Eric Olsen, OTK

— Andrew Sullivan takes Eric to the woodshed and gives him a mighty whooping today (In “The Frightening Reynolds”) for his various criticisms: By the way, the tedious Eric Olsen has been whining that I’m not a blogging team player by responding to his every email (they come almost every other day and I got … Continue reading “Eric Olsen, OTK”

Andrew Sullivan takes Eric to the woodshed and gives him a mighty whooping today (In “The Frightening Reynolds”) for his various criticisms:

By the way, the tedious Eric Olsen has been whining that I’m not a blogging team player by responding to his every email (they come almost every other day and I got exhausted responding, especially when they keep having URGENT in the contents line). Memo to Eric: reprint any 1000 words you like from my blog for your warblog book. Good luck with the project. Now please stop spamming my email tray. But can I say a word about the notion of a “blogging community” to which we allegedly owe obligations, deference and respect? Phooey.

Worst of all, there’s no link to Eric’s blog. That makes Sully a BlogHole, one who witholds links. First rule of the Blogophere: you can trash anybody anytime, fairly or not, as long as you get the URL right. These pro journalists are so hard to housebreak.

3 thoughts on “Eric Olsen, OTK”

  1. Who cares about Sullivan? I’m Thoroughly Ferocious now. That’s so much better than “aged medium well” or whatever category I used to be stuffed into. I’m also glad that you put me at the top. I needed the morale boost after my thorough Fisking by Ken Layne today.

    I still shudder when I think about it.

  2. I prefer the term “Masturblogger” to “Bloghole” because it implies it is an act by a blogger rather than a passive attribute of a blog. Plus, it sounds dirty.

    When Olsen attacked Sullivan like that, linking back to him was not really necessary–in fact, it was a way of compounding the insult.

    Sullivan really laid the smack down, I have a feeling “tedious” is the second-most powerful insult in Sullivan’s book, just short of “lacking moral clarity.”

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