loon pond: Tim Blair, little green footballs, and maintaining a purity of line …
Blair is perhaps the most tedious of the ratpack of Chairman Rupert’s ragbag of ratpackers, compulsively, obsessively monomaniacal in his output, usually involving a sly set of links, packaged with gadfly innuendos and short form telegrammatic implications designed to maintain Blair’s status with his followers, along with a firm denialism in relation to the environment, and whatever else trendies, hippies and greenies might have in their canvas shopping bags (as if there’s anything wrong with plastic bags made from a decent oil spill).
Think there might be something that can be done to help improve the environment? Forget it. Blair’s the go to guy for an explanation about how raping and pillaging the environment is perfectly good fun.
These days it’s a depressing slog through the relentless persecutory Blair’s luddite reductionist vision of the world, but very so often, there’s a lift to the spirits, as when Blair revived his war with the blog little green footballs.
Having abandoned right wing monomania in a quest for rationality, lgf is a favourite target of Blairites, but they play a tough kind of football in America. You see, in the world of Blair, a rigorous addiction to one line of thought, and a denunciation of anyone who wavers or deviates from the line, is as firm and authoritarian as was once managed by readers of Mao’s little red book.
Tim Blair, Ignorant Slut was a recent lgf rejoinder to one of Blair’s observations about anti-Israel comments on the site, which in turn, left the TB “IS” scrabbling for a retort, until he hit on the fiendish notion of calling lgf’s Charles Johnson “agitated”.
Wow. Blair deploys the full panoply of outrage with a vocabulary that would turn the other Johnson, Dr Samuel, green with envy.
Oops, we shouldn’t say green with envy. Green’s a naughty word. Perhaps Brown with envy would do.
Johnson maintained his agitation with a follow up:
Ignorant slut Tim Blair replies, and says I’m “agitated.”
Actually, there’s nothing agitated in this post. Blair’s just a right wing clown doing tricks for his Murdoch owned paper, and I couldn’t be less “agitated” at his continuing smear attempts—the correct word is “scornful.”