Still excited from his recent foray in hagiographic critical reportage and analysis on the life and legacy of his still dead boss, Tim Blair - who two out of three right wing Americans regard as Oceania’s number one blogger - momentarily removes his nose from the Packer family posterior and takes a stab at speaking truth to power. Don’t you know Tim? Even as a hoax the little red diaries represent a greater truth, just like fake turkeys.
Thanks for the traffic Tim, if you didn’t exist we’d have to invent you mate.
So as we see the close of 2005 and continue old battles into 2006, I’d like to extend my personal wish and hope that all LP readers have a rewarding 2006…..happy new year to everyone.
interesting - since when is Catallaxy a Leftoid blog?
You think, Jason. Welcome to THE LEFT, you’ll find your red flag, blue stockings, Little Red Book, union ticket and subscription to eureka street in the introductory package. Don’t forget to sign your member’s card.
Welcome, comrade Jason!
You’ll find that the left is a homogenous grouping: everyone in it has exactly the same opinions all the time and is completely agreed upon aims and methods. There are zero sectarian splits and no bitter, personal intra-factional politics whatsoever.
It has to do with thinking, in Blair’s world a thoughtful piece by any real Conservative or Libertarian that properly explores an issue is equated with radical leftism.
Ya’ll are just gunna have to stop using them there big words in your posts at Galaxy to git any respekt from Timbo…
On a serious note, I really think that the Libertarians should stop playing footsie with the kind of conservative represented by the neo con right. These guys are no ones friends or intellectual/political partners.
Even in jest, Blair equating Catallaxy with the left shows the depths to which intellectual thought has sunk in his brand of conservatism.
With Blair, isn’t it the usual pattern that it turns out to be a joke only if people are offended enough?
I knew Young Jason was a commie the instant he said he was a fan of Hayek.
Dead giveaway that
2006 will see the return of Homer Paxton. Please?
Check out the blog add that pops up on the second link (he hated governments telling him what to do). Blair seems to be an PETA supporter? Maybe all this right wing bluster is a joke?
Interesting to see “Singing Bridges” included as a leftoid blog too. Pace Phil Gomes, I doubt that the problem Tim has is specifically with thinking on blogs - it’s more likely “leftoid” equals blogs that Tim dislikes intensely for whatever reason - such as that they beat him out of a $10,000 dollar prize.
Tim Blair’s popularity amongst Americans is understandable. Any parody of a journalist would be.
Phil has mentioned that Blair is aware of the PETA adds so don’t be all that amused. I mean you can chuckle a little but not worth having a good laugh about.
If I shared Tim’s politics I’d find the PETA ad highly amusing.
I do have Jason on record as supporting the Bolshevik and French Revolutions, so perhaps Tim Blair’s comments aren’t so crazy after all.
Happy new year Phil.
In relation to Catallaxy - I think Tim mistakes “open-minded” for “left-wing”.
So, Steve, you’d support the ancien regime of Louis XVI as the paragon of enlightenment modernity?
I would, besides look how well the Revolution went!
Cult Of The Supreme Being and all that jazz. (wasn’t that one of the alternative names for LP?)
Nevermind that in the only truly democratic election during all those years (March 1797), the people tried to vote in… monarchist revivalists! Perhaps a cry for sanity, after the revolutionaries so distinguished themselves between 1789 and the Reign of Terror.
Of course the enlightened but comparitively moderate revolutionaries (5th time lucky, I believe it was), having eased even Robespierre of his headly burden, decided that the people are perhaps not the best choice for enlightened modernity. Enter Napolean.
Yeah, it went wonderfully well, a revolution that produced sect after sect of fringe rulers who outdid the last in ruthlessness. I guess that’s why it holds such a special place in the hearts of some left of centre types, coulda woulda shoulda.
And I might add that the paragon of anything is dependant on someone else not having a better idea. Was Louis XVI the best of all possible leaders? Definately not, but was he really any worse then those that preceeded or succeeded him?
If anything he copped a raw deal only because the system he represented had a less then stellar past, and not one of his own making. Reading some French historians and he seems to be painted in a more favourable light these days, a good man that just wasn’t up to the task, and ultimately a scapegoat for the revolutionaries.