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Bill Conlin Would Like to Wipe You Facts-Having Bloggers Off the Earth

Posted Nov 24, 2007 8:56PM By Eamonn Brennan (RSS feed)

Filed Under: Philadelphia, Phillies, NL East, MLB Media Watch

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As of yesterday, the excellent blog Crash Burn Alley's interactions with Philadelphia Daily News columnist Bill Conlin cast Conlin in a pretty negative light. After all, Conlin was openly arguing with -- and losing to -- a blogger on the merits of his pro-Jimmy Rollins argument by saying things like "Tell your bloggers, my career against theirs ..." and so on. It was a baseball argument that made Bill Conlin look stodgy and disconnected, but nothing worse.

But now, Conlin is saying things about Hitler wiping all bloggers off the Earth, the type of things that will get more than just us sensitive blogging types riled up, the types of things far worse than mere sabermetric stupidity:
The only positive thing I can think of about Hitler's time on earth–I'm sure he would have eliminated all bloggers. In Colonial times, bloggers were called "Pamphleteers." They hung on street corners handing them out to passersby. Now, they hang out on electronic street corners, hoping somebody mouses on to their pretentious sites. Different medium, same MO. Shakespeare accidentally summed up the genre best with these words from a MacBeth soliloquy: ". . .a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. . ."
So clever, that Conlin! In the matter of 100 words, he manages to reference Hitler wiping a certain brand of people off the Earth -- always an intelligent image to invoke -- before stopping back in colonial times -- someone's read their eighth-grade social studies textbook! -- and closing with a barely applicable Googled Shakespeare quote. That's at least three unrelated cultural contexts, all utilized in the service of total stupidity. Nice.

Conlin sent another email to CBA trying to defend himself against charges of anti-Semitism, but it's too late for Philly's sports poet laureate. If this exchange doesn't give the Daily News the confidence to mercifully end Conlin's career, maybe nothing ever will.

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