Coda

Norbiz: “Well, at least he went down swinging like the craven, blame-shifting, pre-programmed, privilege-laden reactionary douchebag we know and love.”

As Marshall says (as well as Fontana Labs), one’s initial impulse is pity; fifteenth-rate plagiarist hacks have families too, etc. But then you remember that he not only threw his old editors and current pals under the bus after the jig was obviously up (and remember, he’s accusing his old editors of extremely serious breaches of journalistic ethics), but continues to blame them, issuing feeble, ludicrously implausible non-denial denials that do not take the slightest shred of responsibility. (Admittedly, he is getting the hang of it–many fewer falsifiable claims this time, with more “I could explain all this but those evil libruls would never believe me” crap.) And he wraps it all up the way he started his awful blog: by smearing the patriotism of his political opponents. So, the only way to conclude the sorry chapter of a sorry wanker and the clowns who inexplicably hired him is by reminding Marshall of Ambrose Bierce’s crucial amendment:

PATRIOTISM, n.

…In Dr. Johnson’s famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.