(Note to literalists: the Watched column presently contains only a smattering of 'warblogs' because the facilitator of the template-change--Dr. Menlo--is not very familiar with them, and will be adding more as they are sent to him. Also, this blog may contain areas of allusion, satire, subtext, context and possibly even a dash of the surreal: wannabe lit-crits beware.)
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WARBLOGGER WATCH
Saturday, April 05, 2003
Sullivan's descent continues. You would assume someone who held the positions he has would have either a) a brain capable of formulating novel solutions to the day's problems, or at least articulating the conventional answers in a novel way; or b) superior information-gathering potential thanks to a developed network of contacts and/or access to various specialists and elites. You would, in Sullivan's instance, be wrong. He merely continues to speak sweet nothings to power, and his site's factual content is tending toward nil. When not pursuing his preferred diversion - heaping vainglory upon Bush and Co. - he pursues petty grievances. Today he's operating largely in the latter mode. It's a pathetic sight.
Having apparently rebranded as Marshallwatch without sending out the requisite press release, Sullivan further indulges his odd obsession with the every word typed by fellow "Blogger" Josh Marshall. He fumes that Marshall dared write "a defense of John Kerry's comments calling for 'regime change' in the U.S. without dealing with the language Kerry used." I have little interest in the controversy or the parties involved, though I enjoyed Andrew's 1939 vintage argument that it's "spectacularly stupid" to dissent from the "democratically elected [sic] president" in (perma)wartime. posted by Anonymous5:01 PM
The Watchers
WBW: Keeping track of the war exhortations of the warbloggers.