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Gosh, Kind of a Tough Call Here

Posted on | July 10, 2013 | 51 Comments

Which is worse, herpes or syphilis? Herpes is incurable, but the ravages of syphilis can be deadly. This is a story about the liberal media, however, not sexually transmitted diseases . . .

You know how, since Day One of the IRS scandal, every liberal on the planet has been saying it’s not really a scandal? So the umpteenth reiteration of the IRS Scandal (NOT) meme was published Monday by a writer for Salon, the Most Worthless Internet Site, Period.

While AOL paid gazillions for HuffPo, and BuzzFeed is now estimated to be worth gazillion-times-infinity, nobody has ever hazarded a guess of the value of Salon.com, a site that has been losing massive sums of money constantly since the days of dial-up modems.

Because there are no other “progressive” sites on the Internet, you see, and if these investors didn’t keep pouring money into that courageous Salon.com, then Newt Gingrich would take over America and suddenly TV would be in black-and-white again, or something.

Nobody ever pays attention to Salon except in the sense of, “Did you see that stupid/gross/utterly wrong thing they published at Salon?”

But why bring up Tracy Clark-Flory at a time like this?

My point is that nobody really pays attention to Salon except gigantic inflatable dildos like Lawrence O’Donnell, who evidently had an apoplectic fit because this IRS Scandal (NOT) story failed to mention that Lawrence O’Donnell invented IRS Scandal (NOT) stories.

This is perhaps a good time to mention that certain progressive bloggers think it’s always necessary to write in the very arch and catty tone that Wonkette and Gawker trademarked circa 2003 back when being a blogger was The Hip Career, before McDonald’s had WiFi.

Call it the Snarktastic mode of discourse. It becomes annoying to adults eventually, because you realize that these people think it’s a signifier of superior hipness, which in turn they imagine is a hallmark of their superior intelligence, as if the ostentatious display of pop-culture references and amped-up attitude — attitude! attitude! attitude! — were a substitute for useful knowledge.

Dude, I can do that, and I’m a 53-year-old father of six with a B.A. from Jacksonville (Ala.) State University. It’s really not that clever.

Anyway, Lawrence O’Donnell, who exudes smug self-righteousness as only the Harvard-educated son of a rich lawyer can, felt that Salon had cheated him of the credit he deserved. As the host of a show on a cable TV network somewhat more popular than CNN — a network with more Al Sharpton, but less non-stop murder trial coverage — if Lawrence O’Donnell said the IRS scandal is not a scandal, this was of tremendous significance to . . . somebody.

Yet this article at Salon.com didn’t even so much as mention him.

Which brings me to the “tough call” referenced in the title, about 450 words ago. Herpes or syphilis? Lawrence O’Donnell or Alex Pareene?

It is a measure of my fathomless loathing for Lawrence O’Donnell that I feel he deserves to be mocked by the execrable Alex Pareene.

UPDATE: One of the relevant facts I omitted:

Also, didn’t O’Donnell develop a bad cocaine habit in Hollywood? Or was that some other leftist douchebag I’m thinking of? There is something especially odious about Hollywood liberals preaching socialism while snorting up tens of thousands of dollars of coke a year.

 

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51 Responses to “Gosh, Kind of a Tough Call Here”

  1. Sarah Palin
    June 28th, 2013 @ 12:12 pm

    Please take a look at the article linked below to understand how the amnesty bill the Senate passed yesterday is a sad betrayal of working class Americans of every ethnicity who will see their wages lowered and their upward mobility lowered too. And yet we still do not have a secured border. This Senate-approved amnesty bill rewards lawbreakers and won’t solve any problems – as the CBO report notes that millions of more illegal immigrants will continue to flood the U.S. in coming years.

    Great job, GOP establishment. You’ve just abandoned the Reagan Democrats with this amnesty bill, and we needed them to “enlarge that tent” of which you so often speak. It’s depressing to consider that the House of Representatives is threatening to pass some version of this nonsensical bill in the coming weeks.

