Sunday, January 02, 2005

 

"No Empathy, No Competence And No Limits"

Explain to me why BoBo the Narcissistic Wingnut has a column in the New York Times, while Digby, who labors over at the blog Hullabaloo, doesn't? Especially when you compare and contrast their columns on the tsunami and its aftermath:

Here's Digby: "I wonder just when [Dubya] would have come forward if Bill Clinton hadn't been asked about it on a BBC radio show and answered like a normal human being, thereby forcing the Republicans' right knees to jerk convulsively and hit them right between the eyes."

Here's BoBo: "This is a moment to feel deeply bad, for the dead and for those of us who have no explanation."

Yes, by all means -- let's "feel deeply bad" for talentless wingnut columnists like Brooks, "who have no explanation" for the arbitrary harm dispensed by the natural world. After all, we need a sense of perspective, for the real victims here, don't we?

posted by Michael 1:31 PM