MeFi picked up by The Age

December 3, 2006 8:12 PM

The left-leaning group blog MetaFilter weighs in picking up on this thread.
posted by wilful to MetaFilter-Related at 8:12 PM (53 comments total)

Is this it, have we arrived, are we famous, does everyone love us now?

If so, dibs on the private jet this week!
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 8:15 PM on December 3, 2006

Yawn.
posted by five fresh fish at 8:19 PM on December 3, 2006

I find it hilarious that people who dredge anonymous peoples' opinions on community weblogs in order to pad-out their copy get to call themselves "journalists".

</bitter&twisted>
posted by Jimbob at 8:19 PM on December 3, 2006 [1 favorite]

"What's so wrong with peace?" someone asked. "It's Jesus peace, not hippie peace" that the home owners' association was looking for, retorted another.

Glad to see that Mr Troy McCullough picked a) the most banal of comments from the thread, and b) a joke he apparently misunderstood in the bits he chose to quote.

Stupid Old Media. Bad, bad media. *rubs media's nose in it*
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 8:22 PM on December 3, 2006

Left-leaning??? Hoo boy.
posted by evilcolonel at 8:26 PM on December 3, 2006

Interesting how it's twisted at the end to sound like we are cheering our great victory in the war on xmas. How we are set as the opposing group to the pro-"Christmas" coalition ... when I'd wager that 98% of us could not actually give a meh(ree xmen everbody!).
posted by and hosted from Uranus at 8:27 PM on December 3, 2006

I just want to know who the heck Dilbert-27 is.
posted by crunchland at 8:29 PM on December 3, 2006

I'm pregnant.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 8:31 PM on December 3, 2006

looks like it was syndicated in a few places, according to google news. I'm with stav on this, the guy didn't even get the joke comment. It's like that townhall.com columnist taking the most over the top joke out of context and making it sound like MeFi compared everything with hitler.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 8:32 PM on December 3, 2006

There's no room at the inn, flo.
posted by and hosted from Uranus at 8:32 PM on December 3, 2006

I just want to know who the heck Dilbert-27 is.

A not-very-creative sockpuppet for Dilberts 1 through 26?
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 8:33 PM on December 3, 2006

Hi, I'm Troy McCullough. You might remember me from such columns as "The War on Peace" and "The Simpsons vs. Little Green Footballs."
posted by Tuwa at 8:35 PM on December 3, 2006 [2 favorites]

*leans left*

*falls over*

Damn, didn't see that coming.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 8:37 PM on December 3, 2006

Do you guys mean this McCullough guy didn't get that it was a joke, or that he misunderstood the meaning? Because if it's the later, I apparently don't get it either.
posted by mullacc at 8:39 PM on December 3, 2006

What bullshit. Did they even look at the logo? Clearly Metafilter leans to the right.
posted by quin at 8:53 PM on December 3, 2006 [1 favorite]

Quin, you just think that because from where you're standing, everything is to the right. :-)
posted by Steven C. Den Beste at 8:57 PM on December 3, 2006

I'm pregnant.

Sorry about that.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 8:58 PM on December 3, 2006

Oh, snap!
posted by Roger Dodger at 8:59 PM on December 3, 2006

I could use a little hippy peace tonight, I'm fresh out and I'm feeling a righteous fury to go out and kick over nativities.

Steven, oh hey, you're right. And you're also correct about the perspective thing.
posted by fenriq at 9:14 PM on December 3, 2006

Oh, snap!
posted by cgc373 at 9:18 PM on December 3, 2006

He should go back to making chainsaws.
posted by dirigibleman at 9:28 PM on December 3, 2006

Does being left-leaning account for the fact that we keep going in circles?
posted by George_Spiggott at 9:35 PM on December 3, 2006

I think it's great that it comes from The Baltimore Sun. And odd; that paper sucks worse than the city.

And Flo, you can't be pregnant: I'M pregnant, dammit. Your turn comes NEXT week.
posted by davy at 9:44 PM on December 3, 2006

I really wish I was sober enough to say something clever about this.
posted by Cyrano at 10:05 PM on December 3, 2006

I really wish I was sober enough to sit up right on this ch
posted by maryh at 10:21 PM on December 3, 2006 [1 favorite]

I wish I'd written something clever to begin with.
posted by InfidelZombie at 10:22 PM on December 3, 2006

"The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians."

