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What Did I Say?

Posted on | August 24, 2010 | 15 Comments

“Dan Riehl is from New Jersey, as I often point out, and my advice to anyone who asks about him is always, ‘Don’t f— with Dan Riehl.'”

Please examine what Dan does to Conor Friedersdorf in this Human Events column and pay especial attention to this:

More troubling and misguided, if not dangerous, are his tactics. Mislabeled as conservative, he repeatedly attacks and tries to undermine the right.
Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit is a temperate, meticulously accurate libertarian. Evidently, even he is too aligned with the right to escape attack from Friedersdorf. And that wasn’t his only attack on Reynolds.

Excuse my Victorian tone, but this simply isn’t done, Conor. And it wasn’t until I saw Dan’s column that I learned of this gross breach of blogsopheric protocol. It’s one thing for a blogger to take a whack at politicians or talk-radio hosts or Fox News personalities — you merely alienate their admirers — but dissing Instapundit?

To quote Andrew Sullivan: “Words fail.”

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15 Responses to “What Did I Say?”

  1. Andrew Sullivan
    August 24th, 2010 @ 7:21 pm

    Words fail.

  2. Andrew Sullivan
    August 24th, 2010 @ 3:21 pm

    Words fail.

  3. Andrew Sullivan
    August 24th, 2010 @ 7:23 pm

    I would not even do that to Sarah Palin.

    Okay. I would. But all is fair when it comes to Sarah Palin.

  4. Andrew Sullivan
    August 24th, 2010 @ 3:23 pm

    I would not even do that to Sarah Palin.

    Okay. I would. But all is fair when it comes to Sarah Palin.

  5. Andrew Sullivan
    August 24th, 2010 @ 7:31 pm

    I generally avoid Dan Riehl. I pick on Glenn Reynolds because he is a gentleman, although I prefer to pick on Trig Palin.

  6. Andrew Sullivan
    August 24th, 2010 @ 3:31 pm

    I generally avoid Dan Riehl. I pick on Glenn Reynolds because he is a gentleman, although I prefer to pick on Trig Palin.

  7. Andrew Sullivan
    August 24th, 2010 @ 7:32 pm

    I pick on Glenn Reynolds in a lame attempt to generate traffic by the way.

  8. Andrew Sullivan
    August 24th, 2010 @ 3:32 pm

    I pick on Glenn Reynolds in a lame attempt to generate traffic by the way.

  9. Andrew Sullivan
    August 24th, 2010 @ 7:46 pm

    I hereby nominate CoNor for the Andrew Sullivan Award… for pseudoconservative hypermythopoeia and autoportentiousness.

  10. Andrew Sullivan
    August 24th, 2010 @ 3:46 pm

    I hereby nominate CoNor for the Andrew Sullivan Award… for pseudoconservative hypermythopoeia and autoportentiousness.

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  12. Kojocaro
    August 24th, 2010 @ 9:40 pm

    Yeah dan riehl is right on this one[Wow i actually said that] BTW Conor Falaffelwhatevahisnameis is no doubt supports embryonic stem cell research while considering Adult stem cells evil and no doubt he defended shirley sherrod from the neocon brigade who like to play the race card while playing the race card against tea partiers

  13. Kojocaro
    August 24th, 2010 @ 5:40 pm

    Yeah dan riehl is right on this one[Wow i actually said that] BTW Conor Falaffelwhatevahisnameis is no doubt supports embryonic stem cell research while considering Adult stem cells evil and no doubt he defended shirley sherrod from the neocon brigade who like to play the race card while playing the race card against tea partiers

  14. Joe
    August 24th, 2010 @ 10:31 pm

    This version of the story has little pictures of Conor. They add to it.

    Lesson of all of this: Do. Not. Fuck. With. Riehl.

    And if you do, stay out of Jersey.

  15. Joe
    August 24th, 2010 @ 6:31 pm

    This version of the story has little pictures of Conor. They add to it.

    Lesson of all of this: Do. Not. Fuck. With. Riehl.

    And if you do, stay out of Jersey.