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Megan McArdle: Poor little libertarian girl.
And the gullible readers of her blog were so impressed that Megan moved to Washington and found work with the Atlantic Monthly, shilling for Wall Street, health care firms, and spending her entire career arguing for the total repeal of all corporate taxes. Washington is also where she found her dream man, Peter Suderman, a former FreedomWorks lobbyist. It was a natural match; like Megan, Suderman was a veteran of the deeply hypocritical world of free-market shills who make their money playing the murky world where big government and big business overlap. As part of his anti-government crusading for FreedomWorks, Suderman once helped run a fake-grassroots campaign, creating a front group, Angryrenter.com, that posed as regular joes fighting big government programs to bailout distressed homeowners. The real backers were the corporations who fund FreedomWorks — they didn’t want to have a dime of their tax dollars going to help out poor suckered American homeowners who needed some help to avoid getting thrown out on the street. Suderman’s scam, pretending that the anger came from regular joe renters and not billionaires, was so sleazy that it was exposed by another rightwing publication, the Wall Street Journal.
There is oh so much to read at the link.
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Wow, you’re right Tbogg. That is chock full of winger hypocrisy goodness. Some of my personal favorites:
Conversation at the time in the McArdle Fortress:
Meggers: Daddy, I had to step over that colored woman again when I went out for my double mocha latte! She was stinkyyyy! Why doesn’t she go live with her mummsy and daddy?
Dad: Meggers, maybe you can bring her out some of the caviar you didn’t eat with your breakfast?
Meggers: Grosssssss! ‘Sides, I’m meeting some of the girls at Le Cirque for lunch. I need your credit card, Daddy.
Even if hypocrisy had not been her mother’s milk, there would still be the issue that the “best” blogger the Atlantic could think of to hire was one who suggested she’d like to smack anti-war protestors – who, let’s recall, were RIGHT – over the head with a two-by-four. That’s all you need to know about McMegan to know that reading anything she ever wrote is a waste of time.
No, you also need to know that Megan is lazy, stupid, and can’t do middle school math. Otherwise, you end up with your jaw on the floor when you realize that you were basically arguing with a 6 year old.
So that’s what happens to all the horrible little antagonists from childrens books.
So that’s what happens to all the horrible little antagonists from childrens books.
Yeah, except Veruca Salt was less spoiled.
I was thinking Carmelita Spatts.
I disagree: what you also need to know is that MeMeMegan defended herself by saying that she didn’t know the dimensions of a 2×4. Which, given Ames’ piece on her daddy’s graft in the construction biz, is even more striking than when she first said it.
From the piece:
It’s remarkable how many people come up separately with the comparison of McArdle to Marie Antoinette.
I left all my fucks over at BJ, but, oh, wait, here’s one more: Fuck you, Megan McArdle. You’re a piece of shit. At least, the ones worrying about having to give up some of their health care bennies in order to help the rabble are being honest. You try to gussy up your selfish, childish, petty, ugly soul with empty platitudes yanked out of Ayn Rand’s fetid anus, and then you fool people into thinking you’re a nice person, and golly gee, isn’t it too bad that she’s in over her pretty little head?
You are a disgusting specimen of my gender, and I order for you one big helping of STFU. Really.
P.S. Loved the article on her, though. It completely excoriates MM.
Unfortunately, Exiled runs into my work filter like unto a sparrow into a screen door, to borrow Neal Stephenson’s phrase. I get the gist of it, though.
TBogg–
Our learned youngsters (ie Ezra) has already deemed this beneath us and that we are in no way supposed to pay attention to how ole 2×4 came to be who she is. I mean a Chicago MBA writing a blog should not raise any suspicions!
It defames Eloise to compare her to McMegan. Eloise was mischievous but never malicious and she wasn’t the least bit stupid.
That was thoroughly enjoyable. McCardle is the rich version of Kathy Shaidle.
I think Ezra’s seen the error of his ways. His McMegan takedown last week was the most vicious of all (albeit in a well-informed, wonky way–and that is not an insult.) Yglesias still has some sort of boy-crush on her. Kevin Drum stands up for her sometimes–I think it’s one of his very strange, and thankfully rare, attempts to seem above the liberal fray.
There once was a girl named Megan McCardle, and she
almostdeserved to be named Eustacia Clarencia Scrubb.Next up, Ann Coulter rails against the evils of meth and cocaine.