Comments on: A bleat. http://nancynall.com/2007/05/07/a-bleat/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-bleat one writer's daily download Tue, 22 May 2012 18:43:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: newsrackblog.com » Blog Archive » Good for a grin http://nancynall.com/2007/05/07/a-bleat/#comment-333567 newsrackblog.com » Blog Archive » Good for a grin Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:58:07 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2007/05/07/a-bleat/#comment-333567 [...] Nancy Nall, on conservative blither-blogger Jim Lileks’ reassignment to (gasp) reporting at the Minneapolis Star Tribune: Fact. No. 1: It’s not personal, Jim. Try to remember that. It will be difficult for quite some time. I can still tick off at least half a dozen newspaper managers who, if I saw them in flames on a sidewalk today, would prompt no thought more vexing than “Damn, where’re my marshmallows?” But really, it’s not about you. It’s about your salary. You’re fat, and the paper is on a crash diet. They don’t really want you to be a reporter; they want you to quit. [...] [...] Nancy Nall, on conservative blither-blogger Jim Lileks’ reassignment to (gasp) reporting at the Minneapolis Star Tribune: Fact. No. 1: It’s not personal, Jim. Try to remember that. It will be difficult for quite some time. I can still tick off at least half a dozen newspaper managers who, if I saw them in flames on a sidewalk today, would prompt no thought more vexing than “Damn, where’re my marshmallows?” But really, it’s not about you. It’s about your salary. You’re fat, and the paper is on a crash diet. They don’t really want you to be a reporter; they want you to quit. [...]

]]> By: phased out « the infotainment follies http://nancynall.com/2007/05/07/a-bleat/#comment-191833 phased out « the infotainment follies Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:31:11 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2007/05/07/a-bleat/#comment-191833 [...] Nall, having been there herself, has a lot of bilious but cathartic things to say about the Brave New Media World: It is, with a few details changed, pretty much [...] [...] Nall, having been there herself, has a lot of bilious but cathartic things to say about the Brave New Media World: It is, with a few details changed, pretty much [...]

]]> By: Clancy http://nancynall.com/2007/05/07/a-bleat/#comment-84019 Clancy Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:43:07 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2007/05/07/a-bleat/#comment-84019 This really says it all: http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=lileks.com This really says it all:

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=lileks.com

]]> By: phased out at infotainment rules http://nancynall.com/2007/05/07/a-bleat/#comment-77715 phased out at infotainment rules Thu, 17 May 2007 02:19:28 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2007/05/07/a-bleat/#comment-77715 [...] Nall, having been there herself, has a lot of bilious but cathartic things to say about the Brave New Media World: It is, with a few details changed, pretty much [...] [...] Nall, having been there herself, has a lot of bilious but cathartic things to say about the Brave New Media World: It is, with a few details changed, pretty much [...]

]]> By: VirginiaGal http://nancynall.com/2007/05/07/a-bleat/#comment-76245 VirginiaGal Fri, 11 May 2007 04:44:30 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2007/05/07/a-bleat/#comment-76245 Skydaddy took the words out of my mouth. Jealousy is an ugly thing, and professional jealousy is particularly unpleasant. Nancy, if you covet what Lileks has achieved, stop wallowing and go seek it for yourself. Building up, not tearing down, is the secret to fulfillment. Skydaddy took the words out of my mouth.

Jealousy is an ugly thing, and professional jealousy is particularly unpleasant. Nancy, if you covet what Lileks has achieved, stop wallowing and go seek it for yourself.

Building up, not tearing down, is the secret to fulfillment.

]]> By: Phoenix Woman http://nancynall.com/2007/05/07/a-bleat/#comment-75751 Phoenix Woman Wed, 09 May 2007 22:09:14 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2007/05/07/a-bleat/#comment-75751 The ONLY reason Lileks' conservative defenders are here is because they want to tell Nancy that he's really not all that conservative, honest! Except that if they actually read her post, they'd know that their efforts at gaslighting are wasted: She's seen and studied his style enough to write a master's thesis on it. (Suggested title: "For Me, But Not for Thee: Wingnut Hypocrisy as Expressed in Delusions of Entitlement.") The ONLY reason Lileks’ conservative defenders are here is because they want to tell Nancy that he’s really not all that conservative, honest! Except that if they actually read her post, they’d know that their efforts at gaslighting are wasted: She’s seen and studied his style enough to write a master’s thesis on it. (Suggested title: “For Me, But Not for Thee: Wingnut Hypocrisy as Expressed in Delusions of Entitlement.”)

]]> By: Michael http://nancynall.com/2007/05/07/a-bleat/#comment-75748 Michael Wed, 09 May 2007 22:01:52 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2007/05/07/a-bleat/#comment-75748 Wow! What a shrill and nasty column. Your jealousy of the man's manifold talents is transparent. Wow! What a shrill and nasty column. Your jealousy of the man’s manifold talents is transparent.

