Hart Williams and Butt Plug Bob

It is December. The New Republic has folded.

Kos himself says:

First off is the New Republic, which takes 200 pages to finally conclude that no, they can't verify the truth of reports an Army private was sending them for publication.

Hart Williams has been waging a war to defend the New Republic. Now that TNR says it cannot stand behind Scott Beauchamp's report, Hart has added Franklin Foer to his extremely long list of hate targets. In Hart-speak, Foer is "gutless" and shows a "craven lack of moral courage".

In his cry of rage at the inevitable, Hart relies of Techniques 3 and 4 from the Hart Williams Blog Techniques Scale:

Technique 3: "Random drive-by smears."

Technique 4: "Sycophantic praise of bloggers and journalists you may have actually heard of."

Hart is courting Salon blogger Glenn Greenwald, who comes in for a burst of sycophancy:

"Far more appropriate to celebrate those rare few who DO exemplify that rarest quality, nowadays. Like Glenn Greenwald, for instance, but there are others."

The random drive-by smears in this one post go all the way back to Linda Tripp.

Here are the adjectives and phrases of invective that came pouring out of Hart in reaction to TNR's announcement, in the order of their appearance:

hair-splitting, gutless, caving in, snark, unrelenting attacks, the Reich Wing Blogosmear™, craven lack of moral courage, whipped dogs of blogwar, unrelenting assault, flying monkeys, the Blogosmear™, moral cowardice, an election was stole, bullied, the thugs and bullies of the right, the catamite media,
the flying monkeys, the flying monkeys, Greater Wingnuttia, flying monkeys.

Butt Plug Bob, Confederate Yanker, dangerously out-of-control extremist, endless hate-filled attacks, Butt Plug Bob, obsessiveness, pathological, Butt Plug Bob, paranoid, untalented, excessively hypocritical, rank overestimation, reprehensible human being, an endlessly rationalizing partisan hack , no-talent hacks, Butt Plug Bob, the savages of the Reich,

Butt Plug Bob, Butt Plug Bob, stupidly, latest inanity, World Class dumbass, pussies, carnivorous flying monkeys,the literary parsers of the Reich, auto-da-fé , dumbass, the yowling baboons of the Blogosmear™ , gibber, caper, witLESS, Butt Plug Bob, Butt Plug Bob, Butt Plug Bob, mindlessly, impervious, oblivious, creepy, Butt Plug Bob, cyberstalked, Rightie, smearing, horseshit, failure, failure, UTTER failure, SAME bastards, mercilessly attacked, bullshit, twist in the wind, flying monkeys, Butt Plug Bob, sleazy posting, cyber-stalky, increasingly obsessive, seemingly deranged, Butt Plug Bob,

mean-spirited, Butt Plug Bob, Flying Monkeys, Butt Plug Bob, mousetrapped, swing in the breeze, borderline psychotic Butt Plug Bob, carpet-chewing blog posting by Butt Plug Bob, fucking DUMB, Butt Plug Bob, Butt Plug Bob.

That's 18--count 'em--references to Butt Plug Bob in one post.

In this stream of invective, I noticed "obsessiveness" and "pathological" and "cyberstalked". Projection, anyone?

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Who Hart hates in early December 2007:

Gene Simmons, Chuck Norris, Brent Bozell, Newsbusters, Stephen A. Boylan, Ken Starr, Linda Tripp, Lucianne Goldberg, Bob Owens.