Conservative Vs Wingnut: The PWNING

I have been hearing a lot lately about the difference between a true conservative and a neocon (aka wingnut). From my understanding basically they both vote Republican but the former has actual princples while the later is more of a cheerleader in all situations. Well evidently the "real" conservatives have just about had enough of the neocons and its about to be all out war. Paul Mulshine, one or the "real" conservatives", evidently has no time for posers like Glenn Reynolds.

The more I look at what passes punditry on the Internet, the more I realize that a great number of the self-appointed pundits are mere parasites. Their relationship to real journalists is that of a tick to a dog.

The fattest, most engorged tick of them all is Glenn Reynolds, the self-proclaimed "Instapundit."

As the name implies, Reynolds endorses the theory that in the era of the Internet anyone can provide political commentary instantly, i.e. without benefit of reflection, experience or knowledge.

OUCH. But wait it gets better!

The other day Reynolds had a post in which he blasted media outlets for cutting back coverage of the Iraq War. I first learned of it on Instaputz, a site devoted to documenting the idiocies of Instapundit.

Here's what Reynolds wrote in its entirety: "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: TV News Winds Down Operations on Iraq War. Hey, they got Obama elected. Why stick around and maybe report stuff that doesn't fit the narrative?"

The pose Reynolds adopts is that of the conservative commentator taking shots at the liberal media. Unfortunately, he's not a conservative. He has not the slightest idea of how we conservatives view the Iraq War. And we view it as a misguided exercise in liberal do-gooder, internationalism.

Body blow, body blow but wait here comes the haymaker...

But that's not what really ticks me off about this particular parasite. Reynolds has made a career of criticizing real journalists who risk their lives reporting from the Mideast. And he has also made a career of arguing that amateurs like himself can perform the job of journalists.

To which I say: Get off your fat ass, Glenn, and go cover the war. If you think you can make a better war correspondent than, say, Tom Ricks of the Washington Post, well just hop on a plane and prove it.

Man and here I thought liberals and progressives were the masters of flame wars. Now Glenn Reynolds is truly an asshole and the Instaputz site does a great job of documenting some of the more wingnutty statements of his but it just has so much more effect when you know he is getting PWNED by someone he would normally call a comrade. I can only hope that Reynolds responds so that we can keep this flame war going indefinitely.