Will the Piñata

Wow. George Will wrote a silly little column about hating jeans and denim and...the whole right wing blogsphere fell on his head.

I read the piece yesterday and thought, "Ah, George, get over it." It was an amusing little piece written by a guy who doesn't wear denim. Kinda funny, kinda not, on my with my day. I guess I didn't understand what an earth shattering column this really was.

Hot Air is especially full of sour grapes, as one of their bloggers spends an entire blog (complete with updates) pointing out that jeans are great and Will is a goof. Michelle Malkin piles on, along with a bunch of other bloggers. Ed Morrissey says, "Did I miss a memo? Have we solved all of the world’s problems? This doesn’t even make for an interesting blog post, let alone a nationally-syndicated column from an erudite political commentator."

Get bent, loser.

I've taken a swipe at Will before over political stuff, but going after a writer because of a one-off subject is lame. Will can write whatever he wants. Maybe he was tired of the politics and was just sitting around thinking of a story, saw someone in jeans and said, "You know. I never liked jeans." And wrote something.

The column's silly, and the last line shows that Will is goofing around. This is way over the heads of the blogosphere. Upset at Will ever since his betrayal during the McCain campaign, they are determined to pay him back. But by making fun of him for not wearing jeans? News flash: George Will has been wearing bow ties on TV his entire life. Did you expect him to like jeans?

A few weeks back Will wrote about the Arizona/Mexico border. A couple of weeks ago he wrote about the US constitution. A week ago he wrote about baseball. Yesterday he wrote about denim. Who cares?

Morrissey's "miss a memo" and "erudite" drivel smacks of an intellectual alert. Morrissey would never know this, but the dirty little secret about writers is that they write. Bloggers blog. The difference between them is that writers sometimes write about something else once in a while just for the hell of it. Bloggers are a broken record.

In Canada, I've seen this kind of stuff before. It's usually about Mark Steyn and how he used to be a DJ, so he has no business being in the writing trade. Whatever. The internet opened up a wide world of information, but it also gave every jealous hack with a keyboard a chance to tell writers how to write. Tough luck. Maybe Will or Steyn's next column should be about where the slogan "eat me" came from.