— 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.
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.
BlogHole is a good one. I’ve been calling them Trans-Sullivan-ians. They suck.
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.
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When Olsen attacked Sullivan like that, linking back to him was not really necessary–in fact, it was a way of compounding the insult.
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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.”