Compromise and Conceit

It appears that John McCain’s campaign blogger has covered himself in infamy by saying bad things about Dungeons and Dragons. His particular comment:

Goldfarb compared the editors to a blogger “sitting at home in his mother’s basement and ranting into the ether between games of Dungeons & Dragons.”

This is apparently terribly offensive… so offensive he had to apologise (I won’t link to or print the apology, it’s so bad and useless it burns my brain). 

I don’t think it’s offensive at all. That quote perfectly describes the average chicken-hawk member of the  right-wing blogging community (minus references to cheetos, of course). This would explain why right wing bloggers like “Ace of Spades” were so offended… witness, oh fat libertarian cheeto-sucking lunatics, how even John McCain – a man who has his emails printed for him – has you all worked out. 

Of course Ace Of Spades responded to the apology with typical style – “I think he meant to make that crack about Rifts or Vampire or some gay-wad game anyway.”

When someone sneers at you, the best solution is always just to sneer at someone else, more sneerily.

Anyway, the actual relevance of this issue – one can only hope that somewhere a pre-teen, one-hande-reading 30 year old who thinks he is eligible to join the Navy SEALS because he has, like, a killer score in Medal of Honour is now infinitesimally less likely to vote for McCain.

(Also, the comments at Pandagon are pretty funny…)