{"id":896,"date":"2004-10-31T10:58:44","date_gmt":"2004-10-31T18:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/10\/matt_habers_headsup\/"},"modified":"2004-10-31T10:58:44","modified_gmt":"2004-10-31T18:58:44","slug":"matt_habers_headsup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/10\/matt_habers_headsup.html","title":{"rendered":"MATT HABER&#8217;S HEADS-UP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Everybody loves<FONT color=#003399> <\/FONT><A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.wonkette.com\" target='new\"'><B><FONT\ncolor=#003399>Wonkette<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> &#8212; and for good reason: She gives good head. In<br \/>\nother words, s<I>he&#8217;s got brains<\/I> (and a great sense of humor). But Matt Haber at <A\nclass=inline href=\"http:\/\/www.lowculture.com\" target='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>Low<br \/>\nCulture<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> belongs right there with her, maybe ahead of her. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>Consider the item he posted the other day, <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.lowculture.com\/archives\/002452.html\" target='new\"'><B><FONT\ncolor=#003399>&#8220;conspiracy-a-ga-ga&#8221;<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>, taking the New York Post&#8217;s Page Six<br \/>\nto task for its <A class=inline href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/gossip\/32910.htm\"\ntarget='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>&#8220;powerful revelation&#8221;<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> that<br \/>\n&#8220;conspiracy theorists are buzzing about John Kerry&#8217;s connection to Lee Harvey Oswald and the<br \/>\nJFK assassination&#8221;:<\/P><br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE>Whoa. Do you really want to play this game, Page Six? Crumple up that<br \/>\ntin-foil hat before someone reminds you that &#8220;conspiracy theorists&#8221; have been <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.hereinreality.com\/hinckley.html\" target='new\"'><B><FONT\ncolor=#003399>&#8220;buzzing&#8221;<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> for years that John Hinckley&#8217;s brother, Scott, was<br \/>\nallegedly scheduled to have dinner with Bush&#8217;s brother, Neil, the night John <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.ronaldreagan.com\/reaganpics\/rr49.jpg\" target='new\"'><B><FONT\ncolor=#003399>shot<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> Reagan in 1981!<\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P><\/P><br \/>\n<P>Haber knows his way around the Web (those are his links).<\/P><br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE>Some dude even went so far as to tie Hinckley&#8217;s attempt on Reagan with<br \/>\nKennedy&#8217;s assassination by claiming that Reagan was <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/northstarzone\/HINCKLEY.html\" target='new\"'><B><FONT\ncolor=#003399>&#8220;shot from the Bushy knoll&#8221;!<\/FONT><\/B><\/A><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P><\/P>And he&#8217;s nobody&#8217;s mark:<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE>Wow. See how fucking stupid I sound saying this stuff? Elevating these<br \/>\nwackadoos to even the most carefully vetted legitamacy, lowers a writer to, well, a fucking<br \/>\nidiot.<\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P><\/P><br \/>\n<P>Hell, Haber&#8217;s got brains, humor, and the conscience of a saint. (So what if he has a spelling<br \/>\nproblem &#8212; that&#8217;s &#8220;legitimacy,&#8221; Matt.)<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Full disclosure: The man grills a mean sausage, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody loves Wonkette &#8212; and for good reason: She gives good head. In other words, she&#8217;s got brains (and a great sense of humor). But Matt Haber at Low Culture belongs right there with her, maybe ahead of her. 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