instead of insulting daniel pipes shouldnt they instead be shooting another plame mommy dearest photo?

Just couldn't help myself! First!

Pipes vs. Wolcott now there's a real contest!

Dhimmi three steps,
Dhimmi three steps, Mister,
Dhimmi three steps towards the door.

Dhimmi three steps,
Dhimmi three steps, Mister,
And you'll never see me no more.

Vanity Fair? Thats a publication? Whooda thunk it.

"The attacks of September 11, 2001, made me feel more secure, unlike most Americans," Pipes writes. "Finally, the country was focused on issues that had long worried me.

yeah,
issues like when will they use whale oil lamps when the terrorists blow up our power terminals.

"He's a patronizing little shit miffed that no one marches to his baton."

Certain primitive narcissists confuse feces and phallus, then project it into others. In reality, Wolcott is being persecuted by his own projected fecal baton.

Isn't the correct phrase "lost control of his faculties"?

I still think Wolcott should be strapped to a pier in the path of an incoming hurricane so he can root for it.

I just googled up a bit of background research on this left wing snotnosed shitbird, Wolcott. He seems to have a bit of Manhattan Megalomania going on, thinks he talks to the weather and such, and fancies himself a Norse God or at least a wannabee. He seems to have memorized every wrong answer to to every question asked during the history of man. I think he may be one of our trolls.

Whassamatter Wolcott? I thought your type liked it when people spoke truth to power.

#9 gymnast

I think he may be one of our trolls.

You may have been joking but I know he does troll some well known blogs.

What an arrogant bastard. May he be kidnapped by 'insurgents' in Iraq then appear on an ugly net broadcast. I wonder, if in the moment before the knife started sawing into his fleashy neck if he might rethink his opinions on the GWOT.

ah crap, fleshy.

PIMF

I'm sure Wolcott stays awake at night, worried about what LGF thinks of him. Like gnats on the derriere of an elephant, you lot.

#11, lowandslow. Only half joking. The other half isn't.

Do you know anybody who actually reads Vanity Fair? Before you answer, subscriber who gets it to impress people who see it on the table does not count.

liberality, its all good. He loath's and ignores the likes of LGF and we return the sentiment. Seems like the only one worried about what the other side is talking about is you.

Merry Xmas anyways.

I want to say something bad about the Bush administration but if I do my door will be kicked in, I'll be kidnapped, pulled into Cheney's office, tortured with Eminem music, beaten and made to wear the same underwear for 3 days, and be forced to eat food from Kellog, Brown and Root. I know it is true, too, 'cause I saw it on the internet.

/sarc

#14

I am sure James Wolcott does not care about LGF. But who cares about James Wolcott?

Speaking of snot nosed shitbirds, How ya doin' liberality? Havin' a good Christmas Season? Well, Merry Christmas anyways.

I love the tone of his article. Typical liberal jacuse! when the liberal embodies everything theyre railing against. Wolcott couldnt carry Pipe's jock. Funny thing, the liberal mindset: expend all energy on phantom "enemys", meanwhile the real enemy pounds at the fucking gate, ready to chop off their heads. Wolcotts pen is as limp as his penis.

Like gnats on the derriere of an elephant, you lot.

You've got the size of his ass about right. This 'man' is a fatty-fatty-2x4. Right up there with Michael Moore who is definitely elephantine.

LIBERAL SHIT,

I'm sure Wolcott stays awake at night, worried about what LGF thinks of him. Like gnats on the derriere of an elephant, you lot.

why not go over to iraq and see if the terrorists can pull your head out of your ass to cut it off.

it's Pipes's character that lies exposed. He has no character. He's a patronizing little shit miffed that no one marches to his baton.

-- James POS Wolcott

I met Dr. Pipes when he came to give a lecture in my city. I recall him being a tall man, quiet, very thoughtful, who chooses his words carefully.

The truth is that before 9/11/01, Dr. Pipes was right about the Islamist threat when apologists for them like Prof. Esposito were talling people that there is nothing to worry about. The fact that people were not heeding Dr. Pipes' findings was to our disadvantage, as we found out unfortunately on Sept. 11.

