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The Debbie Schlussel Experience Part 2: The Fixation
Right Wing News ^ | June 16 | John Hawkins

Posted on 06/16/2010 11:50:58 AM PDT by darkangel82

Imagine, if you will, that you're a normal person and then one day a quasi-famous mentally ill blogger becomes fixated on you the way Gollum was fixated on the Ring. Even though she hasn't been setting the world on fire lately, she has been on TV, on the Howard Stern show and she's written for the New York Post, The Wall Street Journal, & The Washington Times. Most people in the know realize she's off her rocker, but how many people are in the know? How many fans does she have who don't realize what she's really like?

So this person, this quasi-famous mentally ill blogger, starts claiming you support death threats against her. She tells people you're an anti-Semite. She calls your job and tries to get you fired. When she hears of people connected with you, she tries to contact them to lie about you. When people mention your name on the web, she shows up to tell untrue stories about you. Then, she starts going after your friends. She accuses them of supporting death threats against her and being anti-Semitic for being associated with you.

You tried ignoring her. It didn't work. You tried sincerely apologizing for offending her. Not only did it fail, she misrepresented what you apologized for in an effort to use it against you. Since she was a lawyer, you even eventually tried filing a complaint with the Michigan Bar, trying to get them to keep her from obsessively harassing/cyber stalking you; it didn't work. You hoped, over time, the obsession with you might fade. However, four years have gone by and it's still going as strong as it was in the beginning.

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1 posted on 06/16/2010 11:50:59 AM PDT by darkangel82
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To: darkangel82

What a nut job. I would be surprised if she goes postal one day.


2 posted on 06/16/2010 12:06:25 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte ( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
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To: darkangel82

When you call someone mentally ill in print seems to me the only defense against libel is to be able to produce a doctor’s diagnosis. Possessing a doctor’s diagnosis without the permission of the DR and subject is illegal too. This guy is hosed.


3 posted on 06/16/2010 12:08:06 PM PDT by DManA
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To: darkangel82

No one ask her about Sarah. Okay?


4 posted on 06/16/2010 12:09:27 PM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: DManA
When you call someone mentally ill in print seems to me the only defense against libel is to be able to produce a doctor’s diagnosis.

She has made herself a public figure by blabbing her big mouth on the TV cable shows. I wish her luck on the libel suit.

5 posted on 06/16/2010 12:11:27 PM PDT by Tamar1973 (Germans in 1932 thought they were voting for change too.)
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To: darkangel82

I remember Debbie Schussel. My totally uninformed opinion is that she yearned to join Coulter, Malkin, even Melanie Morgan, and others on the top tier of conservative female pundits. When it didn’t come to pass she became bitter and defensive.


6 posted on 06/16/2010 12:14:25 PM PDT by GSWarrior (Be wary of all politicians..... especially ones that you admire.)
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To: DManA

A paragraph or two of the average Debbie Schlussel column should convince anyone that she is indeed insane.


7 posted on 06/16/2010 12:14:35 PM PDT by flintsilver7 (Honest reporting hasn't caught on in the United States.)
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To: GSWarrior

I used to like reading her writing. I don’t anymore.


8 posted on 06/16/2010 12:14:59 PM PDT by darkangel82 (I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
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To: darkangel82

I do not live near Debbie Schlussel, but have read some stuff that she wrote about a specific FBI agent in charge in Detroit that seems both accurate and troubling. I have even posted some of it here on FR in context of the militia “goobers” who where arrested by the FBI recently.

Is she “unstable”? I do not have a clue, but she obviously does not have a lot of use for radical Islam, nor it’s protectors/apologists.

Will spend a little time looking at other subject matter she has written. At this point, my opinion of her writing is not negative. But I have not been targeted by her. I have been “targeted” by some lefties before, and do not like their distortion and lies.


9 posted on 06/16/2010 12:17:11 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.)
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I enjoyed (and agreed) with her writings until she went off the deep end. She’s just been wacky lately. i won’t read her at all anymore.


