Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Drag (inter) net

by Pauli


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Posted by Pauli at 7/17/2013 10:58:00 AM

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  1. AnonymousJuly 17, 2013 at 1:14 PM

    Just the facts, ma'am.

    Keith

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  2. kathleenJuly 17, 2013 at 2:30 PM

    R u calling dreher "ma'am"? Slander!

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  3. AnonymousJuly 17, 2013 at 2:47 PM

    Kathleen, according to Bream LaRoux's 2015 LSU doctoral dissertation "Gender Identity Disorder in The Little Way of Ruthie Leming", it may not be slander.

    Keith

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    1. DianeJuly 17, 2013 at 3:08 PM

      OK, we've outed Keith. He's not a lawyer; he's an academic. Only an academic could nail that dissertation title so pitch-perfectly. LOL.

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    2. AnonymousJuly 17, 2013 at 3:49 PM

      Diane, I don't think it takes an academic to compare Lil FiFi whipping up cookie batter in the magic cottage of the spinster aunts with Deerskinner Ruthie to question what Maw and Paw hath wrought there in the back woods, although it probably did take Bream LaRoux to stretch an otherwise commonplace observation into a full-length dissertation. What with tuition these days.

      Keith

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    3. pikkumattiJuly 17, 2013 at 6:24 PM

      At the risk of offending any LSU alums around here, I present a cheer that my neighbor across the street (born and raised in Metairie, LA) taught me:

      "LSU,
      LSU,
      Go in dumb,
      Come out dumb too."

      He used that cheer to dissuade his daughter from attending that fine institution. LSU is the party school of choice for the discriminating Dallas youngster; at least it was when my kids (and his) were in the market.

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  4. AnonymousJuly 18, 2013 at 9:35 AM

    Pik's joke about LSU reminded me there was another theme that might explain Dreher's sudden and otherwise inexplicable hysteria over the politically uppity locals.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nGw_vAnqPI

    Keith

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    1. pikkumattiJuly 18, 2013 at 10:34 AM

      Whoa, I'd forgotten about that song (and didn't realize the LSU cheer was in it).

      BTW, I'd rather be a Yankee who moved to Texas than some California boy who pretends to be a Southerner so he can rag on other Southerners for a little bit of money and recognition by the Cool Kids.

      The difference between Randy Newman and Dreher is that Dreher is in fact a Southerner.

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    2. PauliJuly 18, 2013 at 10:45 AM

      I don't like the Randy Newman song much, but I see Keith's reason for posting it.

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    3. AnonymousJuly 18, 2013 at 11:31 AM

      The more those convoluted political arguments go on over there at that site he's supposedly suing about, the more I have to wonder about the motivations on all sides and what they really want.

      Dreher's made an ostentatious play about supporting one black candidate, but the arguments that keep getting made about how the final system as a whole would function make the case that that token black guy's voice would be effectively moot.

      And I don't think I have to point out to anybody here that Dreher's signature move is to blabber as loudly as possible about something that makes him look saintly while the subtext of what he's saying or his behavior itself telegraphs a whole different goal.

      So is Dreher's goal "keepin' the n*ggers down"? Even I don't think his ends are something that crudely direct. But every town has its vested "Citizen's Council" which keeps everything running the way the right people want it run, and I don't have any doubt Dreher wants to be in with those right people and to be far enough in that he's an active influence broker. Which inevitably means that in Dreher-ordered World others are going to have to settle on having less influence, and in that part of the world those people will be the larger number of poor black folks and the smaller number of poor white ones.

      Or maybe I'm just spinning nonsense, in which case why is this the first case I've ever heard of of Dreher getting so energetic about filing a defamation suit?

      With Dreher, the one thing I've come to know with full certainty is that things are never what they're ostentatiously painted as being on the surface.

      Keith

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    4. pikkumattiJuly 18, 2013 at 1:05 PM

      Where I was going on the Randy Newman song connection was that Dreher is like Randy Newman -- he makes a living of being critical of those in the group that he theoretically belongs to, while getting and keeping himself in the good graces of the Cool People who are not in that group.

      It's been that way for Dreher with conservatives, Catholics, Southerners (including his own family), and probably with Americans in general (as evident from his fawning over France and its food).

      I'm not sure whether that is the same case with his Home Rule Charter jihad (because Dreher's output on that subject is too damn boring for me to read, plus a lot of inside baseball and I don't have a scorecard so I can tell the players). But I'd be surprised if it weren't cut from the same cloth.

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    5. pikkumattiJuly 18, 2013 at 1:10 PM

      And more directly to Keith's point, no, I don't think that Dreher is about keeping the n*ggers down, nor is it about maintaining connections with the Citizens' Council (I don't know which side they're on here).

      I figure he's just trying to show everyone how enlightened and engaged that he is -- bringing a bit of modern Eastern intellectual sensibility to the rough-and-tumble hardscrabble world of South La. local politics.

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    6. AnonymousJuly 18, 2013 at 1:15 PM

      Pik, I agree with both of us.

      Keith

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    7. AnonymousJuly 18, 2013 at 1:42 PM

      What I mean is, I think what Pik's describing broadly overall is how Dreher goes about doing the things he does, which although that frequently can also be an end in itself and nothing more, doesn't necessarily have to be and so doesn't preclude him from exhibiting what Pik describes as the manner in which he's pursuing some separate, different objective.

      Keith

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    8. pikkumattiJuly 18, 2013 at 2:53 PM

      With which I too agree with both of us.

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  5. DianeJuly 18, 2013 at 4:04 PM

    I don't have any doubt Dreher wants to be in with those right people and to be far enough in that he's an active influence broker.

    Yep. Just like when he was Muzhik, and he was trying to help run the OCA from behind the scenes, so to speak, via Met. Jonah and the aptly named Father Fester.

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