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When wingnuts attack each other (warning – Godlstein link):
Once he’d established the pretext for disallowing me to defend myself — and giving his commenters the freedom to attack me without my having recourse to respond directly to them (something I’ve never disallowed him to do on my site) — he then encouraged people to support his “honor” at the expense of mine. He set up a lynch mob and then pretended to wash his hands of the whole thing.
One of his commenters, after having already declared that I was guilty of acting in bad faith with respect to debating Patterico on the issues of language (another ridiculous charge, inasmuch as I’ve consistently and patiently answered his questions, even going so far as to write a primer for him on semiotics, sent via email; and as anyone who’s been following my posts on the topic, or who read my Hot Air essay knows, I am committed to the argument, and have always welcomed those who wish to debate it), decided he’d “look at the evidence” and adjudicate who was at fault for the way this has all turned.
Unsurprisingly, he ignored all evidence, provided by way of links, that militated against the conclusion he’d already reached before hand. In the end, he declared me guilty of “bad faith,” as decided by him (and dependent on his own warped filter), and without the benefit of my being allowed to defend myself.
In short, a show trial.
I guess it was only a matter of time after Roger L. Simon eliminated their means of support and adult supervision that they would go Lord of the Flies on each other. On the other hand, this:
…I’ve consistently and patiently answered his questions, even going so far as to write a primer for him on semiotics, sent via email …
…is how I’m going to respond to all email inquiries from this point forward because it’s full of win.
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Please to be warning alongside links to Godlstein. I was only saved by a mouseover.
But my god, he’s still suffering from verbal constipation, the kind whose physical equivalent results in calcified turdshot and piles.
Fixed. For the children….And I don’t want to be all outlaw and shit.
It’s a shame. I’d hate to see him get all disgusted with rightwingery and then declare himself to henceforward be known as a liberal. I think that’s where Richard Cohen came from.
I do like that “sent via email.” Maybe I’ll add it to my email signature.
It is a true gift to be able to convey such incoherence in writing. Pass the wolf nipple chips, please . . .
Nickelback : music :: Godlstein : prose.
What’s so sad is that every clause of this sentence screams Godlstein. The first “pretext…disallowing” and I thought “Godlstein”– only he, among wingnuts, tries to race around Wolcott’s bulldog prose with these yapping phrases. Then I thought “When is the grad school showoff coming?” And then BAM: the semiotic e-mail. Godlstein explaining Barthes to Patterico via e-mail– that’s a dog trying to impregnate your leg (/Edie Brickell).
see, there’s your problem. you should’ve written “semiotics” on him, in primer. that’s the way real men settle arguments.
It’s posts like these of Jeffrey’s that led Hoffman LaRoche to get the Cease and Desist order for making one of their products look so criminally ineffective in public. The prolix and obsessive writing, the frenetic linking to “evidence,” the excessive use of “scare” “quotes,” not to mention the psychotic descent into complaints of death threats and lynchings from a ridiculously arcane pseudo-academic disagreement over interpretation and intent engendered by the president’s bowling score, this all really doesn’t say much for psychotropic therapy. I does explain the lack of a teaching position though.
If Guinness ever starts a world record category for Words Written/Actual Interesting Things To Say Ratio, Godlstein would own that thing for life. His has got to be in the billions by now.
Remember the old joke about how academic arguments are so vicious because the stakes are so small?
Jeff’s clearly a man who has been educated beyond his intelligence.
Gist of it: Patterico doesn’t like Rush Limbaugh because he makes conservatism look bad. http://minx.cc/?post=283971 (350+ comments)
First comment:
Heh!
Thank you, TBogg. And truly, that fucker defines turgid down. For cock’s sake, I read some of the densest, most abstruse continental crit-theory stuff at college, and my worst undergraduate excesses were never that bad.
Godlstein is to prose what Vogons are to poetry.
I never thought I’d say this…but you owe Nickelback an apology.
Looks like Godlstein McKlonopin has wrapped up the 2009 Victimhood Webby Prize in the Most Insufferably Pretentious Prose category…yet again.
Shorter Godlstein:
Mommy, he was mean to me.
I think Lileks would give him a run for his money…
I think I just militated in my pants. Semiotically, of course.
Jeff the Jizz Whiz hits another homer.
Cleek for President.
What does it say about the adoring fans of either that were willing to go Sharks and Jets on each other? Now that’s some MMA I’d pay to see.
If we leave the wingnuts alone, and I need to start doing that, how small do you think they can make the Republican party?
John Cole and DougJ (and various others) like to posit a peak wingnut, generally present tense. But, what if the analogy is more like a dying star of stupid. the late 90’s through the early 2000’s was red giant phase and ever since, it has just collapsed in on itself to almost white dwarf status (I think there may be two meanings there)… Will everything go dark and cold within the decade?
Wow. Each actually believes it’s about himself, even on their own respective blogs. So much for politics.
I guess it was only a matter of time…that they would go Lord of the Flies on each other.
Did they kill each other? Because that’s the only outcome I can accept.
I want my nickel back.
No, because any number divided by zero is incalculable, and therefore not eligble for GBoWR. But I take your point.