Jeff Jarvis says it better than I could. Two things that are especially awful about this:
1. There are relatively few well-known conservative black media personalities. Armstrong Williams was one. Ken Hamblin is still out there; who else...
2. If NCLB is as good as the Bush administration believes it is, then you don't need to buy publicity. All this time we've made fun of Democrats for needing to rely on paid "grassroots" canvassers to do the things Republican volunteers did for free.
Posted by Matt Bruce at January 8, 2005 10:56 AMI think the Steve Gilliard/Jonah Goldberg smackdown has become much more entertaining than the original scandal.
Posted by: M.S. at January 8, 2005 12:05 PMGilliard was in the right (and made NRO look awful), but how can you even take seriously a guy whose prose style just begs for a "Go fuck yourself" response?
So there's a whole bunch of people he just thinks are scum; fine, he's entitled to his opinion. Reading prose like that is still a complete waste of time.
Posted by: me at January 8, 2005 03:55 PMOh, Gilliard's personality is way out there. I remember him from when I lurked on alt.showbiz.gossip in the mid-1990s and he's always written that way so that's why I like seeing him writing again. I find him extremely entertaining, but for the whole discussion, the entertainment value far exceeds the edification value.
Posted by: M.S. at January 9, 2005 12:02 PM