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February 28, 2005

It's a Rare Moment

...when I agree with Oliver Willis (on matters other than just how delicious a Hostess Swiss Cake Roll can be), but if the guys at Powerline want to be the bleeding edge of blogdom, they've gotta do better than this:

That was a mistake, of course. One "Chris Rock," the host, whom I've never otherwise heard of, led off with an idiotic anti-Bush tirade. $70 trillion? Interesting statistic. What was noteworthy was not the host, who obviously knows nothing, but the crowd--every single person there laughed and applauded. So much for the Academy Awards. I'm curling up with a good book, about which more later.

Never heard of Chris Rock? Can't grasp that comedians distort the facts in order to make this thing called "humor?" Can't let go of your own ideology-humping biases to realize that Chris Rock is a funny guy, at least when he can use bad words?

Sorry, but this is either the most subtle form of blog humor to zip right over my head, or the Powerline guys need to step away from the blog and check out the world around them*.

Note: The Powerline author, Hindrocket, is also the one who - a couple of years ago - said:

As the empirical foundations of Darwinism have crumbled under attack by a new generation of biologists, especially microbiologists, its advocates have become increasingly shrill and sectarian.

I'm sorry, dumbass says, "What?"

Update: Heh.

Is it me or are the Power Line dudes replacing thought with knee-jerk Lefty paranoia? Anytime you make O-Dub look good is a defeat for the Right in the blogosphere.

* But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and that frightening, glowing orb is the sun. Perhaps we should step away from the Xbox and come out of the basement more often.