dagblog - Comments for "Stop Dancing: Milo Isn't Dead!"

Ah, the other Easy E.

Michael Maiello — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 19:10:32 +0000

In reply to As a fellow wrestling

Ah, the other Easy E.

As a fellow wrestling

Danny Cardwell — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 18:53:00 +0000

In reply to Yeah, the right wing books

As a fellow wrestling aficionado I knew you would appreciate the Bischoff quote!

Yeah, the right wing books

Michael Maiello — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 16:30:00 +0000

In reply to Stop Dancing: Milo Isn't Dead!

Yeah, the right wing books itself like a pro wrestling promotion, and this has been going on for a long time. Sometimes I think liberals feed into it, publicizing all the "outrageous" things said by Limbaugh or Hannity or Milo Yiannopoulos or Ann Coulter or whoever the flavor of the month is, as if the outrage isn't the actual product.

So much of right wing online media is just outrage clickbait, a kind of political play on "Upworthy" style SEO. Of course Yiannopoulos isn't dead. He's now got a great story. Too outrageous for CPAC. Too outrageous for the conservative imprint of Simon & Schuster.

This is all, at its essence, early Howard Stern plus politics.

"Mythic working-class white

NCD — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 23:25:31 +0000

In reply to Stop Dancing: Milo Isn't Dead!

"Mythic working-class white voters"

Driftglass has a line by line take down of NYT Kristoff's column today which says no 'blanket judgments' should be made by liberals about these mythic misunderstood and neglected people.

Driftglass interprets and condenses Kristof:

the real problem here is not the meatheads who elected The Bastard President, but my Liberal disdain for the meatheads who elected The Bastard President.

And Driftglass responds:

I'm sorry, I couldn't hear, can't hear you, over the constant roar of tens of millions of Republicans screaming that I am an America-hating traitor out of tens of millions of radios for the last quarter of a century.