[madprof98]

This is a NR managing editor attacking the Mark Steyn column about the Duck Dynasty controversy: The Age of Intolerance

It received more angry comments from readers (457 so far) than any other thread on the Corner in my recollection.

Not coincidentally, Jason Lee Sheorts is also a big proponent of gay marriage.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

That comment section is quite entertaining. The fagola have met their Waterloo.

[Eva]

So, Stein repeated the jokes that were popular in the seventies, instead of just alluding to them. Big deal.

I was surprised that National Review editors let those jokes slip through, though. National Review supports political correctness on some subjects and on others, not so much. My guess is that Steyn was making exactly that point when he included the jokes in his article.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

By way of criticizing speech, I’ll say that I found the derogatory language in this column, and especially the slur in its borrowed concluding joke, both puerile in its own right and disappointing coming from a writer of such talent.

Steyn can rest his case on this one.

[wideawake]

If Steyn and NRO part ways, I follow Steyn. No contest.

[T-Bird45]

Steyn is light-years ahead of this yahoo Sheorts in both writing and thinking skills and it irritates the crap out of him because Sheorts knows it’s so. That’s all we’re reading here - jealousy on the level of a high-school girl on who’s going to the prom with whom.

[Nifster]

Never heard of this yob. I quit reading NR a long long time ago when it became a liberal rag pretending to espouse conservative views

[GeronL]

Is this the same guy who wrote the love letter to terrorist Nelson Mandela?

[1rudeboy]

Managing editor? Do you have a source for that, or did you promote him yourself? I’m curious . . . I’ve never heard of this guy.

[867V309]

In his article, Steyn mentions the baker forced to provide cake for a homosexual wedding. I don't see the problem here.

Just put the cake in a box that, in large print, says:
We do not spit, defecate or urinate on homosexual purchases. Period.

[iontheball]

Those who known good style and content writing talent, recognize that Mark Steyn and Dan Greenfield are two of the best on today’s Internet.

[rockrr]

That’s one of the better pieces Steyn has written, and he writes great stuff.

[Slings and Arrows]

Steyn ping (sorta).

[FredZarguna]

Yet another article added in proof that NRO has succumbed to O'Sullivan's Law. Buckley is turning in his grave like a neutron star.

Worse yet for someone who ostensibly makes his living pushing words around, Steorts apparently doesn't know what puerile actually means. Steyn's closing line isn't the least bit childish, it's true artistry: courageous, provocative, and EXACTLY to the point he's trying to make, with nothing extra and nothing left behind.

Finally, the fact that Steorts isn't fit to shine Steyn's literary shoes -- his soporific piece would have been read to the finish by no one if it weren't such a senseless bit of cannibalism -- shouldn't hide the fact that he does not address Steyn's argument, at all.

Quis edere ipsos editores?

[Sherman Logan]

Rich Lowry is the editor of NR.

I checked the Authors page at NRO. Maybe 10% of the authors have a Bio page listed, including Mark and Rich.

Since Jason doesn’t have a bio up, I would think it unlikely he’s a “managing editor” there, whatever that title means in real life. I know Jonah Goldberg used to be listed as (editor at large), again whatever that means.

I actually don’t object to NRO posting stuff of this type, as long as they allow vigorous rebuttal. I chimed in as one of the first 20 or so.

I pointed out that the last time Steyn was challenged, he defeated an entire country, Canada, quite comprehensively.

I also suggested Jason google The Shagged Sheep if he wants some insight on what may happen to someone who gets into a was of words with the master.

[Zeppo]

Here is Steyn's retort to Sheorts:

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/366943/re-education-camp-mark-steyn

[clbiel]

” ..we could instead feel good about... “

“bingo!”

[1rudeboy]

Steyn's reply, here.

[logitech]

Mark Steyn ping

[Dr. Sivana]

It seems to have been 200 percent felt

In complaining that something is felt, the author uses the cousin of "felt", "seems". "Seems" is handy when evidence is lacking. Of course, a thinking man would realize that something being 200% felt is logically impossible, and not a colorful ebough impossibility to deserve to grace the pages of National Review. Such lines are best left to half-time football pep talks.

[hinckley buzzard]

No surprise. Steorts is the same insipid little twerp who snarked on John Derbyshire back in the day. Wonder how NRO's version of pajama boy got hired, who his father in law is.