    Once again, I’ll point out the obvious to you: it was the loss of working class voters in swing states that cost us the 2012 election, not the Hispanic vote. Legal immigrants respect the rule of law and can see how self-centered a politician must be to fill this amnesty bill with favors, earmarks, and crony capitalists’ pork, and call it good. You disrespect Hispanics with your assumption that they desire ignoring the rule of law.

    Folks like me are barely hanging on to our enlistment papers in any political party – and it’s precisely because flip-flopping political actions like amnesty force us to ask how much more bull from both the elephants in the Republican Party and the jackasses in the Democrat Party we have to swallow before these political machines totally abandon the average commonsense hardworking American. Now we turn to watch the House. If they bless this new “bi-partisan” hyper-partisan devastating plan for amnesty, we’ll know that both private political parties have finally turned their backs on us. It will then be time to show our parties’ hierarchies what we think of being members of either one of these out-of-touch, arrogant, and dysfunctional political machines.

    – Sarah Palin

    Here is the article referenced above:
    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/06/25/Palin-Defend-American-Workers

  2. Fox News
    July 2nd, 2013 @ 6:09 pm

    BREAKING: The Obama administration is delaying an ObamaCare requirement that large employers provide health insurance coverage to workers. http://tinyurl.com/lfb94z2

  3. MrEvilMatt
    July 10th, 2013 @ 8:43 am

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  4. Lockestep1776
    July 10th, 2013 @ 8:43 am

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  5. CHideout
    July 10th, 2013 @ 8:43 am

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  6. Citzcom
    July 10th, 2013 @ 8:43 am

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  7. jwbrown1969
    July 10th, 2013 @ 8:43 am

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  8. preciseBlogs
    July 10th, 2013 @ 8:56 am

    Gosh, Kind of a Tough Call Here http://t.co/rGXMgNMU04 #news #conservative #msnbc

  9. Richard Reed
    July 10th, 2013 @ 8:57 am

    Richard Reed liked this on Facebook.

  10. BredRightAndTrue
    July 10th, 2013 @ 9:21 am

    “… gigantic inflatable dildos like Lawrence O’Donnell…”

    *wipes coffee spewage off of ipad*

    Snort! Snort! Snort!

  11. JeffS
    July 10th, 2013 @ 9:41 am

    One can always appreciate these blue-on-blue battles. With a bowl of popcorn, of course.

  12. rsmccain
    July 10th, 2013 @ 10:24 am

    “Herpes or syphilis? @Lawrence O’Donnell or …” http://t.co/siaiCKvTRq Tough call. #tcot

  13. OwainPenllyn
    July 10th, 2013 @ 10:25 am

    RT @rsmccain: “Herpes or syphilis? @Lawrence O’Donnell or …” http://t.co/siaiCKvTRq Tough call. #tcot

  14. rsmccain
    July 10th, 2013 @ 10:26 am

    @AceofSpadesHQ Have you ever been annoyed by the deliberately *arch* style of Gawker, etc.? http://t.co/siaiCKvTRq

  15. CFLancop
    July 10th, 2013 @ 10:28 am

    RT @rsmccain: @AceofSpadesHQ Have you ever been annoyed by the deliberately *arch* style of Gawker, etc.? http://t.co/siaiCKvTRq

  16. rsmccain
    July 10th, 2013 @ 10:44 am

    “@Lawrence O’Donnell exudes smug self-righteousness as only the Harvard-educated son of a rich lawyer can” http://t.co/siaiCKvTRq

  17. DayKadence
    July 10th, 2013 @ 10:45 am

    RT @rsmccain: “@Lawrence O’Donnell exudes smug self-righteousness as only the Harvard-educated son of a rich lawyer can” http://t.co/siaiCK…

  18. rsmccain
    July 10th, 2013 @ 10:47 am

    “So the umpteenth reiteration of the IRS Scandal (NOT) meme was published Monday …” http://t.co/siaiCKvTRq #tcot

  19. Gopisdead
    July 10th, 2013 @ 10:48 am

    RT @rsmccain: “@Lawrence O’Donnell exudes smug self-righteousness as only the Harvard-educated son of a rich lawyer can” http://t.co/siaiCK…

