Tim McGarry on Patterico
Tim McGarry has some opinions about Patterico:
[T]here are times when critics deserve a hearing – and sometimes even heed. Blog potential is often overrated, but experience shows that blogs can serve truth and the public good. This is even true in the case of some of the most vicious and extreme exemplars of the breed. I may detest Little Green Footballs and view Charles Johnson as a dangerous demagogue, but it is nevertheless true that he contributed in significant ways to exposing the fraudulent “memos” at the center of the CBS “Sixty Minutes II” scandal last year. And while Patrick Frey’s blog Patterico’s Pontifications is relentlessly partisan and its tone frequently descends to the emotionally puerile, the criticisms of the Los Angeles Times enunciated there have sometimes hit the mark and produced results.
(I bolded my favorite parts myself.)
Another quote for the rotating testimonials. Thanks, Tim!
UPDATE: I forgot the link when I first posted this. It’s now included.
I’m probably the ONLY person who reads this blog on a semi-regular basis who has this question, but I’m going to ask it anyway:
Who’s Tim McGarry?
(Seriously…I have no clue.)
Ann (cc9923) — 12/5/2005 @ 9:50 pmYeah, really. Apparently you didn’t think enough of him to provide a link (either that or McGarry has no existence on cyberspace).
JVW (162691) — 12/5/2005 @ 10:25 pmNah. Just forgot.
Patterico (806687) — 12/5/2005 @ 11:31 pmTim McGarry of Angels and Vagabonds who writes about stuff happening in southern California which means for me personally after a quick perusal of his site total boredom…:grin:
russ (ee21cb) — 12/6/2005 @ 3:03 amPuerile is not even the highest level of immaturity on the Pillage Idiot Advisory System.* It’s only code orange. And I revel in it. Don’t be insulted.
* Top of sidebar on my blog.
Attila (Pillage Idiot) (dfa1f1) — 12/6/2005 @ 8:45 amTim should lay off the sauce. Wow, talk about being out in left field. Far out.
Black Jack (ee9fe2) — 12/6/2005 @ 10:29 amTim appears singularly impressed with his “sophistication” and intelligence – a true legend in his own mind. How’s that for puerile Timmy?
Harry Arthur (40c0a6) — 12/6/2005 @ 12:27 pmI finally read his blog. McGarry is the very reason that I do not have a blog of my own: I am afraid that I too would drone on endlessly, under the spell of my own pseudo-intellectualism.
JVW (162691) — 12/6/2005 @ 3:56 pmTim McGarry, the name of the show was “Sixty Minutes (Wednesday)” not “Sixty Minutes II” at the time of Dan Rather’s famous report.
Shredstar (c20d28) — 12/7/2005 @ 2:43 pm