NR on Gawker: A little bit of everything

Politics, media, sex. Had no idea there was a related documentary.

Anyway, thought this would be right up our alley.

Inside the Delightful Suicide of Gawker

 

I’m a gay guy and to my mind it is simply insulting for different standards to be applied to gay people than are applied to straight people. I don’t see any reason why we should treat it as something shameful to be kept secret so I’ll push back very, very strongly against that.” In other words, any gay person who chooses to be quiet about it runs afoul of Denton’s zeal for proselytizing. All gay people must adhere to Dentonian dogma on this, or be punished. Who made him the pope of the gays?​

Hah.

PS. Fucker Gawker and Daulerio. They got their just deserts.

 

Some good lines in that column. Fun read.

 

Disturbing that many of you are so eager to dance on Gawker's grave. Although not surprising that some of you would latch onto a simple-minded column by an apparently simple-minded man.

To repeat myself from the earlier thread:

 

Why is it disturbing?

 

Because, for the reasons I discussed at length, it raises serious concerns about freedom of speech in America. Gawker likely would have prevailed on appeal--the state-court judge was the most reversed judge in the county--but, unfortunately, ran out of money before it got that far. Even if you think what Gakwer posted was disgusting this should concern you. What happens the next time a billionaire with a grudge tries to put a media company out of business? No guarantee some state-court judge in Podunk will make the right decision in that case either.

Lots of stuff gets published that I don't agree with, or find reprehensible. If advertisers refuse to advertise, or readers refuse to read, so be it. When the government seeks to prohibit or punish truthful speech about a public figure, however, we should be a little more troubled.

 

Buzz's incoherent 91-word sentence was better than this, at which point I stopped reading. Escutcheon? Lol.

Unkind! Gawker saying its mission is to make war with the unkind is like the Queen of England decrying nepotism. Gawker’s very escutcheon was cruelty, obnoxiousness, unkindness. It published stories too nasty and sleazy for tabloids, and wrote them up with sophomoric zeal for vulgarism and profanity. I happily worked at tabloids for many years, but I felt ashamed of myself every time I read Gawker. I can hardly imagine what it must have been like actually to work at such a flatulence farm, a scum ranch, an academy of pus.

 

Good ending to that, though.

I can hardly imagine what it must have been like actually to work at such a flatulence farm, a scum ranch, an academy of pus.

 

He should know about all of that from working at the National Review, which (based on some of the emails I receive) sells its subscriber lists to the seediest of operators. For example, I got the following a few months ago:

 

Well, he should know!