- Rod Dreher
Rod Dreher, one-time resident bigot at The Dallas Morning News, now serves as director of publications for the conservative John Templeton Foundation — or at least he did the last time we checked.
Dreher is also editor of the foundation’s Big Questions Online website. But Instant Tea reader Kip Sherling points us to Dreher’s announcement Friday that he has stopped blogging (“I hope to be blogging again s0on,” Dreher writes) and halted all reader comments on BQO.
Here’s Sherling’s take, sent under the subject line, “Karma’s a bitch for master culture baiter Dreher”:
Rod Dreher, who earlier this year tried to wrap the lips of his anti-anything-not-Dreher blogging needs around the John Templeton Foundation’s bottomless nipple, appears to have been rudely weaned.
In the last several days, Templeton has deleted most of Dreher’s most politically and culturally contentious posts while suspending both Dreher’s personal blog as well as comments site-wide at his Big Questions Online.
The sulking tone with which Dreher announced this administrative punishment online underwrites what many suspect, that Dreher’s habitual just-about-anything-baiting style has put him close in line for promotion to becoming Templeton’s next ex-editor and the first failed editor of its online adventure BQO.
What mystifies many, though, is why a multi-million dollar tax exempt foundation, which depends for its tax-exempt status on at least the appearance of its political neutrality and tries to position itself as a salon of lofty, highly civilized ideas savored by the Nobel Committee and the Vatican alike, would not want as its very vocal public face a gutter gay-baiter from the Rupert Murdoch school of tainted meat journalism. Whatever happens, this final betrayal of what, to Dreher, must surely have seemed at first blush true institutional love forged in Heaven, may forever remain a mystery.
If Sherling is right, let’s just pray The DMN doesn’t take Dreher back. Any thoughts, Jack E. Jett?
Rod “The Bearded Lady” Dreher has made a career out of undeserved arrogance. It must be pathetic to fail at even trying to be a Ann Coulter wannabe. Maybe he can get together with Bible Girl and they can play spin the religion bottle.
Well, the John Templeton Foundation has risen inestimably in my opinion. It has silenced Rod Dreher. There is a God.
Dreher’s mouth looks like Coulter’s va-gy-gy–an orifice surrounded by clipped, greying hair, with teeth inside.
@M Streeter:
If there is a God, Rod Dreher will never again be seen in Dallas, either in person or in print.
Whew…dropped in from a link to find out about the silence of Rod’s blog. Once again, I’ve been reminded how viscious and small-minded the “tolerance” crew can be to anyone who doesn’t accept their new order. Scary.
He is just not a great writer. Yes, I agree he is very scary looking. But really I don’t care about his looks. He isn’t very bright or well read. I think he will get better when he grows up. He is a sad figure.
Was he suspended from Templeton for writing untrue, incorrect, incendiary, hateful, bigoted remarks about a progressive cause? Or did he actually defame a specific individual? Did he misrepresent himself to the Foundation pre-employment? Did they discover something about his private, personal behavior that caused them to suspend his blog, fearing that the Foundation would be made to look foolish and/or hypocritical?
I agree that what I’ve read of his writings is sub-mediocre– non-factually based, emotional, sometimes hysterical, self-pitying, self-aggrandizing, over-dramatic, melo-dramatic, lip-trembling, nasty, mean-spirited, baiting, God-drunk blather.
I hope that he will soon be exposed as the hypocritical, self-loathing fraud that I believe him to be. His wife should know, and his children should be protected.
Wow. What a load of hateful, “enlightened”, drivel. Petty, petty, petty….
Wow. What a load of hateful, “enlightened”, drivel. petty, petty, petty….load of crap that Rod Dreher writes.
“…load of crap that Rod Dreher writes.”. It figures. Poorly constructed sentences in the passive voice (not surprising), along with all the overwrought hysteria…no wonder everyone makes fun of you.
Overly hyped bullshit from the ginger beard that is always protesting too much. Typical. Common. Pathetic.
Very confused. Petty, petty, petty…..
Dod: I’m with you. Wow. The Internet makes everyone so brave, doesn’t it? Talk about the cowardly totalitarianism of liberal sentiment.
Leah and Dod,
You both are completely right. Rod merely tells the truth and some people just can’t handle that. Hate is a drug they use to keep themselves from seeing what is real.
I am (was?) a regular Rod reader. I kept coming back because of his puzzling contradictions. I abhorred and abhor his loathing of gay people, but I immensely enjoyed his Francophilia, his thoughts about food, and his rage at Pennsylvania’s state-run liquor stores.
I was going to ask Mr Dreher about why in the world Philly schools would give condoms to eleven year olds, but then I remembered this is another slap at parents. All I find on this page are small minded non-thinkers. that seem to want things to be their way or the highway. I guess I don’t have to wonder now what is going wrong with this nation. sad commentary on life in the most socialist leaning country on the planet. Have fun as you run to and froe looking for truth that is in front of you.