As for James POS Wolcott, he has exposed himself as somebody who is a character assassin, a mean bastard who is doing his utmost to help the jihadi terrorists escape detection. The only thing that James POS Wolcott has right is that Dr. Pipes is a force that is fighting to help reveal the jihadi terrorists, and therefore James POS Wolcott sees Pipes as the logical target for his attacks.

a Pajamas Media blogger dredged up from some black lagoon.

I know the Creature from the Black Lagoon! He's huge in Florida politics and law, literally and figuratively.

Presumably Pipes would prefer to junk our outmoded jury system and replace it with a kangaroo court consisting of David Horowitz, Michelle Malkin, and a Pajamas Media blogger dredged up from some black lagoon.

Doesn't like Pajamas Media, does he?

Vanity Fair? The first fifty pages of each edition says it all. No...wait, the first fifty pages say nothing, they are no less than high value soft porn trying to sell us shit we don't need, that is, unless you are trying to keep up with the pretty people. Well, I must redact my initial assesment, the advertizing content does say it all, by way of illustration rather than exposition. The ad's images of physical perfection are in similitude with the equally nihilistic minds and agendas of the editors and writers within its folds.
Furthermore, this high end version of Hustler magazine contains nothing but the self appreciative musings of the bi-costal lefts elites pied pipers, layered between additional fillings of more yummy looking oh so sweet things. The whole magazine is an illusion and a fantasy. It is written by people who are detached from reality for people who are detached from reality, a circle jerk for our betters pleasure and satisfacton, a never ending group therapy session and mutual admiration society for a bunch of onanistic swells who have nothing to loose by their fallicious subterfuges, because they have to much of everything save their souls.

James Wolcott Roots for Death and Destruction, by Brian Carnell
[Link: www.leftwatch.com...]

As yet another hurricane threatened -- and later made landfall -- Florica, left wing nutcase James Wolcott described on his weblog how much he enjoys rooting for death and destruction from such storms

"I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast of Africa, I find myself longing for it to become big and strong -- Mother Nature's fist of fury, Gaia's stern rebuke ... sure, a hearty volano can be enjoyable. Burning rivers of lava: so picturesque. But a volcano is stationary... So there's something disappointing when a hurrican doesn't make landfall, or peters out into a puny Category One"

So far, as many as 14 people are believed to have died due to Hurrican Frances. Wolcott must have been positively jumping for joy at Gaia's revenge.

And this year's horrific hurricane that devastated New Orleans and elsewhere in that area must have made nihilist James POS Wolcott positively ecstatic.

As a nihilist, no wonder Wolcott roots for the jihadi terrorists, and wants to prevent their being discovered. Seeing the work of the jihadi terrorists must give Wolcott almost as much fun as seeing a hurricane kill people.

Daniel Pipes-A.B. & Ph.D. Harvard (history), taught at Harvard, University of Chicago, U.S. Naval War College, vice chairman Fulbright Board of Foreign Scholarships, Director of Middle East Forum, reads Arabic & German, speaks French.
James Wolcott--two years Frostburg State College, not much else except BDS. Oh wait, wrote "Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants." I'd love to see them debate like Hitchens and Galloway.

27 Ackomanyuki
Right on.
I was in the doctor’s office with some guy that kept rubbing with himself.
After he went in, I saw he was reading, fantasying,
with a vanity fair.
The damn thing stank like a French whore house.

/he wasnt rubbing his temples either.

James Wolcott--two years Frostburg State College, not much else except BDS. Oh wait, wrote "Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants." I'd love to see them debate like Hitchens and Galloway.

Probably why I never heard of him. Just another nutjob looking for the kind of attention lunacy breeds.

Hmmm...Once LGF mentions Wolcott, liberality runs over here comparing him to an elepant in stature. Is liberality James Wolcott?

Too bad there's no way to search Lileks site other than going through the Bleat archives page by page. I remeber a year or so back Wolcott took a swipe at Lileks, and Lileks ripped him a new one. Pipes should do the same.

JWM

#33, Bill Delasio. "Is liberality James Wolcott"? No, he is James Wolcott's unpaid fellator. At least he is reputed to be unpaid.

#30 ibmkeyboard

The damn thing stank like a French whore house.

I forgot to rail about those cologne patchs. Thanks for reminding me, now I can't get that cheap stench out of my mind.

