Brad Plumer sets Jamie Kirchick straight over the latter's evidence-free assertion that American unions don't care about their Iraqi counterparts.
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Battle of the TNR Gen Y Stars
31 Aug 2007 01:41 pm
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So do we all agree that Kirchick is Marty's plan to make himself look reasonable in comparison?
That's funny Petey, I thought that Kirchick was auditioning for the Peretz understudy roll...there is something so stylistically similar about his writing and a Peretz drive-by that if I didn't know any better...
Ugh, Jamie Kirchick is a star? That is disheartening.
So do we all agree that Kirchick is Marty's plan to make himself look reasonable in comparison?
I've never seen a photo of Kirchick, but I assume that he's Marty Peretz's clone, force-grown into adulthood and placed at the magazine to ensure Marty's unending presence there.
Thank you, Matt, for providing us with a regular opportunity to ridicule Jamie and his intellectual father Marty. BTW, it looks like Steve Clemons put Mini in his place. It reflects very poorly on Andrew Sullivan that he has a hack like Kirchick as one of his guest bloggers. The dude belongs in a nuthouse.
Well, he's officially the "Assistant to the Editor in Chief."
This title has "martinet weenie" written all over it. Any time he puts pen to paper, he only reinforces that notion.
As far as auditioning is concerned, I'm sure Marty has a comfy couch...
I thought Kirchick was Sullie's plan to mobilize a chorus demanding that he return early.
I don't love Sullie's blog but its current state is just deplorable. The other three guest bloggers are all great but Kirchick's constant stream of arrant nonsense just totally swamps their contributions.
Well, it's actually been rather fun watching hilzoy, djerejian, and clemons all smack down kirchick in detail, hasn't it? The pwnage has been pretty spectacular.
Also, Matt, while Brad Plumer is surely a "star," contrary to what you suggest in the title of your post, Jamie is not. Does anybody beside Marty Peretz and Bill Kristol take the man seriously? This is not a battle between "TNR Gen Y Stars," it is one sane human correcting a chazari on basic matters of fact. The crazy thing is that they work at the same magazine. The American Prospect should really hire Plumer.
Hardly anyone outside TNR would even know who Jamie Kirchick is had you not started linking to him once a week.
I love the fact free approach that these clowns take.
The Solidarity Center is also trying to help workers in Asia in difficult places like Burma and China. There is tremendous labor unreast in China that is generally kept off the radar screen by the Chinese government, but is very real. None of this work is very glamorous and it is sometimes dangerous -- but the notion that labor has abandoned its brethren in other parts of the world is just wrong.
Of course, people like Kirchick typically only care about labor when it fits into their ideological prism -- rarely do any of these hawks actually care about our issues.
Matt, while I agree with you 100% in your sentiments toward that vile character Kirchick, I do believe that the phrase "Brad Plumer sets Jamie Kirchick straight" is, uh, in somewhat bad taste.
I wonder if Kirchik knows that the Iraqi Oil Union is leading the fight against the oil law that the Americans are trying to shove down the Iraqi throat? They've even struck, several times. I wonder if he is in solidarity with their fight?
Well, no, that's not true. I don't wonder. Jamie came pre-corrupted - I think it was in the contraat Peretz signed with Acme Pundit robot company - and he obviously makes Fox-like noises as part of his program, but as for any human sympathy, I don't think robotics has achieved that breakthrough yet.
America still has unions?
>>"Brad Plumer sets Jamie Kirchick straight"
'Not that there is anything wrong with it,' but is anyone not gay anymore? I just realized that the majority of blogs I read are written by gay men. Even gay-bashing, family-values Republicans are sneaking into airport bathrooms for gay sex.
I can't keep up with all of these invasions anymore: Mexican dishwashers, Islamofacists, gay bloggers, gay Republicans.
I assume that he's Marty Peretz's clone, force-grown into adulthood
Is he one-eighth Peretz's size, too?
Man, Clemons positively decapitates Kirchick in a post over there entitled 'Puring the Neocons from the American Soul.' Positively destroys him. And misspells his name as 'Kirchik' throughout - which I hope was intentional.
Well, it's actually been rather fun watching hilzoy, djerejian, and clemons all smack down kirchick in detail, hasn't it? The pwnage has been pretty spectacular.
This is true. Djerejian is particular fun once he gets worked into a lather...
Holy crap. hilzoy's recent faceage of Kirchick's fact-free guest week on Sullivan's site makes me think that MiniMe is going to have to work extra hard just to find his one remaining testicle this weekend.
Then again, since she tore him a new asshole, perhaps it won't hurt so much when he bends over for Marty this time...
Matt,
Doesn't bother you a little that the unions extort enough from their captive workers to pay some flack to go to Iraq? I'm positive if there was any union democracy and the workers were asked whether they want to pay into these slush funds supporting such projects or would rather have an extra $20 in their paychecks, they would give a very Republican answer.
Wayne,
You've compressed an impressive amount of ignorance in one small post. Union members elect their officials and by law must approve any increases in their dues. Strangely enough, most of the members actually undeerstand that there are things bigger than themselves and act accordingly. You see this not only in the political activism of the their unions, but also in the intergenerational sense of responsbility that is manifested in many unions -- where members both pay for the education and develpment of apprentices, while also caring for retirees.
We ar fortunately not burdened by too many Republican rat bastards in our midst.
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Heads in the Sand
Shorter Kirchick: Based on the disastrous war in Iraq, we can safely conclude that the Democratic Party has lost its way.
Posted by Steve | August 31, 2007 1:57 PM