just today more...on that phony Russiagate fake news story...

[Matthew Taylor]

I'm not a huge fan of Sam Kriss generally, but he's certainly on the mark
in that Slate piece. The collective delusion and hysteria of the soft
centrist liberals as they fail to contend with their irrelevance in the
face of an ever more gruesome yet powerful right and a nascent yet
increasingly viable left is never more apparent than when they fawn over
Garland's deranged, paranoid, amphetamine-fueled tweetstorms of utter
nonsense.

What's next? Some red-baiting and accusing me of being a tool of the
kremlin is in store, I presume?

On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Oh, I am more than familiar with that particular bit of condescending,
> self-contradictory, willfully blind, point-missing, pig-obstinate nonsense
> from the ever more bizarre Slate.
>
> Let me see if I can find the definitive rebuttal I read back when it first
> shit-I mean hit the interwebs.
>
> YOPJ
>
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 2:41 PM, Thomas <uzs7lz at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>
>> I don't know Eric Garland or his tweets so cannot say anything
>> first-hand, but remembered the name. This here is a rather devastating
>> take-down:
>>
>> http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/201
>> 6/12/what_the_hell_is_wrong_with_america_s_establishment_liberals.html
>>
>> Of course, and needless to say, just like the C. J. Hopkins' piece I
>> linked to earlier, Kriss' polemic more or less corresponds with my own
>> thoughts upon the current brouhaha. Mark Thibodeau may enjoy the prose
>> style, if not the content.
>>
>> Choice quote:
>>
>> 'On Dec. 11, fueled by prescription amphetamines and craft beer, Eric
>> Garland disgorged a sprawling 127-tweet thread explaining to America and
>> the world exactly what was going on, how Russia put Trump in power, and
>> what they could do about it. And the thing was a sensation. Every so often,
>> a text comes along that perfectly captures the mood of a certain section of
>> society at a certain time, something that screams their pain for them in
>> ways they can’t quite manage to do themselves. Garland’s tweet thread is
>> that common roar of establishment liberalism in the age of Trump. It’s been
>> retweeted thousands of times, gaining fawning praise from much of the
>> liberal intelligentsia. Finally, someone has had the courage to put it all
>> together, in a grand masterpiece of political analysis. Kurt Eichenwald of
>> Newsweek and Vanity Fair called it “a MUST read.” Clara Jeffery, editor in
>> chief of Mother Jones, gushingly described it as the “single greatest
>> thread I have ever read on Twitter. And in its way a Federalist Paper for
>> 2016.” “Great writing, using a form that doesn’t usually lend itself to
>> greatness,” gurgled the Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold. Tim Fullerton,
>> New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s director of communications, glooped that “if
>> there were a Pulitzer for tweeting—this thread would be the undisputed
>> winner of 2016.” Patton Oswalt: “Succinct & propulsive writing.” Sean
>> Illing: “Bullshit-free.”
>>
>> Clearly something horrifying has happened to America’s great liberal
>> intellects. One moment they were yapping along in the train of a historic
>> political movement; now, ragged and destitute, they wander with lolling
>> tongues in search of anything that might explain their new world to them.
>> This is, after all, how cults get started. Cultists will venerate any
>> messianic mediocrity and any set of half-baked spiritual dogmas; it’s not
>> the overt content that matters but the security of knowing. If Trump’s
>> devoted hype squad of pustulent, oleaginous neo-Nazis can now be euphemized
>> as the “alt-right,” the Eichenwalds and Jefferys of the world might have
>> turned themselves into something similar: an alt-center, pushing its own
>> failed political doctrine with all the same vehemence, idiocy, and spleen.
>> So it’s strange, but not surprising, that so many people would sing the
>> praises of Garland’s masterpiece, because it is absolutely the worst piece
>> of political writing ever inflicted on any public in human history.'
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Am 20.12.2017 um 00:54 schrieb Matthew Taylor:
>>
>>> Jesus, I bet some of you look at Eric Garland's Twitter and see
>>> something profound rather than a sad paranoiac shooting up Adderall and
>>> being cheered on by the increasingly conspiracy-prone liberal commentariat.
>>>
>>
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