James Wolcott: Most Loathsome?
[Link: www.colossusblog.com...]

Is it just me, or does anyone else think James Wolcott (no link provided) is the most loathsome blogger in the world? Consider these gems from his site in a recent hit piece on The Heritage Foundation's Dr. Nile Gardiner -- of whom I've never heard and whose work I've never read, but who will certainly go on my list after reading Wolcott's denunciation.

"In a review of Niall Ferguson's Colossus in The New Statesman ( a book which provides a handy solution for America's manpower shortage in keeping down the natives: 'If one adds together the illegal immigrants, the jobless and the convicts, there is surely ample raw material for a larger American Army ...'

This slur is supposed to be ... What, exactly? Funny? Edgy? Now initially I thought he might be just quoting Niall Ferguson out of irony, but in his closing paragraph, he repeats the slur:

"Gardiner not only championed Franks, but defended the indefensible Donald Rumsfeld, opining that he should stay on the job despite the recent kerfuffle over Humvee armor and insufficient numbers of confvicts and welfare cases to patrol the mean streets of Fallujah..."

So our Army is composed of "convicts and welfare cases." Indeed.

I thought I'd link to the Army's most recent demographic study.

Of the Enlisted soldiers in the US Army, at least 77.7% are high school graduates, and an additional 6.3% have some college. 4.3% have a BA or BS degree. .5% have a Masters or PhD. Add it together and you get 88.8% with a High School Degree or higher. Add in the GEDs and you end up with 95.3%.

Now from the census bureau, in the general over 18 population of the United States, 83.6% of the population reports a High School education or higher. Assuming that the Census Bureau is not counting GEDs in this group, for sake of argument, and the average Enlisted soldier in the US Army is 5.2% more likely to be a high school graduate.

This of course is excluding the officers. The Army reports taht 59% of their officers have BAs/BSs only, and an additional 35.5% have MAs and PhDs, and this means that 98.5% of the Army officers are college graduates.

Sound like a bunch of convicts and welfare cases to you?

Wolcott has lost control of his FACULTIES.

#14 "Like gnats on the derriere of an elephant, you lot."

gnats that carry a virus...

jwm,

Really why should he? I mean, if you think about it, Lileks really did this guy a favor by responding at all. I would have never known who he was absent Lileks lifting that rock (which he did brilliantly). For Lileks, the writer, to trade barbs with this buffoon is understandable. But for Pipes, a guy who trades on his judgement, to bother himself with a second stringer for a dying magazine wouldn't really do much for him. Rather than Hitchens versus Galloway, we'd be looking at something more akin to Victor Davis Hanson versus Arianna Huffington.

Unreadable crap! I'm sure the esteemed author is also fluent in Arabic, just like Dr. Pipes-so he knows exactly what the score is. And people don't lose their frikkin facilities-what an idiot!

#29 Lottamia

Its worse than you thought. . .

Wolcott's 'credentials' in his own words

Born in the battle-torn suburbs of Baltimore, James Wolcott attended Maryland's bitterly cold Frostburg State College for two years before hitting the interstate for New York City, where he was hired by The Village Voice against its better judgment, fired, and rehired.

Is that it, Wolcott?

Is THAT all you've got? Ad Hominem epithets and sneering and whining and pouting?

Is THAT ALL YOU'VE GOT, Wolcott?

#14 Lubrality

"the derriere of an elephant" = James Wolcott

nice simile.

do have a Merry Christmans now, wontcha?

#40 Bill Dalasio

Good point.

JWM

#34 jwm,

Too bad there's no way to search Lileks site other than going through the Bleat archives page by page. I remeber a year or so back Wolcott took a swipe at Lileks, and Lileks ripped him a new one. Pipes should do the same.

Is this the page you're referring to? It's a classic, in any case.

Vanity Fair is the same rag that ran that 10 page article about dirty military recruiters.
Their lead clown in the article was some guy that turned out to be crooked from the get go.

I wish I could find the link.
Would up sending it to Michelle M. (The true Divine Miss M, Not the singing skank Ho).

#27-Ohmanyucki : GREAT TURN OF PHRASE:
"...a never ending group therapy session and mutual admiration society for a bunch of onanistic swells who have nothing to loose by their fallicious subterfuges, because they have too much of everything save their souls."