"All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else."

- H.L. Mencken

Think that covers all involved.

Note to intrepid Baltimore Sun reporters: This is the kind of writing your paper published back when at least one of your paper's writers knew how to write.
posted by gompa at 10:26 PM on December 3, 2006 [2 favorites]

Clever is overrated. You can't spell 'Christmehs' without meh.
posted by maryh at 10:28 PM on December 3, 2006 [1 favorite]

I guess we finally know the answer to the question, "how's it hangin' MeFi?"
posted by Pollomacho at 10:32 PM on December 3, 2006

Back... and to the left.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 10:39 PM on December 3, 2006

NewsFLASH: Blogger flogs story by copying copy from other blog. And in other news, blog the blogging bloggers.
posted by Eideteker at 11:03 PM on December 3, 2006

Blog... and to the left.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:06 PM on December 3, 2006

I just want to know who it was that left us leaning there, and how Troy McCullough could be so heartless as to not even offer us a chair after he found us like that?
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 11:20 PM on December 3, 2006

making it sound like MeFi compared everything with hitler.

You know who else makes it sound like MeFi compares everything to Hitler?
posted by Jon Mitchell at 2:45 AM on December 4, 2006 [1 favorite]

To Nativity - and beyond!
posted by Kirth Gerson at 3:06 AM on December 4, 2006

Wasn't that "Jesus Peace, not Hippy Peace" line just a quote from King of the Hill? I am getting kind of upset to see which lines they end up quoting hte site for. I'm expecting a "I'm in ur ___, ___ing all your ____." or "I for one welcome our ____ overlords." line to be quoted next.
posted by piratebowling at 3:45 AM on December 4, 2006

i'm in ur metafilter, knockin up all ur posters
posted by pyramid termite at 4:19 AM on December 4, 2006

The Baltimore Sun? Is that thing still around?
posted by Faint of Butt at 4:56 AM on December 4, 2006

I leaned to the left once.

Once.
posted by Astro Zombie at 5:33 AM on December 4, 2006 [1 favorite]

Apparently sensing the size of the force massed against them, three anti-wreath members of the home owners' association decided to surrender.

i've never had my size referenced in such a flattering way
posted by localhuman at 5:50 AM on December 4, 2006

yeah, I lean to the left. but it's a gangsta lean.
posted by jonmc at 6:37 AM on December 4, 2006

Did you ever notice that heroin junkies seem able lean WAY over, (in any direction) seemingly in defiance of gravity, without falling over?
posted by R. Mutt at 7:13 AM on December 4, 2006

It's like that townhall.com columnist taking the most over the top joke out of context and making it sound like MeFi compared everything with hitler.

I must have missed the memo - are we supposed to stop comparing everything to Hitler now?
posted by Meatbomb at 7:22 AM on December 4, 2006

You know who else makes it sound like MeFi compares everything to Hitler?

Hitler.
posted by drezdn at 8:15 AM on December 4, 2006

Well, yes, but that's Rusty Hitler, user# 47,907. And he's a self-referencing egomaniac, so it's to be expected.
posted by maryh at 8:43 AM on December 4, 2006

Did you ever notice that heroin junkies seem able lean WAY over, (in any direction) seemingly in defiance of gravity, without falling over?

That's because they're floating.
posted by NationalKato at 8:53 AM on December 4, 2006

If it wasn't for me and my ilk counterbalancing, you guys WOULD be falling over.
posted by konolia at 9:35 AM on December 4, 2006

Got ilk?
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 9:43 AM on December 4, 2006

Will all you guys quit leaning on me?? I'm about to fall into the ocean. Don't any of you live on the rightcoast??
posted by leftcoastbob at 10:19 AM on December 4, 2006

MetaFilter: A Hippie Peace Group Blog
posted by scarabic at 10:29 AM on December 4, 2006

MedolphFitler: You Know Who Else Had A Hippie Peace Group Blog?
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 10:35 AM on December 4, 2006 [1 favorite]

Ummm... Hugo Chavez?
posted by R. Mutt at 11:15 AM on December 4, 2006

Oh great, now you'll see threads in which *some* people (not naming names here) will just point at that article and say "see, everyone agrees that Metafilter is full of pinko peaceniks hippies!"
posted by clevershark at 12:14 PM on December 4, 2006