Brilliant
Filed Under (Hypocrisy, Tyranny at home) by Don C on 26-03-2008
The blogosphere is not about free speech, initiating dialogue, speaking your mind, sharing your perverse views with others who may not have heard them before, or being the kind of dick who just pisses a whole bunch of people off to no purpose. It’s about climbing the ladder. The mainstream media is dying. The blogosphere is a tournament to determine who will replace them.
So, successful blogging is not about being a decent writer with original content and interesting, original takes on the events of the day?
You know the book, “Everything I Need to Know in Life I Learned in Kindergarten”? Same principle applies here. Blogging is like coloring. You have to stay inside the lines. You can pick any outrageous color you want, and people will love you to death for your color choices (tits are the best colors, and PhotoShops of Hillary), but just remember to STAY INSIDE THE FUCKING LINES.
Okay, so it’s more of an echo chamber? That explains a lot.
Instapunk Update:
On the off chance that this post wasn’t servile enough, I want to take this opportunity to apologize personally to Ace of Spades, 2007 Conservative Blogger of the Year, for any implication or inference by OldPunk that Ace is somehow an ambitious, illiterate, sex-pandering, gay wannabe, one-joke practitioner of blogorrhea, meaning the nonstop posting of absolutely nothing just because the topic happens to be in the news and maybe we can dig up a mildly related old YouTube video that has tits and ass to boot.
I remember when Ace was just getting started it seemed he was forever humping Glenn’s leg like a little dog in hopes of a link. Coming from someone as sophomoric as Ace I was quite surprised that such a strategy would work with Glenn. So here we are four years later, Ace is conservative blogger of the year and has 21 million hits while I am hoping to reach 100K by the end of the year and have but a handful of people who link to my site (thank you all.) Thanks be to God for Google and the other search engines that apply a less personality and ego based objectivity when searching out relative content.
What really pisses me off is that so many of the blogs in “The Blogrolls” of almost every ‘A’ site are dead links. Anyone who knows anything about lists is that lists require management. The longer the list, the more list management required. The A-Listers would rather have a dead link than to color OUTSIDE THE FUCKING LINES.
I may be an idiot, but I am not an idiot like Ace. Until now I had no idea how an idiot like Ace could be so successful. My thanks to Instapunk for clearing it up for me.
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The subtext of the above brilliance is another piece of brilliance where InstaPunk had the balls to utter the word nigger.
Here’s the dirty secret all of us know and no one will admit to. There ARE niggers. Black people know it. White people know it. And only black people are allowed to notice and pronounce the truth of it. Which would be fine. Except that black people are not a community but a political party. They can squabble with each other in caucus but they absolutely refuse to speak the truth in public. And this is the single biggest obstacle to healing the racial divide in this country. The dammed-up flood of good will in this nation for black people who want to work for their own American Dream is absolutely enormous. The biggest impediment is the doubt created in each and every non-black American by the clannish, tribalist, irrational defense of every low act committed by any black person. If you’re offended when Republicans defend Richard Nixon or when Democrats defend Chuck Schumer, imagine what it’s like when black people swarm the streets to defend Jeremiah Wright.
Yep, you definitely colored outside the lines there, my friend. But that’s okay, my nigga, because I like to color outside the lines myself from time to time.
know whats funny? Everybody thinks they are free people when they go out of their homes and that any of this crazy racial shit matters. It’s just another way the the fucking politicians keep everybody fighting amongst themselves while they do what the fuck they want, which usually involves putting our money in their pockets.
It could be worse, dude. You could be a “Z”-lister, like me. Not that I mind, really. What I don’t get is how some of these quys that I quit reading long ago because of their puerile bullshit are now on the tippytop of the hill.
Thanks for the kind words.
You are welcome to join us at Instapunk. We have some rules about posting, meaning I get to say yay or nay. But you also might like the rules underlying that. No AOS pandering, no out-and-out political candidate advocacy disguised as blogging, no desire to join the mainstream cable pundit class, no tolerance for nonsense on either side of the political aisle.
Take a look through our archives. We are satirical, serious, irreverent, nasty, obsessive about good writing, and so independent we’ve been more or less blackballed by all the leading conservative blogs.
But we have a following of sorts, and if there were more of us, we might begin to constitute the kind of force that Moveon and DemocraticUnderground have become on the left — meaning not that we have specific political objectives, but that we remain fiercely independent bloggers. We do NOT have to agree about everything.
If you — or your blogging frinds — are interested, email me.
I’ve been wondering if that’s the royal “we” or if you actually have a few people writing over there.
Thanks for the offer. I’ll consider it but lately I have been too angry to say much of anything worthwhile. All I can think to say is stuff along the lines of, “Fuck you, you bunch of stupid fucking morons!”
I think it has to do with a recent medication change.