Wow! I'm amazed! Couldn't have said it better, thanks, Amigo!

I kinda feel sorry for Wolcott

He is like many closeted gays who pussied out and got married and had kids, bitter, angry at the world, and hateful.

Mr. Wolcott is irrelevant.

I quit subscribing to Vanity Fair ages ago.
It wasn't worth all the left wing hysteria just to see celebrities deified in Annie Liebovitz's latest photos.

OT, sure, but somewhat related. Does anyone know of a transcript to the Hitchens/Ritter debate?

What better place for a vain fairy than Vanity Fair?

If Daniel Pipes is a patronizing little sh*t, then James Wolcott is a treasonous little c*cksucker who needs to be put against the wall and shot so he can fellate his Islamofacist splodeydope friends in hell.

And I mean every word of it. The LLLefties like to say "we're being to nice to those conservo-nazis"; I say we're being too nice to the Islamofacists and their willing accomplices on the LLLeft.

#14 deluded lib

Just like I lie awake at night wondering what traitors like yourself think of me.

For about 5 seconds. You hate me, I hate you. You want me dead, I could care less if you die. That's all there is to it.

Fuck you, fuck Vanity Fair, and fuck the fucking LLEft.

Number 7 Gagdad Bob

Certain primitive narcissists confuse feces and phallus, then project it into others. In reality, Wolcott is being persecuted by his own projected fecal baton.

You never fail amaze me.

Heh...He said "facilities"...heh, heh, gaaack, heh, doh!

 #53

ploome hineni  12/22/2005 05:51PM PST
I am glad I let my subscription lapse

too much heroin chic

But how will you know what to wear next season?

14 liberality

I'm sure gunga Dan Rather didn't lay awake at night worrying what LGF thought of him either, but I bet he wishes he had now.

Wolcott? Ho hum. Everytime I see his name, I immediately think of the fat, snotty Manhattanite who gets invited to the haunted house for dinner in "Beetlejuice." The character in the movie finds himself suddenly wearing a powder-blue leisure suit and shrieks like a scalded cat.

I do think Wolcott has something in common with Dorothy Parker - his estrogen level.

Vanity Fair - I get it occasionally. The articles, buried between bare-chested men & obnoxious perfume ads, are best when about the scandals of the rich & famous killing their "loved ones". It's a National Enquirer for the Priapus drivers.

Vanity Fair? The same Vanity Fair that featured this? Cindy Sheehan 'asleep' on son's grave

Wolcott isn't fit to lick the bottoms of Dr. Pipe's shoes.

_{[uh, that is not what I meant to say, but you all can figure it out!]}

Oh my gosh, he lost his facilities? From my read of young Master James while attending University he must have spent most of his time in the facilities and most certainly not listening to his faculty. Could be he was ignoring his faculties in the facilities to greater facilitate his felicities.
My god can't these idiots even get an insult right. Oh I forgot he would not care to hurt the inestimable Daniel Pipes self esteem.

I'm sure Wolcott stays awake at night, worried about what LGF thinks of him. Like gnats on the derriere of an elephant, you lot.

I bet Dan Rather does. He he he.

Vanity Fair is an onanistic frenzy of elitist consumerism and the bulletin board of the nexus of narcissistic fashionistas / journalistic liberlistas and nouveau riche limp-dickistas.

I used to enjoy VF before I became politically conscious. Now I can't stand it's effete, liberal-elitist snottyness.

VF can kiss my ass. Wolcott can eat the peanuts out of my stoole.

#64 Baldy

Priapus drivers? I think you meant, "Prius."

Even the cariciture on his website seems smug, condecending, and self-rightous. I think liberality's analogy to Wolcott being an elephant's ass is correct. Look at how much crap an elephant can produce in a lifetime. Go play with your "ocicats", you pissy little nancy boy.

Calling Wolcott a "TURD" is insulting to Turds...

Has anyone else noticed that all these lefty haters apart from their language abuse and minute intellects are physically ugly.
As the old saw goes beauty may only be skin deep but ugly goes right to the bone.
If I were as repulsive to look at as this chappy I'd hide away like a hermit and not make a public spectacle of myself.

