JUST AS LONG AS YOU SPELL MY NAME RIGHT

And Atrios certainly did that:


As reader Lance Uppercut pointed out in the comments to my Quayle post below, an op-ed analysis I had printed in Friday's Washington Examiner has come to the attention of the lefty blogosphere — see the Matts at MyDD and Left in the West — and they don't like it one bit.

Well, that's fine. Some of their problems have more to do with the nature of the short op-ed format, and there's really no getting around that. I wish I'd known that the AFL-CIO was organizing for Ciro Rodriguez, but I stand by the rest of it. I could complain about the hyperbolic nature of some criticisms, or the way they dismiss the "conventional wisdom" as if it's necessarily wrong, but the truth is I'm just too honored by the recognition as "Wanker of the Day." Even if most people will miss it because it's the weekend.

Thanks, Atrios. You've made my day.

P.S. — The indispensible Echopraxia directs me toward the most unintentionally funny response to my piece: the irascible Steve Gilliard offering me an unnecessary history lesson on the Vichy regime, whilst taking credit for the recent coinage of a phrase that's been around for over a decade.

UPDATE — After being so unkind as to describe my column as "absurd and dishonest," Matt Stoller was so kind as to offer me a rebuttal post at MyDD. It's up now.

FURTHER UPDATE — Oh well. Maybe I should have known this would end badly. See also today's Blogometer.

Let this be a lesson to me, just as soon as I figure out what that is.

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posted by WWB at 2:05 PM |