![]() New blog quickly mutated into rowdy multi-author scrum specializing in schoolyard taunts. Edroso described the Ace of Spades evolution: One center-right devout Catholic blogger has described the blog and its commenters as "smart but very very vulgar." Political content Īce of Spades HQ was mentioned by Roy Edroso of the left-wing Village Voice in the autumn of 2008, in his Guide to the Rightosphere as a "Fratboytarian" new-media outlet. The site frequently employs obscenity and vulgar language, setting it apart from most conservative media outlets. Unlike some other online commentary sites, however, it often features humorous content in its videos, cartoons, and pictures. ![]() īlogger-in-Chief Ace and Ace of Spades HQ itself have both been quoted and linked extensively at other blogs such as Power Line, Hot Air, Instapundit, Protein Wisdom, and Right Wing News.ĪoSHQ, like many political blogs, links to and comments on the day's news. ![]() He has also been exceedingly critical of Christopher Buckley, both as a writer of fiction and as a political commentator. The Ace of Spades HQ is often critical of other political websites, including Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish, Īnd Glenn Greenwald's Blog in Salon. In a 2007 editorial for The Washington Times, editor Tony Blankley described Ace of Spades HQ as a "very smart military blog", Naturally, alternative streams of information will play a large role in that process." We have, he reminded us, not simply an opportunity to inform ourselves about politics, but a 'duty' to do so. Joy McCann of Little Miss Attila wrote of Ace's speech that "AoS gave a rather thoughtful set of remarks on the why New Media is an important part of policy-making, and drew a straight line between the history of policy debate in a town-hall setting and the Reagan Revolution, which rejected the notion-now so prevalent in Europe and elsewhere-that the political class can consider itself our 'betters,' and simply make policy decisions on our behalf. e gave an incisive speech on the death of democracy and the rise of tyranny, accompanied by an analysis of how Ronald Reagan re-invigorated the two-party system. When Ace himself was honored as the "Blogger of the Year" at the Conservative Political Union's Conservative Political Action Conference in March 2008, Brian Faughnan of The Weekly Standard wrote that "Ace has a gift for cutting through political BS, for dissecting the fatal flaws behind liberal arguments, and for doing so with humor.
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