KSK Off-Topic: Backlash to the Backlash to the Watchdogs Watching the Watchdogs Watching the Watchdogs
It was two weeks ago that Buzz Bissinger took on Deadspin’s Will Leitch during an HBO special hosted by Bob Costas, and I’m getting along like any survivor not located at ground zero of the atomic detonation: I avoided the initial blast, but the fallout lingered for a week before the winds finally changed, leaving me irradiated with media bloviation. My symptoms: exhaustion, nausea, headaches.
Everyone had a response, and a response to the response, and the newly MSM-recognized commenters responded to the responses to other responses until the fractal spun into the minutiae of oblivion. Bissinger got blasted by everyone, apologized but stuck to his guns, then performed a round of interviews in the blogosphere to show his non-maniacal asshole side. Leitch responded with typically circumspect Leitchiness, then got blind-sided by Jason Whitlock for his casual laziness toward race, causing more Leitch circumspection before Whitlock participated in a follow-up interview with FanHouse which maybe-but-maybe-not added to the mental gridlock and exhaustion that led to Whitlock’s leave of absence.
Keep in mind that (a) the above recap is only a fraction of the scores of thousands of words spent on this subject across the Internet, and (b) for something that is supposedly a sports story, none of these people are athletes.
Whitlock, before announcing his Waffle House walkabout, closed his FanHouse interview with this:
Blogs are suffering from the same problem as the MSM. We think if we ignore our shortcomings, no one will notice them. Some smart blogger will fill the void and begin the process of holding blogs accountable. There’s an audience for that. There is a good-old-boys network among bloggers that will eventually get shaken up. Lips will get removed from asses at some point. This is America. There’s always someone available to call bulls—.
This prompted some introspective hand-wringing from The Big Lead (”Hmmm, maybe we should critique blogs”), making it the unofficial response to the response to the response to the response to the response to the story not about sports but about writers talking about how to cover sports.
In order to keep this endless trolleyfuck going, I’ve prepared a statement on behalf of Kissing Suzy Kolber. Ready? Ahem…
You people are fucking gay.
Tags: captain caveman, gay, infinite clusterfucks
May 15th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
My response to this statement:
What a kick ass thing to say.
May 15th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
What do you mean… “you people”?
May 15th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
i could kiss you on the dick
May 15th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
YES!
May 15th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
I like the picture!
May 15th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
oh yeah, words!
May 15th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
I think I’m in love.
May 15th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
That pretty much sums it up.
May 15th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Agreed.
May 15th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
When’s the next horse-fucking post?
May 15th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zluCpm93vfg
May 15th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Just wait until Buzz Bissinger says something inaccurate about a gun. Ufford may sing a different tune.
May 15th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
I avoided the initial blast, but the fallout lingered for a week before the winds finally changed, leaving me irradiated with media bloviation.
Great. Now I have an image of you as Steve Guttenberg’s character from “The Day After.”
Except paler.
May 15th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
The title of this post reminded me of “Bawitdaba”. Fuck you for making me think about Kid Rock. I hate you.
May 15th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Normal mid-western hand holding show tune singing gay, or rain coat wearing, bath room stall stalking, bus station gay?
Bus Station gay?
Agreed.
May 15th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
And this is why KSK is the best IN THE WOLRD!!
(That’s not a typo, Buzz.)
May 15th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Fuck yeah.
Now, go back to finding some more pics of Leinart feeling up some ASU co-ed or Brady Quinn grabbing some guy’s crank.
May 15th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
When does football start?
May 15th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Blog policing? Really?
The line for KSK Ombudsman applicants will be a short one.
May 15th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
“My symptoms: exhaustion, nausea, headaches.”
At least your hair didn’t fall out like Bissinger’s.
May 15th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
YOU’RE the good ol’ boys?!
May 15th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
YOU PEOPLE?
*stabs someone’s father, passes knife to Charlie Murphy*
May 15th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
I like the way this Snrub thinks!
May 15th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Isn’t the whole point of blogging to be held accountable by your audience? If one of the regulars writes something shitty here that’s either horrendously inaccurate or incredibly offensive (and not in the “Hines Wald” kind of way, which is clearly satire), they’re going to have a hundred angry commenters leaping down their throat faster than you can hit the Edit button. Moreover, every other sports blog in existence will be talking about it within an hour, thus leading to a discussion of “How far is too far?” and all that crap.
My point is, blogging is better because writers are held accountable instantaneously, not only by their peers, but by their audience as well. Consequently, Jason Whitlock is an idiot.
But we knew that already.
So, when are we getting more horse porn?
May 15th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Pictured: Captain Planet’s asshole
May 15th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Mono!…Doh!
May 15th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Monkey Business is right. I might have bought a copy of the New York Times and accidentally supported the (now thankfully over) career of Yankee ball-swaddler and anti-statistics/reason/evolution columnist Murray Chass, but if you go to a blog on a regular basis, you’re essentially supporting all of its content/existence. Mainstream media buffers some fucking idiots because like Leitch wrote much of a book on, you don’t have a lot of choices sometimes beyond the Worldwide Leader.
Someone will create a site that critiques blogs like Fire Joe Morgan critiques mainstream baseball media. And if it isn’t funny, no one will give the slimmest of a shit.
May 15th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Hey, just because I love the cock doesn’t make me gay.
May 15th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
“Some smart blogger will fill the void and begin the process of holding blogs accountable”.
I don’t have that kind of time. Does he think my mom makes all of my meals while I sit in her basement and play video games?
/returns to GTA IV
/calls mom for more cheezy poofs
May 15th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Rorschach Response: That picture looks a lot like Big Daddy Balls. Does that make me a Kansas City faggot?
May 15th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
word.
i read blogs to ESCAPE from the industry finger pointing and navel gazing.
May 15th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Yeah, that pretty much covers it.
May 15th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Gay like Alex Karas gay in the movie VICTOR/VICTORIA?
Does it make me gay because I can reference that movie? Discuss.
May 15th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Who the fuck is Caveman Captain?
May 15th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
More importantly, who the fuck is Buzz Bissinger?
May 15th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
“trollyfuck”=literary genius.
May 15th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
mandelbrot set on KSK? its the best of both worlds
theres some pbs documentary on that set of fractals and their creation, at the end of it there is like a fifteen minute zoom in of the fractal (its keeps repeating within itself) and if youre high, you will see the face of God
May 15th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Simply genius. Simply well put. Simply ksk.
May 16th, 2008 at 12:03 am
Amen.
May 16th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
What the fuck is juice? I want drink baby!!!
/what? wrong post?
//FACK!