tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post2457819931824062537..comments2023-12-20T04:18:41.617-06:00Comments on The Hunting of the Snark: The Moral Vacuum Of AuthoritariansSusan of Texashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-9972312289931501642011-11-18T02:32:10.415-06:002011-11-18T02:32:10.415-06:00Reading Ms. Megan's piece, one firmly believes...Reading Ms. Megan's piece, one firmly believes that Ms. Megan has raped Peter Suderman on multiple occasions.<br /><br />Not for the sex, but merely for the social structure of their tax reduction partnership.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-60165990396343203022011-11-17T10:35:13.839-06:002011-11-17T10:35:13.839-06:00Did Megan really Godwin's Law herself here?Did Megan really Godwin's Law herself here?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-6937981230165816992011-11-16T11:50:09.052-06:002011-11-16T11:50:09.052-06:00Oh, whoops, already mentioned in this thread.
Ah w...Oh, whoops, already mentioned in this thread.<br />Ah well, bears repeating. McQueary has received death threats behind this probable spin effort.bradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06907349163323395529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-62157974222115445572011-11-16T11:44:59.980-06:002011-11-16T11:44:59.980-06:00Not sure why I care, I guess I have some sociopath...Not sure why I care, I guess I have some sociopathic non-tribal empathy in me somewhere, but it turns out McQueary didn't fail to stop the rape or to go to the police personally, according to <a href="http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/7238963/penn-state-nittany-lions-scandal-mike-mcqueary-stopped-alleged-assault-source-says" rel="nofollow">recent reports</a>.<br />I'm not sure how or why that was left out of initial reporting, but most likely it was part of the attempt by the power structure to hide the failures at the top of the food chain for as long as possible.<br />Protect the king!bradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06907349163323395529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-92106488244741941682011-11-16T09:16:56.687-06:002011-11-16T09:16:56.687-06:00It's just amazing that she would excuse McQuea...It's just amazing that she would excuse McQueary. She's not just morally empty, she also doesn't have enough social awareness to realize that her post was offensive.Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-3301054631894468282011-11-16T02:57:50.070-06:002011-11-16T02:57:50.070-06:00Like her heroine Ayn Rand, McMegan has great diffi...Like her heroine Ayn Rand, McMegan has great difficulty simulating human emotions and worships sociopaths (her astounding words, noted by ZRM, notwithstanding). <br /><br />As Bill notes upthread, McQuery's claiming he did both intervene and report it. Initial shock in that situation is understandable. But the follow-up seems to have been severely lacking, and the situation's horrible. We'll see what else comes out.<br /><br />But regardless of all that, nothing absolves McArdle for what she wrote. It really both amazing and utterly predictable, as Anatole David notes, who she champions and who she scolds. But even for her, this is grotesque.<br /><br />Bobo and Chunky Bobo are despicable enough, blaming it all on liberalism. McArdle is scolding her readers for caring about a child victim of rape. Shorter McMegan: "I'm not the sociopath, <i>you're</i> the sociopaths!" She will scream it 'til her dying day.Batocchiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02193752396025012825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-58659483501106906322011-11-15T23:00:22.838-06:002011-11-15T23:00:22.838-06:00Yes, having kids does make a difference.
