COMMENTECTOMY PERFORMED
Tim "Fact-Check Boy" Lambert recently attacked Tim "Ban-Boy" Blair for attacking Antony "Leftard" Loewenstein. Lambert wrongly alleges Blair called Loewenstein a coward for refusing to telephone debate irate caller Austen Tayshus. Actually, Blair calls Loewenstein a coward for refusing to accept Tayshus's challenge to a public debate.
Lambert also accuses Blair of misrepresenting Loewenstein by quoting him out of context. When challenged on this in comments Lambert refused to respond. Lambert eventually updated but only after Blair picked up my comment and posted it as an update to the original post attacking Loewenstein. Lambert's update attacks my logic as flawed but does not elaborate. He also modified his position on Blair's post, now claiming Loewenstein's post had been doctored.
In amongst this activity I posted a response at Lambert's to a comment from Ian Gould – as usual he'd become involved to take the pressure off Lambert by drawing the thread off topic. My response was perfectly reasonable but did include something like, "Crtn. (I disemvoweled that to save TL the effort.)" I was taking a shot at both Gould and Lambert: I was insinuating Gould is a cretin – or cretan depending on your understanding of the Christopher Sheil inside joke – without actually calling him a cretin; I was also making light of Lambert's stated policy of removing the vowels from trollish comments. Anyway, Lambert removed the whole post. Despite my repeated requests, Lambert refuses to explain which of his commenting rules I violated. Is this guy scared or ashamed, or both. I mean, getting it wrong is no crime.
Lambert bounces my links so you'll need to copy and paste
Update: Comments are now up to 75 and Lambert still refuses to address me directly but does answer questions asked on my behalf. Must be a computer-geek academic, lack-of-maturity thing.
Lambert also accuses Blair of misrepresenting Loewenstein by quoting him out of context. When challenged on this in comments Lambert refused to respond. Lambert eventually updated but only after Blair picked up my comment and posted it as an update to the original post attacking Loewenstein. Lambert's update attacks my logic as flawed but does not elaborate. He also modified his position on Blair's post, now claiming Loewenstein's post had been doctored.
In amongst this activity I posted a response at Lambert's to a comment from Ian Gould – as usual he'd become involved to take the pressure off Lambert by drawing the thread off topic. My response was perfectly reasonable but did include something like, "Crtn. (I disemvoweled that to save TL the effort.)" I was taking a shot at both Gould and Lambert: I was insinuating Gould is a cretin – or cretan depending on your understanding of the Christopher Sheil inside joke – without actually calling him a cretin; I was also making light of Lambert's stated policy of removing the vowels from trollish comments. Anyway, Lambert removed the whole post. Despite my repeated requests, Lambert refuses to explain which of his commenting rules I violated. Is this guy scared or ashamed, or both. I mean, getting it wrong is no crime.
Lambert bounces my links so you'll need to copy and paste
http://timlambert.org/2005/09/hypocrisy/#comment-9702to read Lambert's post and comments (my last is #72) – it has all of the relevant links. Decide for yourselves who the real hypocrite is, Blair for posting an excerpted quote or Lambert for performing a petty commentectomy and then refusing to explain.
Update: Comments are now up to 75 and Lambert still refuses to address me directly but does answer questions asked on my behalf. Must be a computer-geek academic, lack-of-maturity thing.
posted by Anonymous at 7:15 PM |
4 Comments:
Thanks. Fixed.
That hardly seems possible, CL. One likely explanation is that Lambert is too busy digging his hole deeper to think about what he says.
Or it could be that he's a snivelling pretentious fuckwit.
What I said, cb, only youse is more direct.
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