Comments on: Ticky, Tacky – D’oh!

By: bob

bob — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:10:20 +0000

Seek professional help.

By: Sadly, No! » Wingnuts In Party Hats: Part Deux

Sadly, No! » Wingnuts In Party Hats: Part Deux — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 09:46:53 +0000

[...] “I am delving for bombs — techniques of the fascist right which I simultaneously subscribe to and project upon the bilious Left, like Kos! It is part of my ploy suchtofore to present Phalangist Reaction as Centrism, and Outright Fascism as Acceptable Conservatism.” [...]

By: Sadly, No! » The “F” Bomb

Sadly, No! » The “F” Bomb — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 07:01:26 +0000

[...] (Objectively, to ideologically “balance” Limbaugh, Coulter, Hewitt, LGF, Goldstein, Instayokel, you’d have to dig up someone from the WSWS. To ideologically balance George Will, you’d have get somone like Ted Kennedy. To ideologically balance Max Boot or David Frum you’d have to get Chomsky or Vidal. But no — for wingnuts, the grudgingly-acceptable-in-theory-for-now Left is personified by people like Kevin Drum or George Stephanopolous, while Kos is for them an intolerable far-Left zany person and paranoid conspiracy-theorist, and Al Gore is seen as the return of Vlad Lenin.) [...]

By: Sadly, No! » All Pasty All The Time (Updated)

Sadly, No! » All Pasty All The Time (Updated) — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 15:38:13 +0000

[...] Third and finally: By pull out of the OI pledge, he must mean officially, for in practice he violated it at leisure as soon as (and ever after) he signed the damn thing. Basically, he’s repeating himself: he said the same thing about not respecting privacy when he ‘outed’ Thers. The liberals made him do it! But I get the hint, as do, I’m sure, his commenters who will now commence their research. Perhaps Tacky, who violated the terms of OI with the same relish he displayed in inventing and publicising the stupid thing in the first place, can help. [...]

By: xian

xian — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:41:57 +0000

wait, where did tacitus go? his tendentious substance-free condescension seems to have dried up and withered away

By: Sadly, No! » Tick, Tock, Tacky, Tock

Sadly, No! » Tick, Tock, Tacky, Tock — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 15:27:42 +0000

[...] While I’m waiting waiting waiting for Trevino’s reply (which I’m sure, if his character — and hypocritical stance on Online Integrity — holds true, will come, if at all, with heavy insinuations about my identity), I thought I’d take the opportunity in the next few days to explore the various utterings and writings of William F. Buckley, Tacky’s ideal of decent rightism, whom Tacky regards as a hero and whose measured and nuanced and anti-paranoid stances Tacky implores the netroots to emulate on the ideological flipside. [...]

By: ahem

ahem — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 22:00:32 +0000

Trevino is clearly smart, and well-lettered.

No. That’s not clear at all. He clearly has a lemon on a stick wedged up his butt.

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:00:53 +0000

donâ€™t get to just state your case, declare yourself the winner, and ride off into the sunset, snidely telling the inquisitive judge that heâ€™d know the answer to his question if he read your papers more closely.

that is awesome!

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:13:46 +0000

Isnâ€™t that the conservative blogsphere in a nutshell, though? Try to have a serious argument with Ann Althouse or shudder Pastyboy Goldstein.

First of all, Ann Althouse is unfailingly nonpartisan. I don’t see how you could have failed to realize that, since she reminds us in every other paragraph.

In seriousness, I don’t know that it’s necessarily a conservative tendency, although you’ve certainly described Goldstein to a T. I think part of it comes from the nature of owning a blog, having absolute control over whether you choose to respond or simply shut down the discussion, and having a fan base who will cheer you on no matter what you decide.

But certainly, I can think of plenty of lefty blogs where the proprietor gets into comments and mixes it up with those who disagree. I’ve had some give and take with Kos in the comments even though he rarely comments at all. And certainly, this very thread is a demonstration that if you have a coherent position, it’s just not that hard to defend it. The only hard part is sticking to the merits and not getting distracted by trollish commentors that just want to sling ad hominems.

By: Righteous Bubba

Righteous Bubba — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:08:39 +0000

“Waiting for Tacitus” would have been a very short play.

By: Hank Scorpio

Hank Scorpio — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:00:43 +0000

When I was in college in the late 1980s, the Birch Society magazine was stocked in our library and when they weren’t warning us all that Gorbachev was a fraud and perestroika a clever scheme to lull the west into complacency, once ran an article on the scourge of communism in the universities. The cover image was this photo of a hot blonde cheerleader with a hammer and sickle stitched onto her uniform. It was probably the sexiest thing I had ever seen, which probably wasn’t the magazine’s intention.

