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April 14, 2004
Instahack-ed from the Blogroll
I don't really need to pick any fights. But I was reading Instapundit today and it's really terrible. There isn't one bit of insightful commentary on the entire blog. Just a lot of attacks, right-wing fantasy and very selective takes on the day's news.
My good friend Matt Miller of Hall County actually attends UT Law School, where Professor Reynolds teaches. Apparently much fun is had by his students who sit silent but amused while he pontificates on popular culture and other goings on. I'm told one classroom favorite is his daily mispronounciation of the name of Jessica Simpson hubby Nick Lachey.
Well, why do I bring this up at all? It's because I'm going to be redoing my blogroll after all these years. When I started getting into blogs Instapundit was one of the only games in town and he seemed to be much less ideological and partisan. Maybe I'm just remembering it better than it actually was. Who knows? From now on I'll be featuring websites that I actually read on a daily basis in my blogroll. My apologies to Glenn and James Lileks for the loss of traffic. Of course, I doubt they'll notice :)
Posted by Chris at April 14, 2004 06:47 PM
Comments
"Maybe I'm just remembering it better than it actually was."
That's probably true. I think you were less 'rah-rah Democrats woo!' back then, so you didn't notice the partisanship as much?
Also, a running theme with Instapundit is how unserious and hateful the Democrats have become. I give the Dems more credit than he does, but I almost never read Kos/Alterman and such anymore. Too snarky, mean, and they usually can't see the forest for the trees.
Posted by: zachary d smith at April 15, 2004 10:25 AM
I've just about stopped reading Instapundit for the very same reason. In fact, I don't read it anymore for news or an interesting perspective. Instead, I read it to see if he can top the ridiculousness he achieved the day before.
Haven't been disappointed yet.
Posted by: Jeff at April 15, 2004 12:04 PM
Chris, I used to come to your site to see your daily tracking scores, but now that I see how far off your guesses are from the reality (they released a daily sample) I'll just take you off my blogroll too
Keep it real bro
Posted by: BushFan at April 15, 2004 12:11 PM
Funny, I thought this post sounded like pontification?
Posted by: Peapies at April 15, 2004 06:59 PM
When all the news was Instapundit's way, he was not a bad way to read the news. Condensed and clipped for you. But I guess like all blogs he doesn't post things that don't make him happy.
Posted by: wellbasically at April 15, 2004 10:21 PM
I react to this in the same way as when a blog poster writes, "This is rightwing horseshit and I'm outta here!" Not an unusual occurence. "Do it, then." It must not be too important as nothing has changed. I will observe though that maybe the news isn't going YOUR way and it upsets the tummy. Possible? No? Whatever but I do endorse the notion that the Democrats are out to lunch, or whatever you want to call it; irresponsible, mad with partisan rancor... there are many ways to say it. See y'all in Nov.
Posted by: megapotamus at April 20, 2004 10:33 AM
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