Shorter Glenn Harlan Reynolds
Posted on May 10th, 2007 by Travis G.
Above: Glenn Harlan Reynolds is Beauchamp Brogan distinguished professor of law at the University of Tennessee and creator of instapundit.com.
‘Can’t anyone here play this game?’
- Newspapers should follow my Instapundit business model: Hand a megaphone to the socially misinformed and stand back.
‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard.
Those hands of his are ripe for a sandwich.
For a change of pace, instead of a sammich how about a gargantuan salami?
He is such a pompous prick.
back to work…
A smiley face sticker to Dean Barnett for preemptively declaring The Politico, Pajamas Media, and Townhall front runners in the race to be the New Mainstream Media. And another smiley face sticker to Reynolds for quoting him.
Sigh: more crap about how the evil Strib will fall because it fired his asshole buddy.
They do this all the time: the focus of their Death of MSM predictions shifts depending on who they’re pissed at this morning.
Let me know when Pajamas Media starts trading on the NYSE.
Some entities like the Politico, Pajamas Media and Townhall have seized a head start in becoming the mainstream media of the future
that deserves a BWAH HA HA.
J beat me to it. curses!
MCH said,
May 10, 2007 at 20:20
Those hands of his are ripe for a sandwich.
how about a giant Althouse head?
Hey, I have an idea! Why doesn’t Reynold hire the underpaid guaranteed moneymaking Lileks to write for Instapundit? Since the immense profitability of L’s writing is such a sure thing and all.
“Dean Barnett writes: ‘The Politico, Pajamas Media and Townhall have seized a head start in becoming the mainstream media of the future . . .’ ”
I THOUGHT those wacked-out right-wing tubers sounded awfully familiar.
¿Wouldn’t that be “the socially malformed”?
¿eh?
Beauchamp Brogan? Wasn’t that a W.C. Fields character–an alcoholic small-town businessman, or an alcoholic carnival barker, or an alcoholic sheriff, or something like that?
Cripes this Lileks repurposing is shaping up to be a watershed moment for Angry White Dudes. They may have something to celebrate alongside this “Bloomsday” shitfest.
Ridiculous blogposts of the future: “Preparing remarks for the 20th anniversary of the non-publication of Lilek’s work, I occasioned to wonder at the profound non-importance of his non-writing for our yet-nascent generation of reaction merchants…” Que overstimulated butt quivering and smug chuckling as he recalls some “old chestnut” from Goldberg –
A Glenn Reynolds Seminar:
Right-wing Sophistry for Dummies 101.
Hand a megaphone to the socially misinformed and stand back.
Oh, well played, Travis! No one does ‘shorter’ like you.
I nearly aspirated my Fresca. My pulmonologist’s kid may go to Princeton yet.
If you think this is bad, just imagine what it would be like if Reynolds got fired from his cushy lecturing job for making off-colour remarks about Hillary’s sexual proclivities.
We’d see post after post of gibberish that had been smashed into their keyboards with clenched fists and foreheads.
Although, on reflection, it’s rather hard to clench a forehead.
it’s rather hard to clench a forehead.
Have you SEEN Lileks?
Nice use of the FOX “some”, there, when in fact he means “me and my right-wing buddies who never even read the fucking column but are sad to see our ideological doppelganger getting kicked off the gravy train and forced to actually work for a living”. And even if there were enough people in the Twin Cities to kill the Strib over dumping that moist fart of a man, which there aren’t, there’s still the Pioneer-Press in town, which is getting by without someone to ibble yadda blap over how slow he got his personal pan pizza last week.
Which has nothing to do with his dingbat Strib column.
HA HA HA HA HA
Sereiously, and citing Town Hall and Big Boy Jammies as the new-media kingpins who will all command our eyeballs any day now? Yeah, that’s why they’re always breaking big news stories. That’s why they command such massive ad revenue. That’s why real reporters are beating down are beating down Michael Ledeen’s door to quote him as a source on his awesome news coverage.
aw shoot, guys, don’t you think it’s really cute, the way that glenn hasn’t really made any effort to “fancy up” his talk, just because he’s in that one newspaper that a lot of people supposedly read?
i guess that’s one of the things that people like about him so much, his regular talking style. it’s no wonder that some say he’s the best blogger that has ever blogged in the whole wide world forever and ever. why, i wouldn’t be too surprised if he personally brings about the end of print media all by himself! would you guys?
