The 101st Fighting Keyboarders

by Liberty and Power

Using the ever reliable Ken Burns template,"The 101st Fighting Keyboarders" is an often hilarious documentary send-up of such warblogs and warbloggers as Instapundit, Glenn Reynolds, Powerpoint, Little Green Footballs, and Ann Coulter (not really a blogger).

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One factual flaw, as Justin Raimondo points out, it that Robert Novak is mistakenly depicted as a supporter of the Iraq War. Still, this is a lot of fun.

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Aeon J. Skoble - 10/16/2006

The main unforgiveable sin of this is that it's not very funny. But beyond that, I was put off by the failure to distinguish between academics and journo-pundits, the failure to distinguish between libertarians and conservatives, and the failure to distinguish between on-line ranting and on-line postings of reasonable discourse with which one happens to disagree. The casual and sloppy lumping together of Glenn Reynolds and Ann Coulter manages to combine all three of these errors. Indeed, I've always found off-putting the very idea of dismissing someone's views via the facile device of labeling him or her as a "warblogger." Granted, some blogs are _just_ about the war, but Glenn's isn't. Are his views on IP law somehow suspect because you disagree with him about the Iraq war? In my department we call that ad hominem. as I said, the worst thing about this was its lack of any actual humor, but that just makes it easier to see that this is itself a rant which amounts to no more than "I disagree with these people."

David T. Beito - 10/15/2006

Personal behavior does have some connection to the credibility of the person making a claim. It is not an ad homimen attack to take it into account.

This is part of a pattern that goes beyond a refusal to join the military. The warbloggers also, for the most part, show no curiosity about visiting the Iraq killing fields to see for themselves and are contemptuous of taking the advice experienced military leaders, such as General Powell, who criticize the current policy.

Grant W Jones - 10/14/2006

The chickenhawk "argument" how original. Do they mention mil-bloggers? If Glenn Reynold's and Charles Johnson's views are disqualified and only subject to ridicule because they haven't been in the military, do those bloggers who are or were get added weight for their positions?

Thanks for the exercise in ad-hominen.