Oh, The Irony

Actually, I think the joke beneath the joke is what's really funny here, as Wonkette seems to be mocking Michelle Malkin. Agree with her, like her, or not, Michelle is effectively out on her own building a seemingly successful independent media operation enabled by the latest in Internet technogy and buzz ... something along the lines of what maybe a Nick Denton once did when he was ... fresh, perhaps.

On the other hand, Wonkette (aka Ana Marie Cox aka David Lat aka, well, who knows, or cares) is basically a paid flunky of the Gawker mini-empire scrambling for whatever peanuts Nick Denton happens to throw their way as they pound away on someone else's keyboard like a well-trained 300 words a minute monkey with a by the minute deadline they'll probably have for the life of the gig.

So, um, which one is building something much better than most any job, and which one's the whore? And given that by most accounts, Denton isn't the most generous of employers, I imagine the word cheap figures nicely into the equation, as well.

Cox announced her retirement as Wonkette's editor on January 5, 2006 in order to promote her book, "Dog Days". She was succeeded by David Lat, former editor of Underneath Their Robes, a blog about the federal judiciary, and Alex Pareene, a 20-year-old dropout from New York University.

operative: she has internet videos?

operative: does she do the thing with the ping-pong balls?

wonkette: GET A REAL JOB

wonkette: SHE SAID “GET A REAL JOB”

operative: AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!111111111111

operative: BECAUSE PEOPLE SHOULD GET REAL JOBS!

operative: ON THE INTERNET!!!!!!!!

wonkette: SHE IS A PROFESSIONAL INTERNET PUNDIT AND NOW SHE’S TELLING WHO EXACTLY TO GET A REAL JOB?

Comments

[Brett Bullington]

Ridiculous. Malkin takes some light-hearted jabs at a few liberal shibboleths and the leftards respond with ad hominem, racist attacks.

There can be only one reason we see this from the left so often. They're just too stupid to engage in meaningful discussion.

[teh funneh]

ummm...like Pajamas Media and Hot Air aren't financed by sources equally as dubious as Nick Denton? come on. if you open the books of any of the A-list blogs you will see payouts from across the political spectrum.

they're all a bunch of shit-throwing monkeys that truly deserve one another.

[Tom Blumer]

Hey teh funneh, do you have any evidence for that? Or are you just mouthing off for the heck of it?

[Dan]

ummm...like Pajamas Media and Hot Air aren't financed by sources equally as dubious as Nick Denton?

LMAO I have to laugh at that one given that I saw an ad for The New School on Instapundit just today. Dubious sources of funding, indeed! ha ha ha

[mike]

Hopefully there will be a day when attacks will subside. I really don't get the ping pong thing though? Is that supposed to be some kind of joke? Can someone enlighten me?

[Ralphy Boy]

Notice... You must be "invited" to comment on the wonkette. There is an excuse posted, and it is a laugh...
"Why are comments by invitation only?
Most online communities, like hip bars, are quickly overrun. Not that we’ll be any exception. But we’re going to try to put off that moment for as long as possible."
More likely to keep dissenters of the party line out, but I do love the "hip bars" comparison. LMAO@T1

[Dan]

I really don't get the ping pong thing though?

It's a crude reference. Type ping pong sex into Google and click images. NSFW without safe search enabled.

[nk]

May I post this? I will not be offended if you delete it because it's too rough:

Is Alex Pareene a boy or a girl? It looks he/she/it could be either. Or neither. And what horse did he/she/it steal those teeth from? Don't be bothered by his/her/its trash. A disgusting little @#$% like that is credible only to other disgusting liittle @#$%s whose opinion could not possibly matter in the least.

[zippity]

To see ping pong in action safely, there's a depiction in the cute 1994 Australian comedy, Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert.

It would be interesting to know if those who were outraged by Tony Snow's remark "I don't want to hug the tar baby" will speak out against Wonkette's attempt at racy racist humour.

[don surber]

Again, Michelle can dish it, can't take it

The Mohammed cartoons

The Tom Cruise South Park thingy

The publication of personal information of anti-military protesters.

Hey, there is a reason Peggy Noonan doesn't get ping-ponged

[russ]

dons urber: you swung and missed. The Mohamet Cartoons is a jab at Muslim intolerance. Theo Van Gogh made a movie and a 7th century Muslim KILLED him. The Tom Cruise South Park Thingy is a jab at Scientology intolerance. South Park can insult Catholics all day every day but laugh at L Ron Hubbard / Tom Cruise and Comedy Central decides Trey Parker has crossed the line. The publication of Students Against War activist names and phone numbers was a re-print of SAW's own Media Release! In response, the UC Santa Cruz goons dug up Michelle's PRIVATE phone and PRIVATE address and emailed it everywhere. Talk about "Can't Take It"? You Intolerant Leftists want to see Michelle DEAD. You and 7th century Muslims have that much in common.

