tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post7032379275041551657..comments2023-12-20T04:18:41.617-06:00Comments on The Hunting of the Snark: Conservative Cults and Selfish ShillsSusan of Texashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-80407957183928890672014-09-16T08:58:05.149-05:002014-09-16T08:58:05.149-05:00She is doing very well, isn't she? Unfortunat...She is doing very well, isn't she? Unfortunately for McArdle, Cupp is more telegenic and even has the currently popular look. The right doesn't need very many intellectual women pundits. They know their audience thinks with their ids. They will go with the one woman whom they think will get better ratings. And the proof is that Cupp is on CNN and McArdle is giving imitation TED lectures to the aspiring upper classes.<br /><br />Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-26518545998125583422014-09-13T15:01:52.566-05:002014-09-13T15:01:52.566-05:00Sippy Cupp is nipping at ArgleBargle's heels.Sippy Cupp is nipping at ArgleBargle's heels. Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03176801494652946278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-19784941509939073552014-09-13T07:43:20.235-05:002014-09-13T07:43:20.235-05:00Every generation wants its own Brave Young Things....Every generation wants its own Brave Young Things. We can see McArdle and Jonah Goldberg, for example, gliding into Elder Statesman status as they enter their forties and can no longer get away with being young and hip.<br /><br />She gets more conservative as time goes on and I assume she will be forced to go that direction for employment. The Koches are very old and who knows what will happen with libertarianism when they die.<br /><br />If there's a way to screw up she'll find it, but I am confident that someone who is such a clever liar will always be in demand. The question is if the position will be prestigious enough for McArdle.Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-44348479164349022102014-09-13T07:04:21.053-05:002014-09-13T07:04:21.053-05:00ArgleBargle seems to forget that even people like ...ArgleBargle seems to forget that even people like her have "pull dates". The wingnut welfare system really expanded during the Clinton years. That's 20 or so years, a career for many people in certain fields, and time to consider retirement or be de facto retired, and at some point it could happen to her. At some point, people lose their value to wingnut system. Look at Dinesh Dzousa (ok, don't look at him, but consider his case)--he's well on his way to the pokey without much of an outcry (some, but only perfunctory). The former wingnut guv from Virginia, also is not being made into much of a martyr. That one man "league" of Catholics--no one seemed to care when he railed against the Hibernians decision to join the new century. <br /><br />ArgleBargle has always been a useful idiot for the wingnuts--someone who bafflingly crosses over into non-ideological media. The token conservative, a Brooks-like "respectable" conservative, if one with a less intellectual patina. She's not Barbie doll blond, so she'll never be on the tube, which will help her career. But the wrong kind of faux pas, too many of them, or the wrong kind (and ugly marital spat with Suderman ala McDonnell) and she'll find herself on the curb with her food processor. There are plenty more like her and I would guess that much like the heroine in "All About Eve", she's already insinuating and inventing herself for Megan's niche.Skinny Little Boy from Cleveland, Ohiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04360441752575669061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-47386882376425853782014-09-12T23:21:33.950-05:002014-09-12T23:21:33.950-05:00ArgleBargle: My opinion is:________ but I am much...ArgleBargle: My opinion is:________ but I am much too stupid and lazy to even try to support my opinion with verifiable facts and figures.<br /><br />Scientific Method? What's that?Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03176801494652946278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-4658165216654829342014-09-12T14:20:54.116-05:002014-09-12T14:20:54.116-05:00"But I don’t know how common either situation..."But I don’t know how common either situation is, or how you’d even go about collecting the necessary statistics."<br /><br />Scoop McArdle strikes again. I used my sophisticated research skills on this obscure thing called "Google" and found about 10,000 websites devoted to cataloging divorce and alimony statistics. Clever Pseudonymnoreply@blogger.com