Wolcott is actually a great example of self-loathing closeted Manhattan gayness. He's the poor-man's Gore Vidal.

He sees in Daniel Pipes an archetype of the man he wishes he were percieved as. Serious, intellectual, urbane in the true sense (not the prissy metrosexual Vanity Fair sense)

By projecting such loathing, Wolcott says more about himself than he does about Daniel Pipes. He is attempting to raise his own profile by defining himself in opposition to a TRULY consequential voice in the history of modern times.

Wolcott lacks imagination, and intellect, not to mention 'nads.

He's just another piss-ant limousine liberal Captain Queeg, trying to re-live his supposed heyday of the 60's.

Just die already Wolcott. There are enough of you around.

#72 Millie Woods

I have a theory about that. Beauty come from being confident, self-assured and comfortable with oneself. This clown isn't as evident in his apparent disdain for the 'the unwashed masses. This guy claimed to write about the punk scene? It would be interesting to see what he calls "punk"; I'm guessing recording label stooges like Green Day.

#73: EXACTLY! Concur yr analysis, and add that THAT is the reason I don't make a habit of vilifying others: it says MORE ABOUT ME than it can ever say about the object of my attention!

Millie:

Wolcott once made a crack about Jonah Goldberg's weight. Goldberg's response was to post, without comment, a link to a photo of Wolcott. Now, it's true that Jonah could stand to lose some weight, but it's obvious Wolcott doesn't let the dessert cart pass him by too often either.

It's like Wolcott sneered at Glenn Reynolds because he teaches at a Tennessee law school. Yeah, well, not all of us are privileged enough to have attended the hallowed halls of Frostburg State College.

Glenn Reynolds graduated from Yale, iirc.

#27 acko, brilliant, you left nothing out. vanity fair, the name says it all.

All this attention to this clown Wolcott. . .and what did he do to deserve it?

Barely worth spilling keystrokes over. . .

That link goes directly to Wolcott's own site. Eff* him and the horse he rode in on.

I don't need to know what Wolcott is saying. He's already got a big red hammer and sickle on his shirt.

Merry Christmas y'all,
GTC

#48 Ed Driscol:
That was it! Thanks for the link.
That Bleat was as every bit as good as I remember. Lileks pretty much beat Woolcot up and took his lunch money.

JWM

#27 Acko

Pipes need not respond. What an extremely well written and articulate post...onanistic swells? hahahaha
You just handed a VF leftist his (elephant) ass.

Vanity Fair’s resident vitriolic moonbat James Wolcott calls

Vanity what?

James WHO?

Sorry never heard of them. Must be a little magazine with limited circulation.

I hereby pronounce December 20, 2005; “Little Shit Day” as I march willfully to the baton of “Chief Little Shit” Daniel Pipes. I, who art thou “not miffed”; proudly proclaim my “little shitness” in solemn servitude and defense of our great nation against that which has pledged to destroy us.

Richard “tiny shit” Bacon

How can these people get any lower?

#74 portolan:
I'm sure this guys definition of punk is arthouse fag shit like pere ubu, or public image limited. Usually, the critics loved the watered down bull, as opposed to the good stuff. (Flipper/Ramones/Misfits)

closeted Manhattan gayness. He's the poor-man's Gore Vidal.

Honey, if you think anyone in Manhattan has to be closeted, you need to leave Podunk, Kansatecky every once in awhile.

I suppose that one side-benefit of the blogs are that you realize just how poor the print media really is... I could have invested more of my time to read Wolcott's rant, but why bother. I can read comments just a cogent here (and many more so). Which is indeed faint praise for LGF.

There is one thing to write a rant like Wolcott's in a beer induced haze to your favorite blog, quite another to put those same thoughts into print... Give Wolcott another beer and tell to stfu.

Two comments: 1) as a human owned by three non-pedigree cats (your basic domestic shorthair models, in other words), I've always felt sorry for James Wolcott's ocicats. He's the kind who has to have the latest "in" breed, meaning that his cats are simply decorator accessories.

2) I wonder if he ever thinks about the origin of the name of his mag. There was a time when most English kids would have known at once that it comes from Pilgrim's Progress, a classic of Christian literature written by an (ugh, shudder!) uneducated seventeenth-century Nonconformist (hold your vomit, James!) preacher named John Bunyan.

