Well the thoughts that Ann's most recent meltdown were sparked by her recent interactions with Glenn Reynolds (and not her commentators) are mostly confirmed: "I could say: I guess [Reynolds] doesn't get it. But I suspect — as my linked post insinuates repeatedly — that he knows I'm right, and he doesn't want to have to say it."
Well that is some hardcore circular reasoning! That comment by Ann reminds me of someone...
But she does give sound advice on her commentators starting their own blogs.
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Here is some advice back to Ann...
Ann invited this: "Feel free to photoshop using this picture of mine"
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| This is an email Ann Althouse put up in her post. Has Ann completely lost it? Yeah, this is a great way to maintain a relationship with Glenn Reynolds and his wife Dr. Helen: FROM THE EMAIL: Reader A.A. writes: Sorry you guys had to shut down the playroom. I don't blame you. |
This email Ann Althouse posted is very selective and gives a very slanted view of what really occurred. As this comment in response shows:
There you have it - by outsourcing her comments she now becomes Insty Jr. Yeah, that's a great plan.
ReplyDeleteToo bad her blog is too weak to stand on its own.
Not interesting enough, AA? That writing doesn't suit you? Too bad. Now get back to your drinking - it's five o'clock somewhere...
When you look up "Doubling Down on Stupid" you are going to see this photo.
ReplyDeleteReynolds and his traffic is what made her blog. Now she wants to bite the hand that fed her. With her patented blend of condensation, pomposity and bitchiness she has really overplayed her hand. She had to shut off the comments because there would have been an explosion.
X is right. She is going the full Inga.
Quoth Private Pyle "Seven point six two, full metal jacket".
ReplyDeleteThey fit nicely in an SKS I hear...
Riiiiiight. Althouse bitch slaps her commentariat. Insults and demeans the men and cannot accept that some women disagree with her.... or anyone for that matter of fact has disagreements with some of her ideology regarding her pet issues of feminazi-ism, abortion and gay marriage. Instead of engaging people in reasoned debate, she goes shrill metal jacket on everyone. Then she wants (is begging) for LINKS to her blog to drive up the hits that have taken a nose dive since her melt down. Everyone should start a blog so that we can help out little Annie.
ReplyDeleteSure....we'll all do that.
LOL I had to edit before posting. My verification word was yrmoutha
That is spot on. These are topics you can legitimately disagree on. This is very similar to the meltdown described in the Reason article.
DeleteThat is a sloppy mess. Insty would be wise to continue ignoring it rather than sending more eyeballs her way.
ReplyDeleteThat she is doubling down on this is just amazing.
DeleteHey Haz be nice. Lem runs a clean shop here. Sloppy Mess was Althouse's nickname in college. No need to bring it up here.
DeleteLet's be civilized.
Lem? Either Evi is actually Lem, or you've had Limoncello for lunch again.
DeleteThere is nothing wrong with Limoncello for lunch. Except it is too sweet to really have more than a couple.
DeleteDidn't she turn on comments over at Insty when she guest hosted a couple of years back?
ReplyDeleteShe did so.
DeleteOh! The irony! ;)
DeleteYou know, when you have a giant shit-spasm like althouse did in insulting and kicking her commentariat, I figured that she'll take a little time off, get her head together, calm down, and go "Hey guys, you know what I'm sorry, it was all a big mistake. I fucked up on my end of it and I'd like to make amends..." but nope, I don't even think doubling down on stupid is an apt description here. She's gone, she's lost it. It's over. She has zero desire to re-engage with a commentariat and the last three weeks of her posts now that I go back and look at them prove that. Also reading that article from 2006 on her late night coffee clatch meltdown cemented the behavioral pattern she's been displaying.
ReplyDeleteI saw it, but I didn't recognize it because I thought it seemed to be out of character, from what little I knew overall, but wow. Just wow. She was building up to something. Her posts became more frenetic, her responses more staccato and pointed and sharp. Then BLAM-O. The bottom line is this, I highly suspect that she's a phony at this point. She's been able to weave a very nice persona of who she is and what she's done, not to take away from her accomplishments, but she's been hiding behind a facade and that facade cracked and crumbled. Full metal Inga doesn't even begin to describe the lunacy territory this is going in.
Oh and if you go over and look at the poll comments, you will notice one interesting thing, I haven't seen Ritmo say a word, but wInga sure has been a busy little butterfly letting everyone know how she feels and thinks about her lunacy. Not even Garage has shown up to say anything. I denied it before, but the whole thing smacks of sock puppetry at this point. It's sad to think that the whole thing over there was as giant colossal waste of time.
By the way, the golden rule of when you find yourself digging a hole you can't get out of is to STOP DIGGING. Althouse ordered more shovels.