[shirley]

I just found a link to the ping pong act and I must say it is terribly vulgar. Still it did seem to require a fair amount of talent and concentration. Maybe wonkette thought of it as a compliment, who knows.
Leave it to the secular progessives though.

[Bill]

Nothing any of us can say about him would be as insulting as either of his pictures. Dude's like him (and I use the word loosely) have 0% chance of ever getting the attention of an attractive female, let alone one of Michelle's calibur, so they engage is straight up playa hatin.

And is it me, or did you just *know* that's what he'd look like as soon as you read Michelle's post? I mean, as soon as I saw his picture I honestly thought it was a gag - he couldn't be that much of a tool. Sure enough though, I was wrong. Two picture, same d&!chebag.

[Evil Pundit]

What surprises me about Pareene's blog is the extremely poor quality of the writing. He gets paid for that? Someone is slipping up.

[janet]

This is incredibly sad. People on websites, like that guy from wonkette, making disparaging comments about other people.
It seems like there is no decency left any more.
We should be fortunate enough to know that on none of our websites would this type of behavior happen.

[PatPong]

Suck it up and toughen up, righties.

Oh, and please, can some of you start reading books? You sound clueless and dull-witted.

[Nary Ruppert]

Not only that, but The Left drank all the beer from my fridge!!
Damn that intolerant and hateful The Left!

I like how the actions of a handful of morons justify a wholesale indictment of this strange entity you refer to as The Left.
What is this thing you call The Left?

You wont mind then if I take a gander over to LGF or Cold Fury or Ankle Biting Pundits, etc. and paint all conservatives with the brush of the abusive and hateful comments that I come across over there.

'Cause that's exactly what you're doing.

[giselle]

The "left" is mean. The "left" ate my homework. The "left" is putting my marriage in danger. The "left" is the party of death. The left is godless. The left is hurting my feelings. The left, the left, the left.
You could easily read hateful, hurtful, homophobic, racist comments on free republic, little green footballs, redstate and many more. I specifically have read comments on these sites about gays and gerbils (on the corner); brokeback mountain that would make your eyes glace over; comments of the color of the skin and character of the victims of Katrina, etc. etc. etc. Really it goes both ways. Please don't try to play the vicitims because you are not.
Really, grow up.

[Ralphy Boy]

But, the "left" is the party of death, and the left is godless. Or... did I miss something?

[billy]

It's not the "left" so much as it's the "hip left." They reek of pretension. And even that wouldn't be so bad, but pretention smells like ruined pussy. And there really isn't much worse than a bunch of stinkin' pussies runnin' around like they know something.

...yeah, yeah, I know.

[mcg]

Uh, yeah, ok, ok, there are baddies on both sides of the aisle posting mean things in comments. Fine.

Only this wasn't a comment. it was an article by the authors of the web site itself.

[TexasFred]

If you're going to have a PUBLIC blog, you're going to have comments that aren't fit for the walls in a truck stop bathroom... If you INVITE the worst of people, you GET the worst of people, and as Don Surber said, Malkin can dish it out but she has a real problem with TAKING it..

And I have seen some sites that were all in an uproar, "Wonkette called Michelle a WHORE..."

Not defending Wonkette in any way either but they did NOT call her a WHORE, they speculated on whether or not Malkin was doing a ping pong ball show... If she did do a ping pong ball show, and it was a free show, she's an exhibitionist, NOT a whore...

Now, if she were to do something like that and have a 'Pay Pal' ping pong ball icon and it's strictly 'Pay Per View', well.....

Was the matter uncalled for and tasteless?? Sure it was, but folks with infamous blogs can expect this sort of thing, Malkin knows it too and the 'rage' she expresses is only done to garner a bit more readership for her rag and viewership of her video blog in MY opinion...

Crass self promotion?? You betcha, the same thing we ALL do by commenting here and leaving a link to our OWN sites...

Reminds me of the well scripted Pro Wrestling matches... It's ALL a show...

[Kin]

TexasFred,

I don't think the uproar is that they called Michelle a whore, that's nothing new, people have been calling her that since she started. It's a standard ad hominem attack on women. It's the fact that they used a vulgar stereotype. This from self declared liberals, those who see every statment of a conservative as code language for their inate crypto-nazism/racism. It's a double standard of mind blowing proportions. "We can make all the racist jokes/statements we want, but we'll get you fired if you say niggardly."

[Nunyabizniz]

"It's the fact that they used a vulgar stereotype"
And they're too stupid to use the right ones. When I was in the service, (Air Force), everybody talked
about going to Clark to see the banana show, not any ping pong ball show. I live in an area that this very liberal and these people are terribly racist and very stupid. Any asian looking person is a "chink", a group of Albanians are terrorists, and let's not even get started on the blacks. Hell, one woman locked her kesy in the car because she was afraid of some old "dangerous looking" woman!

Yeah, Malkin can be a bit shrill at times, but the sexist shit flung at her is pretty sad, but shows that to ispire that kind of anger and hate means she has really struck some raw nerves.

