I know it's not really cool to link to someone defending you, but Freddie de Boer, I owe you a pint if ever we meet to thank you for your pants-peeing hilarious takedown of Robert Stacy McCain, the self-appointed Roscoe P. Coltrane to Mark Levin's right-wing Boss Hogg. Excerpt:
[Quoting RSM:] The upper echelons of American journalism have become the exclusive monopoly of former teacher's pets, who as children were never sent to the principal's office, who as teenagers were never suspended for showing up drunk for chemistry class, who as college students never woke up at 6:30 a.m. on the porch of the ATO house, who never played in a rock band or sold a pound of weed or dove from a 50-foot cliff into an abandoned rock quarry.[Freddie]: But not McCain! No! McCain chews diamonds and shoots pure lightening out of his urethra! McCain plays hockey against gorillas and once arm wrestled the Pope. I once saw McCain chug a keg of Milwaukee's Best and then fill out a 1040 form. (Not even the EZ version!) McCain slings more dope in a morning than B.I.G. did his whole goddamn life, and somehow, for McCain, that's, like, the most conservative shit ever. McCain's American flag has a smaller American flag that flies from it, and he has a harem of Klingon women to give him sexual favors. McCain snorts Clorox and when he gets pulled over, he karate slaps the cop and gives him the ticket.
Actually, the whole Freddie vs. RSM evisceration suggests what might happen if Chuck Norris fought Roscoe P.
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Sooo . .. McCain is The Most Interesting Man in the World?
I once saw McCain chug a keg of Milwaukee's Best and then fill out a 1040 form. (Not even the EZ version!)
Who in their right minds would want to fill out a 1040 without the booze handy?
Sooo . .. McCain is The Most Interesting Man in the World?
Naw, still second most.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2SSZA0CjdQ
Rod, how much of the difference has to do with the difference between saying things of this sort directly to a person, and merely writing about the person? In other words, is the main reason for a difference between Levin and Freddie the simple fact that Freddie wasn't saying what he wrote directly to McCain over the phone (and maybe recording the conversation to play on the Internet)?
If that's the case, that this is the main difference, then is it a difference that should matter to serious Christians? I'm not saying the use of irony or the well-crafted insult is *always* verboten, and I don't think anyone believes that--but how do we decide when something has crossed the line?
Does it have more to do with the public profile of the person on the receiving end of the insults--e.g., the anonymous woman caller wasn't "fair game," but people who put themselves forward as political writers or commenters are? Is it more a case that general insults that sweepingly (and for humorous effect) indict whole groups of people are fine, but singling out individuals, no matter how well-known, is not?
I'm really just thinking out loud and trying to sort this out, here--I have a tendency to find the well-written insult entertaining, too, but I sometimes wonder if that's really a good thing.
Rod, I am not very familiar with Mark Levin. I do remember seeing him on Fox News being interviewed about a book about his dog, "Saving Sprite". It seems to me an unbelievable leap for RS McCain to say that Levin audience new what he what when he graphically described the potential suicide of the caller's husband. Let me say I don't believe it. This is the garbage a drunk uncle says, not the words of serious, substantive person. I guess I have seen Mr. Levin blog the Corner, and I don't ever remember being impressed with his thinking or writing. Even you believe RSM's ridiculous excuse for the comment, this kind of comment gets played up any time any of your arguments are being considered seriously in the arena of ideas. Associated oneself with a bomb thrower destroys credibility of anyone on the Right. For the Left, the liberal media ignores outrageous comments and you get elected Senator from Minnesota. Yes, it's a double standard, but it is the way it is right now. I really could not believe when I read this response by Freddie that RSM writes for the American Spectator. I figured he was just some guy on the internet. I hope RSM was intoxicated at the time he wrote this. Wow! RS McCain is lacky kid from a Christmas Story all grown up! I guess that makes that Mark Levin Scut Farkus.wgfra
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