Here is a quotation from Chapter 6 of Pilgrim's Progress:

Then I saw in my dream, that, when they were got out of the wilderness, they presently saw a town before them, and the name of that town is Vanity; and at the town there is a fair kept, called Vanity Fair. It is kept all the year long...

Therefore at this fair are all such merchandise sold as houses, lands, trades, places, honors, preferments, titles, countries, kingdoms, lusts, pleasures, and delights of all sorts, as whores, bawds, wives, husbands, children, masters, servants, lives, blood, bodies, souls, silver, gold, pearls, precious stones, and what not.

And, moreover, at this fair there are at all times to be seen juggling, cheats, games, plays, fools, apes, knaves, and rogues, and that of every kind.

Here are to be seen, too, and that for nothing, thefts, murders, adulteries, false swearers, and that of a blood-red color.

...if someone tells me they read Vanity Fair...I already know...

they aint cool

Seen Jabba the Wolcott?

"[C]heck out that picture of "Captain Ed" in the corner. Doesn't he resemble a kiddie show host you'd rather not have around the kids?" -- James Wolcott

A little projection perhaps? Is James Wolcott fighting the urge to cruise the parks & playgrounds with a bag of candy in his van?

"A hero for our time" -- James Wolcott on Saddam's shill Galloway

James Wolcott: who the f**k is he?

James Wolcott?

Oh yeah, I remember, the character who was having breast hallucinations.

60 MikalM - I was joking. Though, I like to read it, and I've...

Is this guy writing stream of consciousness?

Daniel Pipes and his beard have been brooding upon the darkness looming behind the flickering flames of the satanic mills of Halliburton and Bechtel. The end of the old year and the prospect of the new are a traditional time to take inventory, and as Pipes tallies the positives and negatives of the global picture, item after item is stacked in the loss column. First Bush let him down, and now the American people themselves are proving an acute disappointment. Bitten by the spirit of Festivus, Pipes starts early with "the Airing of Grievances," and he has a lot of problems with you people. The promising momentum of 9/11 has been fumbled at midfield as the dumbkopf fans make like lumps in the stands, feeding their faces.

Reminds me of Family Guy:

Brian: Do you even listen to yourself when you talk?

Peter: I drift in and out.

But this is only vintage James Wolcott. His envy of the more talented and better liked is too conspicuous to be denied -- and apparently, too intense for him to hold inside.

Whoops, sorry, that first link should have been like this.

Wolcott refers to the regulars on this site as "wharf rats".

Hilarious.

It's not like Pipes is racist:

"West European societies are unprepared for the massive immigration of brown-skinned peoples cooking strange foods and not exactly maintaining Germanic standards of hygiene." - Daniel Pipes

Anyone know why Mr. Pipes is no longer with the United States Institute of Peace?

That WAS a recess appointment, no?

#98 HVT 12/23/2005 06:48AM PST Wolcott refers to the regulars on this site as "wharf rats".

Hmmm ... how often do YOU come to this site, Wharf?

Hilarious!

I think Vanity Fair is aptly named. They let vain fools like Wilson and Sheehan discredit themselves.

#87 liberality,

In my experience, the only people who use references like Podunk, Kansatecky are people from Podunk, Kansatecky and are just ever so impressed about how much more sophistimatcated they've become than the "folks back home". Quit being such a poseur.

finally someone takes this yellow bellied asshat on

thanks Charles

If you think Charles is tough, you should read how James Lileks carve him a new one last Christmas after Wolcott was bitching about him.

Perhaps. Perhaps it just me; Hulk dumb. Hulk want clerk say Merry Christmas. But I’m actually quite relaxed about the matter. I don’t care if the clerks don’t say Merry Christmas. Big deal. What amuses me is the sense of annoyance I detect when I say Merry Christmas to them. Aw, you had to do and say it. Now I gotta say it back to you or you’re going to think I don’t believe in Merry Christmas. Christ! The very words have taken on a peculiar charge in the retail world, and I think that’s interesting.

But again: if people use the phrase in a certain segment of a narrow island attached to the East Coast, I’m obviously talking through my hat. My tall, multi-level POPE HAT, worn for entries just like these.