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  1. 1.

    General Winfield Stuck

    I never make fun of the mentally ill. Even ignoramus wingnuts like Glenn “the fuck” Reynolds.

  5. 5.

    The Republic of Stupidity

    I never make fun of the mentally ill.

    That’s rather noble of you, General…

    I, however, have no such inhibitions…

    I go w/ ‘pouffy indifference’…

  6. 6.

    General Winfield Stuck

    @DougJ:

    Actually, part of what I like about this is that it’s not that mean-spirited.

    nutbugs come in all flavors.

  9. 9.

    Morbo

    Actually a former co-worker here could be Reynolds’s double, except that he’s not quite as awkward looking. That site is FTW.

  13. 13.

    Incertus

    I’m always amazed anyone takes him seriously. He’s a Libertarian, right? Who has a tenured position at a state university. And doesn’t seem to recognize any sort of contradiction there.

  16. 16.

    IndieTarheel

    Is there a reason why I should care about this guy, or is he just a generic hypocritical jackass that can be used interchangeably?

  17. 17.

    DougJ

    You are aware of the pre-cursor to those GR photos, aren’t you Dougj?

    Yeah, I posted about that yesterday.

  19. 19.

    Tim in SF

    That man has some terrible shoes.

    I could never respect a man who would willingly wear topsiders and grey socks with a navy suit.

    What. A. Douche.

  20. 20.

    Tom Hilton

    @General Winfield Stuck: I thought the Althouse quote there was worth highlighting:

    People who like Obama are blinded to the way other people see him. This picture strongly says cool to people who love him, but it doesn’t read that way to others… including the many, many people who don’t even want a cool President.

    I suppose that’s true as far as it goes, but it’s at least as true the other way around: people who don’t like the President are blinded to the way the rest of us see him…and there are a lot fewer of them (personal approval is still in the 60s last I checked, well above job approval). Hence the lunatic personal attacks–they just assume Obama looks like a socialist/Muslim/gangbanger/corrupt Chicago pol/etc to everyone.

  21. 21.

    DougJ

    I could never respect a man who would willingly wear topsiders and grey socks with a navy suit.

    In fairness, a lot of professors dress this way.

  24. 24.

    arguingwithsignposts

    Did the right blogosphere spend this much time on all the myriad images of GWB looking like a total douche? No. Then STFU.

    What a bunch of wankers.

  25. 25.

    Malron

    @Tom Hilton:

    … including the many, many people who don’t even want a cool President.

    Only the nerds hate the cool guys. Reynolds definitely reminds me of the school kids who resented anybody who was popular.

  26. 26.

    General Winfield Stuck

    @Tom Hilton:

    I suspect that all in all it is good news when the likes of Althouse and Reynolds are reduced to noodling stock pics of Obama for signs of FAIL.

  27. 27.

    Keith G

    On a related topic of conservative punditry, my semi wingnut brother is trying to get me to read *The Forgotten Man* by Amity Shlaes.

    I seem to remember her name popping up before and I remember folks noting a spate of revisionist books about FDR and the Great Depression.

    Anyone know of her or her book? Please.

    Oh you might enjoy the quote from my brother, though I find it embarrassing The topic was President Obama’s efforts to help the enconomy right itself:

    It will take even longer with an incompetent boob like Obama. Too inexperienced. Clinton would have been better. Janet Napolitano? What a joke. Does she even know (or believe ) what she says? Short of WW II we’d probably still be in the Great Depression courtesy of FDR ( read The Forgotten Man). How is “O” going to get us out, by taxing? Never helped before. Congress, both parties and both houses, should be dissolved and done over from the ground up with term limits for the House (with a duty to hold their REAL jobs open, just like the military service) and the Senate can be for the careerists. The President will have to be elected by the same bozos who have always done it……no real prior experience necessary (see Obama/Palin).

    I don’t think I know this guy anymore.

  30. 30.

