Nice piece comparing LGF style with idiot (IMHO) Paul Mulshine’s ” “professional journalism”
(Couple of weeks old)
Excerpt:
Charles Johnson reacted to Mulshine’s ravings by calling them “paleocon potshots”. That’s a pretty good characterization of Mulshine; a “paleocon”, as in someone so out of touch he’s basing his worldview on how things were in eons past. Under the LGF posting there are almost 500 comments, running generally unfavorable to Mulshine’s point of view, and containing some very civil and serious rebuttals of his assertions. There are also a handful of pro-Mulshine posters, who are met with polite rebuttals.
Contrast that with the smattering of comments attached to Mulshine’s article. There actually were more, but labeling himself as “Blogdor the Terminator”, Mulshine has taken to deleting any comment that dares to contradict him:
“I really can’t educate every naive neocon in the nature of conservative thought. From now on, Blogdor the Terminator will delate all entries that do not begin with an explanation of why Bush decided to hand control of Iraq to the terror group that truck-bombed the U.S. embassy in Kuwait on Dec. 12, 1983.”
When I read the comment thread last night, there was a very thoughtful post from a citizen of Kosovo challenging Mulshine’s assertions about the burned churches and asking him to explain his desire to return the Serbs to power (so they could, presumably, complete their genocide). Blogdor the Terminator deleted that comment. He also erased some postings by LGF readers who attempted to engage him in dialog.
Mulshine lives in the old-school world of newspaper pre-eminence. Under that paradigm, the newspaper columnist wrote out his thoughts, and us common folks were expected to passively feast on his wisdom. By virtue of his exalted position his words were to be accepted as Truth, and woe unto he who dared to question them. His lot was to venture into the labyrinthian mysteries of writing letters to the editor, which if they were published, were also subject to “editing for clarity” by the very same people he was attempting to challenge