Kesher Talk

You've got mail. I just got my first piece of real hate mail. I've gotten into a few email arguments with bloggers whose politics and debate methods I don't respect, and we've had a few trolls in the comment threads here at KT. But this is an incoherent soundbitten email that arrived in my very own inbox. It's a right of passage of some kind - my blogger Bat Mitzvah. I'm guessing the troll is referring to the Mazin Qumsiyeh post, but it's hard to tell. I'm not going to bother fisking this, just present it in its garish cliched entirety:

My, my, my. Are we getting a little paranoid about the truths being revealed, Judith? If you don't care for what the Professor is saying, then why not take some time and read what Seymore Hersh wrote about the Neo-Cons, the disciples of Leo Strauss, in The New Yorker? Perhaps you would rather read what the Wall Street Journal had to say about the same subject, or perhaps what Patrick Buchanan wrote in The American Conservative, etc. etc. etc.

The light of truth is finally starting to shine on the jackals who are controlling, and manipulating America's foreign policy. Not to worry though, the Neo-Cons, AIPAC, Sharon, and all of the other hardliners can count on their wolfpack of zealots to attack, discredit, and demonize anyone who dares to point out the truth of their actions, and motives.

I believe it was Nietzsche who said "When you label me, you negate me". So go ahead Judith, which is it, Anti-Semitic, Self hating Jew, Hitler lover, I can take it all, because you, and those of your ilk, are finally being revealed in all your colors.

What a great lead-in to these accounts of major news media misquoting Wolfowitz. Thanks, troll.

PS I emailed back, "So what do you think about the "Democracy in Palestine" movement?" No reply yet.

posted by Judith @ 5/31/2003 09:49:28 PM