They would love to see Malkin die...
Published on January 5, 2007 By greywar In Current Events

     A few days ago I posted an article about the commentary from the Kos Kidz regarding Michelle Malkin's upcoming trip to Iraq. The response was mainly positive with only two exceptions:

By an Anonymous Coward-

"First of all. learn to SPELL. People judge you two ways. First, by the way you look, l then by the way you speak (write). They can overlook your lack of beauty, but if you speak as an idiot, that is the way that they will think of you. As an idiot that cannot speak properly. Nuff said."

    Note that this guy has no actual point regarding the article and doesn't even make it clear exactly who he is taking issue with (me or a commentor). He didn't like the viewpoint of the article but hadn't the rhetorical weapons to attack it. He was also excoriated in the comments for his own formatting and grammar issues.

By adnauseum

"Now hear this: Michelle Malkin does not answer mails from crappy little bloggers like me. Probably because I do not spew enough vitriol (like her)."

My response to that:

"Now hear this : She gets more email in a day than we get in our lifetimes. Get real and grow up. Have a trolling."

Led to this gem from adnauseum:

"Sure she does. If she's going to spew racist comments about atrocities I'd like to know why and I don't give a tinker's toenail whether she gets a million mails or not. If you don't service your high-faluting blog why are you blogging? OOps, it can't be serviced due to World-wide adoration: Jeez, who wants to adore a bloglady who is so wrapped up in her self-serving opinions?"

     I don't know how to respond to that other than wonder who thinks Michelle Malkin is a racist besides adnauseum? The naked hatred in his responses is a little shocking to me. I expect it from the Kos Kidz but most JU'ers have more under the hood than this.

     Is answering your email (even if there are tens of thousands of them) a requirement to be a blogger? Is bloggings only purpose to "seervice" your blog generated email? What the hell does "servicing your blog" even mean? Don't news-blogs provide their service in the way of posts and commentary?

     It is also interesting to note the cognitive dissonance displayed in the second comment. He derides her for not being a good blogger yet also notes that she has "world-wide adoration". Her "high-falutin" blog is apparently dammned because it is more successful than his (or mine) and thus she can't take time out to respond to his email.

     I have no clue what the content of his email was but judging from his commentary I would bet it was fairly screedy and hysterical. I can't imagine why it didn't float right to the top of her list of things to do.

     This is all too common among extremists on both sides of the issue but I seem to find it most prevalent amongst folks who are espousing a left-of-center view. Sartre said that "hell is other people." but for the some it seems that "Hell is other people who don't believe that way I do."

     Maybe I will email Markos Moulitsas (He runs the Daily Kos) and see if I get a response and them condemn him for not taking time out to respond to one reader out of his millions. I dislike Kos's politics but I am not going scream like a man crazed and whine because he won't correspond with me. I wonder if adnauseum also despises Hollywood stars for not responsing to his calls and letters? I mean shouldn't everyone be required to respond to his emails?

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Comments
on Jan 05, 2007
I can spell "excoriated" but "hatred" stumps me? Fixed the typo in the title. Feel free to lambast me for other grammar and spelling errors.
on Jan 05, 2007
consider yourself basted in the juices of 200 21 year old virgins!!!
on Jan 05, 2007

Email him!  I dont think he is intelligent enough to answer anyway.

And my latest article?  I would like to see where the vitriol is as that originally came from Michelle Malkin.  I googled the particulars.  Seems she writes facts, and to the left, that is Vitriol.

on Jan 05, 2007
Adnauseum is normally pretty even and balanced in his responses that I have seen so far, she must have really done something or said something that he has really been offended by...he is normally so reserved and polite.
on Jan 05, 2007
I'm not going to comment on the specific situation, but this might be a good place and time to offer a personal comment. I read your articles and find them well-written and thought provoking. Not provocative, in any kind of negative sense, but I find myself thinking about your points well after I have read them. I don't always or even mostly agree with you, but that is the point of a site like Joe User, no?

I consider myself a liberal, but Brad once referred to me as an "old school Liberal." I believe that there is plenty of room for civil disagreement. That is the source of new ideas. If you only read things that you already accept, how can you learn?

Thanks for turning me on to the Michelle Malkin site and thanks for your many good articles.

Keep on blogging.
on Jan 05, 2007
Larry KupermanJanuary 5, 2007 21:56:23


I consider myself a liberal,


you are definitely old school liberal, real forward thinking, you consider both sides of a debate, not blind parroting for you my Jewish brother. No toeing any party line either. Even headed, clear thinking, you are the antithesis of what today's liberals are.
on Jan 06, 2007
"Adnauseum is normally pretty even and balanced in his responses that I have seen so far, she must have really done something or said something that he has really been offended by...he is normally so reserved and polite."

Thanks for that Jen. Let me explain: Draginol posted about Muslim hatred and gave a link--I went to the link and felt Michelle was a little over-enthusiastic about her condemnation of Muslims. So I mailed her, she didn't reply. No big deal. If she wants to base her post on atrocities, so be it. Perhaps I can learn something here: Be base, be vicious, be controversial. I oppose that line of thinking.

So, Greywar, my response to your post: I think you're getting over-eager. Hate is not a hobby of mine but I can tell you that I will always give as good as I get. To accuse me of Naked hatred shows me that you shoot before you aim. Read the facts buddy.

To Doc Guy: My friend, to question my intelligence on a paltry post like this is disappointing. Read between the lines not on the lines.

To LW: Honey, you are so perceptive.
on Jan 06, 2007

To Doc Guy: My friend, to question my intelligence on a paltry post like this is disappointing. Read between the lines not on the lines.

Adnauseum,

I was not talking about you.  I was talking about Markos.  I am very familiar with him and his insanity.  I am sorry I was not clearer on who I was urging Greywar to email.  I meant no aspersions to you.  Like MM, I find you to be very reasonable, and while I disagree with you on Malkin, I disagree with you on several things.  But that does not make you an idiot like markos.

on Jan 06, 2007
Thanks for that Doc, I appreciate it. We agree to disagree on many things but that is what blogging is all about. I still regard you as a friendly fellow blogger.
on Jan 06, 2007
To Larry Kupermann,
If you were referring to me thanks for that Kupe.
on Jan 06, 2007

To accuse me of Naked hatred shows me that you shoot before you aim. Read the facts buddy.

 

Hey "buddy" the facts are there in the article : your comments. I am the one shotting before aiming? You went a little insane and said a bunch of crap. I understand if you don't want to actually recant the statements out of pride, but let's make sure who did the "shooting" here shall we?