The Malkin/Klein Non-Kerfuffle; also, the Poetic Genius of Malkin's Commentariat

Just so I have this straight: Lynne Cheney agrees to be interviewed by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show, but Michelle Malkin refuses to debate Ezra Klein in a venue of her choosing?  Telling. 

Fellow conservative bloggers should shame her into participating or refusing to.  The lack of actual engagement between the right and left is something to be mourned, not celebrated, lest we end up with people spouting unconscionably general nonsense like:

Unfortunately once the facts reach the ears of a liberal they automatically become violent and attack those that defy their world view verbally and at ever increasing intervals with physical violence.

No wonder Malkin fears facts.  (Frankly, I'm a little worried myself now.)  But the real joy in reading Malkin's commentariat comes from all those suffering from Sudden Onset Poetry Syndrome.  Someone'll be vitrioling along then LIGHTNING STRIKES! and they're channeling William Blake (or a reasonable approximation of him):

Ezra Klein? Never heard of him. Is a response necessary? The eagle does not do battle with the fly.

The eagle also never loses so much time as when he submits to learn from the crow.  And the eagle bites weasel.  Weasel bites back.  They fly up to nowhere.  Then in and out the eagle, and pop goes the weasel.  But the beetle implores the eagle.  The eagle brushes him aside.  After the eagle leaves, the beetle smashes all his eggs.

Q.E.D.

Comments

[David R. Block]

Ezra? Isn't that a book in the Old Testament?

[JPool]

Do you know my poetry?

[Rich Puchalsky]

I get Sudden Onset Poetry Syndrome, but then I at least produce actual poetry, if only doggerel.

I actually think it's a good sign when people use actual poetry to make fun of someone. It's like those ancient Celtic contests where instead of having a battle they'd have two bards come out to mock each other. Unfortunately, since no actual poetry appears to be involved in this incident, I think this has to be called the somewhat less snappy Sudden Onset Grandiloquent Phrase Syndrome.