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.

Comments

[M. Simon]

I had no idea blogging paid that well. (well enough so that you are merely poor instead of homeless).

What is your secret?

[Neo]

Keeping hope alive .. Times: 'We Expect' Layoffs

[Tom Maguire]

What is your secret?

I supplement my blogging "income" by panhandling at Grand Central.

[narciso]

So, Tom, that part about your Wall Street background isn't true; according to the Huffington Post

[narciso]

So, Tom, that part about your Wall Street background isn't true; according to the Huffington Post

[narciso]

So, Tom, that part about your Wall Street background isn't true; according to the Huffington Post

[clarice]

What does the Village Voice know, TM? You'll always be first--or ,okay,maybe second--to us.

[DebinNC]

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?

[Tom Maguire]

So, Tom, that part about your Wall Street background isn't true; according to the Huffington Post...

I deny nothing.

[lonetown]

I think Lileks has someone working on the inside.

[Porchlight]

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?

[Danube of Thought]

How many people have read all the way through that thing?

[Elliott]

I have and would advise against it.

[PeterUK]

Every village has one,even a village full of geriatric beatniks.

[Bill in AZ]

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.

[hit and run]

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.

[Forbes]

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.

[Cecil Turner]

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.)

[M. Simon]

They included Althouse because she attracts a lot of right wingers and she doesn't curse at them and drive them off.

[GMax]

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.

[Daddy]

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.

[Fat Man]

I want to be pure 100% EVIL.