Uh, check the testimonials. Obvious joke.

It's not a joke.

It's a WORK OF GENIUS!

You haven't come across the The Iraq War Was Wrong Blog blog (TIWWWB) before? It's brilliant.

I used to consider it outrageous that people couldn't tell that IWW was a joke, but... I've seen the real thing and it ain't far off.

The key is to consider how many posts take the piss out of the anti-war crowd with all their endearing enthusiasm. Every single thing IWW says about the "wrongness" of the Iraq war loops around to bite him in the ass and leave him looking shallow or foolish. Everytime he praises someone for their "rightness" it is for something we're making fun of. And his list of links on the side seem to indicate someone who's well read with the hawkish side of the blogosphere even though he's pretty clever at tweaking rightwing bloggers into his silly arguments.

What blows my mind is that that blog still manages find something to post about after all this time.

The best part of TIWWWB is always the comments. People will write four-paragraph screeds, tearing The Proprietor's "arguments" to shreds, then come back again and again.

I love when people slam the spelling and grammar.

It's like watching the McKenzie brothers debate Forrest Gump over bottles of tequila. I haven't seen anything this brilliantly bad since William Shatner. Genius!

His 'My Taxonomy' post is high-larious:

"If I have Blogparents, I would have to say this. That, my Blogparents are Matthew Yglesias and Oliver Willis tied together in a Bloghomosexual civil union. (Indirectly, of course)..."

"This not to say that Matthew Yglesias and Oliver Willis homosexuals in real life. Though, they could be AFIAK [snip] I must say I do have to wonder about Oliver Willis, He posts ALOT relly about how much he likes Jessica Abla or whatever. It just seems "forced" (like maybe is there Rosie Odonnell/Tom Cruise thing going on here?) Just a theory. And if so, that's GREAT, I totally would embrace Oliver Willis (not litterally)."

Bwa ha ha! Yeah, it's that stuff that gives away the plot.

That site is indeed a word of twisted genius. A sad commentary on the state of the anti-war left that it is often mistaken for the real McCoy.

Personally, I find the faux-idocy of the author a bit tedious; I think Liberal Larry at Blame Bush does a better job at the whole "I'm a dipshit Leftie" schtick.

Next Ace will discover Hampsterdance.

People have tried to pin IWW on Jim Treacher, but he's denied that he's behind it. Whoever does it, it's a pretty good send-up.

I thoroughly enjoyed my co-guest-blogging stint with IWW over at The Unpopulist. I learned a lot.

TIWWWB I SNOT A JOKE !!!

YOU DHINGERS ARE TEH JOKE !!!

GET REAL POEPEL !!!

It seems to make more sense when you 'Smurf' it though...

http://www.degraeve.com/cgi-bin/babel.cgi?d=smurf&url=http%3A%2F%2Firaqwarwrong.blogspot.com%2F&w=

"A wrong war like during the Iraq war was cannot just be sitted smurfy smurfy smurfy." --The Proprietor

"About blogging - never fear/ Initial investment outlay VERY minamal (for me the escentials: dictionary (Webster's)/ Thesaurus(Roget's), plus hire part time highschool student (Bryce) ($7/hr 4 hours) to help me setup intitial coding, explain how to Template etc. That's it!! With blogspot the rest is just simple/rights itself. Modern technology - a marvel"

That is funny.

I think it's pretty darn funny.

Well, I hadn't seen it before and I'm enjoying it. Which is good, because I really, really don't feel like working this morning.

Along with the "taxonomy" entry mentioned above, you must read "Burrito". Scroll down the sidebar under Highlights: Metaphors. You will laugh. After a few days, the novelty wears off, but it is comedy gold.

There's this comic strip which is very funny with a sweet but way-too naive pig and a really mean rat and some zebras and the really stoopid crocodiles who live next to the zebras and keep trying to persuade them to be eaten. The blog has their pov.

At 10/15/2005 12:53 PM, iraqwarwrong said...
Ok so he's Jordanan or wahtever. (you stay tomato, ect) I still don't see how that gives Neocons the right to undermine him. (!) Maybe I need to explain, you DO relize that Juan Cole knows(reads) full on ARABIC right? (As in, the languege)? Just checking how up to speeds you are....

It's like Son of Jexster.

Off-topic, but as yesterday was ST:IV, today is ST:V (sorry for dredging up bad memories of that movie) --

Separated at birth? Sybok and Saddam.

Hey everyone! Sarah, Frank J's (IMAO) wife is the creator of TIWWWB. I remember right after the 2004 election she was wondering whether to continue the site or not and wanted comments from her readers. All of the comments were to be sent to Sarah's e-mail.

One of the "Reader Testimonials" on my blog is from "The Proprietor":

"Even though your a dhinger You know how to respect a little Dissent. If only the Reputzi's could share you're. Your alright."

The Proprietor - Iraq War Was Wrong Blog

More classics: His paean to soccer (check out the line about Sporty Spice).

His praise of Barack Obama ("He's so ARTICULATE") is a perfect parody of how liberals acted after Obama's convention speech.

His theodicy post (which cleverly highlights the contradiction in supporting Clinton's wars but not Bush's).

Or his post on how we need "allies" -- just terrific.

Or the post on "wars of choice."

Or this post:

I've mentioned how the war (The Iraq War) was the wrong war at the wrong time (among other wrong things which it was). I sort of left it there, assuming little more need be said. But perhaps a few more words about that are in order. You need to understand full what this means. (To come to grips - to lern to cope). It's one thing to be the wrong war, at the right time. I mean, that's bad and all, but still. At least your'e fighting it (someone) at the right time. Similarly, if you were fighting the right war but just at the wrong time, well hey. I mean we've all been a little late (or, early). But the wrong war and the wrong time? Both? That's just unacceptable. I don't relly know how much clearer it can be.

And more poking at Kerry here and here.

For me, the comedy wore off in minutes and gave way to the boredom of what is essentially one joke repeated ad nauseum. A brilliant idea that fades when transferred into reality. Too much effort for such a small laugh. Though it really does pin the tail on the liberal.

Liberals are truly lame, but Obama's eight hells of a lot more than just "articulate."

He gave a speech that by comparison made both of the actual guys on the ticket look like what they are - vapid, weedy hacks. Best convention speech in either party since Reagan, if not Nixon. (Wartime speeches, etc., are obviously to be considered separately, because their function and rhythym is so different).

I seriously doubt I'll ever vote Democratic - but when Obama hit the rhetorical high notes in his convention speech, I cheered like a damn fool. He showed the difference between rhetoric and oratory. And that difference is what tends to make Presidents.

William Safire, hardly the type to be caught by a fad, says Obama's got what it takes to go all the way. I agree - and I don't know yet whether that's good or bad.