DougJ @ Balloon-Juice: "I believe that trolling is the highest form of human expression." [View all]
DougJ is hands down the most brilliant troll I have ever seen in my extensive online wanderings, he mostly trolls conservatives including quite a few "journalists" but he is not above trolling his own OPs with sockpuppets too.
http://www.balloon-juice.com/2013/09/27/take-a-letter-maria/
I believe that trolling is the highest form of human expression. Art, music, and literature are too often about fantasies, the notion that the world is beautiful, that human beings have some decency, things that no adult could possibly believe. Trolling, by contrast (when done properly), illustrates the most profound eternal truth, that people are mostly ignorant, delusional sociopaths. I believe that the Socratic method is just a sophisticated form of trolling since its goal is to get people to say things so stupid that theyre temporarily shocked into trying to think.
This clip of Alex Pareene on CNBC is trolling at its best. Pareene says Jamie Dimon should step down as head of JP Morgan because of all the JP Morgan scandals. Who knows if hes serious or not though his point about bad PR is more relevant than his interviewers want to admit but he gets Maria Bartiromo to sputter the New York Times!, revealing to all that shes a teahadist whack job who has no place in journalism.
The comments on this OP are worth a look too, for instance:
I love the sarcastic way Bartiromo shouted Oh, the New York Times, as if it were the National Enquirer or Weekly World News. It really is mind-boggling how often ostensibly media savvy people unthinkingly make complete asses of themselves on national TV. Its like watching self-proclaimed gun experts repeatedly shoot themselves in the gut while cleaning their rifle collection.