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Conor and Andy Want Some Pudding

Posted on | January 21, 2010 | 22 Comments

“It is particularly amusing to see folks call the outcome stunning in one breath and aver in the next that they can explain why it happened mere hours after the fact, without any new data save the result. This is especially grating when it’s so obvious that the election turned on all the issues that were most important to me, that the outcome so clearly vindicates my world view, and that the wisest course in light of the results is for both parties to do exactly what I’ve been advocating for all along.”
— Conor Friedersdorf, linked by Andrew Sullivan, and extensively quoted by Dan Riehl in case you don’t want to click those other links and give traffic to the Conor & Andy Show

Having risked financial annihilation to spend six days reporting on this election while crashing on Da Tech Guy‘s sofa, I find this eruption of Friedersdorfism particularly annoying. Da Tech Guy has been relentless in interviewing voters in Massachusetts — in the past week, he’s probably talked to more voters here than Rassmussen — so don’t tell me we don’t have “any new data.” Don’t tell me we can’t interpret the election because we don’t have “solid exit polls.”

Conor claiming strategic credit for Scott Brown’s victory is an insult to the actual conservatives who made this happen.

“Amusing,” indeed.

Category: Andrew Sullivan, Blogging, Da Tech Guy, Dan Riehl, Election, Massachusetts

Comments

22 Responses to “Conor and Andy Want Some Pudding”

  1. syn
    January 21st, 2010 @ 11:22 am

    Apparently all elections are controlled by Independent ‘Moderate’ voters so I am donating big money to SarahPAC then going on vacation til November.

    For the last nine years, day after day, I busted my ass and burned through loads of campaign cash fighting the war and the Left yet all that matters is what Independent ‘Moderates’ want.

    Therefore I am going on vacation, I’m through with Conservative activism; come November I hope Independent Moderate voters make a wiser choice than when they voted for Obama.

    More to the point, I really hope Independent Moderates will finally figure out the difference between Liberty and Tyranny.

    And, it would really help if Independent Moderates would pull their head out from inside John Stewart’s behind for a change.

    Good luck

  2. syn
    January 21st, 2010 @ 6:22 am

    Apparently all elections are controlled by Independent ‘Moderate’ voters so I am donating big money to SarahPAC then going on vacation til November.

    For the last nine years, day after day, I busted my ass and burned through loads of campaign cash fighting the war and the Left yet all that matters is what Independent ‘Moderates’ want.

    Therefore I am going on vacation, I’m through with Conservative activism; come November I hope Independent Moderate voters make a wiser choice than when they voted for Obama.

    More to the point, I really hope Independent Moderates will finally figure out the difference between Liberty and Tyranny.

    And, it would really help if Independent Moderates would pull their head out from inside John Stewart’s behind for a change.

    Good luck

  3. Dave C
    January 21st, 2010 @ 2:02 pm

    I think that was Conor writing as Andy as a sockpuppet and linked his own stuff.

  4. Dave C
    January 21st, 2010 @ 9:02 am

    I think that was Conor writing as Andy as a sockpuppet and linked his own stuff.

  5. datechguy
    January 21st, 2010 @ 9:24 am

    I can’t say I talked to more voters…I think it’s truer to say I listened to more voters.

  6. datechguy
    January 21st, 2010 @ 2:24 pm

    I can’t say I talked to more voters…I think it’s truer to say I listened to more voters.

  7. Dave C
    January 21st, 2010 @ 2:30 pm

    Wait.. Let me Conor it up some.

    While it is particularly amusing to me write long obscure post when they can be condensed down to a few sentences, it helps to justify my own sockpuppet at The Daily Dish where I can emphasize my own work while stewing in Andi’s cerebral juices.

  8. Dave C
    January 21st, 2010 @ 9:30 am

    Wait.. Let me Conor it up some.

    While it is particularly amusing to me write long obscure post when they can be condensed down to a few sentences, it helps to justify my own sockpuppet at The Daily Dish where I can emphasize my own work while stewing in Andi’s cerebral juices.

  9. Charles Johnson
    January 21st, 2010 @ 2:47 pm

    Can I have more pudding please?

  10. Charles Johnson
    January 21st, 2010 @ 9:47 am

    Can I have more pudding please?

  11. Red House Correspondents
    January 21st, 2010 @ 10:08 am

    […] at the results of the special election was a very friendly, kindly person. Stacy’s also a bit of a Native American coyote/prankster character, as you might have guessed from his writing, and his having slapped a Martha Coakley sticker on […]

  12. Jack Okie
    January 21st, 2010 @ 4:31 pm

    Frittersdork is so pathetic.

    BTW, terrific job on the election, Stacy and Da Tech Guy! My first stop for news.

  13. Jack Okie
    January 21st, 2010 @ 11:31 am

    Frittersdork is so pathetic.

    BTW, terrific job on the election, Stacy and Da Tech Guy! My first stop for news.

  14. Who is Conor Friedersdorf?
    January 21st, 2010 @ 12:34 pm

    […] is Conor Friedersdorf? And why does anyone care? The only reason I know of the guy is because R.S. McCain occasionally wastes his valuable time taking him to the woodshed. I've tried to read his posts a few times … At best, he's an adolescent trying to act like a […]

  15. Sam
    January 21st, 2010 @ 5:39 pm

    I actually think that Conor was trying to be super-clever and ironic and stuff with that quote.

    What a pompous twerp.

    He can’t be serious, because he never advocates anything substantive, except (1) gay marriage, (2) “serious”journalism (which means stuff he likes) , and (3) letting his AIDS-riddled pothead mentor stay in the USA.

  16. Sam
    January 21st, 2010 @ 12:39 pm

    I actually think that Conor was trying to be super-clever and ironic and stuff with that quote.

    What a pompous twerp.

    He can’t be serious, because he never advocates anything substantive, except (1) gay marriage, (2) “serious”journalism (which means stuff he likes) , and (3) letting his AIDS-riddled pothead mentor stay in the USA.

  17. Indentured Servant Girl
    January 21st, 2010 @ 9:19 pm

    Can someone please explain the pudding joke? And what it has to do with Norah O’Donnell?

    Only if it’s not too gross.

  18. Indentured Servant Girl
    January 21st, 2010 @ 4:19 pm

    Can someone please explain the pudding joke? And what it has to do with Norah O’Donnell?

    Only if it’s not too gross.

  19. Dave C
    January 21st, 2010 @ 10:23 pm

    Indentured Servant Girl.. It goes back to the Tea Parties being described as ‘Teabaggers’

    http://www.bedtimeforbonehead.com/2010/01/21/in-honor-of-ace/

  20. Dave C
    January 21st, 2010 @ 5:23 pm

    Indentured Servant Girl.. It goes back to the Tea Parties being described as ‘Teabaggers’

    http://www.bedtimeforbonehead.com/2010/01/21/in-honor-of-ace/

  21. jane
    January 22nd, 2010 @ 12:17 pm

    I can’t tell if Friedersdorf is joking or not. If he isn’t joking, he’s quite insane.

  22. jane
    January 22nd, 2010 @ 7:17 am

    I can’t tell if Friedersdorf is joking or not. If he isn’t joking, he’s quite insane.