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« J-Lo and Christina.... | Main | Welcome Back Boyd! » August 05, 2005
This is hilarious...
I just got this email that says in part: "You know why Republicans and Conservatives don't comment on your blog? It's because you are insulting. You insult anyone that does not share your POV. You are just like all the other Moonbat idiots that think they know everything." Eh, Okay. Let me see. I am insulting, and yet half the email is full of insults. And the post and comments on Right Wing blogs that insult everyone on the left, call us moonbats, traitors or worse... Those are examples of reasonable debate right? Well, let me straighten a few things out... For the record... I am a Liberal, not a pacifist. You come here with rhetoric, be prepared to defend it with logic, not insults. I don't roll over. Perhaps for too long I sold myself as a "reasonable," member of the left, and to some of you, that was taken as a sign that I was someone who could be swayed to your way of thinking... Eh... NO! Some of you on the Right have sold out your country, and your soul in the process by electing an idiot to the highest office in the land. A man who is an international disgrace to the office. You thought Clinton getting a blow job in the oval office was a disgrace. Well, most foreign leaders, and foreign nationals thought that it was moronic that a nation like ours even wasted our time on that witch hunt. You on the other hand voted for a President who cant speak for five minutes without sounding like a total moron. You voted for a President who is directly responsible for the death of 1,800 Americans, tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis, and the maiming of thousands of other Americans in a "war of vanity." You voted for a man who sees no problem with considering selling our Largest Oil company to the Chinese. You voted for a man who has lied repeatedly to the American People. You voted for a man who believes we should be teaching Creationism in our schools, right alongside REAL science. You voted for a man who has spent 20% of his time in office, ON VACATION! You voted for a man who has spent the last 4 1/2 years "working hard," to reward those who helped him steal the Presidency. You voted for a man who talks about National Security, while pandering to Vincente Fox and Business interest, as millions of illegal aliens flood into the country. You have elected a man who has draped himself in the greatest tragedy to ever befall this country, and has shamelessly exploited it for his own political gain. You elected a man who's administration has used our constitution as toilette paper. I could go on, but I wont. I enjoy debate. And there are people I can have civil disagreement with. But when you come to this Blog with snide remarks, insults and an air of superiority... When you come to this Blog, expecting me to be swayed by Rhetoric and Talking points... You need to realize something, being civil does not mean being compliant. Nor does it mean sitting still for insults direct or implied. Tonight I get two insults in comments to post... Childish, arrogant and mal advised... But lets be real here. The reason that most hard core Bushistas don't comment here is simple... They like to attack in packs from the comfort of their own little echo chambers. For the past two days this one guy has been trying to convince me to go to Dan Gillmor's blog to "engage in debate," about a post I wrote here. Now what kind of idiotic logic dictates me going to someone else's blog to fight a battle started by my own post... Simple, on Gillmor's blog there were a group of "Right Thinking," people like my dear commenter. Nothing like having the crowd behind you! Please... My advice? You come into my home claiming to want debate... DEBATE. Make your points. If I agree, I will say so. If I don't, I wont call you an idiot. Make sure you extend me the same courtesy, or stay in your own comfort zone where you can call Liberals anything you want. Posted by David A at August 5, 2005 08:10 PM
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David, Both sides are echo chambers. You know it. Not that I disagree with your refusal to go over to someone else's blog and get 'comment-swarmed.' Seems to me that you set up your just for that purpose -- to express yourself. (Of course you are 100% WRONG about EVERYTHING, but that's a different matter.) Later, dude, vacation time - 2 weeks. Throw my guest bloggers some links while I'm gone, okay? Posted by: The Commissar at August 5, 2005 10:13 PM Oops --- "... set up your BLOG just for that purpose ..." Posted by: The Commissar at August 5, 2005 10:15 PM You still have Hot Abercrombie Chick on your blogroll. Man, how very 2003 of you! Posted by: The Commissar at August 5, 2005 10:20 PM Both sides have their lemmings...it's the ones that go out of their way on either side to write a tirade and email it to a stranger that make me giggle. I'm so easily amused, I guess. Posted by: N. Mallory at August 6, 2005 09:12 AM David, I know how you feel. For instance, one of my site's bloggers makes a post, and a gentleman begins a long comment to it thusly: "Mrkedder, you are truly a disgusting sort. Without this recruiting going on, you may not have the freedom to write your stinking blog." Naturally, we smack down his arguments that follow, and significantly raise the civility bar despite our tough critiques... he continues to reply several times, and near the end of the long exchange finally writes this: "I rarely see any dissenting comment in any of your blog pages, I’m sure that’s why you’ve gone after me with like 16 virulent posts." No, we went after him with 16 argumentative posts because he continued to make argumentative comments, and bad ones at that. Some people don't realize you're trying to educate them. But if they do, then they must admit to themselves they may be in need of education. Posted by: Ben at August 6, 2005 09:18 AM Yeah Ben, I see the same thing all the time. Strange huh? And then you go to a right Blog, and there are two hundred comments all slapping themselves on the back for being so clever! Jeesh! Posted by: David Anderson at August 6, 2005 11:06 AM David, As much as I purposely go around Right blogs challenging comment posters on a regular basis (Say Anything, Wizbang, Daly Thoughts), rarely have these regular adversaries ventured to comment at TCFW! I suspect they visit occasionally, but never comment though. Although, I've been banned officially from 7 CEC sites, I've only had to block two IP addresses. Lately, Right commenters will praise my writing, tell me I'm still wrong, but never stick around to make an argument as to why. Posted by: that colored fella at August 7, 2005 07:04 AM That is funny. You have guest bloggers that are Republican and Conservative. You have commenters that are as well. Why would someone claim you don't? Posted by: Rogue at August 9, 2005 01:51 PM Post a comment
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