BoingBoing’s blow-off
posted at 11:09 am on October 4, 2007 by Michelle
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Hey, everyone. I saw Allah’s headline link this morning to BoingBoing’s blow-off of conservatives.
I feel really stupid for having included the site on our Hot Air blogroll list of hangouts.
So, now they’re gone.
Buh-bye.
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Good for you Michelle. Thanks.
GoodBoy on October 4, 2007 at 11:13 AM
You had with those last to words.
Editor on October 4, 2007 at 11:21 AM
It would only be stupid if you let the link stay.
mojowire on October 4, 2007 at 11:21 AM
Free enterprise at work! Wallets don’t have hanging chads.
Limerick on October 4, 2007 at 11:32 AM
It even has the usual kind of comments, like
I wonder what “MRFANTASY” is suggesting? Hmmm…
taznar on October 4, 2007 at 11:34 AM
Nope.
Going about this all wrong.
Someone needs to start a thread advocating the murder of prominent democrats; and when the left complains; point to this and say - get the point?
lorien1973 on October 4, 2007 at 11:39 AM
:lol No way I am gonna go there now…looks like they shot
themselves in the foot and lost an opportunity for more business.
As far as fantasies about attacking conservatives…..
Conservatives know how to defend themselves…and will.
dec5 on October 4, 2007 at 11:48 AM
I sometimes hang out at Union Square to watch the imbeciles there. Maybe it’s a matter of labeling.
BillLalor on October 4, 2007 at 11:53 AM
Awe Michelle, your husband is one incredibly lucky man, brains beauty and a spine made out of solid titanium. You go girl…….
doriangrey on October 4, 2007 at 11:55 AM
Sigh. I’m assuming BoingBoing is populated primarily by young liberal college types. How are we going to save this next generation from themselves? We’re probably just going to have to wait for them to get mugged by reality at some point and maybe that will give them the hard shove out of Liberal LaLa Land they’ll need to survive. I suppose that happens to some degree with every generation–young people start out liberal and idealistic, and then as they get older they often (but not always) begin to get progressively more conservative as they begin to worry about their own children and watch their own hard-earned money go to the government in ever-greater percentages. I just hope for their sake (and for ours) that their reality check isn’t too excessively harsh, like a complete crash brought on by socialist programs ruining our economy, or a nuke in a large city brought on by trying to “talk” to Islamofascists.
aero on October 4, 2007 at 12:00 PM
What’s with all these cool sites that have gone off the Lefty deep-end? Do they have to instill their politics into it?
Yeah….BoingBoing went “boing boing”.
JetBoy on October 4, 2007 at 12:08 PM
The post was in poor taste, but the Young Americas Foundation chose its words poorly, and who can blame Boing Boing for the jibe. Too bad the commenters over there brought such shame to that site.
ps. What an irony that Boing Boing was listed in an HA category called “Hangouts”.
RushBaby on October 4, 2007 at 12:13 PM
I’m going to miss them! Gotta send them a nice fruit basket.
stonemeister on October 4, 2007 at 12:17 PM
Who?
Asher on October 4, 2007 at 12:25 PM
Death fantasies about conservatives? Wow, really breaking some comedic new ground there, by sounding like every other unhinged liberal since at least November 2000. Edgy. And yet somehow I’ll manage to get by without such stunning creativity in my life.
ReubenJCogburn on October 4, 2007 at 12:27 PM
*Erased from my Shortcust list*
The Internet is too vast for me to support hate filled bigots.
JayHaw Phrenzie on October 4, 2007 at 12:30 PM
“BoingBoing - A Directory Of Wonderful Things”
Unless the wonderful thing in question is conservative and intelligent…
If they were on my list, I would delete them too. Buh-bye…
Timothy S. Carlson on October 4, 2007 at 12:48 PM
Feel free to replace their link with mine…
Do I need the sarc tag?
JammieWearingFool on October 4, 2007 at 12:51 PM
Yeah. Let’s have an auction for the spot. I’d play! :D
lorien1973 on October 4, 2007 at 12:58 PM
I would have done the same thing, Michelle. I used to visit Boing Boing every day but grew tired of the politics.
Dork B. on October 4, 2007 at 1:13 PM
I need a day or two to make a site first. :D
JayHaw Phrenzie on October 4, 2007 at 1:31 PM
And nothing of value was lost.
ZK on October 4, 2007 at 3:34 PM
I liken this to hanging out with some friends when one of them drops a kike or nigger into the conversation. I don’t avoid them, I don’t shun them. I get right into the mix with them and challenge their ignorance with reason and tact.
Why not deluge boingboing with topical, well-sourced, facts? Why not annoy them to death with cogent, sober comments from thoughtful conservatives? I know that I am always impressed with someone who stands out by standing alone in a crowd of rabid partisans.
I used to visit often. I will still visit, I will just never click on one of their ads. I will remind them just how much they hate my perspective by spitting it at them like the venomous conservative demon I am.
Xeni Jardin, site founder, is officially off the I’d Hit That list. She also has/had a show on NPR I think. There’s another reason not to listen.
The Race Card on October 4, 2007 at 4:24 PM
I send my oldest off to college next year. I just hope he is prepared for the mush he is about to receive. One good thing is he has no yearning to attend UW Madison. Anybody out there in an engineering college and do those types preach in class?? I know how most Liberal Arts professors are. I am under the impression that most business departments are conservative. However, Im not sure about the computer science departments or engineering folks. Any ideas?