DeleteI want you to know Methadras that I have personally spoken to Ritmo on the phone and he is a good guy. We agree about approximately nothing but we can still talk and laugh and engage in a discussion with out it coming to pistols. So I can vouch that he is not a sock puppet.
ReplyDeleteInga is just a crazy person best ignored.
Trooper, I generally don't regard someone like Ritmo outside of the venue I deal with them in. I'm sure he's a good guy, but I wasn't referring to him as a sockpuppet, but it appears that there is plenty of that going on even though I took a more blind eye to it. Inga is a certifiable lunatic.
DeleteI am sure we all have friends who are the total opposite of us politically and we can argue and fight and have a beer together and forget about it. Althouse can't do that. She has no friends.
DeleteI think you are right. I've never seen her talk about her friends on her blog. I've never seen her mention anything about them and whether she even has any at all. All the interactions we see is between her and Meade and dogs. No other people that are 'friends' with her. Odd. I'm not sure if that's a deliberate image she wants to portray or if that's actually how her life is. It almost makes one wonder if this is how she glommed onto Meade. Or maybe it was vice versa.
DeleteHave to agree with Troop on her picking a fight with Insta. The only reason I ever heard of her was his blog, and I'm sure I speak for many.
ReplyDeleteAlso agree with Meth that, from what I knew of her (I'd emailed her over the last couple of years on a couple of non-blog subjects where she had some knowledge and she was very friendly and approachable), I'd expected her to calm down. Very surprised at all this.
PS Troop, I never thought Ritmo was a sockpuppet (although he might be a puppetmaster), but Lord knows you're right about the She Devil.
The Althouse meltdown has been remarkable to observe, and it has solidified something for me: the essential uselessness of her own contributions to her blog.
ReplyDeleteMy method of reading Althouse was to skim her topics and then read the comments of the topics that interested me (rarely commenting myself). The interesting stuff was in the comments, not in her set-up or her own opinions on the topics.
Now, all that's left is the stuff I always skimmed over, so there's no point in even bothering anymore.
My method of reading Althouse was to skim her topics and then read the comments of the topics that interested me (rarely commenting myself). The interesting stuff was in the comments, not in her set-up or her own opinions on the topics.
DeleteI did the same thing. I'm afraid that even if she opens the comments back up that the momentum will be totally gone. Too bad!
You see this stuff all the time with ballplayers.
ReplyDeleteYes they are playing the game but without the fans who would give a crap. Their position, incomes and reputation rests with people giving a crap about what they are doing.
When you turn on the fans you are getting a one way ticket to palookaville.
Yes, that's true, but the distinction is, is that as long as fans keep coming, players will always have an audience. In the case of blogging and Althouse in particular, she told her fans to shut the fuck, get the fuck out, and never come back. Oh and by the way, make a blog if you want, write 'intelligently' and maybe, just maybe, I'll link you and respond to you in kind. She didn't go full metal inga. She went full metal effete snob.
DeleteIt seems that Instapundit is still linking to Althouse.
ReplyDeleteHowever, very interestingly, has linked to Neo-neocon who has a nice long intelligent discussion about men being able to "opt out of fatherhood". The very topic that precipitate Althouse's shrill manic meltdown. Perhaps it is his way to illustrate the right way to address these issues as contrasted to the drooling zoo that Althouse has become.
Hmmmm....here is the article.
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DeleteWell hello, Outhouse. Nice blog. Have visited before and enjoyed.
ReplyDeleteExcellent cow. Looks vaguely familiar.
Anyway, my .01 just wanted to say that the shifting justifications and qualifications that keep being floated at Althouse are annoying.
Is it vacation? Nothing wrong with a vacation. It's deserved. She puts up topics and commentary every day of the week. Just lock the comments for two weeks, take a vacation and be done with it. But that's clearly not the (only) reason though I hope it's a nice benefit.
Is it to flush out a few particularly vile commenters? Fine, flush 'em. Bring on the ban stick. I'm fine with that even if it's me (not that I would have a choice). It's her blog. I won't stick around if I'm not wanted.
Is it a group of commenters? She seems to have an issue with the conservative commenters from Instapundit, or some of them, or one or two of them, or just conservatives. Who? Why not come out and name them? Or just say what is so offensive. So simple! Instead, we're urged to seek forgiveness (no one apologized!!!). Te absolvo. Bleh. Now is passively aggressively picking a fight with Reynolds. Not good. He said his piece and retired from the field and she could do the same but nooo. She can't leave it alone so copies and pastes another blogger who thinks Reynolds pushes the Man Perspective a bit more than a pro-choicer ought, supporting restrictions on abortion and all, that man and his wife-with-the-book! Plausible deniability, of course, as she's only re-publicizing this nonsense.
