Greenwald laughs out loud over the sight of NRO's newest manly man commentator Mark Hemingway

[BurtWorm]

I think we can all enjoy a good laugh at the manly man's expense: :spray:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/09/05/hemingway/index.html

National Review's new tough guy, Mark Hemingway

(updated below)

From Jonah Goldberg to Rich Lowry, National Review has long been renowned for its roster of tough-guy commentators -- real salt-of-the-earth conservative men who love to let you know what tough warriors they are. The latest addition to this impressive roster of traditional manliness is new staff writer Mark Hemingway.

In his article on Larry Craig last week, Hemingway noted that there was nothing surprising about Craig's homosexuality because he was "a member of 'The Singing Senators' barbershop." Today, in a post at The Corner, Hemingway linked to an article speculating that David Souter cried after being on the losing end of Bush v. Gore, and Hemingway wrote:

Did Souter cry over 2000 recount vote? <Mark Hemingway>

Of all the Supreme Court justices, I always suspected he was the sissy mary. Scalia probably waits outside his chamber to steal his lunch money.

Just initially -- as discovered by TS -- here is the Tough Guy and Defender of Traditional Masculine Virtues, Mark Hemingway:


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As has been noted many times before, those who have a never-ending need publicly to call into question the masculinity of others in order to make political points -- whether it be James Taranto, Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Reynolds -- are so frequently the precise antithesis of the virtues of traditional masculinity they accuse others of lacking. That this is so is neither surprising nor hard to decipher.

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[Canuckistanian]

1. Good stuff

I especially like the email that Greenwald sent to Hemingway:

Mr. Hemingway - I'm writing a piece for Salon on your blog item today regarding David Souter. I have a few questions:

(1) By "sissy mary," do you mean "homosexual" or just a girly-man?

(2) The new John Draper book reports that George Bush "is prone to bouts of crying caused by the stress of his job" and quotes Bush saying: "I've got God's shoulder to cry on. And I cry a lot. I do a lot of crying in this job. I'll bet I've shed more tears than you can count, as president. I'll shed some tomorrow."

Does that make George Bush a "sissy mary," too? If not, what's the difference?

[rurallib]

2. Who else was in that 'singing senators' group?

Can they be outed now that one has already been outed?

[Canuckistanian]

3. Who, Lott or Ashcroft?

I don't think either one of them is gay.

[KoKo]

4. Men who sing aren't all arrested for lewd behavior or end up being

trashed by idiot National Review writers as "girly men" or whatever other trash those folks write over at that rag, though

[eridani]

10. Hey! Singing is hard work!

by Marge Piercy
http://www.margepiercy.com/

One reason I like opera

In movies, you can tell the heroine
because she is blonder and thinner
than her sidekick. The villainess
is darkest. If a woman is fat,
she is a joke and will probably die.

In movies, the blondest are the best
and in bleaching lies not only purity
but victory. If two people are both
extra pretty, they will end up
in the final clinch.

Only the flawless in face and body
win. That is why I treat
movies as less interesting
than comic books. The camera
is stupid. It sucks surfaces.

Let's go to the opera instead.

The heroine is fifty and weighs
as much as a '65 Chevy with fins.
She could crack your jaw in her fist.
She can hit high C lying down.

The tenor the women scream for
wolfs an eight course meal daily.
He resembles a bull on hind legs.
His thighs are the size of beer kegs.
His chest is a redwood with hair.

Their voices twine, golden serpents.
Their voices rise like the best
fireworks and hang and hang
then drift slowly down descending
in brilliant and still fiery sparks.

The hippopotamus baritone (the villain)
has a voice that could give you
an orgasm right in your seat.
His voice smokes with passion.
He is hot as lava. He erupts nightly.

The contralto is, however, svelte.
She is supposed to be the soprano's
mother, but is ten years younger,
beautiful and black. Nobody cares.
She sings you into her womb where you rock.

What you see is work like digging a ditch,
hard physical labor. What you hear
is magic as tricky as knife throwing.
What you see is strength like any
great athlete's; what you hear

is skill rendered precisely as the best
Swiss watchmaker. The body is
resonance. The body is the cello case.
The body just is. The voice loud
as hunger remagnetizes your bones.

