OOH! OOH! I GET IT!

Sometime yesterday afternoon, Wonkette served up this:

Blind Item

Sometimes we like to post things only about 500 Googling monkeys will get. So here goes:

Note to certain self-serious, enormously expensive, unlinkably elitist, faxed political summary composers: The falcon flies at dawn.

Wonkette apparently doesn't believe in time stamps, but I'm certain it was posted shortly after this item ran in Hotline's Last Call:

A word to certain bloggers: Snark is like raw oysters. You enjoy them on certain occasions and when you know you can get good ones, but if they were all you ate they'd make you sick.

Ha! Good point.

Anyway, some of you may have noticed the link to Ana Marie Cox's snarkfest down and to the right on this page, and some of you may remember my "announcement" on Armed Prophet a few weeks back. The one about no longer reading Wonkette, that is. So why the change of heart?

Partly because the Washington Canard sort of plans to enter the DC blogging community (sort of) and Wonkette undeniably belongs to that community. And partly because I was asked to. A week or two after I posted that and another item about seeing her at a panel discussion, I got the following email from Ms. Cox:

glad you at least liked my talk.... i am trying to be more even-handed on Wonkette, btw. i hope you give it another chance at some point.

Okay, so in recent days I've gone back to check out her site. And? Not much difference so far as I can tell. Still unpleasant. Still anti-Bush and vaguely pro-Dem. To wit, in the last few days, an obsession with trying to imply that all Republicans are gay. See here, here and here. And that is not a definitive collection of entries. Oh, and maybe she's just taking the social-left side of things? No, she's planted her feet firmly in the leftward camp on arcane blogosphere controversies. Let's face it, this is a left-wing blog, like Atrios or Daily Kos, only funnier.

Seriously, a more balanced Wonkette could work. I'm almost as far right as Wonkette is left, The Washington Canard is not that blog, but it could be if someone like Jason Calacanis offered me the money to do it.

Note: Cross-posted to Armed Prophet.

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posted by WWB at 2:44 PM |