  20. instapundit
    July 10th, 2013 @ 10:49 am

    RT @rsmccain: “So the umpteenth reiteration of the IRS Scandal (NOT) meme was published Monday …” http://t.co/siaiCKvTRq #tcot

  21. instapundit
    July 10th, 2013 @ 10:52 am

    RT @rsmccain: “@Lawrence O’Donnell exudes smug self-righteousness as only the Harvard-educated son of a rich lawyer can” http://t.co/siaiCK…

  22. LeahMChristie
    July 10th, 2013 @ 10:53 am

    RT @rsmccain: “So the umpteenth reiteration of the IRS Scandal (NOT) meme was published Monday …” http://t.co/siaiCKvTRq #tcot

  23. richard mcenroe
    July 10th, 2013 @ 10:55 am

    Um… don’t you use McDonald’s WiFi? #UnfairToRonald

  24. richard mcenroe
    July 10th, 2013 @ 10:56 am

    I wuz gonna write #UnfairToTheClown but I sense that would not have ended well.

  25. rsmccain
    July 10th, 2013 @ 11:02 am

    @instapundit Really, I *hate* throwing traffic at Salon. It is such an embarrassing stain on the Internet. http://t.co/siaiCKvTRq

  26. Josh_Painter
    July 10th, 2013 @ 11:04 am

    RT @rsmccain: “@Lawrence O’Donnell exudes smug self-righteousness as only the Harvard-educated son of a rich lawyer can” http://t.co/siaiCK…

  27. wjjhoge
    July 10th, 2013 @ 11:05 am

    RT @rsmccain: @instapundit Really, I *hate* throwing traffic at Salon. It is such an embarrassing stain on the Internet. http://t.co/siaiCK…

  28. CFLancop
    July 10th, 2013 @ 11:05 am

    RT @rsmccain: @instapundit Really, I *hate* throwing traffic at Salon. It is such an embarrassing stain on the Internet. http://t.co/siaiCK…

  29. conservativelez
    July 10th, 2013 @ 11:06 am

    RT @rsmccain: @AceofSpadesHQ Have you ever been annoyed by the deliberately *arch* style of Gawker, etc.? http://t.co/siaiCKvTRq

  30. robertstacymccain
    July 10th, 2013 @ 11:20 am

    The reason I mentioned WiFi at McDonald’s was that at the Dawn of the Blog Age, it was considered so cutting edge for bloggers to do their work on laptops at Starbucks, usually near their apartments in certain gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhoods. You used to see that trope — the young hipster on his laptop at Starbucks — in MSM feature articles about this cool new blogging thing that all the kids were doing.

    And by “all the kids,” I mean all the liberal kids: Twenty-something recent college graduates who hated Bush — the “Juicebox Mafia” type — and who were and are the only bloggers that these MSM feature-profile articles ever bothered to promote. Make no mistake, promotion was the purpose of such articles: Liberal journalists writing puff-pieces about their favorite liberal bloggers in a sort of incestuous politically motivated circle jerk. It was the Bush era, after all, and everybody in the MSM hated Bush, and saw these bloggers as a weapon with which to defeat Bush. And we were too stupid to see what they were doing, right?

    Anyway, WiFi at McDonald’s is the sort of downscale “democratization” that signaled the end of blogging as The Hip Career.

  31. yidwithlid
    July 10th, 2013 @ 11:29 am

    RT @rsmccain: “Herpes or syphilis? @Lawrence O’Donnell or …” http://t.co/CXis9QX83a Tough call. #tcot

  32. TC_LeatherPenguin
    July 10th, 2013 @ 11:42 am

    I refer to that “magazine” you speak of as “Hipster Douchebag Central” anytime I link to their front page, and Joan Walsh is referred as “Mother Hen.” Decorum prevents me from saying how I refer to the pair of jackholes named “Alex” who toil in its bowels….