Why is it so difficult to just say what you mean? Instead, poke, poke, poke. Kind of like what she's done in some of her blog posts lately. Blog pokes. It generated a ton of comments, but some of them are really nasty and personal. I hate cheap personal attacks but quel surprise. Provocative opinions draw provocative responses. I stayed out of the mess over the 4th because the tone and tenor of the post was so obviously intended to provoke, and all the people who are prone to provocation were predictably provoked. Then Dingbat showed up and the whole thing went to straight to hell.
Here's what feminism has achieved: Leveling the playing field for assholes. And that's not necessarily a bad thing but see it for what it is.
Sorry Haz.
ReplyDeleteIt was Newcastle Brown Ale actually.
And a pizza.
(The wife comes into the store late on Wednesdays...sssshhhhh)
she's like the Fonz. she can't admit she's wrong. ever. so she called the libertarians racists and cried. she called her readers bigots and told them to shut up.
ReplyDeletethe throwing of bagoh under the misogynist bus in Instapundit post with no comments is the most chickenshit thing I've ever seen. how alpha of meade to go along with that.
Bad faith malquotation of of the great Bagoh20 is the kiss of death as far as I'm concerned. This is beyond not being able to admit she's wrong, wrongish, or even slightly OTT and in need of a vacation. This is trampling on other people to make herself look good. Not cool.
Deleteif I wasn't on the list before, I am now. too bad. I always felt althouse was our newest bestest friend and big toe.
ReplyDeleteX as I am sure you know that lunatic Inga thinks we are the same person. Since we both know that is not true I would like to extend an invitation to you to join the Trooper York blog. Simply email me at trooperyork@hotmail.com
Deleteand I will give you the details.
Feel free to email me at trooperyork@hotmail.com for an invite.
I like the cut of your jibe. So to speak.
thanks Troop
DeleteHey EBL thanks for the traffic to Althouse Unfiltered! (Yes, I'm a link whore.)
ReplyDeleteWhere did you dig up that pic of Ann?
Hey Scott. I would like to extend an invitation to you to join the Trooper York blog. You can email at trooperyork@hotmail.com for an invite.
ReplyDeleteFeel free to use a throwaway email so as not to reveal your secret identity.
Can I do the same thing Troop?
DeleteSure.
DeleteJust set up a throwaway Hotmail or gmail account that does not divulge any of your personal matters.
I mean I will not investigate. The only time I did that I found out that Ritmo is really Chaz Bono and I was traumatized. So I learned my lesson.
I mean I will not investigate. The only time I did that I found out that Ritmo is really Chaz Bono and I was traumatized. So I learned my lesson.
DeleteLOL. Isn't that "inside baseball"?
Well there has to be balls in the first place no?
DeleteI mean you can get an addadicktome but I don't know about a ball placement.
I guess I should be glad now I won't have to endure anymore Bob Dylan posts.
ReplyDeleteExcept the occasional image like above!
DeleteI can endure that. It's when she would just go on and on about him and her hatred of men wearing shorts. Now I see where her misandry starts.
DeleteAlthouse is not a libertarian. She posed as one, presumably to drive up traffic on the blog, but she's not one. One thing she is is green-eyed greedy-gut jealous of Instapundit and his preeminent blogging success, and I suspect she has been for years. Then along comes Dr Helen with her new book and the media notoriety she's gotten on a topic Althouse would've liked to have addressed herself (but not in support of straight men), and the green-eyed greedy-gut jealousy thing spun out of control.
ReplyDeleteAs I posted on her blog right before she shut down comments: she was in over her head, she might've learned something, but her oversized ego keeps getting in the way.
And Meade should be outside mowing the lawn and weeding the garlic patch. His strong suit.
She is also panicking that Legal Insurrection is on her heels for law professor blog traffic.
DeleteShe will lose her law blog spot for sure. Oh and guess what? No more posts about Amazon.
DeleteAnn Althouse, most likely, looked back upon my Tupac "Hit 'em Up" links and finally hit 'em (us) up. Good on her, a true and noble teacher until the end. I wish I would have spoken out against all the ugly attacks on Ann's family.
ReplyDeleteI understand war more than the losers, as does the fierce warrior Althouse.
Why not respect for what Althouse was as opposed to animosity toward THE former host.
Just within a month or thereabouts at what was (and ain't no mo cause o' me first and foremost) my personal Internet dumping ground, I can remember vaguely things most uncertain and then nothing at all.
ReplyDeleteBut I remember Althouse.
I have never been "right in the head" or whatever your current euphemism says men should be.