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March 29, 2010

Popularity Contests and Link Bait
— Gabriel Malor

Allah teases John Hawkins for laying traffic bait in his latest blogger poll, which asked us to give up or down votes to 35 right-wing figures.

At least among bloggers, Allah collects a cool 84% approval. David Frum, Kathleen Parker, and Ron Paul did not get such high marks.

Then Allah throws down some link bait of his own:

Thanks to those who voted for being so nice; I fully expected to finish underwater. Hawkins was thoughtful enough to name all of the bloggers who responded, too, so now I get to guess who the 12 Â“dislikesÂ” were. (Hmmmmm.)

Hey, Allah, I'll never tell.

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 05:41 PM | Comments (57)
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1 I didn't get to vote.

Posted by: Editor at March 29, 2010 05:43 PM (YX6i/)

2 Oh, sure, update the post so my first comment disappears. Of course, posting this comment will bring it back.

Posted by: Editor at March 29, 2010 05:45 PM (YX6i/)

3 Thomas Sowell is Teh Awesome.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at March 29, 2010 05:46 PM (OkT2m)

4 Sorry, Ed. I not so good with the htmling.

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at March 29, 2010 05:46 PM (Mi2wf)

5 Thomas Sowell is Teh Awesome.
Posted by: HeatherRadish

Sowell / Walter Eee Williams 2012

What? Too much?

Posted by: Garbonzo the Garrulous at March 29, 2010 05:49 PM (w8ddH)

6 They threw the Paultard under the bus. Noice.

Posted by: di butler, unlicensed pharmacist at March 29, 2010 05:49 PM (S3xX1)

7 I didn't see bacon on that list.

Posted by: Dave in Texas at March 29, 2010 05:50 PM (Wh0W+)

8 How can a poll that doesn't include teh Chuckles Johnson be taken seriously?

Righty politi-bloggers rating political hacks and each other? Youse guys are too inbred.

Posted by: Ray-man at March 29, 2010 05:50 PM (DhOH3)

9 Michelle and Sarah are hawt!

Posted by: bergerbilder at March 29, 2010 05:51 PM (S1Ttj)

How do you feel about Paul Ryan?
Strongly like: 67% (51 votes)
Like: 30% (23 votes)
Dislike: 2% (2 votes)
Strongly dislike: 0% (0 votes)

Woohoo!

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at March 29, 2010 05:52 PM (yfJ6g)

11 Sowell / Walter Eee Williams 2012

What? Too much?

Age may be a factor, which is sad, because I'd be all over volunteering for that lineup.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at March 29, 2010 05:53 PM (OkT2m)

12 Minus one for no Thaddeus McCotter question, of course.

Posted by: Garbonzo the Garrulous at March 29, 2010 05:53 PM (w8ddH)

13 GWB also received a higher approval rating than Allah.

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at March 29, 2010 05:54 PM (yfJ6g)

14 No, I'll never tell!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aUImLjPZwM

Posted by: Anya at March 29, 2010 05:56 PM (bgcml)

15
http://tinyurl.com/yagm7t6

Posted by: Lemon Kitten at March 29, 2010 05:56 PM (0fzsA)

16 So do the cool people go to the ONT or this thread? I'm confused now.

Posted by: Garbonzo the Garrulous at March 29, 2010 05:57 PM (w8ddH)

HA poster says, "This is as close as AP will ever come to getting laid."

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at March 29, 2010 05:58 PM (yfJ6g)

18 Ann Coulter need to hit the weight room, especially the squats bar. (Just trying to be objective.)

Posted by: bergerbilder at March 29, 2010 05:58 PM (S1Ttj)

19 By the way, for a bunch of racist teabaggers, notice the top three we like;

2) Marco Rubio (76)
2) Michelle Malkin (76)
1) Thomas Sowell (80)

Posted by: 18-1 at March 29, 2010 05:58 PM (bgcml)

HA poster says, "This is as close as AP will ever come to getting laid."

