Friday, August 21, 2009

One boss, two boss, old boss, new boss


Watching La Digs try her hand at shepherding is glorious indeed. She continues to harangue certain lefty voters, whom she persists in believing were responsible for Al Gore's double-aught pseudo-loss to Kennebunkport's most prodigal sometimes son (they weren't), even as she concedes that the "mushy centrism of the Clinton years" drove them away, even as she modestly rages that the mushy centrism of the Obama year is doing the same. Why anyone would expend so much energy assuring a voting group that it is mandatory for them to endorse candidates who are sure to sell them out is rather beyond me, but it makes for an enjoyable entertainment.

Via Al and Alan.

Posted by IOZ at 11:16 AM | email »
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14 comments:

Solar Hero said...

Off topic, as they say, but check out Counterpunch's front page -- Cockburn compares Novak to -- guess who? -- Hunter S. Thompson, calling Novak the right's "gonzo."

You are so ahead of the curve. Or maybe old man Cockburn just stole the idea from you....

11:49 AM
mds said...

Why anyone would expend so much energy assuring a voting group that it is mandatory for them to endorse candidates who are sure to sell them out is rather beyond me

Now we see the ennui inherent in the system. I'm hazily beginning to suspect that there is no great man who will rescue us.

Oh, and has anyone ever seen Alexander Cockburn and IOZ together? I certainly haven't. In retrospect, "Cockburn" probably should have been a giveaway.

12:57 PM
AlanSmithee said...

Must have had something to do with Nutroots Nation. All of a sudden the pwoggie blogs are trying to kick their peons into line and make them cough up for some Act Blue piece of shit. It's the demotard version of pay for play, but without any play.

1:21 PM
Anonymous said...

Using Banksy to illustrate anything other than Banksy is crap is an unwise decision.

1:49 PM
Mr.Fundamental said...

Ha ha charade you are.

3:00 PM
Sam said...

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3:12 PM
Anonymous said...

Had Nader not run in 2000 Gore would have won and today every last one of us would have a rainbow unicorn.
Now you may find rainbow unicorns mockable, but I want mine, damn it!

4:41 PM
PwoggieBwoggie said...

HAHAHAHA....wow, Wi'l Alan Smiffy has parlayed his one-note shtick as the World's Angriest Adolescent into a full-on BLAWG....that is awesome. Hey Alan, make sure to let all your sockpuppet friends post too, just to keep it fresh....Bwahahahaha!

4:59 PM
SteveB said...

Sorry, but I missed the part where she wrote that it's "mandatory" for us to support the Democrats. Could you point that sentence out for me, please?

Your continued villification [sic] of those that supported Nader in 2000 (see Ioz, et al.) is truly lulzworthy

A little touchy, aren't we? Do you often feel you're being "villified"?

I'm sure I'm missing all kinds of nasty barbs aimed at us Nader 2000 voters, but all I saw is basically the same argument I used with angry Dems after the 2000 election, which was: "Damn right I put Bush in the White House, and I'll do it again if you don't kneel down and cater to my every whim!" Lots more fun than pretending you don't have any influence over anything.

6:08 PM
Sam said...

Sorry, but I missed the part where she wrote that it's "mandatory" for us to support the Democrats. Could you point that sentence out for me, please?

I really don't care, but the pwahgs have demonstrated time and time again they revel in feeding the hand that slaps them.

As for the rest of it, there were a lot more Dems that voted for Bush than for Nader...which is why I find all the thanksralphery so amusing!

"Twelve percent of Florida Democrats (over 200,000) voted for Republican George Bush"
-San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 9, 2000

8:02 PM
Anonymous said...

Lots more fun than pretending you don't have any influence over anything.

Pretending you do have influence DOES sound pretty fun. Roleplaying isn't for everyone though

8:31 PM
mds said...

Do you often feel you're being "villified"?

I often feel I'm being vitrified, but only when someone's told me to "stay glassy."

pwahgs

Okay, could we at least standardize the term used for mocking the indistinguishable Monolithic Left(TM)? "Pwoggie" makes some sense, with its contemptuous invocation of a Peter Cook vibe. I'm not even sure how to pronounce "pwahg."

Of course, if it's a term of scorn specifically for "pwogressive bloggers," I withdraw my objection and hail the coiner as a linguistic genius.

9:38 PM
Anonymous said...

Uh, Steve-O, she might not be silly enough to think she can order people to vote this way or that, but it would seem clear by the nature of her anecdote that she sees no point in resisting your duty to support the lesser of two evils. She's sorta like Sisyphus without the self-awareness.

8:37 AM
Anonymous said...

Look, it's all quite simple once you understand Digby's premises:

1. The Democrats exist to advance Leftist causes.

2. Therefore, when the Democrats fail to even pretend to try to advance Leftist causes and in fact actively work to undermine them, it confuses some weak-minded Leftists, who end up thinking (absurdly) that the Democrats won't advance Leftist causes, and they end up voting for loony egomaniacs who are totally irrelevant and laughable, and who also destroyed the world in 2000.

3. This is the only reason why it's important for the Democrats to at least pretend to try to advance Leftist causes, because otherwise those weak-minded Leftists will veer off course, and we won't get the Democrats in power, and since the Democrats advance Leftist causes, those causes won't get advanced.

10:47 AM

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