Excuse Me?
First off, to the best of my knowledge my little place is considered part of the “liberal” segment of blogtopia™, and I have only been vaguely aware of the existence of the individual identified as Megan McArdle. To be brutally frank, only the specialists in snark directed at right-wing blogs ever mention her name.
So I’m a little surprised that Kevin Drum has written a post, GET A GRIP, in which Megan McArdle complains about “the comment threads on our media appearances”, and suddenly Kevin decides that this is “[o]ne of the most inexplicable tropes of the liberal blogosphere”. What’s “inexplicable” is how comment threads became the “liberal blogosphere”.
It becomes more inexplicable when Roger Ailes [the good one], points out in his piece, Bang the Drum, Slowly, that Ms McArdle is really complaining about an article in the Village Voice.
These “friendly fire” incidents do not bode well for the election. You are supposed to clearly identify the target before you pull the trigger.