Isn’t firing a lousy columnist the free market thing a newspaper should do? Oh… unless he’s an ideological buddy…
oops, I see Leonard said the same thing above. But fuck it. I’ll post this anyway!
J beat me to it. curses!
I think a BWA HA HA is more appropriate in this instance than a smiley face sticker.
For a change of pace, instead of a sammich how about a gargantuan salami?
No, a baloney log, or a weiner. Something loaded with preservatives & food coloring & other chemicals, to minimize any connection to the unprocessed reality of the flesh. And wearing a bright-colored label that says “Now with NANOBOTS!!!” or some similar marketing coup.
That’s “tragically uninformed” — get it right, you wanker.
What teh fuck? If Townhall and Pajamas become the mainstream media, who are they going to crib all their news from?
Distinguished Professor = license to be an asshole. What I want to know is how much crack did the tenure committee smoke before bestowing such a title on this mental midget?
It’s a tragedy that none of these concerned experts on what the future holds for the MSM thought of petitioning the Tribune to stop wasting Jim-Jim’s monstrous talents and move him from those 250 word squibs on mouthwash to something more fitting his talents (like 25,000 word squibs on mouthwash) before he was reassigned.
semi-OT, but I found it highly amusing that searching Wikipedia for ‘perfesser’ brings up one Glenn Reynolds as the second result.
Why, yes, I do have too much time on my
handspaws…Instafuckhead? Reynolds? Hell, I can’t even work up a good outrage. I’ve been looking at this post all day, and I got nuthin. Hell, if it was assrocket, or drudge, or one of the D-Listers we usually tear into around here (cause they tend to say what the A-Listers are thinking, but feel constrained to actually say), I’d be right there with y’all. But this asshole is just pathetic…
mikey
Maybe it’s going to be there after I post this, but I’m dying ova heah for a Tacky post. He’s being all tough guy over at his blog. Like he’s on steroids or he took the Charles Atlas course they market to weakling bloggers nowadays. He’s got a big giant softball up called ….And your enemies closer. He opens by bitching about his online integrity scam’s failure then dictating terms of surrender for the left blogosphere:
That future never came. It’s time to live in the actual present, where we are in a sort of war — and our foes come to us only as prisoners, converts, or under flag of truce.
In a devastating first strike, clicking the above link redirects to http://www.flickr.com/photos/pbarry/5971458/?p=229. Once he unleashes the cat macro, victory will surely be his.
Oh shut up, libs. The fact is, you tolerate no dissent, while Instapundit is a forum for centrist, reasonable views that permits full participation. You delete the comments you don’t like, and use bad language.
Just to make Gary happy, I am going to start a website called Instabugrit.com, containing nothing but bad language. When I get around to it.
You delete the comments you don’t like, and use bad language.
I’m also rude, flatulent and clinically insane…
I seldom shave, I have not had a haircut in years, I don’t even fucking OWN underwear…
Sorry, this is turning into a Jimmy Buffet song….
mikey
“…and use bad language.”
Welcome to Grown-Up Land. Two drink minimum, don’t touch the strippers.
Her Doktor,
Millennium hand and shrimp. I told ’em. I told ’em. Buggrit!
Sorry, this is turning into a Jimmy Buffet song….
Wasted away again in GaryRuppertville
Lookin’ for the lost cells of my brain
Some people say that there’s a preznit to blame . . .
But I know I’m just wingnut insane.
Best I could do on the fly . . . big stack of papers to grade tonight. But before I go — is it just me or does the long-absent Gary sound suspiciously like Kevin with his “libs” bullshit?
Oh, and Herr Doktor — count me in. My first contribution: fook! arse!
The fact is, that’s a transparently fake Gary.
What offends me about this is that the Los Angeles felt compelled to give Glenn Reynolds space to pontificate about this. He doesn’t understand anything about the media … just because his blog was one of the first big blogs, people think he’s got some kind of head for the economics of journalism?
I’ve seen lots of bitching about the Strib dumping The Quirk. I’ve seen no one actually provide any kind of coherent argument that The Quirk brought in six figures worth of advertising a year, ’cause that’s what Lileks was paid. I’ve also seen no one equate his nationwide following into six figures, which is what they’d still be paying him if he stayed on staff and did ‘Net-only stuff. Six figures … that’s almost $2,000 a week in revenue just to break even (not to mention paying the guy to run the site and the hosting/bandwidth fees).
