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Buzz Bissinger launches a profane, boneheaded attack on the Internet for being profane and boneheaded.
By King Kaufman
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May 1, 2008 | I missed that pompous ass Buzz Bissinger's ridiculous performance on "Costas Now" Tuesday night because I was busy watching galumpteen million playoff games, and all on boss-car-washing night too.
Bissinger appeared in a "round-table" discussion with Costas, Deadspin founder Will Leitch and Cleveland Browns receiver Braylon Edwards, who represented the people being covered.
They discussed the sports blogosphere, that nasty, wasty netherworld where people post pictures of NFL quarterbacks drinking from beer bongs and otherwise lower the sports discourse from the lofty heights of T.J. Simers and Jay Mariotti.
I know this because Deadspin posted a video of the segment. Bad, bad Interbloggy thing! How dare you make Buzz Bissinger, man of letters, look bad by showing a video of him saying the asinine things he thinks! A little respect please.
Bissinger launched a profanity-laced, idiotic assault on the Internet, which he doesn't like because it's profane and filled with idiots. How meta.
The segment opened with a packaged piece in which Leitch gave a boilerplate defense of his site's existence, then more of the same between Costas and Leitch live at the round table. Costas, who has recently taken some get-off-my-lawnish potshots at the blogosphere, joked, "To my surprise, I find you very palatable in person."
After a few moments, Bissinger could take no more. Perched sideways on his chair as though the very act of sharing a planetary atmosphere with Leitch was painful to him, he said, "I'm just going to interject because I feel very strongly about this: I really think you're full of shit."
Thus spake the man who says he has "spent 40 years of my life trying to perfect the craft" of writing -- which those punk kids on the Internet would never do -- and who is offended by the profane tone of the blogs.
That is, in the comment he printed out and brought to the show and read on "Costas Now," which to Bissinger apparently represents the entire Internet. This routine was very much like holding up a gummy worm and saying, "Food is terrible. I mean, look at this thing."
What a yutz.
Things went on in this vein for about 15 minutes before Bissinger revealed himself to be not just a pompous jerk but also a hypocrite.