[BurtWorm]

5. Ha ha!

:toast:

Here's to Glenn Greenwald and fearlessness.

[blogslut]

6. A bathroom pic, no less!

The sweet sweet irony. :)

[Tsiyu]

7. traditional masculinity

Hasn't that notion cost us enough?

I try to stay away from disparaging people's looks. They don't matter, really although i see why "it's the hypocrisy" here.

So: "Sorry, Mr. Hemingway, but I think you might be projecting just a teensy widdle bit."

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

8. That whole column is a terrific read

Especially the e-mail Greenwald sent to Hemingway, and Hemingway's weaselly response.

I can't wait for Greenwald's book. He is great, just great, and I'm very glad Salon is giving him greater visibility.

Thanks for posting.

[mcg]

9. Hemingway is a Phillips Foundation Journalism "Fellow"

a motley crew of propagandists, fascists, freepers,
some work for Doublethink magazine (it's actually called that),
some work for Project for the New American Century (PNAC):
http://www.thephillipsfoundation.org/index.php?q=fellowship_profiles


Project: "Anti-Everything: Anti-Globalization, Anti-War, Resurrected Radicalism and its Un-American Roots," examining the ideas and beliefs of young people in the anti-globalization and anti-war movements. Currently he is the Monetary Policy Correspondent for Market News International covering the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury. Additionally, he is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in many publications. He has been a Global Prosperity Initiative fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and an editor at the DC Examiner. Previously, Mark served as an editor and communications director for the Hudson Institute in Washington. He worked as a reporter and staff writer at The American Spectator after an editorial page fellowship at USA Today. He graduated from the University of Oregon with a B.S. in journalism.

[Raster]

12. What an ugly, worthless piece of shite!

Manly man, my arse. I'd like five minutes alone with ANY of the National Review "manly man" types. Five fucking minutes. Oh, and by the way, I am GAY, GAY GAY! And I don't take shit from anyone, much less "manly men."

[BurtWorm]

14. "B.S. in journalism"

I'll say!

Only in conservative circles is such a worthless loser as this jerk considered a valued asset.

[TheDoorbellRang]

11. Oooh! He's having a contest to name his book

I just sent him my idea:

DickShtick: How Does the G.O.P. Measure Up? :rofl:

[salinen]

13. Nice Man Boob

on that Manly Man.

[BurtWorm]

15. kick

[kskiska]

16. This guy (Mike Gallagher) is on the radio every day

decrying the "sissification of American males."

[BurtWorm]

18. It takes a real man to look like that and pretend to be an arbiter of what's male.

:eyes:

The right is just full of 'em.

[PATRICK]

20. Beavis or Butthead

in a suit?

[Gold Metal Flake]

17. How many years did he serve in the military?

[Marr]

19. I think it's interesting that he would joke about a

judge being wimpy, and bullied by a judge he likes.

I've always thought a large part of the modern conservative movement is comprised of former schoolyard bullies. The GOP has three major constituencies: religious nuts, corporate executives, and assholes.

[Jade Fox]

21. My god. Conservative men are simply CONSUMED by.....

acute Homosexual Panic. According to this from Wikipedia, they need hospitalization. Start rounding them up. Please!:o


Homosexual panic<1><2> is a term, first coined by psychiatrist Edward J. Kempf in 1920, describing an acute, brief reactive psychosis involving delusions and hallucinations accusing a person of various homosexual activities. Despite the psychotic nature of the disorder, Kempf called it "acute homosexual panic". The disorder is also known in Kempf's honour as "Kempf's disease".

Treatment usually involves hospitalization, firstly to remove the person from the situation and also because the condition may lead to suicidal or homicidal acts. Antipsychotics, either the typical or atypical, help symptoms subside if they continue much after admission. It is best to avoid further provocation and for this reason caregivers often are selected from members of the opposite sex, and invasive procedures such as injections with needles or suppositories are avoided. Return to previous levels of adaptation is common after symptoms subside, but treatment usually involves advice not to return to the type of environment that prompted the condition.