Heh

Glenn Reynolds responds to a typical Oliver Willis off-course bomb toss, without linking Ollie. That’s got to burn.

Willis complains (in regard to the Brittney Gilbert resignation):

You may want to (I know you probably won’t) note that a lot of the vitriol got directed at Gilbert, right or wrong, after she linked and excerpted a mean dig at the recently deceased Steve Gilliard.

But I know you’ve got an agenda and a cause to push and all.

This is the post he’s referencing. Right off the bat, you can see that Willis is continuing the left-wing bullshit that linking to a post without commenting on it indicates the linking blogger’s approval…there was a kerfuffle with Jonah Goldberg at NRO about this “practice” not so long ago. What Willis fails to recognize is that a) Brittney is a lefty herself, b) Brittney’s post caption, “Teaching Libs a Lesson” was in reference to Smantix’ comment here:

Am I taking the wrong lesson from Gilliard’s death, Jon?

Is there some greater message I am supposed to be receiving from the left side of the blogosphere greater than “be as mean and vicious as you can” so that you will be canonized in some leftist pantheon?

The Left’s hagiographs to Gilliard are surely reminiscent of the historical revisionism given to Jerry Falwell.

Maybe by seeing the ugliness of my post, you will think twice about the type of atmosphere you are now praising Gilliard for promoting.

So, the post caption is a satirical take on the linked post’s authors explanation for it. And finally, c) Brittney and Glenn were hardly friendly.

None of this matters in Oliver’s book, though: By god, there’s a left-wing meme to enforce, and he’s on it. Pfeh.

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