I love Laura. As do all good people.
This meme might be getting on in years -- well, blog-years, which is about a week -- but I don't get out much, so I only first saw it at Interesting Monstah.
R. Robot writes, or at least randomly generates:
On the set of The Real World, Uppity Negro Pundit engaged in wildly low treason that most Americans found shocking. "Is there any evidence that Iraq 'thinks they might want to team up with terrorists,' as the President said?" were the words. If so, then why has Jenna Bush's call for legacies been so successful? Among the defeatist Islamists, Uppity Negro Pundit mischaracterizes people like Tony Blair with the usual baying. "Maybe we could get Afghanistan straightened out first," he said last week. This kind of wretched insouciance is as execrable as it is ideological. In a special appearance on The Simpsons, Uppity Negro Pundit engaged in curiously vile treachery that most Americans found shocking. "I thought the hijackers were Saudi," were the words. It is tempting to accept this verdict as all the proof needed that Dick Cheney is solidly on the right track. But the argument needs to be addressed, not because it is foolish but because it is the fashion among fools, and because those fools are curiously bitter fools. The proof that our mission is patriotic and faith-based is that it's so risky.The negligent duplicity of the Democrats and their dishonest cultural elite is vile. The apologists of the liberal elite have become more bizarrely hysterical in their outrageous disgrace than I could scarcely have imagined last week. Politics are allowed in politics, but there are limits, and there is a pale, and Uppity Negro Pundit has managed to appease those limits, and excuse beyond that pale.
Which is only funny if a) I wrote about politics and b) I actually used the alternate URL UppityNegroPundit.com, I suppose.
Sue me. I am easily amused.
Why is it that these folks always make the terribly obvious mistake of calling someone 'hysterical' and 'over-rhetorical' and geenrally accusing them of poor logic in a peice of writing that should properly be labeled as a 'rant'? Look, if you've a problem with the logic of liberals who feel that taking on half the world, solo, in order to improve our stranglehold on the world economy, then for heaven's sake, show me the money -- the actual problem in the logic! Calling me names (and he seems to have pulled out a thesaurus to find plenty of fancy Latinate ones) really doesn't advance your argument that your logic is sounder than mine. Rather, it suggest that you are altogether incapable of logic.
Well, I think he mostly ripped off the idea from this week's Tom Tomorrow-strip [which he apparently didn't realize was satire], don't you?
loved it!! my article came up "fertile_jim and the sorcerer's stone". do the warbloggers really use big words like "sedulous"? uncanny! i laughed, i cried. this is better than the "what percent goth are you?" quiz!
Damn. I'm thinking that R. Robot really needs an account on my weblog. Maybe we should launch a series of sites like www.myTownHall.com and let the BattleBots duke it out full time. It'd be like Core Wars for hollow rhetorical arguments. I bet no one would know the difference.
Oh, right.
No hollow rhetorical arguments there. Appeaser.