    Incertus

    @DougJ: One of the many reasons I’m in academia is because I don’t have to wear a suit. Admittedly, I’m in an English department and I’m in south Florida, so even the department chairs rarely dress that formally.

  31. 31.

    dmsilev

    @Incertus: It’s not just Southern Florida. I work at a high-falutin learning place here in Chicago, and just about the only professor I know who wears a suit regularly is my boss, and that’s because he wears a second hat as a High-ranking Administration Official (univ admin, that is).

    I’m sure, though, that the business and law schools are different than the sciences.

    -dms

  33. 33.

    The Republic of Stupidity

    @Incertus:

    Admittedly, I’m in an English department and I’m in south Florida

    What the?

    Sorry… but my brain went into vapor lock when I tried reconciling those two facts – ‘English department’ & ‘South Florida’ – in the same thought.

    Kinda like matter and anti-matter colliding…

    Or mebbe even colluding, for that matter…

  34. 34.

    TR

    On a related topic of conservative punditry, my semi wingnut brother is trying to get me to read The Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes.

    It is an awful, revisionist piece of history. She can write well, but she has no academic background in economics or history, and it shows.

    Here’s a readable, damning review of the piece by an actual New Deal historian.

  35. 35.

    Emma

    Keith G: If I remember correctly, The Forgotten Man was soundly trashed by reviewers not of the wingnut persuasion at publication time. It’s a hit job on FDR. The author specializes in them.

  36. 36.

    schrodinger's cat

    @dmsilev:
    Not much, most professors don’t even wear a tie, and many wear jeans. I am at a business school at major state university in the northeast.

  37. 37.

    schrodinger's cat

    OT: BTW can anyone suggest a good book about the Great Depression. Preferably one that is not ideological but factual.

  38. 38.

    Zifnab

    @General Winfield Stuck: Not really. It just demonstrates that nothing matters to them (and by extension, to their horde of internet goons and knuckle draggers).

    You’ve got a contingent of nitwits happy to harp on every last meaningless thing, without half a care for actual policy or practice.

    If Reynolds was at least doing the “Why is he golfing when the War / Economy / Moral Values of Our Country isn’t fixed yet?!” routine, at least he’d be feigning interest in politics. Instead, it’s meaningless blather about how the way Obama’s eyebrow is arched or his knee is bent make him a flaming homosexual commie muslim terrorist.

    I mean, I’m up for a good lolcat as much as the next guy, but this reduces politics to the truly junior high Hot-or-Not level of discourse.

  40. 40.

    The Republic of Stupidity

    From the Atlantic article:

    Personally,” writes Clifton B at Another Black Conservative, “as a photographer this shot would have been in my discard pile.” He thinks the “reduced size image makes Obama look sleepy or worse yet, tipsy.” In the expanded version, “Obama looks like he has contempt for Biden … This again reminds me of how this administration seems to have become oblivious to the images they project to the public.”

    Weelllll… since we want to play that game… what does this picture, or this one, or this one say?

  42. 42.

    Ash

    @Malron:

    Only the nerds hate the cool guys. Reynolds definitely reminds me of the school kids who resented anybody who was popular.

    There is something that should be called the Obama Paradox, namely, that’s he’s a really cool giant nerd. He’d be like a dude in Southern California taking out his supermodel girlfriend in his McLaren to a midnight showing of Star Wars.

  43. 43.

    General Winfield Stuck

    @Zifnab:

    You’ve got a contingent of nitwits happy to harp on every last meaningless thing, without half a care for actual policy or practice.

    I agree. The Disloyal Whackadoodle Opposition.

  46. 46.

    TR

    Check out the Atlanticwire comments. Althouse weighs in and, taking issue with how they characterized her comments, says “I’m hardly ever pensive.”

    True indeed, Ann. True indeed.

  48. 48.

    Brachiator

    @General Winfield Stuck:

    I never make fun of the mentally ill. Even ignoramus wingnuts like Glenn “the fuck” Reynolds.

