The Daily Caller on the Journolist: "Religion of Resentment, Rage, Intolerance" and " Total Absence of Hotness."
It's rare that I come across an article that deeply offends me. But this disgusting, ridiculous post by Mark Judge in the Daily Caller is about as offensive and crazy as it gets.
Was the Journolist a good idea? Probably not. Was it a massive conspiracy to promote liberal causes in the media? Of course not. But neither of those are even the arguments that Mark Judge wants to make. Instead, he wants to debate their "hotness."
Coming from someone who's certainly not a model himself, his post manages to offend those on the Journalist in almost every conceivable way. On the first page alone, he refers to them as "dogs," "orcs," and "losers." Not to mention his suggestion that perhaps conservatives are simply more attractive than liberals.
But wait there's more--on the second page he really gets going, painting us a picture of Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, and numerous journalists in their "high school" roles. Palin and Obama, of course, are the pretty people, while journalists are the "school newspaper nerds."
It's hard to believe the light-hearted jokes on the Journolist became the subject of so much controversy, while articles like this--written and posted publicly--receive little to no criticism at all. Is this really a mindset we want anyone to have? Much less someone with a metaphorical "microphone"?
That said, perhaps we shouldn't give it attention. Perhaps more controversy and criticism would only stir the pot and send more people in radical and scary directions like Mark Judge. Maybe if we just let him sit and seethe in the corner telling dirty jokes to the wall, everyone will forget about him and he'll fade off into obscurity.
We can hope.
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