]]> By: Jason Cravat http://nancynall.com/2007/05/07/a-bleat/#comment-75540 Jason Cravat Wed, 09 May 2007 07:18:39 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2007/05/07/a-bleat/#comment-75540 "You're just bitter." "You're just jealous." The wingnuts can't get you on substance, Nancy, and they can't get you on style. (You're a more elegant writer than Lileks by a factor of ten.) And those who add that Lileks's newspaper column isn't political aren't posting here because his gnat-brained musings in the Strib make their lives worth living. They're the ones turned on (as Wally Whately suggests above) by his martial tubthumping on behalf of this catastrophic war. (Those chickenhawks are the only readers the guy has left). Lileks will cope as he always does--by whining about the unfairness and rattling his tin cup. And it will never occur to him to feel sympathy for the reservists in his state being sent back to Iraq for their third soul-killing tours while benefits for their spouses and their own "Gnats" are slashed... “You’re just bitter.” “You’re just jealous.” The wingnuts can’t get you on substance, Nancy, and they can’t get you on style. (You’re a more elegant writer than Lileks by a factor of ten.) And those who add that Lileks’s newspaper column isn’t political aren’t posting here because his gnat-brained musings in the Strib make their lives worth living. They’re the ones turned on (as Wally Whately suggests above) by his martial tubthumping on behalf of this catastrophic war. (Those chickenhawks are the only readers the guy has left). Lileks will cope as he always does–by whining about the unfairness and rattling his tin cup. And it will never occur to him to feel sympathy for the reservists in his state being sent back to Iraq for their third soul-killing tours while benefits for their spouses and their own “Gnats” are slashed…

]]> By: Carlitos http://nancynall.com/2007/05/07/a-bleat/#comment-75511 Carlitos Wed, 09 May 2007 05:32:55 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2007/05/07/a-bleat/#comment-75511 "No, he’s a victim of a company that can’t see that they already have in their midst a way to turn around the paper: with electronic dynamic content and ad revenue." Yeah! Cuz he could have done all that! While eating a cheesburger! But they won't let him!!! Wait, why are we even having this discussion? The man could singlehandledly rebuild the internet economy if only those damn liberals... I mean, cut-thoat capitalists... wait... capiltalists always serve the greater good, so they could not have made a mistake... logic of Teh Markets... maybe they are being infiltrated by Stalinists? Well, anyway, clearly he will be able to lift himself up by his bootstraps because all you need is a little spunk and good old fashioned American know-how (and Jesus and heterosexuality and just a dash of pragmatic paternalism) and Viola! problem solved. He has plenty of all that, so he will be fine! Plus he is a white male, so unless the lefties actually build that emasculating, gaymaking, colorizing lib-o-ray that Hillary has been secretly funding with all that White Water money, he has nothing to worry about. And they are stoopid moonbats, so clearly- nothing to worry about! Sheesh, and you guys were all worried. “No, he’s a victim of a company that can’t see that they already have in their midst a way to turn around the paper: with electronic dynamic content and ad revenue.”

Yeah! Cuz he could have done all that! While eating a cheesburger! But they won’t let him!!!

Wait, why are we even having this discussion? The man could singlehandledly rebuild the internet economy if only those damn liberals… I mean, cut-thoat capitalists… wait… capiltalists always serve the greater good, so they could not have made a mistake… logic of Teh Markets… maybe they are being infiltrated by Stalinists? Well, anyway, clearly he will be able to lift himself up by his bootstraps because all you need is a little spunk and good old fashioned American know-how (and Jesus and heterosexuality and just a dash of pragmatic paternalism) and Viola! problem solved. He has plenty of all that, so he will be fine! Plus he is a white male, so unless the lefties actually build that emasculating, gaymaking, colorizing lib-o-ray that Hillary has been secretly funding with all that White Water money, he has nothing to worry about. And they are stoopid moonbats, so clearly- nothing to worry about!

Sheesh, and you guys were all worried.

]]> By: Carlitos http://nancynall.com/2007/05/07/a-bleat/#comment-75507 Carlitos Wed, 09 May 2007 05:11:17 +0000 http://nancynall.com/2007/05/07/a-bleat/#comment-75507 "Glad to know lefties resent anyone with “improper” views (even tho their never stated in the st) There is no talent on this site–only petty jealousy." ------------------------------------------ Umm... you do have at least a passing familiarity with the concept of irony, don't you? Shorter joe says: "Those jerks are a bunch of namecallers!" “Glad to know lefties resent anyone with “improper” views (even tho their never stated in the st) There is no talent on this site–only petty jealousy.”

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Umm… you do have at least a passing familiarity with the concept of irony, don’t you?

Shorter joe says:
“Those jerks are a bunch of namecallers!”

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