January 8, 2012
Co-signed Glenn McCoy is a fucking hack. secotm: I hate Glenn McCoy, a hatred borne of jealousy. He is so subtle, his wit so sharp and wielded with the precision of a surgeon, that I feel like a Cro-Magnon when I read his work. I can only guess what it would be like to listen to him speak in real life (I would never dare to imagine that I could carry myself in a conversation with him; I would only stand off to the side, where I would not be a distraction, and simply watch him at work). He would be at a posh soiree, chatting with the Countess Ghiradelli in an innocently flirtatious way between sips of wine from his private vineyard in Genoa (Tuscany has become so pedestrian since the new money ‘discovered’ it), discussing how the Met’s new flavor took O mio babbino caro and reduced to a piece of bubblegum pop. And then, within the space that a normal person would take a breath or allow their mind to move on to a different topic, he would slip in a perfectly eviscerating remark about Obama’s Iran policy or Hilary Clinton’s speech to UN like a piece of paper being slid under a doorway. And I or you would stop and just marvel at the bon mot, taking in the cut, clarity and color of it in our mind, the flawlessness carried through all the dimensions of it. Except by the time we had fully digested and understood it, McCoy would already be onto three other topics, because his mind works that fast. Truly, if there is an heir apparent to Christopher Hitchens his name is Glenn McCoy. OK, sarcasm time is over. Glenn McCoy is a fucking hack. I don’t say this because I disagree with him on virtually all issues (which I do), but because every argument he makes is unabashedly one of partisanship and base emotion and has all the subtlety of an intellectually deficient stick of dynamite. It’s not that there’s one issue he approaches from his gut rather than his mind; he does it with every one, again and again. Absolutely shameless in his playground-level insults (note the open fly in this toon), as if he either lacks any real maturity or he considers himself so beaten down by the invisible demons and government agents that run this world that there is no recourse but to lash out in childish bursts of toilet humor and crude caricature, not unlike a guerrilla fighter who can strike against a dictatorship in no way but by tagging posters of the glorious leader.

Co-signed Glenn McCoy is a fucking hack.

secotm:

I hate Glenn McCoy, a hatred borne of jealousy. He is so subtle, his wit so sharp and wielded with the precision of a surgeon, that I feel like a Cro-Magnon when I read his work. I can only guess what it would be like to listen to him speak in real life (I would never dare to imagine that I could carry myself in a conversation with him; I would only stand off to the side, where I would not be a distraction, and simply watch him at work). He would be at a posh soiree, chatting with the Countess Ghiradelli in an innocently flirtatious way between sips of wine from his private vineyard in Genoa (Tuscany has become so pedestrian since the new money ‘discovered’ it), discussing how the Met’s new flavor took O mio babbino caro and reduced to a piece of bubblegum pop. And then, within the space that a normal person would take a breath or allow their mind to move on to a different topic, he would slip in a perfectly eviscerating remark about Obama’s Iran policy or Hilary Clinton’s speech to UN like a piece of paper being slid under a doorway.

And I or you would stop and just marvel at the bon mot, taking in the cut, clarity and color of it in our mind, the flawlessness carried through all the dimensions of it. Except by the time we had fully digested and understood it, McCoy would already be onto three other topics, because his mind works that fast.

Truly, if there is an heir apparent to Christopher Hitchens his name is Glenn McCoy.

OK, sarcasm time is over.

Glenn McCoy is a fucking hack. I don’t say this because I disagree with him on virtually all issues (which I do), but because every argument he makes is unabashedly one of partisanship and base emotion and has all the subtlety of an intellectually deficient stick of dynamite. It’s not that there’s one issue he approaches from his gut rather than his mind; he does it with every one, again and again.

Absolutely shameless in his playground-level insults (note the open fly in this toon), as if he either lacks any real maturity or he considers himself so beaten down by the invisible demons and government agents that run this world that there is no recourse but to lash out in childish bursts of toilet humor and crude caricature, not unlike a guerrilla fighter who can strike against a dictatorship in no way but by tagging posters of the glorious leader.

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