Steve Newton Calls Out Delaware Liberal…Again
Over at Delaware Libertarian, Tyler Nixon writes about Steve Newton’s appearance on Mike Matthew’s Delaware Talk Radio show. Apparently, Delaware Liberal is responsible for the demise of the Delaware blogosphere, so does that make us the Delaware blogosphere? 😉
You can start listening at the 2 minute mark.
Tags: Blogosphere, Delaware
I listened to that prior to this being published and it looks like Steve can start a little cottage industry bashing Delaware Liberal. (Steve, get with Nancy and form an Llc.)
My bone to pick with Libertarians is that they ALL came up pretty small during the Bush years. I’m sure they’ll get on the high horse again now that it looks like a Democrat will be in the White House.
As Steve moans and winges for the next 8 years I’ll laugh my ass off recalling the utter silence created by high mineded “Libertarians” during Bush’s term.
For what it’s worth, I don’t perceive Steve as particularly bashing Delaware Liberal so much as pointing out the general descent into assholery that many of us (myself included) have perhaps fallen victim to at times as the election grows nearer and the stakes grow higher.
If anything, I think the reason he points to Delaware Liberal is obvious – this has arguably become the nexus of the DE blogosphere. While you could perceive what he said about the site as a “bashing,” I think it’s more constructive to be happy that the site is relevant enough to warrant this sort of discussion in the first place. All publicity is good publicity after all…
I, For One, Welcome Our New Delaware Liberal Overlords.
Now, we just need to get paid.
Agreed, JohnnyX, which is why I’ve decided to take all these discussions and opinions on how DL should be run in a complimentary manner.
“As Steve moans and winges for the next 8 years I’ll laugh my ass off recalling the utter silence created by high mineded “Libertarians” during Bush’s term.”
I’m positive that Steve and other libertarians have consistently called out the flawed policies and abuses of Bush and “Bush Republicans.” Just because you fail to acknowlege it doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened.
mike w, it is obvious you did not listen to Steve Newton’s interview, because if you had, your comment would have been greatly different.
Johnny X is right. DL is the Delaware Blogosphere. And he is right, the descent into assholery, the overtly partisan nature recently of our posts and comments, are the necessary and expected result of a contested election.
We will get back to normal and niceties after we kick the asses of all Republicans in the election.
JohnnyX is right. Many of the comments digress into quips and insults (yours truly’s included). But I think what he fails to understand is that this blog falls somewhere on the Spectrum between Perez Hilton and Gawker on one end and Politico and The Daily Dish on the other. And probably close to the former than the latter.
Hey I like you cats, I really do. (Except Mike W. and Hube, I would run through rifle fire to spit in their faces), but when people called Nemski and Donsquishy are contributors what does he expect, The Causus on NYT online?
Can I just say how much I love seeing the phrases “descent into assholery” and “JohnnyX is right” in print? It’s a beautiful thing.
Also, “run through rifle fire to spit in their faces” is…man…I’m using that one. Nice, DG, nice!
I would run through rifle fire to spit in their faces
You’re welcome to try it, too. Just remember the word “retaliation,” you Neanderthalic moron.
Oh my…LOL @ Hube! Good stuff…
Wudda bunch of whiney, little poonannies!
It’s come out, Hube, that Neanderthals were just as intelligent as humans.
Actually, the new understanding of their disappearance is that they never disappeared at all. Their line was diluted by mating with humans….like you, Hube!…i think.
VC your comment reminded me of that SNL sketch
You’re a Von Cro-magnon!
(’cause Australopithecus330 just wasn’t funny enough.)
DD’s Asshole comment that proves the rule of why there is a contention about quality of blogging here: “DL is the Delaware Blogosphere”.
Pathetic.
“… I think the reason he points to Delaware Liberal is obvious – this has arguably become the nexus of the DE blogosphere. ”
I view Delaware Liberal as more like a Herpes sore on the nutsack of an adversary. You cringe when you look at it but, at the same time, you’re rather pleased and amused that it’s there.
miscreant, gotta give you props for the herpes analogy because well to be honest it’s hilarious.
We need a new herpes inspired slogan for the top of the page. Perhaps “You can try to forget about us, but we’re always there…”
I mean, come on! Some of those French guys still look neanderthal-ish…
Didn’t see the skit, J, but it sounds funny.
What does it say about Miscreant that he enjoys herpes so much that he keeps coming back for more?
It may mean that miscreant is the transmission vector.
For what’s it’s worth: Mike specifically told me that he intended to ask about that post–primarily because he agreed with it? What the hell was I supposed to do, say, “Sorry, Mike, the folks at DL think I’m off base, so I won’t talk about it?”
As for jason’s inane comment that the interview shows I don’t bash Bush, Mike didn’t ask anything about Bush, you idiot. And I certainly bashed McCain far more than I even spoke about Obama: in fact, if you listen, I criticized his choice of Palin and said that it displeased his corporate masters. What the hell do you want–genuflection?
What DL conveniently omits is the fact that the “calling out” part of the conversation consumed, at most, 3 minutes of a 45 minute interview, the rest of which revolved around Mike’s questions about third parties and ballot access. But since jason didn’t bother to listen past the part with his name in it, I guess he didn’t get it.
[Besides, jason has yet to note here that on DWA he had to admit when called out that he could not find a single pro-Bush comment ever published by me. He’d like to forget that admission, I’m sure.]
As for jason’s narrative [thank you for that useful term, cassandra, that Libertarians were silent during the Bush years, here’s the problem: his logic. You can’t simultaneously argue that Libertarians are an inconsequential part of the political spectrum [as jason often does] and then criticize them because you can’t find any pronouncements in the MSM media outlets–since the MSM devoutly refuses to cover them.
If jason had either the wit or the personal integrity to go back and look at eight years of Libertarian Party press releases–that being the simplest source for a simple mind to find–he’d find eight years of condemnation of the Bush administration.
jason, you keep making it up–I’ll keep using small words to explain it to you.
One last point: I will freely give you that many libertarian-leaning Republicans did not criticize the Bush administration, but they’re about as much Libertarians as Zell Miller and Joe Lieberman are Democrats. Happy now, jason?
‘We need a new herpes inspired slogan for the top of the page. Perhaps “You can try to forget about us, but we’re always there…”’
now that’s funny. 🙂
too much wrong with steves comment for me to reply by iPhone.
Will demolish his logical fallicies later.
I love the herpes analogy!! Right now it’s having a flare-up, so just like the doctor says we shouldn’t engage…
jason
whenever you get off the phone, have at it
You got it. The rhetorical decapitation will happen either Sunday or Monday.