Comments on: I Am Not The Cover For Your Conscience

By: cocktailhag

cocktailhag — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:26:04 +0000

The email you received was a Talking Point, uttered almost verbatim by a righty caller to Thom Hartmann’s radio show on Friday morning. In other words, that genius thought was cooked up, disseminated, and mindlessly parroted all over as though it were the keenest insight in the world. Bigotry sells these days, and lots of people are buying.

By: MikeD

MikeD — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:06:15 +0000

Spencer,

Absolutely, go for it. Stick a ‘c’ in ‘Wisonsinite’ (“Like any good Wis…”) for me if you could.

By: Peterr

Peterr — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:39:31 +0000

He put it in the comments to be read, Spencer. If you bump it up to get more visibility, I don’t think that’s a problem.

(Now if it was an email that you received on deep background from a high-ranking “senior administration official” then you might have problems . . . .)

By: macaquerman

macaquerman — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:25:44 +0000

hear, hear.

By: Spencer Ackerman

Spencer Ackerman — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:11:26 +0000

Mike, with your permission, I’d like to put this up as its own post. It’s beautiful and eloquent in a time of crisis.

By: fnord

fnord — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:43:53 +0000

Oh, they have an agenda, all right. If you go to Gates of Vienna, you will find my charming fellow norwegian Fjordman, who acts as a ideologue for much of the anti-muslim front over at Pajamas Media. While folks like Victor David Hanson and Bruce Bawer try to walk the line and never make any recommendations, Fjordman says it openly: They want ethnic cleansing of Europe and the US, deportation of all muslims and making islam illegal. Its the Gert Wilders pose: Fascism in yet another mask.

Over here we now have former neo-nazis supporting Israel, Serbian communists, gayrights and the republican party. Its a strange combo, fueled by hatred for islam only.

By: wilhoit

wilhoit — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:02:39 +0000

Three points.

1) Nothing can ever be deduced, generalized, explained, illustrated, or predicted from anything that a crazy person does.

2) Your correspondent has an emotional compulsion to subjugate people by group identity. Before the pretext of Fort Hood arose, he had some other. After it loses its salience, he will have some other. If even his target loses its salience, he will find some other.

3) This emotional compulsion is wired into the human brain. It is the purpose of civilization and education to equip individuals to overcome it and to clearly signpost the transcendent moral obligation to overcome it.

By: csp1

csp1 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:27:07 +0000

Invade the world, invite the world, in hock to the world.

By: sean

sean — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:49:10 +0000

It’s 7 am here, and I haven’t had my coffee yet, so please disregard the typos.

By: MikeD

MikeD — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:49:03 +0000

Thanks, mac.