The pos...Yes, having kids does make a difference. <br /><br />The post is such a mistake. How could she have thought it was okay?Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-77069843984429594992011-11-15T22:52:27.586-06:002011-11-15T22:52:27.586-06:00Late getting here, but for once, Susan, I think yo...Late getting here, but for once, Susan, I think your thoughts about authoritarianism are de trop, however astute.<br /><br />As someone once said, "All children are OUR children." If a kid wanders into traffic, you don't stop before yelling or acting and think, "Wait, do I know that kid?"<br /><br />What would make McMegan rue this column and think differently? Alas, only having her own children. That would do it, although it shouldn't. (Although how typical: once it's personal, THEN she might have an epiphany of empathy.)<br /><br />I thought I'd seen it all with this woman, but how wrong I was.<br /><br />I agree with tony in san diego: you step in, you minimize the furor so the kid isn't further traumatized, and you get him out of there. And then you call the fucking cops. How much nuance, or personal special pleading, do you need to be repulsed and outraged by the buggering of children? McArdle should be ashamed--deeply, mortally--that we're forced to even ask.Mr. Wonderfulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-80061968261549072492011-11-15T22:24:54.770-06:002011-11-15T22:24:54.770-06:00I guess we'll have to wait for the full story....I guess we'll have to wait for the full story. Either way, it's hard to believe that people would justify doing nothing.Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-52016708558505298362011-11-15T19:18:11.381-06:002011-11-15T19:18:11.381-06:00"she has no idea that it is genuinely possibl..."she has no idea that it is genuinely possible to care about what happens to people we don't know."<br /><br />Got it in one.<br />Apparently, she really believes that cutting someone some slack means you'd run away if you saw an adult raping a child.Sharonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11827236343578670299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-38126665626354555652011-11-15T19:04:45.966-06:002011-11-15T19:04:45.966-06:00Good god. A new low, even for McMegan. Disgusting....Good god. A new low, even for McMegan. Disgusting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-52694148882329861132011-11-15T18:57:32.530-06:002011-11-15T18:57:32.530-06:00You all do know McQueary claims he did stop the ra...You all do know McQueary claims he did stop the rape that he witnessed and talked to the police (which certainly could mean campus police) after the rape.<br /><br />http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/breaking/chi-mcqueary-dupe-1115,0,2227303.storyBillCinSDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-4256135812374126882011-11-15T18:34:16.754-06:002011-11-15T18:34:16.754-06:00Drastic action would probably not have been necess...Drastic action would probably not have been necessary for McQ.<br /><br />A direct phone call to the police was all that was required.<br /><br />Would I run tell my Boss if I saw an employee stealing a car, robbing a 7-11? Hardly. McQ sounds as tho he was looking for an excuse to <i>not help</i>. Leave it to Someone Else.Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03176801494652946278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-50598839158436478062011-11-15T17:00:21.045-06:002011-11-15T17:00:21.045-06:00Amazing the lengths she'll go to defend wrongd...Amazing the lengths she'll go to defend wrongdoers in powerful institutions. She'll never lift a finger to defend folks thrown into homelessness and poverty by the widespread fraud committed by her heroes. In fact, she'll blame the victims and champion fraudsters.<br /> <br /><br />This piece of agnotological(how could we know?) apology from McArdle only proves her undying fealty to "successful" institutions. Wall Street and Beltway insularity breeds this "concern".Anatole Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09475202797984385346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-20338323644965102522011-11-15T16:39:04.266-06:002011-11-15T16:39:04.266-06:00I am inclined to be forgiving of what McQueary did...I am inclined to be forgiving of what McQueary did (or didn't do) at the moment of crisis. At that instant of shock and horror, I don't think any of us is capable of a reasoned response. A friend of mine once put it like this:"That's why cops and firefighters and soldiers train so much. It's so their spines will do something sensible even when their brains lock up."<br /><br />However, his inaction after the shock wore off is inexcusable. If I were in his place, I'm afraid I probably would have run away at first, too. I think my spine is a sniveling coward. But, I do think that I would have gone back to help the kid within minutes, once I was able to think again. I would hope I would NEVER think the way Megan suggests here, about giving the guy I knew the benefit of the doubt. Or, if I did, at least I hope I would have the common decency to kill myself from the shame.Lurking Canadiannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-40714019411502918512011-11-15T16:34:32.055-06:002011-11-15T16:34:32.055-06:00all McQ would have had to do was walk up and say t...all McQ would have had to do was walk up and say to the kid, "Let's get you out of here," and wrap him up in a towel. He didnt have to beat up the coach. It would have been easy. <br /><br />What I don't get is how these people could shake his hand later, or sit at the same awards table with him, ever again. But they did. Nasty.tony in san diegonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-70465932899339394652011-11-15T16:30:25.884-06:002011-11-15T16:30:25.884-06:00Did she really write that it's reasonable to l...Did she really write that it's reasonable to look the other way over kiddie rape if it's perpetrated by someone who could help your career? Of all the vile, self-absorbed, pretentious, horribly written rubbish Megan has published, this has got to be the absolute worst. It's disgusting enough in premise, made even more insufferable by her usual condescending tone, suggesting that the real problem the rest of us Great Unwashed have is that we've merely not thought of the matter as deeply as she has. What a miserable tw*t.