One might almost find it too convenient.
Why are people at all surprised that a proven boor has made such a heavy-handed, cheap and worst of all unfunny attack on Firedoglake‘s Jane Hamsher?
That his broadside’s couched in the crudest sort of personal insult that the sort of sad pathetic man whose journalistic goals have included the production of online soft-porn would use shouldn’t be that shocking, surely?
After all, as the man himself once said, over at Dr Mrs. Ole Perfesser’s place:
vanderleun said…
Actually, she’s probably doing all right with this material. As a former editor of Penthouse I can tell you that the market for material concerning “mature” women is vast and varied. It has been for some time. Down in old Kentuck, they’d say “Horses for courses.”
12:52 AM
[My emphasis]
Whatever else, Vanderleun knows his markets: this latest outrage’s all over the posher side of USanian leftish blogosphere like a rash, nicely eclipsing discussion of what the new Democratic Congress will do.
Shorter G. VderL : “Result!”
