WTF Is It Now?!?

SPEAKING OF SNOT RAGS...
(Thanks to atrios for raising my blood pressure with this link.)

Norah Vincent, who sounds suspiciously like gasbag, writes:

"But, I must say that the so-called blogosphere, liberating as it can be, is—as I have had the misfortune of discovering in recent days—also full of nasty riffraff and wannabe pundits who because they haven’t an earnest, original idea in their heads, fill their empty existences sniping impotently at legitimate targets. By legitimate targets I mean people who have actually had some measure of success in their professional lives, people who get published regularly in the mainstream press because, yes, they have a certain degree of talent, but moreso because they have something more to say on a weekly basis than “boo hoo” or “look ma, no hands.”

"Sadly, as one friend of mine put it recently, the internet is something of an “echo chamber,” and this means that even the flimsiest vitriol gets posted and reposted, annotated and updated ad nauseam until the accumulated pettifogging becomes a kind of beslobbered palimpsest that looks and reads like a snot rag."


Talk about slobber. "Earnest, original ideas"? You mean like you and your "journalist" pals spewing the the WH's propaganda-du-jour? At least some of us aren't parroting whatever piece of spurge comes out of Karl Rove's mouth day after day, or rolling over like obediant little lapdogs: "If I don't watch what I say or kiss the administration's ass they'll banish me from the press pool!" Mainstream press...the f*cking Charlie Brown cartoons get published regularly in the mainstream press, too, and we all know what tired pieces of pap those are.

Oh, and bite me.