[Sweetie]

It's not stunning that the comment was made - mistakes, and bad taste, happen. It is stunning, though, that some actually defend the racist comment.

[Ralphy Boy]

"It is stunning, though, that some actually defend the racist comment."

Just weasely little weasels doing what weasels do best... Weasel out when they get caught in the hen house acting like weasels. Wonketta is a racist pig and we all know it now. That is the beginning and the end to this discussion… Of course the weasels can try to distract with all other sorts of side line issues and bets, but the bottom line is… We have a winner. The Racist/sexist creepy vermin writer @ wonKKKetta. He even looks like a weasel.

(I'm sorry but my name calling and trash/crap/potty mouth are not quite up to the wonKKKetta standard, but I'm trying).

[Redhead Infidel]

I was going to respond to Don's comment, but Russ covered it. Then I was going to respond to TexasFred, but Kin covered it. For the record, Don and Fred, I like both of you, but your comments disappointed me.

So, I'll just add this, for what it's worth. Blogging requires a tough skin, sure. Malkin puts up with more than most. But have you ever noticed how with female bloggers, it has to get sexual? You male bloggers may not notice it, but it's a given. On my blog, I've been told to blow Saddam Hussein and his dead sons; I've been told to blow John Kerry; I've been told the President's "cock was in my mouth so deep it rattled my brains"; I've been called everything from a Christo-facist fuck to a Nazi-whore to a baby-killer warmonger. And everything in between. [pardon the filth] We've even earned a fatwa from some crazed Muslim group. None of that ever bothers me - I'm controversial and I'm bound to enrage some rabid moonbat somewhere in the world. If I didn't, I'd worry about my effectiveness. Plus, it goes with the territory - I have no intention of staying on the porch. :)

But though none of that name-calling makes a dent, I know it would sincerely bother me to have fellow conservatives hold the robes of the shit-for-brains 'tards who were stoning me. If you find justification for our opponents to treat one of our own that way, then that puts you in their camp, holding their robes. That's not for me.

[pinky]

Ralphy Boy, I must take issue. Weasels are fine, noble and ferocious beasts. From the least weasel to the mighty badger, from the playful (but unstoppable) otter to the Fisher, Mink and Wolverine weasels show none of the crass and cowardly behavior that this Pareene creature displays. Why the anti-Mustelidia stance?

[Ralphy Boy]

Pinky… I was concerned as I put that comparison together that there might be calls for an apology or at least an explanation coming from the pro-weasel community. To that end all I can say is, look at it from the hens’ point of view.

To them, the weasel is a sneaky little thief in the night. Eater of the young and the unborn. Preying on the sick and the old. Hiding in the dark places around the edge of the coop just waiting for a free lunch.

Also I could not help but notice the resemblance of this wonketta loser to the weasel (beady little eyes, protruding buckies, sniffy/shifty nose). I thought of using the baboon as a reference for the woo-woo-boy, but baboons may someday learn to read (at least at the level that he writes), and then I might have a class action suit to deal with. I did include the sexist pig thought even though that is sure to offend many a swine.

So, it seems that the problem is really, how do you whack a jerk like this in today’s PC world? Saying that he looks exactly the same as the lead dog in a sled team does to the second dog in the sled team makes it tough to find good second sled dogs. (you mean that I’m going to have to look at that ass all day?) If you call him a cockroach, exterminators start asking for raises. Human waste… and all the plumbers all go on strike. You get the point.

It really is a dilemma. So, if I offended any weasels, or friends of good hard working weasels, any member of the extended weasel family, anyone who has ever date, hired, fired, talked to, seen or even heard of a weasel… I am truly sorry for having offended you and I promise that I will work on my speciesist ways.

[pinky]

Ralphy Boy I commend you for your forethought and truly understand the dilemma. Call the fool a dickhead and Telly Savalas look-alikes will be up in arms. Call him a moron and everybody on the short bus will say "We are not that stupid." My only gripe is that "weasel" has become a catch all term for creatures like this fellow. Beady eyes, slinking and skulking behavior,unvarnished oppurtunism without apologies: these are characteristics of clan weasel, but there are admirable traits as well. This waste of protoplasm does not have those. I think we need to reach into the invertebrates to find a proper descriptive. Leech, tick, flea, louse, bedbug. Or skip the animals and go straight to duckweed or lichen. I do thank you for your considered and considerate response. No blame attaches to you and I will specifically inform Weasel Extreme Anti Slur League of that at their next plotting council.

[Jersey Dave]

Well, remember that gender prejudice, like racial discrimination, is the natural behavior of the coward. That will explain the attacks on Malkin and the other female bloggers.

[Sick of The Right]

Malkin - and all wingnuts - need to get over themselves!

[John]

I'd say the geek that wrote about the ping pong balls' only chance of ever seeing such a thing is if he paid for it. No chance that loser's ever getting any on his own. DORK! Oh, and "sick of the right"...blow me, biatch!