OK, They Spelled The Names Right
They mock the ones they fear! The Village Voice guide to the top 10 right wing blogs is up. Was it an honor to be lambasted by them? I don't know, darn it, but I am keeping hope alive for 2012. And 2016. And 2020 - I'll be clinging to this blog out of economic frustration for years to come.
CHECKING IN: Prof. Althouse, who has what it takes:
Roy Edroso puts a lot of work into this thing, and it would have hurt my feelings if he'd left me out. So don't cry for me. And, check it out, they got Tom Tomorrow to draw a cartoon of Glenn Reynolds.
I had no idea blogging paid that well. (well enough so that you are merely poor instead of homeless).
What is your secret?
Posted by: M. Simon | April 16, 2008 at 08:06 AM
Keeping hope alive .. Times: 'We Expect' Layoffs
Posted by: Neo | April 16, 2008 at 08:46 AM
What is your secret?
I supplement my blogging "income" by panhandling at Grand Central.
Posted by: Tom Maguire | April 16, 2008 at 09:29 AM
So, Tom, that part about your Wall Street background isn't true; according to the Huffington Post
Posted by: narciso | April 16, 2008 at 09:45 AM
So, Tom, that part about your Wall Street background isn't true; according to the Huffington Post
Posted by: narciso | April 16, 2008 at 09:45 AM
So, Tom, that part about your Wall Street background isn't true; according to the Huffington Post
Posted by: narciso | April 16, 2008 at 09:47 AM
What does the Village Voice know, TM? You'll always be first--or ,okay,maybe second--to us.
Posted by: clarice | April 16, 2008 at 09:47 AM
VV: "Herewith, a rundown of 10 conservative Web scribblers who, by virtue of their high readership or annoyance factor, are likely to invade your casual conversations..."
Did they just pick the 10 they found most annoying? Did they use any objective criteria? With all the conservative blogs to choose from (Hot Air comes to mind), why include a Dem centrist like Althouse?
Posted by: DebinNC | April 16, 2008 at 09:47 AM
So, Tom, that part about your Wall Street background isn't true; according to the Huffington Post...
I deny nothing.
Posted by: Tom Maguire | April 16, 2008 at 09:51 AM
I think Lileks has someone working on the inside.
Posted by: lonetown | April 16, 2008 at 10:38 AM
Jonah Goldberg isn't really even a blogger, unless you count The Corner. His Liberal Fascism blog at NRO is a temporary operation in support of his book. Goldberg File isn't a blog, it's the name of his column. I think they just wanted to sneak him in there because they hate his book so much.
And half the links in the article don't work. Who are the dunces again?
Posted by: Porchlight | April 16, 2008 at 10:42 AM
How many people have read all the way through that thing?
Posted by: Danube of Thought | April 16, 2008 at 11:02 AM
I have and would advise against it.
Posted by: Elliott | April 16, 2008 at 11:13 AM
Every village has one,even a village full of geriatric beatniks.
Posted by: PeterUK | April 16, 2008 at 11:19 AM
How many people have read all the way through that thing?
It's a bit tedious in spots, but I found it to be very good - if for no other reason than being a well sourced analysis of liberally revised history. "Liberally" in both senses of the word. It helped me understand my dads absolute contempt for some of the characters of his time. Like my kids/grandkids will want to understand my absolute and utter contempt for Kerry and a few others of my time after liberal education whitewashes and revises history for them.
Posted by: Bill in AZ | April 16, 2008 at 12:07 PM
Porchlight:
Goldberg File isn't a blog, it's the name of his column. I think they just wanted to sneak him in there because they hate his book so much.
Well that and because the whole effort really is just a transparent attempt to gin up traffic from an audience they never would have gotten and Jonah is a big name.
Posted by: hit and run | April 16, 2008 at 12:46 PM
They give the Village Voice away for free, and still no one reads it--except for the club/music act appearances--and the gay and tranny personal ads (pure comedy gold).
This is just a transparent attempt to boost hits on their web site--as H&R notes, so you can expect more shots like this across the right-wing bow.
Boring.
Posted by: Forbes | April 16, 2008 at 01:27 PM
This is just a transparent attempt to boost hits on their web site . . .
Concur . . . and we ought to do our bit to help. (Because there's no parody like self-parody.)
Posted by: Cecil Turner | April 16, 2008 at 01:45 PM
They included Althouse because she attracts a lot of right wingers and she doesn't curse at them and drive them off.
Posted by: M. Simon | April 16, 2008 at 02:19 PM
I have always thought of McCardle as a libertarian and Althouse as simply a Democrat with a brain, ala Mickey K. So Dreher is a different sort too, although I guess he usually gets to the Republican position, be over the river and through the woods.
But why would the Village Voice be an expert in Conservatives? Socialists and Marxists and especially Anarchists, sure.
Posted by: GMax | April 16, 2008 at 02:30 PM
I have to say I really liked the drawing of Glenn Reynolds, but of course I'm 30/70 Stupid/Evil. As for the analysis, at 'Free' they're charging too much.
Posted by: Daddy | April 16, 2008 at 02:31 PM
I want to be pure 100% EVIL.
Posted by: Fat Man | April 17, 2008 at 10:16 PM