“The alternative — the Andrew Breitbart Conor Friedersdorf model — is to publish poorly reasoned, atrociously edited screeds on the cheap, on the assumption that ideologically friendly readers anyone, please God anyone, will keep start clicking anyway.”

There, fixed it.

Seriously though – Conor freaking Friedersdorf is slagging on others for bad writing and piss poor logic? Really?

Really?

“That dude’s always slagging Breitbart,” Flynn said. “What’s his problem?”

He’s a lefty, that’s his problem. He writes at HuffPo and Trueslant.

Truth be told, Big Hollywood does publish some pretty poorly written pieces. The opinion pieces written by celebrities like Victoria Jackson or Michael Moriarty can be tough going. They’ve jumped the shark on Avatar–which itself is a mondo shark jump. Still, the site features enough compelling pieces that more than compensate, and a passionate pen will often cover for an excess of cliches and grammatical errors. I’ve never felt the need to read Friedersdorf, and when I have I haven’t gotten anything useful from him.

Sounds like some Brooksian snobery.

I don’t read much of Big Hollywood, but I’m actually impressed by the writing over at Big Government.

Conor with one N is a fauxservative. He aspires to the David Brooks chair. He wants to go to the right soirees, drinking his Pinot Gris, and pretending to be a conservative intellectual, when in fact his is neither.

Wow, I like the new layout, Stacy.

Carlson hired Jim Treacher = smart.
Carlson required Jim Treacher to move to DC to work = stupid.

See, there’s this thing called the internet, Tucker. It allows people to work from home. You can save money on office space that way.

“Conor with one N is a fauxservative. He aspires to the David Brooks chair.”

To sit in or sniff?

Oschisms — Carlson’s requiring Treacher to move? Is he so stupid he doesn’t realize he could PAY LESS if he let Treacher live nearly anywhere but DC?!

Bill Bennett touted Culture11 on his radio show. Read it. Pretty awful. It went away.

Apparently Conor Friedersdorf, a freelance journalist writing for Culture11, aspired to produce writing that was as well written and professionally edited as the stuff that the talented Tucker Carlson writes for Esquire….

sniff

(Harder than it looks to describe a snooty elitist nose elevated into the air)

The Daily Caller has a staff of 21 and $3,000,000 in funding?

Is that a full-time staff? Oy. I predict that in this advertising environment they’re toast.

Look for the first layoffs to come on November 3rd, after they realize that they didn’t a)build the readership that would support their bloated staff, and b)get all that craaazzzzy 2010 campaign advertising money.

Hope I’m wrong, because I love Treacher.