tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post9031333902350059777..comments2023-10-17T14:31:52.102-04:00Comments on Est Quod Est: Hey, are you media guys being mean to Vladimir Putin?Paulihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17506171638613025839noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-36799246972376077822014-02-09T16:47:11.394-05:002014-02-09T16:47:11.394-05:00Oengus, you're absolutely right.
Here he'...Oengus, you're absolutely right.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/is-putin-running-the-l-a-schools/" rel="nofollow">Here</a> he's really just serving up a self-conscious "Do-it-yourself-freude". The whole schtick was never about anything more important than Dreher's meme-ularity in the blogosphere.<br /><br />KeithAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-83442859075508935282014-02-09T15:07:37.089-05:002014-02-09T15:07:37.089-05:00Keith: "If the answers aren't rational, t...Keith: <i>"If the answers aren't rational, they must be something else."</i><br /><br />You nailed it again, Keith.<br /><br />What the "something else" might be, people can speculate about. You have offered your own set of possibilities. <br /><br />My particular take is that it's "all shtick," a projected persona, or flimsy façade, or a kind of goofy "Potemkin Village," that tries to pass itself off as being deep and serious. But in any case, since everything is a fabrication that does not correspond to any reality, then we should have no expectation of coherence or rationality in any of it.<br /><br />But I have reached the point where I simply don't care anymore. If there are people about there who like being fooled by it all, then so much the worse for them. I can't do anything about it.Oengushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02537779684816982064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-42465904781426052782014-02-08T19:31:14.952-05:002014-02-08T19:31:14.952-05:00In the wake of Dreher's Ambien-fueled man-crus...In the wake of Dreher's <a href="http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/sochi-olympics-media-los-angeles-1984/comment-page-2/#comment-4307908" rel="nofollow">Ambien-fueled</a> man-crush, <a href="http://thefederalist.com/2014/02/07/in-praise-of-sochi-schadenfreude-why-we-should-celebrate-russias-failure/" rel="nofollow">David Harsanyi</a> brings the grownup:<br /><br /><i>We don’t even have to bring up the fact that Putin has consistently undermined American interests, abetting brutal dictatorships in Syria and North Korea – not to mention, shielding Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Surrounded by an army of 40,000 soldiers and police in a “ring of steel,” Bob Costas can whitewash his host’s misdeeds, but Russia’s government is not only corrupt, and not only is it intolerant of gays, but according to Amnesty International, human rights violations by the government include killings, enforced disappearances and torture, and they are “frequent.” According to Freedom of Information index by Reporters Without Borders, Putin belongs on a list with Chinese President Xi Jinping, North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Italian Mafia and Chechnya’s Ramzan Kadyrov.<br /><br />That’s not to say that Russians, with or without Putin, don’t have a long way to go. It’s not to say that the Russian people don’t have their quirks. But if Sochi is, as Putin claims, a vision a “new Russia,” lots of people around the world will see that the new Russia is extraordinarily similar to the old Russia.<br /><br />This is his Olympics. We should all get in a good laugh at his misfortune.</i><br /><br />KeithAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-48161401163351414022014-02-08T17:01:00.346-05:002014-02-08T17:01:00.346-05:00This, for example, makes sense, even though it'...<a href="http://www.sadanduseless.com/animation.php?n=116" rel="nofollow">This</a>, for example, makes sense, even though it's nonsenseTomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09534284662785499386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-70854054669901641852014-02-08T14:29:04.775-05:002014-02-08T14:29:04.775-05:00Well, that and Ambien:
[NFR: I wrote them last ni...Well, that and <a href="http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/sochi-olympics-media-los-angeles-1984/comment-page-2/#comment-4307908" rel="nofollow">Ambien</a>:<br /><br /><em>[NFR: I wrote them last night. I wrote half of them on Ambien...</em><br /><br />I suppose in an Ambien-addicted fever dream a beefcake like Putin could take on a new...resonance, let's call it...for a guy with already published Daddy issues. No pants-puller-downers gonna get by a strong, virile protector like Putin standing athwart the pass, that's for sure.<br /><br />Again, why does Putin require or deserve Dreher's or anyone else's defense? If the answers aren't rational, they must be something else.<br /><br />KeithAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-57292937630084262832014-02-08T09:51:28.612-05:002014-02-08T09:51:28.612-05:00It appears that Rod and TAC have their hobby horse...It appears that Rod and TAC have their hobby horse for the next two weeks. Is it any wonder they are bleeding subscribers with this kind of foolishness passing for journalism there?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-81184748845654348262014-02-08T03:44:24.365-05:002014-02-08T03:44:24.365-05:00Thanks for posting this. I just finished reading R...Thanks for posting this. I just finished reading Rod's posts on Putin. Daniel Larison writes about Putin as if Putin is paying him directly (perhaps he is). Perhaps this is because....<br />1. Putin has been acting as an effective counter-balance to American foreign policy in the Middle East, a policy that Dreher and his ideological comrades hate. Remember, TAC supports anything or anyone that embarrasses the "neo-cons."<br /><br />2. Putin makes overtures to the Russian Orthodox Church, to which Rod belongs and which has allowed itself to be co-opted by the tsars and Communists for centuries.<br /><br />3. Putin opposes homosexuality, which makes him one of Buchanan's favorites. <br /><br />Rod writes as if he doesn't understand history. The Chinese used the Olympics for political purposes. The Nazis did likewise. The Soviets did likewise. Hell, the United States did likewise by boycotting the Moscow Games.<br /><br />These "conservatives" have no moral compass except their own ideological fantasies.Joseph D'Hippolitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15571554907399914529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-60864703699556237452014-02-07T17:09:15.693-05:002014-02-07T17:09:15.693-05:00This is one of those why did the dog bark in the n...This is one of those why did the dog bark in the night kinds of things. Who even gives a flyin' eff about what happens to Putin in the first place, and why would they?<br /><br />A: You're on the edge of the cliff, your kids are starving, and every other subject in the universe and the words to describe them have fled your brain like frightened quail.<br /><br />B: [Your qualifier here] bromance.<br /><br />KeithAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2065164884737080821.post-82363646864279866812014-02-07T13:39:20.197-05:002014-02-07T13:39:20.197-05:00So what does "Putinfreude" mean? If it w...So what does "Putinfreude" mean? If it were a play on words, it would mean something like "joy in Putin's sorrow," but I don't think Putin is particularly sorrowful these days.<br /><br />But professional writer Rod explains, if that's the word I want, that it's not a play on words, it's a play on word sounds. "Putinfreude" is a word that *sounds* sort of like another word, but even poets ought to have some care as to what words mean.<br /><br />I gather from what Keith writes that it's supposed to mean something like "undue criticism of Putin," but... why does it mean that? Or rather, why does "Putinfreude" work as a neologism for "undue criticism of Putin," when joy in another's sorrow has nothing to do with undue criticism?<br /><br />I don't think it's a matter of being too literal. I think it's a matter of understanding how language works.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09534284662785499386noreply@blogger.com