10 posted on 06/16/2010 12:19:54 PM PDT by Miss Conservative (I don't have a hang-up with wire hangers.)
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To: DManA

You know, I’m no doctor, but I have to imagine any psychiatrist could diagnose her with paranoid personality disorder based solely on her writing.


11 posted on 06/16/2010 12:24:16 PM PDT by flintsilver7 (Honest reporting hasn't caught on in the United States.)
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To: GSWarrior
I remember Debbie Schussel. My totally uninformed opinion is that she yearned to join Coulter, Malkin, even Melanie Morgan, and others on the top tier of conservative female pundits. When it didn’t come to pass she became bitter and defensive.

She has a photo of herself on her blog from about 10 years ago when she was normal weight. Now that's she's gone stark raving mad, she's just a fat, bleached blonde Ann Coulter wannabe with 1/2 the brains and double the body mass of Ann Coulter.

Anyone who calls Dennis Praeger, Michael Medved and Mark Levin anti-semites has lost absolutely all credibility and belongs with the tinfoil hat crowd.

12 posted on 06/16/2010 12:25:48 PM PDT by Tamar1973 (Germans in 1932 thought they were voting for change too.)
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She has a photo of herself on her blog from about 10 years ago when she was normal weight.

Not to pile on, but I think it is also a glamour shot on a good day.

13 posted on 06/16/2010 12:29:39 PM PDT by wideminded
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To: DManA
When you call someone mentally ill in print seems to me the only defense against libel is to be able to produce a doctor’s diagnosis. Possessing a doctor’s diagnosis without the permission of the DR and subject is illegal too. This guy is hosed.

No. Anybody can allege anyone else is mentally ill because "mentally ill" is just another way of saying someone is "freaking nuts," "off his [her, in this case] rocker," "out of his mind," "out to lunch," "two rocks short of a full sack," etc, all of which are characterizations people can freely make without any fear of libel because these are qualitative judgments anyone can have of anyone else. Nobody takes them in the same way as alleging in print that someone has stolen $50,000 or set fire to a neighbor's house or had sex with an elderly blind hippo. This is because the characterizations regarding the mental/emotional state of another is usually a description or perception of the speaker's experience with that person and subject to the "I've got a good self image, you're vain, he's an egomaniac" rule of characterizing others.
14 posted on 06/16/2010 12:30:40 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: Miss Conservative

My opinion about here will be shaped by whatever comes out of the accusations she has made about Detroit FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Andrew Arena. (concerning the charges and arrest of the “goobers” in the Hutaree militia.)

She has been the only person I have seen questioning that ruse.

If here criticism is accurate about him, I support her.


15 posted on 06/16/2010 12:31:55 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.)
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To: flintsilver7
A paragraph or two of the average Debbie Schlussel column should convince anyone that she is indeed insane.

I could send you a response I got from her to a positive email I sent her thanking her for a review of Inglorious Basterds that would convince you of the same thing.
16 posted on 06/16/2010 12:32:41 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: GSWarrior
I remember Debbie Schussel. My totally uninformed opinion is that she yearned to join Coulter, Malkin, even Melanie Morgan, and others on the top tier of conservative female pundits. When it didn’t come to pass she became bitter and defensive.

I dont see what is uninformed about your opinion. You could be right on the money.

Although I have a feeling her vicious streak has pre-dated her ambition.

17 posted on 06/16/2010 12:32:43 PM PDT by freespirited (There are a lot of bad Republicans but there are no good Democrats.--Ann Coulter)
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To: Texas Fossil

That’s the problem. She may be absolutely correct about that but she’s blown her credibility in a lot of other ways.


18 posted on 06/16/2010 12:39:19 PM PDT by Miss Conservative (I don't have a hang-up with wire hangers.)
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To: freespirited

She should marry John Stossel and change her name to Debbie Schlussel-Stossel.


19 posted on 06/16/2010 12:46:38 PM PDT by GSWarrior (Be wary of all politicians..... especially ones that you admire.)
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To: Tamar1973

I hope she doesn’t read Mark’s Facebook page, from where I got the link to this article. He called her a nut job(and she is).


20 posted on 06/16/2010 12:48:34 PM PDT by darkangel82 (I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
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