Letters to the Editor

• Projection or plant?

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  WinSmith:

  R.T. thank you not only for your genius role as the Macguffin in "L.A. Comfidential," but for the perfect post to sum up everything I've attempted to fight against in this, the first true left wing fever swamp, I've encountered. I guess I needed to see that we had our own Freeperville. I'd seen hints of it on DailyKos, but never to this level of hysteria and utter pathology.

  Utterly revealing. and utterly depressing.

  You start with the usual nonsense questioning who I "really" am, the wonderful undercut of internet anonymity. Am I NeoCon? Or maybe an ADL plant?

  Sure it has nothing to do with anything I said (just as Glenn's background has nothing to do with his arguments), but damn if it doesn't help to discredit that annoying "Other" who's raining on your dittohead parade around here.

  I think we have a winner.

  WinSmith, you came in here angry and tried to belittle Glenn from the get-go as being somehow obsessed with the ADL, and have tried to do the same with just about everyone who has crossed your path since. And you belittled other minorities in the process. When we point out that you are not holding yourself to standards that you are requiring others to maintain, you go even more ballistic and, as Glenn and others have noted, you continuously put words in our mouths that we didn't say. By grouping us all here as some sort of a hysterical “Freeperville,” you are doing the precise stereotyping that you are accusing us of doing.

  Glenn pointed out early on that you were here to pick fights, and wisely backed out of engaging with you. What are you trying to accomplish? If it's to make us more aware of your concerns of anti-Semitism, you are failing miserably, especially when you try to demean us and ignore previous sacrifices made on your behalf by people we know and love. If it's to self-aggrandize or prove rhetorical prowess, you have tripped on a banana peel time after time here.

  And, if you had read Lind’s piece (the link to the full piece is in the previous comment), you would note he talked about the neo-conservative movement consisting of a pentagon, of which certain Jewish interests composed but one side. You would also note that he said Southern Protestant fundamentalists were more likely to agree with the Likud party than Jewish-Americans.

  I'll have to hand you one thing, though. You probably can type out comments faster than I could physically hit a bunch of keys randomly and hit "Publish," but you know what? My postings would demonstrate a lot less anger and not ultimately weaken my case.

  Permalink Sunday, October 7, 2007 12:42 PM