By: Woodrowfan

Woodrowfan — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:58:32 +0000

Aaron, no, you’re not wrong, and you’re not alone either. Basically Tacitus Blowhardius made an assertion and Retardo demonstrated that he was in error.

By: ChrisS

ChrisS — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:53:38 +0000

Itâ€™s not a crime. In my line of work, brief writing and oral argument are two different skills. But if you canâ€™t defend your case against direct challenges by your adversary and questions from the court, youâ€™re not going to win. You donâ€™t get to just state your case, declare yourself the winner, and ride off into the sunset, snidely telling the inquisitive judge that heâ€™d know the answer to his question if he read your papers more closely.

After reading and posting in discussions where Tacky pops his cyber head in occasionally (on Kos before 2003 and at Tacitus and Red State), this the most accurate description of Tacitus, evah.

I remember calling him a Bircher on his site years ago after witnessing his uncanny ability to link everything wrong in the world to communism … he, of course, denied it while calling me a leftocommunomexislamofascist.

By: nate-dogg

nate-dogg — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:49:13 +0000

Instead, he typically states his case in a lengthy and erudite post, and any criticism is met with nothing more than â€œobviously you need to read closer!â€? or â€œyou might need to think more closely about what youâ€™ve missed!â€? or similar one-liners that do nothing to advance the discussion.

Isn’t that the conservative blogsphere in a nutshell, though? Try to have a serious argument with Ann Althouse or shudder Pastyboy Goldstein. They will say you are an unserious person, tell you you lack reading comprehension, refer you back to three dozen posts of five page length they wrote (this is a favorite tactic of Goldstein when he’s not spraying sexual obscenities like a fourteen-year-old with tourette’s).

Granted, I doubt the comments at Kos or Atrios are much better, but it really galls to see someone so in love with himself and his gigantic intellect as Trevino play these chickenshit drive-by insult games.

By: MCH

MCH — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:45:28 +0000

Am I wrong?

No, Aaron. But it is fun, in a slighty mean way, to watch the intellectually dishonest smugly protest too much in the firm belief that he’s helping his own cause, when the opposite is unignorably true.

By: Aaron Adams

Aaron Adams — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:47:54 +0000

I have long since stopped reading Josh and also stopped caring what he writes.

Am I wrong?

By: FungiFromYuggoth

FungiFromYuggoth — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:17:38 +0000

It definitely sounds like “I have here in my browser a list of 57 comments that refute Retarto.”

By: aimai

aimai — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:53:36 +0000

I’d like to point out that one could certainly still read the JBS newsletter when I was in college in the 80′s and that it contained such gems of wisdom as “the jew is not at home in the forest…he is a creature of the slums and crowded cities.” The fixations and the hatreds that the JBS newsletter offered then were simply taken up, and shaken up, and mixed around to fit a new (and very active) group of hysterical haters on the right through talk radio, people like Michael Savage, and Ann Coulter. The enemy may have migrated from jews and commies to gays and liberals, but the rhetoric is exactly the same and the consumers of that rhetoric only a little older (former birchers) or quite a bit younger (young republicans). No one, not even tacitus, who has kept half an eye propped to the political scene in the last 20 years can deny that the JBS society and its rhetoric, far from dissappearing, have simply gone mainstream in the Republican party. In particular the debasement of the entire political system that we see every day when the *actual words* of Tom Delay, Karl Rove, Grover Norquist etc…are reported are examples of this movement of hard right rhetoric to the center.

On a lighter note, someone who posts as pathetically and repeatedly as tacitus appears to on every thread that mentions his name probably shouldn’t claim “not to have read” the threads on which is posting. It makes him sound…oh…how shall I say it? I guess I’ll settle for “really stupid.”

aimai

By: jade

jade — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:00:12 +0000

Trevino is clearly smart

Huh? Wha’? Where?

and well-lettered.

One consonant doesn’t count. It’s called “cold reading”.

“I have a J. There is a J somewhere in this room. You sir? Was J your second cousin? or sister or best friend’s grandmother?

“Yes, I do know more, but I’m not telling because I’m the INTEGRITUDIÑOUS Dr. Ño and I nyever give away my secrets! Nya ha ha ha ha!!”

By: Mo's Bike Shop

Mo's Bike Shop — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 04:19:38 +0000

Wow, it’s like a morality play, our narrator merely mentions the familiar Piewackit and POOF! he appears! shitting flying demons and threatening the kids.

Authentic right down to the lathe sword.