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at March 29, 2010 09:58 PM (yfJ6g)

Isn't AP female?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 29, 2010 05:59 PM (bgcml)

21 http://tinyurl.com/yagm7t6

Posted by: Lemon Kitten at March 29, 2010 05:59 PM (0fzsA)

22
Sorry folks -I'm testing stuff..

Posted by: Lemon Kitten at March 29, 2010 06:00 PM (0fzsA)

23 By the way, for a bunch of racist teabaggers, notice the top three we like ... Posted by: 18-1

Easily explained by the Leftist paranoids. They would reply, "Obviously because wing-nuts are always looking for penance for their internalized racism, hence the most unlikely and most apologetic responses... sniff."

Posted by: Garbonzo the Garrulous at March 29, 2010 06:03 PM (w8ddH)

24 18-1: Surely you're not implying females can't get laid?

Posted by: Mikeyboss at March 29, 2010 06:06 PM (eqC8L)

25 Most Popular (Strongly like + like votes)

2) Marco Rubio (76)
2) Michelle Malkin (76)
1) Thomas Sowell (80)

2) A Plantain
2) A Potato
1) An Oreo

You are all racists!!!

Posted by: Druid at March 29, 2010 06:06 PM (Gct7d)

26 Easily explained by the Leftist paranoids. They would reply, "Obviously because wing-nuts are always looking for penance for their internalized racism, hence the most unlikely and most apologetic responses... sniff."

Posted by: Garbonzo the Garrulous at March 29, 2010 10:03 PM (w8ddH)

You know, I would love to see a battle of wits between Sowell and Obama. No teleprompters. Just two men, and we'd see who got to where he is based on his ability to think and who is a "penance for internalized racism"

Posted by: 18-1 at March 29, 2010 06:06 PM (bgcml)

27 Oh, you know full-well that AP is a beta-male.

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at March 29, 2010 06:07 PM (yfJ6g)

28 Plantain don't work... Flour Tortilla Bean Burrito?

Posted by: Druid at March 29, 2010 06:07 PM (Gct7d)

29 Surely you're not implying females can't get laid?

Posted by: Mikeyboss at March 29, 2010 10:06 PM (eqC8L)

The converse my friend.

Heck, look at DR AMY BISHOP.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 29, 2010 06:08 PM (bgcml)

30 Heck, look at DR AMY BISHOP.

Someody is begging for an encounter with the banhammer? (j/k

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at March 29, 2010 06:09 PM (Mi2wf)

31 20

HA poster says, "This is as close as AP will ever come to getting laid."

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at March 29, 2010 09:58 PM (yfJ6g)

Isn't AP female?

Posted by: 18-1

More the pity...

Posted by: Druid at March 29, 2010 06:10 PM (Gct7d)

32 I give up...

Posted by: Druid at March 29, 2010 06:11 PM (Gct7d)

33 The converse my friend. Heck, look at DR AMY BISHOP. Ah, makes perfect sense now

Posted by: Mikeyboss at March 29, 2010 06:12 PM (eqC8L)

34 Lefties employ several crude ethnicity-based slurs when referring to Michelle Malkin. I think you can find them by searching for "hate mail" on her site.

I love how she publishes their e-mail address when they hate-mail her.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at March 29, 2010 06:12 PM (OkT2m)

35 Huckabee should have been on that list. Was he? Would have been around the bottom, I figger.

Posted by: rdbrewer at March 29, 2010 06:12 PM (ip4Yg)

36 How do you feel about David Brooks?
Strongly like: 0% (0 votes)
Like: 18% (15 votes)
Dislike: 50%(40 votes)
Strongly dislike: 30% (24 votes)

O.K. Here's the big question: Who are those 15 people?

Posted by: SlaveDog at March 29, 2010 06:12 PM (W+E+o)

37 I'd crawl across broken glass and razors naked to vote for Thomas Sowell.

Posted by: Tami at March 29, 2010 06:16 PM (VuLos)

38 Lefties employ several crude ethnicity-based slurs when referring to Michelle Malkin. I think you can find them by searching for "hate mail" on her site.

