Sound, fury, pride, passion ...Over a Blog?

OK, just to get this straight. This is Naomi Wolf!

Our brother the immortal IOZ is taking fire from a variety of sources, including some dimwit who then got upset over Mr. Fundamental's styling. At which point, the Defeatists were called in to give some covering fire...anyway, this piece on a progressive's somewhat hysterical and paranoid response to Sarah, Todd, Turdblossom published in Huffington Post caused the uproar. The first responder said only "Wolf." Well, yes, gotcha. While Naomi Wolf is a hysterical progressive who actually is a very attractive woman according to her Wiki entry despite her concerns with men objectifying women. The piece began with this, "Please understand what you are looking at when you look at Sarah "Evita" Palin. You are looking at the designated muse of the coming American police state," and rapidly spiraled downward from there into despair, gloom and wrist-slitting. For the record, which ever Naomi-thon wrote the piece was indeed hyperventilating and Sarah Palin is not going to be president of the United States, she's going to be in Alaska in jail for corruption unless she of course gives herself a pardon for it because that's what the great Jehovah and the Continental Congress intended.

Now, Naomi Klein is another hysterical progressive who is also a attractive, somewhat younger woman who has written a  somewhat paranoid but intriguing book, The Shock Doctrine  and who also writes for the Huffington Post. IOZ had a little bit of fun posting this Huffington wail as well as an add-on. "I wrote The Shock Doctrine in the hopes that it would make us all better prepared for the next big shock. Well, that shock has certainly arrived, along with gloves-off attempts to use it to push through radical pro-corporate policies (which of course will further enrich the very players who created the market crisis in the first place...)."  Yeah, an ellipsis inside a parenthetical comment followed by a period. I have to admit that the "but intriguing" is based on reviews...I started reading it, and her syntax and level of hysteria reminded me of something on a site like "Exposing Reptillians" or the "The Gates of Vienna."

You know, I think the problem for literate people writing posts is that they occasionally miss something because they generally know how to spell, or transpose a name because they know a lot of people with a similar name who are floating around in their heads; they aren't writing term papers and they're actually thinking as they write. IOZ has actually read both gals' work and thought about their writing and their material. (If I'm a sexist for calling somethings named Naomi gals, you need to seek help.) Many bloggers and readers suffer from virtual illiteracy and an addiction to MS Office...I envision them in their little cubicles or maybe in the local Starbucks, writing their little posts in Word, Spellchecking, maybe changing the fucking font and background, adding a watermark, then copying it and sending it forward. If you spell and grammar check, and if all you've ever read is The Audacity of Hope, Harry Potter and the Utne Reader, you're somewhat restricted in your ability to err, however slightly. Wolfe, Klein, whatever. Blogging, despite what I used to endure when I would guest blog over on Eye of the Storm, and Crispin would correct my fucking grammar, is not pedagogy. It's not even gogy. It's our Speaker's Corner, and that's really all it is.

And, for the record, this is Naomi Klein.

So, Dudes and Dudettes, please, give the gay Gatsby of Pittsburg a break. Still, I'm totally befuddled by the passion on this one. Now, IOZ must be doing something right -- people actually care enough to respond to what he writes. My post, of which this is an elaborative, self-plagaristic parody, was number 74!!!   Of course, he doesn't have the typepad anti-robot to discourage comments. Still, the only time we ever got anything like that was when AGI picked on a Christian, Neo-Punk Boy(Kindof) Band, calling them retards and shit. Turns out, they were both. So, we're jealous.... But, if we got a bizillion hits at Defeatist Central over some nonsense I tossed up but misconfused to channel Twitshit a bit,  Naomi Klein-Wolf-Woof with Naomi Judd and the focus was on the Naomi Judd and not the substance  of my piece, I would just call the idiots who got that worked up fucking idiots and go on to something else more interesting. Note that IOZ read them, and actually responded to a few with his usual lupine grace and wit. When we get that level of snark, we tend to invite people to read something else, and to go the fuck away...I guess that might be why we don't get a lot of comments. That, and of course, no body reads us...except referrals from IOZ. So hang in there, buddy, and while I know you won't let the bastards grind you down, please continue to add grace, wit and that touch of viperous compassion to what  so often is a waste of synapse, energy, electricity and time.

Comments

[Anonymous from the other blog]

All of these trackbacks are the same. "I commented here, too, you guys!!!111 Look at how funny I are!"

[zencomix]

"That, and of course, no body reads us...except referrals from IOZ."

Not true!

[RedPhillip]

Axe, I check The Defeatists daily. It is true that I first came to the site because I enjoyed Mr. Fun's and your participation in IOZ's 'flying monkey brigade' (as a recent complainer has it). The vehemence of L'Affaire Wolfe/Klein has mystified me. I've come to assume that it has it's wellspring in the defensive anxiety Obama/pwoggie partisans feel when some Article of Faith and Hope is questioned.

[Anonymous from the other blog]

"it has it's wellspring in the defensive anxiety Obama/pwoggie partisans feel when some Article of Faith and Hope is questioned."

That, or it's because he hilariously confused Klein with Wolf. But, yeah, conspiracy, politics, progs, prog rock, keyboards, and stuff. Right.

[mr.fun]

on the fly, off the cuff, back of the envelope, scribled on your palm, improvised, jammin', BLAWG! don't. mistake. the form. ladies and gentlemen.

what fucking lame-o's people can be.

I'm not immune.

[crismark4]

yup - too true. Here's more info about office cubicles