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20030222.1124 (On Screen): Sometimes the greatest praise I get for this site comes from my opponents, and Max B. Sawicky has topped them all. Max has a commentary about how Jane Galt isn't really evil like some right-wing writers; she's just stupid and careless and deluded. (This is what passes for kindness on the left.) And in it, Max writes:
[Jane Galt] is embarrassed because she said something dumb and compounded it by saying even stupider things in her own defense. But I would like to invoke my scintilla of influence and urge that she be cut some slack. She ain't that bad. She's wrong about most everything, but she's thoughtful and usually she's nice. Maybe steer clear of her before large demonstrations in Manhattan. Save your bile for the Four Horsemen of the Ablogalypse: Reynolds, Sullivan, Johnson, & Den Beste.
Now I like the sound of that. It rolls off the tongue so nicely!
I got dibs on "Plague". Charles gets to be "Famine" and Andrew can be "War". The Blogfather himself, naturally, is "Death".
Now all we need is a logo and an authorized line of merchandise at CafePress, and we're good to go.
Too bad, Jane, you just don't rate. Better luck next time.
Of course, given that "liberation of women" is a prospect just as frightening to our enemies as plague or famine, maybe we can make Jane an honorable "Fifth Horse(wo)man". What say you, gentlemen?
Update: Sean Kirby kindly provides the following graphic:
He's got another one on his page.
Update: Glenn really does look evil in that picture, doesn't he? Brrr.
Update: I'm told that the Biblical prophecy also includes mention of Hades behind Death, and indeed maybe it is Jane Galt, for our enemies all fear liberated women. The extremist Muslims are terrified about the possibility of their women being freed and actually being able to do what they want, where and when they want, without having to ask permission from male relatives. If they can't dominate their women, then who can they dominate?
And American leftists also fear liberated women. "Liberation of women" is one of their causes, but only in abstract. Women are to be freed because "of course" they'd all become leftists. But if women are truly liberated and permitted to think and say what they want, then many of them will reveal themselves to be conservative. Which is why the spectre of Condi Rice and Jane Galt looms so large in leftist nightmares: if a large number of women begin to oppose the leftists, it kicks one of the ideological props out from under their self righteousness. It would indeed be hell on earth when much of one of the very victim groups they claim to represent repudiates them.
Update: Everyone's getting into the act. Bigwig nominates "the other four horsemen".
Update: Everyone's getting into the act. Andrea Harris has her own symbolism to present.
Update: Yeesh. Mean Mr. Mustard has his own graphic for the Four Horsemen.
Update 20020223: Shades of Fark! A contest!
Update: Max B. Sawicky has finally noticed all this brouhaha, and demonstrates that he doesn't have the slightest trace of a sense of humor, because These Things Are Much Too Important To Make Jokes About.
Update: Pej wants to be a horseman too. Sorry, dude, but we only got four horses and they're all taken.
Update: Ted Barlow comments.
Update 20020224: Sullivan is finally on board.
Ric wrote and asked, "Since the Horsemen are taken, could I be something a Stableboy of the Apocalypse, or Groom the the Horsemen of the Apocalypse? Surely the horses need tending in the Off Hours of the Apocalypse." It's a good point; we need someone to feed leftists to the horses when we're all busy planning The Destruction Of The Left. (MWAAhaahaa!)
Or maybe Ric could make clopping-sounds with coconut shells for Sullivan.
Update 20030227: Pej has a good wrapup of the episode and a commentary on how Max has handled it. (Summary: piss-poorly)
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