I mean, what Minneapolis business — the Strib’s market — is going to advertise on a nationwide blog where the have zero chance of converting probably 75 percent of the readers into customers? The real question … why is Glenn Reynolds given space to argue something he clearly hasn’t thought through.
Off topic-
Victor Davis Hanson appears in Penn and Teller: Bullshit’s latest episode, about Mt. Rushmore & patriotism of the ijit variety.
(To P&T’s credit, they’re against it. Doesn’t make up for when they eff up big, and they do, but nice that they’re not always wrong.(
VDH provides the origin of the word patriotism, then slags Europeans as soulless for not being terribly patriotic.
fook! arse!
Indeed. Read the whole thing.
I used to care about Lileks, and last year even would have been doing the happy dance over ol Fivehead boy being made to eat Free Market downsizing.
Then I would have fantasized about some brown people moving into his neighborhood, because he would have hid in his basement FOREVER.
But now, it’s just so sad, and predictable. He and none of his reactionary whining corps can accept the decision, because it hits close to home.
It’s like this guy I know, who claims the Libertarian mantle, but is mainly a Gimme Gimme Republican. but has absolutely no problem working in a Library of a college, cashing those government checks from that liberal institution. And don’t ever mention the idea that public libraries shouldn’t be funded by public money…
Lileks: sack up. Get a Job. Live with it, everyone else out here in the wild world of capitalism has, you leech.
You’ve got to admit, that photo shows off Instahack’s package quite nicely. You can see it clearly, just below the little pot belly thing he’s working on.
You can see it clearly, just below the little pot belly thing he’s working on.
Whoa, it’s a weapon of ass destruction.
I’m also rude, flatulent and clinically insane…
I seldom shave, I have not had a haircut in years, I don’t even fucking OWN underwear…
Mikey, I must have your (rude, flatulent, unshaven, hirsute, and I shudder to think of the state of your jeans) bod…no, hang on…the clinically insane part I can live with, we can compare medicaments, but man…would you consider shaving your head?
Millenium hand and shrimp, buggrit buggrit buggrem. Hey Mister, the little dog looks hungry, why not give him the rest of your sausage? Buggrit buggrit.
Oh yes: buggeryfuck.
Small package, big screen. And I see he uses that stupid Windows for Kiddies cartoony XP setting. Plus, I’ve no respect for a man who doesn’t wear a necktie 24 hours a day, and rolls his sleeves up like that (careful, Pervfessor, people will think you actually perform manual labor for a living). And at least try a sport coat to cover up that gut, if you can’t afford a suit.
All right, I got nothing, I’m outta here. “Regrettable Food.”
Envy is not a virtue.
Oh good grief… Why do I follow links posted in these comments? What the hell is Josh Trevino smoking?
Talking about the neocons on Iraq? Why no, he’s talking about the left half of the blogosphere.
My favorite comment from that post:
Heh. Indeed.
Er, that’s my favorite comment to that post.
Be obsequious, purple, and clairvoyant.
Be pompous, obese, and eat cactus,
Be dull, and boring, and omnipresent,
Be oblong and have your knees removed.
Live in a swamp and be three dimensional,
Get all excited and go to a yawning festival.
Be obsequious, purple, and clairvoyant.
And they say to me, “Steve, how can you be so fuckin’ funny?”
And I tell them, “I put bologna in my shoes and then I feel funny.”
If I could have just one wish this Christmas….
For the Sadly, No!-ites: Put a live chicken your underwear.
For the wingnuts in our lives: Criticize things you don’t know about.
What the hell is Josh Trevino smoking?
Dried toadstools.
Aren’t toadstools poisonous?
It depends on what the toad’s been eating.
Why doesn’t Reynold hire the underpaid guaranteed moneymaking Lileks to write for Instapundit? Since the immense profitability of L’s writing is such a sure thing and all.
Indeed.
I’m sure that the UTenn salary that allows Insty to be a lazy insinuating fucker in his apparently copious spare time can be used to support someone who got a $75/word subsidy for his own website.
Gary needs to borrow Foul Ol Ron’s Thinking-Brain dog. As does Reynolds. And Lileks. And apparently Trevino. Poor Gaspode. How many legs can one small, filthy terrier be expected to piss upon? No, wait — he could just bite them all seriatim; they are nicely marbled and no doubt succulent…