  33. AceofSpadesHQ
    July 10th, 2013 @ 11:52 am

    RT @rsmccain: @AceofSpadesHQ Have you ever been annoyed by the deliberately *arch* style of Gawker, etc.? http://t.co/siaiCKvTRq

  34. instapundit
    July 10th, 2013 @ 11:58 am

    RT @rsmccain: @AceofSpadesHQ Have you ever been annoyed by the deliberately *arch* style of Gawker, etc.? http://t.co/siaiCKvTRq

  35. LeatherPenguin
    July 10th, 2013 @ 11:59 am

    @rsmccain is getting all •ineffably brutal• again…. http://t.co/2yYDbibqqO

  36. wtc
    July 10th, 2013 @ 12:05 pm

    RT @rsmccain: @AceofSpadesHQ Have you ever been annoyed by the deliberately *arch* style of Gawker, etc.? http://t.co/siaiCKvTRq

  37. Quartermaster
    July 10th, 2013 @ 12:29 pm

    Even if O’Donnell didn’t develop a bad coke habit in Hollywierd, it would be up to him to prove he didn’t.
    The Harry Reid method of journalism can be handy at times.

  38. keyboard jockey
    July 10th, 2013 @ 12:53 pm

    Remember when hanging out in coffee houses was cool? Maynard G Kreb’s cool 😉

    http://youtu.be/FEN97Ng_UQ8

  39. I Salon the STD of the Internet? | The Daley Gator
    July 10th, 2013 @ 1:21 pm

    […] might seem a bit harsh to judge Salon so harshly, but, as Stacy McCain points out, Salon is the  Most Worthless Internet Site, Period. He should know, he reads it so we do not have to. I have read Salon’s stuff, it is like […]

  40. Wombat_socho
    July 10th, 2013 @ 2:05 pm

    Hanging out in coffee houses was NEVER cool.

  41. Wombat_socho
    July 10th, 2013 @ 2:06 pm

    Speaking of Harry Reid, did he ever come clean about those pederasty accusations?

  42. Obama’s Rat-A-Buddy Plan Might Work | Regular Right Guy
    July 10th, 2013 @ 2:06 pm

    […] Particular attention is being paid to government online porn users. Okay, this is embarrassing because virtually no attention has been paid to online porn users since the program was initiated in 2011. To be fair, though, they are improving on this front. Somebody may even be fired. Eventually. Someday. […]

  43. Richard McEnroe
    July 10th, 2013 @ 3:06 pm

    McD WiFi is the Obamaphone of freedom, man!

  44. Richard McEnroe
    July 10th, 2013 @ 3:09 pm

    Beg to differ. I hang out in a very nice neighborhood one with a good crowd that makes a desperately needed change from my toxic and soon-to-be-ended work environment. They’s cool, I’s cool, we’s all cool.

    Hanging out at Starbucks, OTOH, was a manufactured fashion for lemmings.

  45. Richard McEnroe
    July 10th, 2013 @ 3:11 pm

    He’s taken to muttering “I love my wife but Oh, you kid!” in the Senate elevators, if that means anything.

  46. thatMrGguy
    July 10th, 2013 @ 6:22 pm

    Gosh, Kind of a Tough Call Here http://t.co/8Gf8WzMisQ

  47. JadedByPolitics
    July 10th, 2013 @ 7:45 pm

    Gosh, Kind of a Tough Call Here http://t.co/gnI8gbuRQz

  48. Quartermaster
    July 10th, 2013 @ 10:13 pm

    Does this mean there is a proscription of even the mention of StarB__ks*?

    Inquiring minds, and all that…

    *expurgated in case such mention is a pretext for swinging the ban hammer.

  49. Bob Belvedere
    July 10th, 2013 @ 10:39 pm

    Stacy wrote: Anyway, Lawrence O’Donnell, who exudes smug self-righteousness as only the Harvard-educated son of a rich lawyer can….

    O’Donnell’s father was a former cop who became a lawyer, worked his way up the hard way. His old man was a Democratic Conservative, who, I imagine, is spinning in his grave everytime his youngest son opens his putrid mouth.

    Lawrence Senior was a good and honorable man, who took on rouge Boston Police officers in a famous case:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Case_of_Deadly_Force

  50. K-Bob
    July 11th, 2013 @ 12:17 am

    “nobody really pays attention to Salon except gigantic inflatable anal dildos like Lawrence O’Donnell”

    FIFY