"Puppy Rapist"?

Eeiw...

From the amusing first comment regarding Hendrik Herzberg, whom I cannot stand.

Hendrik Hertzberg is unstandable!!:/

He's a pathetic arrogant douche without the intellectual capital and honesty to back up his embarrassing self esteem.

This is delightful:



that is from this Politico post.

Here is a portion of his response to the episode on his blog:

"I was not at my most intellectually acute. Two youngish guys dressed in slacker clothes—one with a microphone, the other with a camera—accosted me on the sidewalk in front of my apartment building. The guy with the microphone stuck it in my face and started badgering me with questions about why I had called Newt Gingrich a bigot.

Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/hendrikhertzberg/2008/12/billo-and-me.html#ixzz0dhCW3sS0"

"...not at my most intellectually acute." That is funny.

I'm betting he admires the spunk of the old Sixty Minutes pioneers though he's trumping the unfair ambush angle.

If you aren't certain he is a sad hack simply note how highly regarded he is by JournoLister Jackass Ezra Klein.

This Iowahawk take on the JournoList matter remains one of the funniest things I've had the pleasure of enjoying, ever.

Update: "Two youngish guys dressed in slacker clothes..."? I just replayed that...Wow is Hertzberg a consummate ass!

Two punks dressed like shit? Is that his contention?

Blue button down collar and overcoat?

He looks more nicely dressed than Hendrik, though likely that hypocrite is swaddled
in shahtoosh.

There is a screen capture of him on the program in question which he dismisses as a result of a body surfing jaw injury.

Oh well. I love parts of the New Yorker, though it is not anything like it was so many years ago.

The parts I loath, including Herzberg, have had me lapse my subscription some years ago.

The politics and arrogance have amplified at the cost of the literary and timeless content which they inherited and ought to have stewarded with honor.