Crunchy Conspiracy II: Sheer Capitalist Genius
Wake up, contra crunchies, how did we miss this? On the morning of April 17, with 3-digit temperatures predicted in Dallas and other areas, Rod Dreher linked to "mid-priced air conditioners" at Wal-Mart's website from his blog on beliefnet. Was this mere coincidence or an instance of commissionable product promotion, targeting unsuspecting consumers in their time of need? Questions abound. Like, for example, what was Rod really doing in Arkansas over Easter weekend? Everyone knows where Wal-Mart’s HQ is located - could there have been another meeting in Arkansas, a secret one half-way between Bentonville and Little Rock off I-40, for which the Sierra Club meeting was merely a ruse?
And the beauty of this commissioned linking is that he performs his side of the agreement whilst ostensibly criticizing the excess of a greedy capitalist mogul's earnings. As they say in Crunchyville, USA, "Whoda thunk it?"
We applaud Rod for his promotional genius and his ability to capitalize on his position and web-presence in the new economy as had been noted earlier on this fine weblog.
And the beauty of this commissioned linking is that he performs his side of the agreement whilst ostensibly criticizing the excess of a greedy capitalist mogul's earnings. As they say in Crunchyville, USA, "Whoda thunk it?"
We applaud Rod for his promotional genius and his ability to capitalize on his position and web-presence in the new economy as had been noted earlier on this fine weblog.
posted by Pauli at 9:36 AM
1 Comments:
I think the bottom line is that Dreher is not a serious conservative thinker. Actually he is not a serious thinker, period. Why and how he ever wrote for NR is beyond me (although I am not terribly familiar with how respected NR is in general these days). He certainly is a decent writer. He had a golden chance to be sort of a Gen x catholic conservative mouthpiece, but he's blown it, because he misunderstands and misinterprets both catholicism and conservatism. Unfortunately he misinterprets both in such a way as to aggrandize his own thinking, so one has to wonder if it is a willful misinterpretation.
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