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December 09, 2004

Best of Blogs Balloting: Now It's Getting Ugly

There's some email campaigning going on, which is to be expected. But now the feuding breaks out into the open, with Powerline dissing The Corner, and The Corner dissing back.

Note that the word Powerline originally used with reference to The Corner was, apparently, "sucks" -- that's where the edit occurs in mid-sentence. I assume that was the word of choice, because Jonah Goldberg quotes it.

Edited: I sorta weighed in on this one. I've since thought better of it. Let me play Switzerland for once.

No Controversy Here, Though! You should definitely vote -- again -- in the top 100 blogs category.

I really want to win that new car!

posted by Ace at 12:14 AM

Comments

And then you bury my guest-bloggers gratuity with a serious post. Psh. :P

Posted by: fat kid on December 9, 2004 12:22 AM

Actually, I think you're being too charitable Ace.

One more post by Derbyshire about quoting Kipling over cocktails during the NR cruise and I think I'll slit my fucking wrists.

Posted by: Ryne McClaren on December 9, 2004 12:39 AM

I actually ratcheted back the post's criticism, because, quite frankly, I don't want them to suddenly endorse Jane Galt for best blog.

Fuckin' politics gets into everything, including, apparently, political blogs.

Posted by: ace on December 9, 2004 12:48 AM

Um,

a) Trunk was obviously kidding around, just not doing it very well;

and

b) if I got fucking 45,000 hits a day I would get in this kind of trouble ALL THE TIME;

and

c) compared to Instapundit or (especially) lgf: Powerline clearly sucks.

Ass.

Posted by: the UNPOPULIST on December 9, 2004 01:34 AM

Just wait until I endorse Jane Galt tomorrow. Bitch.

Posted by: Bill from INDC on December 9, 2004 01:57 AM

Playing Switzerland hey? Selling weapons parts to Rocketman whilst banking the looted wealth of his slaughtered readers for Derb?

Bastard.

Posted by: fidens on December 9, 2004 02:11 AM

You get a car for the best of the top 100 category?

The winner of the 1000-1750 category gets a wet salmon thrown at him by Eugene Volokh.

Posted by: Christopher Cross on December 9, 2004 02:41 AM

I guess I just assumed I was going to win a car.

I'm not?

What the hell is this for, then?

Posted by: ace on December 9, 2004 02:50 AM

Apparently Swizzerland sex....er.....sux......er..........sumthin.
I can't wait for December 13th, myself. Then we can all be friends again. Or sumthin.

Posted by: SondraK on December 9, 2004 03:18 AM

Actually, they both suck (relatively). Wretchard should be running away with this thing -- or at least Charles. The only low-analysis linker who's interesting is Reynolds, and that's because of his central position.

Posted by: someone on December 9, 2004 03:42 AM

Jonah is the corner.

Sometimes I wonder how well the others would fare on their own. Balls on the table. Open modem America. Mano a mano in this man's game.

I think Kaylo would get killed by Stanky Joe's fish bate blog.

As for Powerline, I guarantee you he wishes he could take it all back right about now. Specailly after Jonah's sheepish "wha? why'dya have to go and punch me man? I thought we were cool!" post.

Posted by: streetGOP on December 9, 2004 04:07 AM

Despite completely lacking in puce, the site looks fabulous. And everything works perfectly.

DON'T TOUCH IT OR YOU'LL GO BLIND!

Posted by: Gaylord Ravenal on December 9, 2004 08:50 AM

Mr. Goldberg, whom I read regularly, needs to lighten up (insert due respect here). The post at Powerline read like a joke to me.

Not to dis either one, but I've been voting for LGF anyway due to Charles' Rathergate work.

Later,
bbeck

Posted by: bbeck on December 9, 2004 10:15 AM

I met John Hinderaker of Power Line fame in person once, and he seems like a nice guy, in that "Hey, seen my Site Meter stats lately?" way.

Posted by: Ryne McClaren on December 9, 2004 10:17 AM