Wingnut Contest

Kevin Drum is running a contest for the worst wingnut blog posts of all-time. Unsurprisingly, Glenn Reynolds is one of the nominees.

Reynolds disses Glenn Greenwald for attacking his post. Reynolds links to another post he wrote in defense of his views. He never linked to the Greenwald piece. It is an unwritten blog law to not attack another blogger's post and and link to it. Reynolds does this all the time. He really is that insecure.

This is the wingnuttery that Drum and Greenwald rightfully point out as terrible.

Yeah, there has been a lot of pro-war gloating. And I guess that Dawn Olsen's cautionary advice about gloating is appropriate. So maybe we shouldn't rub in just how wrong, and morally corrupt the antiwar case was. Maybe we should rise above the temptation to point out that claims of a "quagmire" were wrong -- again! -- how efforts at moral equivalence were obscenely wrong -- again! -- how the antiwar folks are still, far too often, trying to move the goalposts rather than admit their error -- again -- and how an awful lot of the very same people who spoke lugubriously about "civilian casualties" now seem almost disappointed that there weren't more -- again -- and how many people who spoke darkly about the Arab Street and citizens rising up against American "liberators" were proven wrong -- again -- as the liberators were seen as just that by the people they were liberating. And I suppose we shouldn't stress so much that the antiwar folks were really just defending the interests of French oil companies and Russian arms-deal creditors. It's probably a bad idea to keep rubbing that point in over and over again.

Nah.

My all-time favorite wingnut post is by John Hunderaker. I can never really get mad at Power Line. I find their wingnutery too damn funny. Unfortunately, comedy isn't Hinderaker's intenntion.

It must be very strange to be President Bush. A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius, he can't get anyone to notice. He is like a great painter or musician who is ahead of his time, and who unveils one masterpiece after another to a reception that, when not bored, is hostile.

Reynolds and Power Line are the gift that keeps on giving to the Left. Thank the blogging Gods for Conservative lawyers.