<br /><br />You see, Megan, one of the conditions I happen to have for liking and respecting people is that they don't enjoy raping children, even ones I don't personally know. I don't consider that standard impossibly high.Clever Pseudonymnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-66288887482142383082011-11-15T15:02:22.692-06:002011-11-15T15:02:22.692-06:00Oh, god. Mrs. Douthat let Ross have the computer a...Oh, god. Mrs. Douthat let Ross <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/opinion/sunday/douthat-the-devil-and-joe-paterno.html" rel="nofollow">have the computer again</a>. Charles Pierce rips him to shreds but Douthat's piece is beyond belief and you can never have too much ripping.Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-78172018590163612612011-11-15T14:52:42.446-06:002011-11-15T14:52:42.446-06:00We know she'll defend assault, torture, rape a...We know she'll defend assault, torture, rape and murder. I suppose there must be something horrible she hasn't supported yet. <br /><br />She's said repeatedly that she would not support adultery, no doubt because that would affect her personally.Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-10796818208626193942011-11-15T14:51:20.549-06:002011-11-15T14:51:20.549-06:00God, she is such a wretched excuse for a human bei...God, she is such a wretched excuse for a human being. It's times like this when I really hope that, at the very least, McArdle will have a Colonel Kurtz moment on her deathbed when she finally recognizes the damage she's done. That's when she'll see a fleeting image of that boy's face and recognize it as human. I'm sure it will be the first time in her life that she'll experience a tiny sliver of shame.<br /><br />One can hope.atatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-10653026548951157152011-11-15T14:46:36.013-06:002011-11-15T14:46:36.013-06:00"Empathy for anyone outside of her small circ..."Empathy for anyone outside of her small circle of family, friends and acquaintances is impossible for her. She does not care if anyone suffers or is even killed by the policies she is paid to push."<br /><br />This is probably the best description of libertarians I have ever read. I know some of them, and they can be kind, caring people <i>to their family and friends</i>.<br /><br />Anybody outside that circle? Tough shit, jack.<br /><br />On another note, is there any depth to which McArdle won't sink? Defending covering up pedophilia now, Megan, really?<br /><br />I'm certain she'll still be welcomed to the Yglesias/Klein dinner parties, of course.natenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-67502214183399998582011-11-15T14:36:01.400-06:002011-11-15T14:36:01.400-06:00"cutting slack" =/= "allowing a chi..."cutting slack" =/= "allowing a child rapist to walk free"<br /><br />It's really not that ambiguous, Megan.zombie rotten mcdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10601960953323752278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-66508915273363543952011-11-15T14:32:38.096-06:002011-11-15T14:32:38.096-06:00It's nuts to defend McQueary's actions. I ...It's nuts to defend McQueary's actions. I can only think that she is promoting her own practice of turning a blind eye to immoral acts.<br /><br />"Can you really be so sure that you'd have stepped in right then? Can you honestly say that you've never cut slack for people you like and respect, and maybe people who also happen to have some impact on your career? You've never kept silent while they were doing something that you were pretty sure was really wrong?"<br /><br />The story of her life.Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-88807054840363187032011-11-15T14:04:21.478-06:002011-11-15T14:04:21.478-06:00I wonder who suggested to ArgleBargle that she use...I wonder who suggested to ArgleBargle that she use the "maybe the witness liked the molester" excuse for his inaction. I don't think she's intelligent enough to come up with it on her own. <br /><br />A lot of her essays are like that: as if someone, somewhere, suggests she use a particular approach to the topic (such as tribalism), and she grabs the ball & runs with it, not realizing its a ball of <i>shit</i>. Or just not caring.<br /><br />My guess would be that in the college football culture there is quite a bit of "forced sex", aka Rape; of fans, cheerleaders, prostitutes... What McQueary (jeez what a name) saw was worse than "the usual", but not all that uncommon. Perhaps he was abused when a much younger football player, and figures its just part of "the game".<br /><br />It would be interesting to hear <i>his</i> excuse.Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03176801494652946278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-13857220164133657682011-11-15T13:19:10.891-06:002011-11-15T13:19:10.891-06:00I thought I was as sickened by this whole episode ...I thought I was as sickened by this whole episode as a zombie could get; but Monster McArdle has managed to take it even further.<br /><br />Well done, Monster. You have made a zombie be repulsed by the human race.zombie rotten mcdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10601960953323752278noreply@blogger.com