    [while filling out an application]
    Bobby Wheeler: Mental illness or narcotic addiction?
    “Reverend Jim” Ignatowski: Now that’s a tough choice…

  49. 49.

    Sentient Puddle

    @Tom Hilton: I’d definitely characterize Althouse as one of those who are blind to the way the rest of us see Obama. The few critiques of hers that she’s made of Obama have been incredibly weird. The earliest one I remember from her is when the campaign first released the Obama logo. She went through and dissected it, identifying all the symbolism of it, and that left me thinking “Hey, that’s pretty cool” (it was also the first time I had seen the logo). Having pointed all this out, she then concluded that the logo was total crap and would not resonate at all.

    That the critique was shitty is pretty self-evident. But since we’re talking about the subject, it also demonstrates how she completely fails to see how pretty much everyone else in the country sees Obama.

  51. 51.

    mk3872

    @DougJ:

    Which means that the site clearly was (a) NOT started by a conservative ala Michelle Malkin and (b) NOT started by a Malkin left-wing clone like Jane Hamsher.

  53. 53.

    JGabriel

    Isn’t there a photo out there of Reynolds wielding a toy light sabre? Or is that Assrocket?

    .

  54. 54.

    mk3872

    BTW, what the photo of Obama and the subsequent posting on the WH Flickr page is this:

    This Whitehouse doesn’t give a F-CK what you think about them!

  55. 55.

    JD Rhoades

    If someone has literally thousands of pictures taken of them, there are going to be some that are unflattering. Some people use them for humorous effect. Some try for humor and fail.

    Only a fucking moron would try to make an unflattering photo into any more than that.

  56. 56.

    jenniebee

    The wingtards get a pic of Obama having the effrontery to be taller than his veep, and use it as the basis for a 5-minute hate.

    Same wingtards get huffy at the suggestion that maybe if they don’t like seeing pics of Obama doing anything besides kneeling down to polish Sarah Palin’s shoes, they just might be a little bit racist.

    In other news, dog bites man.

  60. 60.

    Sly

    @Keith G:

    On a related topic of conservative punditry, my semi wingnut brother is trying to get me to read The Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes.

    I shall quote Dorothy Parker’s “review” of Atlas Shrugged:

    This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

  62. 62.

    JGabriel

    John Cole’s fortune-telling skills vindicated once again:

    John Cole, yesterday:

    I hope we all understand what the next phase for this will be — after obvious race-baiting for a few days, someone high — profile will call them on it, they will then protest and then accuse evil liberals of using the race card from the bottom of the deck.
    __
    And remember- they aren’t Republicans. Snort.

    Andrew Sullivan:

    Glenn Reynolds finds a photo in the White House Flickr basket and publishes it to, er, point out how bad the White House’s p.r. is, or how blind they are to perceptions of Obama or some such thing. I tried to puzzle this one out … And then I realized why this photo immediately strikes some people are damning. Obama is a black man who looks as if he is condescending to a white man. That’s political gold. …
    __
    Not that Reynolds would ever stoop to such a thing.

    Glenn Reynolds:

    Andrew Sullivan says that commenting on photos from the White House Flickr feed is racist, or something. Well, that’s the last refuge of the Obama fans these days, isn’t it?

    .

  63. 63.

    Sly

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    OT: BTW can anyone suggest a good book about the Great Depression. Preferably one that is not ideological but factual.

    If you’re looking for a quick, bare-bones read, there really isn’t anything better than Eric Rauchway’s The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction. If you’re looking for something heftier and a lot more academic (but not difficult to read), I haven’t encountered anything more thorough than David Kennedy’s Freedom From Fear. It won the Pulitzer for History in 2000. It’s also something like 900 pages.

    If you want something that will impress your friends and neighbors, Liaquat Ahamed’s Lords of Finance will give you loads and loads of information on the interwar period, and the personalities involved, that laid the groundwork for the Great Crash and everything that followed. It’s really, really, really good.

  64. 64.

    TR

    I’d second the recommendations of Rauchway and Kennedy.

