Semi-Daily Journal Archive

The Blogspot archive of the weblog of J. Bradford DeLong, Professor of Economics and Chair of the PEIS major at U.C. Berkeley, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury.

Thursday, March 23, 2006

Civilized Political Discourse

Yet more on Box Turtle Ben, the Washington Post's secret weapon to delegitimize the right.

Domenech writes:

: I'm happy that no one's engaged in any ridiculous hyperbole, unfounded accusations or unintentionally hilarious name-calling. We can all agree that such things lower the quality of debate on the Internet, play to the worst side of our knee-jerk partisan nature and have no place in the modern public square. I look forward to engaging you in a serious, respectful discussion on the issues that matter most to the future of our nation.

Dfire responds:

It was a noble, if condescending, sentiment. Unfortunately, Domenech has never shown any inclination toward that sentiment in his own writing. A brief list of some of Domenech's worst moments, which I discovered in searching through the archives at Red State, where Domenech blogged under the handle Augustine:

  • Teresa Heinz Kerry looks like an "oddly shaped egotistical ketchup-colored muppet."
  • Michael Moore is "fatty fat fat fat... a blimp that crashed into the Fleet Center [causing] nearly $16 million in damage."
  • Andrew Sullivan "needs a woman to give him some stability."
  • Cartoonist Ted Rall is "a steaming bag of pus."
  • Senator Lincoln Chafee's "cranium would explode if he had one actual substantive thought."
  • The Post's own Froomkin... is "an embarrassment" "whose status as leader of the hack is without compare -- Froomkin isn't interested in the real story - just his cut and paste storyline."

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