one masterpiece after another to a reception that, when not bored, is hostile.”

Serenity now.

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  1. 1.

    capelza

    August 11, 2007 at 11:35 am

    Oh dang it. I KNEW it was about that, but not being sure, I had to click onto Powerline… boooooooo.

    Though any excuse to roll out “the quote” is could enough.

  2. 2.

    jake

    August 11, 2007 at 11:50 am

    When I go to Powerline I’m always distracted by Hindrocket’s vibrator icon.

  3. 3.

    KC

    August 11, 2007 at 11:54 am

    John,

    What I think you’re missing is the great moments in offline punditry as well. It’s pretty sad if it takes another terrorist attack for Americans to want to elect Republicans. We simply have too much freedom, you know.

  4. 4.

    demimondian

    August 11, 2007 at 12:00 pm

    No, no, no, KC.

    It will take another 9/11 to remind Americans that Al Qaeda in Iraq was behind the last large terrorist attack on American soil. Never mind that Al Qaeda in Iraq didn’t exist in 2001, or that there have been several large terrorist attacks on abortion clinics since then, we need to focus on -Saudi Arabia- -Afghanistan- -Pakistan- Iran and Iraq!

  5. 5.

    Otto Man

    August 11, 2007 at 12:06 pm

    Hacktacular.

  6. 6.

    Rome Again

    August 11, 2007 at 12:43 pm

    Every time I read that quote, I think Hindraker’s favorite song and lyrics must be Kansas’ “He Knew” and then I see it as some twisted form of irony. It makes me not want to know any more of what exists in that little mind of his.

    Bush couldn’t find his way out of a paper bag, let alone be a true visionary. Is Hindraker aware Bush’s signature wasn’t even on the PNAC plan?

  7. 7.

    myiq2xu

    August 11, 2007 at 12:58 pm

    It reminds me of the scene in LA Story where Steve Martin is in the art museum looking at a painting that is nothing but red paint covering the entire canvas.

    He starts describing the painting to other museum visitors like it’s a masterpiece of art. My favorite part was when he says how erotic it is, and how he likes “her thrusting breasts.”

    Then he moves on, leaving the other visitors staring at the featureless red painting in confusion, wondering how he could possibly have seen what he described.

    I guess they just didn’t understand genius.

  8. 8.

    Andrew

    August 11, 2007 at 1:14 pm

    You guys know that Powerline is a spoof site, right?

    Right?

  9. 9.

    Michael Tedesco

    August 11, 2007 at 1:24 pm

    They wish it were a spoof site.

  10. 10.

    Ned R.

    August 11, 2007 at 1:44 pm

    They’re as much a spoof site as Cheney is a comedian.

  11. 11.

    Andrew

    August 11, 2007 at 1:52 pm

    Oh yeah, well, prove it ISN’T a spoof site. I double dog dare you.

  12. 12.

    Ned R.

    August 11, 2007 at 3:08 pm

    I never said Cheney wasn’t a comedian. I just don’t like his sense of humor.

  13. 13.

    jcricket

    August 11, 2007 at 5:56 pm

    Wouldn’t that be “great”. If Malkin, Powerline, Hewitt, etc. turned out to be deep-cover spoofs?

    hahaha. jokes on us, I guess.

  14. 14.

    laneman

    August 11, 2007 at 6:40 pm

    no one, just no one, could spoof the loser cheerleader, uh … no … epileptic fit that malkin produced. she has spawned, right? her kids will need therapy when they see what she has put out in public.

  15. 15.

    Mike

    August 11, 2007 at 7:40 pm

    I was reading too fast, and saw

    Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, Assholes

    as

    Blogospheric Gaping Assholes

    Close enough for government work.

  16. 16.

    conumbdrum

    August 12, 2007 at 4:50 am

    “The quote:”

    “It must be very strange to be President Bush. A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius, he can’t get anyone to notice. He is like a great painter or musician who is ahead of his time, and who unveils one masterpiece after another to a reception that, when not bored, is hostile.”

    I dream of some karmic kangaroo court that sentences John Hindraker to wear a large placard bearing the above quote around his neck for the remainder of his life, with the words I WROTE THIS emblazoned at the top.

    The vision of the Assrocket strolling shamefaced down the street, a trail of derisive laughter in his wake, made my slumbers especially sweet last night. Even a couple of third graders snickered.

  17. 17.

    ArchPundit

    August 12, 2007 at 6:41 pm

    ===I dream of some karmic kangaroo court that sentences John Hindraker to wear a large placard bearing the above quote around his neck for the remainder of his life, with the words I WROTE THIS emblazoned at the top.

    Kind of reminds me when John McClane had to wear the racist billboard in Harlem. Instead of Harlem put him in a history department and watch the laughter.

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