Apparently last night’s post went right over the Sully borg’s collective heads:
Do you think they understood the point of my post last night? Like, for example, the people on “teh left” who are all nominated for awards are basically folks with no institutional power, and whose grave sins range from saying fuck too much and pointing out that wingnuts are crazy? That it is absurd to equate a bunch of slightly obnoxious comments from random bloggers to the Malkin awards, which is a list of individuals who make up the institutional right. When was the last time Digby was on television? Or Tbogg? Or Amanda Marcotte? Do they understand that Markos is essentially blacklisted from NBC?
Do they even understand the concept of false equivalence?
Do they understand how silly it is to nominate someone for a Moore award for noting that the right-wing is fomenting violence, and then hosting an award for a dozen right-wingers fomenting violence?
Do they understand my comment was a riff on a well-known remark by Dave Wiegel?
Do you think there is even the slightest chance they understand we’re making fun of them? Probably. Which is why my post is now a nominee for “for divisive, bitter and intemperate left-wing rhetoric.”
Clowns.
And I don’t want another hundred comments telling me you love Sullivan. Clearly, I love the blog, too. But the false equivalence between a couple of powerless bloggers and William Donohoe and Roger Ailes and comapny, who can get on tv with the snap of their fingers to spread their poisonous bile, is just absurd.