Hate gets out of hand
Hate's a funny thing. It can empower you. Soldiers sometimes run on hate when they have nothing else. But if hate fuels you for too long it will eat you up.
Richard Cohen is figuring that one out.
Two weeks ago I wrote about Al Gore's new movie on global warming. I liked the film. In response, I instantly got more than 1,000 e-mails, most of them praising Gore, some calling him the usual names and some concluding there was no such thing as global warming, if only because Gore said there was. I put the messages aside for a slow day, when I would answer them. Then I wrote about Stephen Colbert and his unfunny performance at the White House correspondents' dinner.
Kapow! Within a day, I got more than 2,000 e-mails. A day later, I got 1,000 more. By the fourth day, the number had reached 3,499 -- a figure that does not include the usual offers of nubile Russian women or loot from African dictators. The Colbert messages began with Patrick Manley ("You wouldn't know funny if it slapped you in the face") and ended with Ron ("Colbert ROCKS, you MURDER") who was so proud of his thought that he copied countless others. Ron, you're a genius.
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It seemed that most of my correspondents had been egged on to write me by various blogs. In response, they smartly assembled into a digital lynch mob and went roaring after me. If I did not like Colbert, I must like Bush. If I write for The Post, I must be a mainstream media warmonger. If I was over a certain age -- which I am -- I am simply out of it, wherever "it" may be. All in all, I was -- I am, and I guess I remain -- the worthy object of ignorant, false and downright idiotic vituperation.
As Michelle Malkin said, welcome to our world.
Look Rich, here's the deal. You didn't conform. You didn't jump on the the left wing group think train that Colberts was funny (I saw it, and he wasn't funny, but that's beside the point). You failed to support an anti-Bush rant because it was unfunny and now you are being excommunicated for it.
Left-wing hate is spinning out of control and turning back on themselves. Anyone who questions any anti-Bush doctrine, regardless of how unfunny or illogical it may be, is the enemy. No good can come of this, particularly for the left-wing.
Hat tip to Captain Ed.
Richard Cohen is figuring that one out.
Two weeks ago I wrote about Al Gore's new movie on global warming. I liked the film. In response, I instantly got more than 1,000 e-mails, most of them praising Gore, some calling him the usual names and some concluding there was no such thing as global warming, if only because Gore said there was. I put the messages aside for a slow day, when I would answer them. Then I wrote about Stephen Colbert and his unfunny performance at the White House correspondents' dinner.
Kapow! Within a day, I got more than 2,000 e-mails. A day later, I got 1,000 more. By the fourth day, the number had reached 3,499 -- a figure that does not include the usual offers of nubile Russian women or loot from African dictators. The Colbert messages began with Patrick Manley ("You wouldn't know funny if it slapped you in the face") and ended with Ron ("Colbert ROCKS, you MURDER") who was so proud of his thought that he copied countless others. Ron, you're a genius.
[...]
It seemed that most of my correspondents had been egged on to write me by various blogs. In response, they smartly assembled into a digital lynch mob and went roaring after me. If I did not like Colbert, I must like Bush. If I write for The Post, I must be a mainstream media warmonger. If I was over a certain age -- which I am -- I am simply out of it, wherever "it" may be. All in all, I was -- I am, and I guess I remain -- the worthy object of ignorant, false and downright idiotic vituperation.
As Michelle Malkin said, welcome to our world.
Look Rich, here's the deal. You didn't conform. You didn't jump on the the left wing group think train that Colberts was funny (I saw it, and he wasn't funny, but that's beside the point). You failed to support an anti-Bush rant because it was unfunny and now you are being excommunicated for it.
Left-wing hate is spinning out of control and turning back on themselves. Anyone who questions any anti-Bush doctrine, regardless of how unfunny or illogical it may be, is the enemy. No good can come of this, particularly for the left-wing.
Hat tip to Captain Ed.
posted by CT at 5/09/2006 11:13:00 AM
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