Claimsratt on October 4, 2007 at 4:53 PM
When did we get so thin-skinned? One thing I used to admire about conservatives is that we were more grown-up than the left. But this is an over-reaction to a pretty harmless joke that the original copywriters (presumably conservatives) left themselves open for. Anyone who doesn’t know that BoingBoing lists to port hasn’t been paying attention. There was nothing stupid about linking to BoingBoing. It’s still a great site.
JackOfClubs on October 4, 2007 at 5:43 PM
I used to subscribe to Wired magazine, until I noticed that one month it would be conservative, free market capitalism, and the next month it was liberal socialism. After that, every other month I would trash the magazine, unread.
Then when it was time to renew the subscription . . . . .
I would guess the editors cater to their readers, those that remain.
rockhauler on October 4, 2007 at 6:09 PM
That’s all very well, Michelle, but I’d blame the person who devised the advertising copy.
I mean, anyone to leads off with the words “Hang the leaders of the Conservative Movement…” is just asking for problems.
Opening lines are so important. I remember a BBC presenter announcing the news that Bing Crosby had just died. Then, as a tribute, they played his song “Cheek to Cheek”.
A bad move, considering its opening line…
“Heaven. I’m in heaven”
quite
uptight on October 4, 2007 at 6:28 PM
They will just say it was satire.
SIJ6141 on October 4, 2007 at 7:13 PM
I’ve been following the slow degradation of BoingBoing for two years now, and might have a few things to add to the thread.
First off, their biggest advertiser is Verizon. Remember a while back when that rap singer who molested the 14-year-old on stage in Africa was being promoted by Verizon?
Need I say more?
Second, I note that Glenn Reynolds links to BoingBoing a fair amount. If anybody here knows him, you might let him know that the next time he links to them, it’s possible that more than a few people might be asking him just why he’s supporting a left-wing group that advocates that leading Republicans be hanged. Granted, he’s a Libertarian, but he’s still on our side of the aisle.
Here’s a brief history of BoingBoing if anyone’s interested:
- A year ago, Cory was doing most of the posting. While occasionally it would slip through, all in all he did a fine job of maintaining a politics-free site. He’s big on pirating songs and all that, but that’s not a political issue.
- The next thing I know, I’m suddenly reading things like “our troops being forced to fight in Iraq…” and thinking, “Huh?” Glancing up at the author’s name, I started seeing this Mark guy more and more.
- Then “Xeni” entered the picture. At first, his posts were relatively innocuous, but then he started piling on the liberal claptrap. Iraq’s all about oil. Bush is a madman. The NSA is evil. Global warming is going to kill you.
You know, the usual stuff.
The only thing “Xeni” has actually surprised me with was his global warming stance. He’s still back in the polar-bears-on-icebergs stage. It’s surprising, because my impression was that Cory wasn’t an AGW believer. I don’t believe Mark’s ever posted on it.
It makes me wonder how Cory feels about his site being turned into an AGW launching pad. Ever heard the word “laughingstock”, Cory?
Now, one thing I didn’t see here (or on Michelle’s site) was any mention of how heinous and reprehensible their actions truly are. I could make a strong argument that Cory Doctorow is the most reprehensible man in America.
Pretty strong words?
Consider:
An obvious candidate for such an exalted position would be Keith Olbermann. The conservatives hate him (or would hate him if they saw him), and I imagine most mainstream Dems find him just as repugnant as the conservatives do.
And then there’s the Hillarybeast, of course, and ol’ Markos whatshisname would garner a few votes.
But consider one thing:
All of the above are openly political. They’re not hiding behind anything.
Cory is taking a place of sanctity; a place where people go to look at fun new gadgets and great old gadgets, and — for once! — to get away from politics.
That’s the human need this creature is exploiting.
On this level of life, go ahead, tell me what could be more reprehensible then feeding upon a need to get away from the very thing he’s pushing.
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So, let’s see. How ’bout some links? Let’s go with a little humor this time around.
To any ‘Star Wars’ fans out there, did you happen to catch the marvelous parody of ‘Star Wars II’? It was superbly done. Here’s my review.
And in related news.
Are any of you out there really, really old, like, over 30? If so, here are some notes from the Gulf War that might bring back some memories. Good times, good times.
Any computer videophiles in the audience? If so, then you’ll be able to relate to this.
My response to an Interest Inventory.
Might as well slip in some political humor.
And finally, a cool update to a short article I wrote a few years ago. First read this.
Then read this.
Good times a’comin’. :)
Dr. Mercury on October 4, 2007 at 8:07 PM
I knew over a year or 2 ago that BoingBoing was a liberal holdover. I was kinda surprised to see them on your friends list back then.
Coronagold on October 4, 2007 at 9:51 PM
Say it ain’t so, Michelle. Absent this post, it was a virtual certainty that sooner or later, somebody at Moveon or dKos was bound to issue a similarly worded invitation to “Hang the leaders of the [Liberal / Progressive / Mainstream / whatever the hell they're calling themselves this week] movement on the wall in your office, home, or dorm,” and conservatives would have had a field day. Then, in a matter of hours, an army of Glenns (of the Greenwald variety) would have trotted out a handful of the “hate” sites that supposedly advocate murder, treating sensible conservatives to a second field day - particularly in light of the universal lack of condemnation of the current post on BoingBoing.
Now we can’t do any of that. Either we make a big, public display of deriding Michelle’s humorless response now, or we forfeit the right to mock liberals for being equally humorless when, inevitably, the shoe ends up on the other foot. Pick your poison.
In the end, one public de-linking just cost the entire dextrosphere two field days. Was it worth it?
Xrlq on October 4, 2007 at 10:07 PM
Cory Doctorow is awesome. BoingBoing can do no wrong.
Nonfactor on October 5, 2007 at 1:22 AM