Troll
In case you were wondering just how much of a worthless hack Duncan Black really is, read his pitiful response to that extraordinarily harsh editorial in Friday’s Washington Post (referenced in the post prior) —and why he’s maintained radio silence on what is obviously a major condemnation of people like him. On the topic of the “stupidest trolls on the internets”:
Yes, I have them, and they seem obsessed with the fact that I haven’t commented on the information that Armitage was apparently Novak’s initial source on Plame. I haven’t commented because it isn’t especially interesting, it doesn’t change the basic narrative at all - Armitage was widely suspected of being that person - and it doesn’t magically nullify every other factual revelation about the case, including that Karl Rove was Matt Cooper’s source on Plame.
Sadly, it seems, the stupidest trolls on the internet have taken over the Washington Post editorial board. What a bunch of hacks unworthy to even scribble their delusionary nonsense on the Wall Street Journal editorial page.
The important thing to note here is that Black has confirmed that the whole troll terminology is just another way of saying “people who don’t agree with me.” That’s an evolution of the name —and makes nonsense of it.
A troll, in its original meaning, is someone who goes into online chats and comment threads and attempts to elicit responses from people for the sake of disruption. You know: like a fisherman trolling for his catch with some tasty bait. But in the circle-jerked community of groupies and yes-men that is Black’s Eschaton blog, any dissenting view is trolling.
Which means that Black’s brigades of sycophantic hippie followers are only aware enough to know that they cannot risk being ensnared in their own ignorance by any stray thoughts that don’t jibe with their programming.
What a pathetic commentary on the actual willingness to debate among the so-called ”progressives.”
So, today, the editorial writers of the Washington Post are trolls. Huh? That doesn’t even mean anything. Except that a troll is now an enemy. Something to be denied and censored and ignored —leaving the gated and insular “reality-based community” in a state of perpetual —and probably not even blissful— ignorance.
As for the non-news that Richard Armitage was Bob Novak’s source on Valerie Plame, it is best for Black and his fellow travelers to downplay that as much as possible since it does nothing to advance the shitheaded narrative fed to them by Wilson himself that Plame’s alleged exposure was the evil deed of Rove and the Neocons. In other words, the anti-Bush assholes who insisted that Plamegate was a major breach of national security have begun to be seen by more and more people as a bunch of partisan liars who will stoop to pick up any steaming load if they think they can rub this Administration’s nose in it.
Well, tough luck, comrades. You should’ve picked a more persuasive pack of liars and propagandists than Wilson, Corn, and Kristof to make your case.
