Blogs: Glenn Reynold's getting torn a new one

For this asinine post:

HATE-FILLED STUPIDITY FROM LEFT-LEANING ACADEMICS ISN'T NEWS anymore, which is why I haven't been paying much attention to the story of Colorado professor Ward Churchill's comparison of 9/11 victims to Eichmann. But go here and look at the picture.

Isn't he exactly what you imagined? Shoulder-length hair, grimly self-righteous expression, black turtleneck, Abbie Hoffman sunglasses. A man whose look, like his rhetoric, is frozen in the amber of 1969.

The same kind of guys, looking the same way, were saying the same kinds of things when I was younger than my daughter is now. When will the Left catch up with the times?

UPDATE: Heh. Check out this picture. Let's do the time warp, again!

ANOTHER UPDATE: Various lefty readers email to say that Ward Churchill is not the authentic face of the Left.

I wish I agreed with that. But, sadly, he is its very image today.

When Ted Kennedy can make an absurd and borderline-traitorous speech on the war, when Michael Moore shares a VIP box with the last Democratic President but one, when Barbara Boxer endorses a Democratic consultant/blogger whose view of American casualties in Iraq is "screw 'em," well, this is the authentic face of the Left. Or what remains of it.

There was a time when the Left opposed fascism and supported democracy, when it wasn't a seething-yet-shrinking mass of self-hatred and idiocy. That day is long past, and the moral and intellectual decay of the Left is far gone.

The post drones on and on and on and on in this same I'm-a-jackass style... and it really pisses off Oliver Willis and Kevin Drum.

For those not so invested in the blogosphere, Glenn runs one of the premier conservative blogs (although he pulls an O'Reilly-like "I'm an independent" spiel from time to time--because on a few issues, I guess he is), regularly writes a column alongside SuperLefty Eric Alterman on MSNBC, and is now a Fox News douchebag from time to time.

Reynolds is relatively sane most of the time, but when he makes an asshole of himself, he REALLY makes an asshole of himself. I think Oliver Willis' rant, while out of control (as he almost always is), is pretty on the mark, at least for a reactionary response.