Down with sheepdogs?

Jay Jardine is clearly not fond of Bill Whittle's essays — it's tough to use the term "excruciating" in a positive way — and he links to a refutation of "Tribes":

Everyone who reads Whittle's rambling drivel probably likes it because, deep down inside, they imagine themselves to be a "sheepdog". But that's not the correlation of forces. The vast majority of those reading Whittle's disgusting ass-licking festival are really the sheep, no matter what "warrior" fantasies they indulge in. And the reason the sheepdogs are protecting them is not in order to build "something wonderful", but instead to deliver them, conveniently herded, to be cut up for mutton at the pleasure of the State.

I stopped paying a lot of attention to Whittle's essays right about the time he started taking himself too seriously (insert obvious jokes about when that might have been). He was more interesting as a writer before he took that hard right turn into self-importance.