Who is Rod Dreher sucking up to this week?
Let's see...someone named Damon Linker.
But beyond a shared interest in talking about sex on the internet - and if you ever find yourself not getting enough talk about weird and perverted sex, Dreher's is hands down the first place to go - why is Damon Linker, according to Rod "one of the most interesting columnists writing today", now his new BFF?
Commenter The Wet One explains:
Ahhh… I see what you did there Rod. You cheeky son of a gun you.
It’s all there in the first line of the second paragraph:
“Leading social conservative Rod Dreher conceded as much last week.”
You just wanted us all to see that in print.
Lol!
:D
Of course, I didn’t see your ulterior motive until I actually clicked on the link this afternoon.
Heh.
Yes, as TWO says, of course. As I recall, a number has even been dedicated to describe that sort of relationship, five, or six, or nine or something.
And that, kids, is how you become a leading-whatever-you-wannabe, just find yourself someone with similar ambitions to curl up like a comma with online.
Here's some background on Linker:
ReplyDeleteLowell Brown's takedown
Bottum responds to snot-nosed obituaries of Fr. Neuhaus
Contains a great quote from tMfKS, worth excerpting:
Anyway, oh how I remember the heady days of 2006 when Our Working Boy promised on a stack of missals that he would never, ever, become a "professional ex-Catholic" (by which is meant an anti-Catholic). Yet that is precisely what he became, and always will be. His career depends on it. Think of it this way: would anyone really care what, say, Garry Wills has to say on any given issue, if Wills had come from a Methodist background? Would anyone think of Rod's pal (and now fellow Philadelphian) Damon Linker as anything but a smallbore apostate, a cockle-boat in the wake of great ships like Hitchens, if he was a former Assemblies of God adherent? It is only Rod's time with Team Rome that makes his utterances at all interesting (and even then he only sometimes reaches that threshold). And he himself knows that more than anyone else.
We should never expect him to have much of substance to say about E-Orthodoxy. I honestly don't think he's all that intellectually or emotionally invested in it, and no wonder--they aren't all that invested in HIM, a convert from outside the ethnic tribe. "The Benedict Option" will, I predict, be vaporware for another 4 or 5 years, but when it does appear, count on at least 80% of the content to be a discussion of Catholicism.
I'll admit I only skimmed this whole enterprise I posted about, but I'm still convinced the mutually extended hands curled in friendship covered the meat of it. As usual with Dreher posts, the subject was only the wrapper.
DeleteWhen one Hallmark Card thinker finds a soul mate Hallmark Card thinker, that should probably be celebrated as the beautiful thing it is, their perennial Catholic-bashing notwithstanding.
Looks like Rod’s son has been indoctrinated into the Ruthie tragedy exploitation cult.
ReplyDeleteAnother exhibit for the evidence vault.
DeleteI'm looking forward to Rod showing us Lucas' chapter on Dante, furthering the nouveau literary genre we see in the image posted which off the top of my head I'm going to call "alt-veritas" to compliment the "alt-conservative" theme already in play there.
DeleteNice, but it takes a certain kind of person to troll for comments using the written equivalent of your kid's refrigerator art, along with a look-at-me-I-didn't-post-on-Sunday brag.
DeleteChickens, Louisiana, cancer, weepy memoirs, the inner workings of the book publishing industry . . . So many layers. This is like the turducken of Dreherian projection.
Deletethe written equivalent of your kid's refrigerator art
DeleteLOL, well put.
This is like the turducken of Dreherian projection.
DeleteWith a side of boiled crawdaddies.
Today Our Working Boy is posting about gay bears and drag queens and defending the labeling of women as "f*g hags" and sneering about their "desperation." Methinks somebody misses being a cool New Wave kid hanging in the bars:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/pink-police-state-vs-the-bears/comment-page-2/#comment-6322853
I have to keep checking the URL and make sure I'm not actually on Sullivan's page.
Sometimes it's just too much to watch.
Delete"Out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh." (Lk. 6:45)
Your quote from Luke couldn't be more appropriate. Today he's got an arguably nsfw photo in a huge splash on a post, and he and his commenters are mocking women who don't want their kids exposed to smut. You see photos of his little daughter in church in floor length skirts and headscarves but I guess that's all just pseudo-Russian cosplay, not an actual embrace of the virtue of modesty. Just wow. I keep thinking he has hit bottom and then...
DeleteSpeaking of "new wave": I remember this guy, circa 1986, telling me about his straight friends at Penn State who hung out in gay bars to get free drinks, paid for by the old gays trying to hit on them. They traveled in packs and wore running shoes just in case. I thought it was cruel at the time but a little funny, and now I think it's even more cruel and not very funny or fascinating.
DeleteIt seems like Dreher has gone the other direction and is entirely fascinated by the gay lifestyle, enough to write about topics it's probably best to shy away from. I wonder what his point is. That being gay leads to extreme perversions? I've known straight people who are pretty extremely perverse.
I do think there is an attempt in the media to whitewash the dark side of the homosexual world, but there are a lot of people out there more suited to exposing it than Dreher, who half the time appears to be risking "going native".
Rod Dreher; The Orthodox Church's next Frank Schaffer.
ReplyDeleteYou made me look up Frank Schaffer. And now I see what you mean. Passages like this one:
DeleteToday when I listen to Obama speak (and to his remarkable wife, Michelle) what I hear is a world view that actually nurtures life. Obama is trying to lead this country to a place where the intrinsic worth of each individual is celebrated. A leader who believes in hope, the future, trying to save our planet and providing a just and good life for everyone is someone who is actually pro-life.
So here comes 2016, and Dreher will be at least tempted to similarly line up behind Fauxcahontas. You know he will.