I love how she publishes their e-mail address when they hate-mail her.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at March 29, 2010 10:12 PM (OkT2m)

I seem to recall they got really made about that...and then published her home address.

So apparently in leftyland - racist, misogynistic rants - good, outing racists and misogynists bad and worth physical violence.

Posted by: Some reader at March 29, 2010 06:16 PM (bgcml)

39 I'd forgotten about that.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at March 29, 2010 06:18 PM (OkT2m)

40 1) Meghan McCain (71)

AP must be devastated, mentioning her waist band size like that.

Posted by: blogRot at March 29, 2010 06:19 PM (jIFz9)

41 14

Heh, that's exactly what I thought of too.

"Clearly our number is a retro-pastiche that's never going to be a breakaway pop hit"

Posted by: Waterhouse at March 29, 2010 06:21 PM (qK6oV)

42 Meghan McCain (71) AP must be devastated, mentioning her waist band size like that. I thought that was her IQ.

Posted by: George Orwell at March 29, 2010 06:31 PM (AZGON)

43 Poor Chuckles! Graduated to no mention what-so-evah! hehehe! God I love the Internet!

Posted by: milo Oblong at March 29, 2010 06:31 PM (+Z5RN)

44 "Sorry folks -I'm testing stuff.." Test somethin' else... Kittehs are cool! And many parts are edible! Pine trees too!

Posted by: milo Oblong at March 29, 2010 06:34 PM (+Z5RN)

Throwing up a post about Allahpounditintheass on AOSHQ?

Who's baiting now?

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 29, 2010 06:34 PM (P33XN)

Allah teases John Hawkins for laying traffic bait

ROFLMAO...Oh wait, he's serious? The king of baiting for hits actually had the nerve to say that?

Posted by: Deanna at March 29, 2010 06:38 PM (JXlgX)

Who's baiting now?

And thus, the term "circle-baiting" was born.

Just don't imagine a sentence using the term and the names of certain bloggers.

Posted by: Mama AJ at March 29, 2010 06:43 PM (XdlcF)

48 "I'd forgotten about that." They haven't. She seriously cut down the crap on her site, overnight. And most of those email addresses reject now...

Posted by: milo Oblong at March 29, 2010 06:43 PM (+Z5RN)

49 Yes Gabe, I've heard you have a big interest in the whole don't ask don't tell thing.

Posted by: Hard Right at March 29, 2010 08:15 PM (HoKQT)

50 Some threads are like ginger stepchildren. The basement chest thumping on Dave in Texas's thread went past 666, and poor Gabe gets dick. Look, I couldn't resist that. I denounce myself.

Posted by: George Orwell at March 29, 2010 10:03 PM (AZGON)

51 I'm shocked at Allah's numbers. I guess it proves Teh Gehe Lobby correct; there are a lot of latent homosexuals closeted on the right.

Posted by: Adjoran at March 30, 2010 12:27 AM (3hg5M)

52 Wait a minute. The first three on the list of people liked by right-bloggers are all people of color? Also, three women, one Jewish dude and one proponent of gay marriage (Dick Cheney) on the list? What happened to the racist, women-hating, gay-bashing party the media convinced me I belong to?

Will I have to switch parties and become a Democrat now? That party seems to be full of racists, women-haters, gay bashers and anti-semites. Just like the way the media told me I like.

Posted by: Tushar at March 30, 2010 03:42 AM (PGSXB)

53 Zero strongly-likes for Meggy-Megs. ^Aww.

Posted by: reason at March 30, 2010 07:27 AM (XiVKO)

54 Tushar - it's okay, you can stick around. "We" collectively channeled it all into disliking / strongly-disliking Colin Powell. Clearly, there can be only one reason for anyone to dislike Colin Powell.

Posted by: reason at March 30, 2010 07:29 AM (XiVKO)

55 I didn't see in this week

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56 do walking and running for get better health

Posted by: fat burning at November 16, 2010 06:57 PM (JIhhW)

I love the smell of dead terrorists in the late night / early morning !!!!!

It smells like............victory

Posted by: sokubag at March 20, 2011 06:20 AM (lCkf0)

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