I’m hoping there are at least four more responses in this give/take – I think Althouse dropping a well-placed eff-bomb in her own comments section signals that, um, shit just got real.
What’s so goofy about this dust-up is that Althouse has Pierce on both substance and style, and yet he devoted space at Esquire’s, er, blog, trying to refute it; although his Facebook fluffers in the comments view the whole of conservatism as some weird Mein Groupthink, the fact is he didn’t even scratch one of her substanative or stylistic critiques of his initial post.
Althouse took down his entire argument on its intellectual merits and his lazy use of dagotyping and in response, Pierce stabbed through her argument by pointing out that Gold-Level Esquire writers don’t fuck with the headline writing.
As a writer at Grantland, he should be able to appreciate this notion: Dude, you fight like a girl.
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