Fuck Glenn Reynolds

I'll say this for the Instapundit. His site is enormously important in the development of the 'sphere [n.b.: the word "blogosphere" will hereafter always be condensed to "'sphere"--ed.], both for good and bad. Since I am a blogger, I obviously believe that the benefits of a new and alternative medium outweigh the liabilities involved in the legitimation of groundless arguments. If the SBVF"T" episode proves anything, it's that bloggers need to police themselves as much as they police the MSM. If Dan Rather presented forged document as genuine, then he indeed deserves the ignominy in which he now finds himself. But in a converse, logic-beggaring development, smear artists like Reynolds---who expended all his energy sustaining a campaign of defamation which any rational person must have known to be a campaign of defamation---somehow attained credibility as truth-tellers.

All that introduction was a kind of throat clearing for what follows. If you've looked at this site with any regularity (or just scrolled down a bit), you've noticed that I've been keeping tabs on Glenn Reynolds unwavering pseudo-neutral advocacy of a anti-historical book purporting to justify the internment of Japanese aliens and Japanese-American citizens during World War II. It's pretty clear now that the Instapudnit had no qualms about endorsing a more or less overtly racist project of historical revisionism, sees no reason to reconsider his position, and is unlikely to do so in the future. What I mean to say is that I'm giving up on the Instapundit Watch as a daily occurence---though I plan to call Reynolds out on his lies every time they are particularly egregious, even for him. But before the Instapundit Watch's present iteration dies out, I'm going to take a few moments, i.e. a few posts, to showcase the Reynolds school of insultingly blatant hackery.