    If you want something in-between, a great narrative history of the New Deal, check out William Leuchtenburg’s FDR and the New Deal, which is about fifty years old but is still a go-to text. He’s one of the biggest experts on FDR. (When they created the FDR memorial, he picked the quotes.)

  65. 65.

    schrodinger's cat

    @Sly: @TR:
    Thanks for your suggestions, I will look them up in the library. I am looking at bank failures through the decades, obviously FDIC is a good source but does anyone know where I could get the pre-FDIC data.
    @Midnight Marauder:
    MM I think, I will pass.

  68. 68.

    maus

    including the many, many people who don’t even want a cool President.

    The same people who get tears in the eyes when they can drink a beer with their president, or when he mounts a pose in flightsuit and well-padded codpiece.

  69. 69.

    Mike in NC

    BTW can anyone suggest a good book about the Great Depression. Preferably one that is not ideological but factual.

    Another vote for “Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945”.

  70. 70.

    Ann B. Nonymous

    I sometimes wonder what Glenn Harlan Reynolds’ father, the theologian and civil rights activist who got Glenn in as a legacy at the University of Tennessee, thinks of his son.

    I’m sure he forgives him. But what before that?

  71. 71.

    John O

    There’s so much talk about about the photo, and my post is drawing so much traffic from various blogs — the kind that try to disqualify me as drunk/stupid — that I have to conclude this criticism — it’s hardly even a criticism, more of an observation — really hurt.

    Well, as anyone who has ever had a still photograph taken of them (which represents a fraction of a second) that they’re not terribly fond of, or which could easily be “misinterpreted,” which I believe represents most of the Western world, Ann A., it’s hard not to conclude you’re at least stupid.

  72. 72.

    maus

    Well, as anyone who has ever had a still photograph taken of them (which represents a fraction of a second) that they’re not terribly fond of, or which could easily be “misinterpreted,” which I believe represents most of the Western world, Ann A., it’s hard not to conclude you’re at least stupid.

    Hell, we don’t need still photos, we have whole youtubes devoted to Ann looking drunk and stupid. But hey, they’re posted to her “official channel”.

  73. 73.

    licensed to kill time

    Ann Althouse makes the classic “mistaking notoriety for fame” kerfuffle, in this case expressed as mistaking mocking feedback for howls of pain.

  74. 74.

    JGabriel

    Ann Althouse via John O:

    the kind that try to disqualify me as drunk/stupid … it’s hardly even a criticism, more of an observation

    That’s funny Ann, I’ve also always thought it was less a criticism than an observation. See? We can agree!

    (Possibly I’ve removed too much context, but I honestly believe she means it that way.)

    .

  79. 79.

    liberal

    @Bad Horse’s Filly:
    IIRC he’s one of the originators of the bullshit legal school claiming that the original intent behind, and correct interpretation of, the 2nd Amendment is an individual right to gun ownership.

    Also IIRC he’s one of the original popular political bloggers.

    Not IIRC, but rather plain-as-the-sky-is-blue, he’s a total asshat and not worth paying attention to.

  80. 80.

    maus

    That’s funny Ann, I’ve also always thought it was less a criticism than an observation. See? We can agree! (Possibly I’ve removed too much context, but I honestly believe she means it that way.)

    She’s too drunk and/or stupid to realize that these insults are not by default “ad-homs”, seeing as they stand on their own.

  82. 82.

    asiangrrlMN

    Snort. That site is funny. As for the original pic, the man looks tired. That’s it. And, I would dare say he has every right to look tired.

    I can’t believe the shit flowing from the right. Oh wait, I forgot, Glenn is a libertarian. The stupid, it fucking burns.

  83. 83.

    Cassidy

    @liberal: The correct interpretation of the 2nd Amendment is an individual’s right to bear arms. The founders originated that, not Glenn Reynolds.

  84. 84.

    John O

    Yeah, Cassidy, for organized militias. Which I suppose is true, but most of the organizations married to the concept are effing crazy.

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