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We’re All Inside Roy Edroso’s Head

Posted on | June 7, 2010 | 21 Comments

It’s actually started to get a bit crowded inside the cranium of the Village Voice‘s designated monitor of the right-wing blogosphere. In writing about reaction to the Flotilla of Fools, Roy Edroso links me thus:

“Obama vs. Israel,” headlined Robert Stacy McCain. He never explained this headline — except poetically, or psychedelically, with an unsupported assertion that whenever any U.S. Administration tries to “push Israel into a peace deal, the result is more dead Jews.”

The assertion is “unsupported” by anything — except history, of course. The Camp David conference of July 2000 was followed by the Second Intifada in September 2000, and the connection between these two events was more than mere chronological proximity.

As for the headline, simple answer: Wishing to link Professor William Jacobson’s post, I needed a headline that — as headlines tend to do — boiled the subject down to its essence. As a characterization of Professor Jacobson’s argument, I think the headline was quite accurate, which doesn’t mean that I expect Roy Edroso to agree with Professor Jacobson.

Nevertheless, hits is hits, and we didn’t get to 4 million hits by complaining about getting hate-linked. I am, after all, a four-time nominee for Andrew Sullivan’s “Malkin Award,” and placed second only to Glenn Beck in balloting for the 2009 Malkin.

So if I’m not going to complain about Sullivan’s linkage, why should I object to Edroso? He may be an Enemy of All That Is True, Good and Holy — which is to say, a liberal — but at least Edroso isn’t pathologically obsessed with Sarah Palin’s uterus.

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21 Responses to “We’re All Inside Roy Edroso’s Head”

  1. Joe
    June 7th, 2010 @ 1:43 pm

    Actually, Carter’s earlier Camp David work in the late seventies was the one thing that had some merit in his administration. It was Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin that primarily made that happen, not the mojo of Jimmy Carter. Still, Carter did have a role.

    Is there real peace between Israel and Egypt? Well in the sense that they are not shooting at each other, yes. And that it has lasted for 30 + years.

    That could happen for the Palestinians, but they would need leaders who really wanted peace, not to drive Jews into the Med. When that day comes, I predict real peace will be had. Until then, Gaza and the West Bank will remain as they are.

  2. Joe
    June 7th, 2010 @ 1:43 pm

    Actually, Carter’s earlier Camp David work in the late seventies was the one thing that had some merit in his administration. It was Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin that primarily made that happen, not the mojo of Jimmy Carter. Still, Carter did have a role.

    Is there real peace between Israel and Egypt? Well in the sense that they are not shooting at each other, yes. And that it has lasted for 30 + years.

    That could happen for the Palestinians, but they would need leaders who really wanted peace, not to drive Jews into the Med. When that day comes, I predict real peace will be had. Until then, Gaza and the West Bank will remain as they are.

  3. Joe
    June 7th, 2010 @ 9:43 am

    Actually, Carter’s earlier Camp David work in the late seventies was the one thing that had some merit in his administration. It was Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin that primarily made that happen, not the mojo of Jimmy Carter. Still, Carter did have a role.

    Is there real peace between Israel and Egypt? Well in the sense that they are not shooting at each other, yes. And that it has lasted for 30 + years.

    That could happen for the Palestinians, but they would need leaders who really wanted peace, not to drive Jews into the Med. When that day comes, I predict real peace will be had. Until then, Gaza and the West Bank will remain as they are.

  4. narciso
    June 7th, 2010 @ 2:28 pm

    That was actually a gambit by soon to be former
    Saudi spymaster Kamal Adham, which worked out
    as much you think such an enterprise would do

  5. narciso
    June 7th, 2010 @ 2:28 pm

    That was actually a gambit by soon to be former
    Saudi spymaster Kamal Adham, which worked out
    as much you think such an enterprise would do

  6. narciso
    June 7th, 2010 @ 10:28 am

    That was actually a gambit by soon to be former
    Saudi spymaster Kamal Adham, which worked out
    as much you think such an enterprise would do

  7. JakeG
    June 7th, 2010 @ 2:37 pm

    Give Roy time. Next to Bush bashing, Palin stalking is a pass-time the left always fall back on.

  8. JakeG
    June 7th, 2010 @ 2:37 pm

    Give Roy time. Next to Bush bashing, Palin stalking is a pass-time the left always fall back on.

  9. JakeG
    June 7th, 2010 @ 10:37 am

    Give Roy time. Next to Bush bashing, Palin stalking is a pass-time the left always fall back on.

  10. Moe Lane
    June 7th, 2010 @ 2:47 pm

    Edroso is an odd duck; he might have more success at getting the right-wing attention he craves if he wasn’t a house blogger for the Village Voice. He tries kicking at me every few months, in the hopes that I’ll toss him some traffic; I just wish that he’d be more interesting about it.

  11. Moe Lane
    June 7th, 2010 @ 2:47 pm

    Edroso is an odd duck; he might have more success at getting the right-wing attention he craves if he wasn’t a house blogger for the Village Voice. He tries kicking at me every few months, in the hopes that I’ll toss him some traffic; I just wish that he’d be more interesting about it.

  12. Moe Lane
    June 7th, 2010 @ 10:47 am

    Edroso is an odd duck; he might have more success at getting the right-wing attention he craves if he wasn’t a house blogger for the Village Voice. He tries kicking at me every few months, in the hopes that I’ll toss him some traffic; I just wish that he’d be more interesting about it.

  13. KingShamus
    June 7th, 2010 @ 3:00 pm

    Edroso is ridiculous. And so is the Village Voice.

  14. KingShamus
    June 7th, 2010 @ 3:00 pm

    Edroso is ridiculous. And so is the Village Voice.

  15. KingShamus
    June 7th, 2010 @ 11:00 am

    Edroso is ridiculous. And so is the Village Voice.

  16. proof
    June 7th, 2010 @ 3:28 pm

    “pathologically obsessed with Sarah Palin’s uterus”
    Six words I never expected to see in the same sentence, yet apt!

  17. proof
    June 7th, 2010 @ 3:28 pm

    “pathologically obsessed with Sarah Palin’s uterus”
    Six words I never expected to see in the same sentence, yet apt!

  18. proof
    June 7th, 2010 @ 11:28 am

    “pathologically obsessed with Sarah Palin’s uterus”
    Six words I never expected to see in the same sentence, yet apt!

  19. roy edroso
    June 8th, 2010 @ 5:02 pm

    at least Edroso isn’t pathologically obsessed with Sarah Palin’s uterus.

    This goes straight to the brag file.

  20. roy edroso
    June 8th, 2010 @ 5:02 pm

    at least Edroso isn’t pathologically obsessed with Sarah Palin’s uterus.

    This goes straight to the brag file.

  21. roy edroso
    June 8th, 2010 @ 1:02 pm

    at least Edroso isn’t pathologically obsessed with Sarah Palin’s uterus.

    This goes straight to the brag file.