This humorous little email string concerns my third novel, "Foreign Enemies And Traitors."
This humorous little email string concerns my third novel, "Foreign Enemies And Traitors."
Nicely done.
Hope you don't mind if I take some vicarious satisfaction from this exchange.
And now I just can't wait to read his impartial review/essay in the Daily Beast. That will be an even bigger hoot, now that I've done pissed him off, being as I didn't play the gullible fool in his little one-act play.
I never read Turner Diaries, and don't plan to do so.
heh. You are wise not to bite. Hope he has to look up “AMF” and gets all p*ssy when he finds out what it means.
I love how you've effectively rejected his premise and then published the discussion. This is great work!
Semper Fi,
TS
This is really bizarre considering that berger has been pretty much limited to writing and reporting on jihad and lately, American jihadis specifically.
He has a book of his own out there about American jihad. Haven’t checked to see how it is doing.
IIRC, he is also a producer and filmmaker.
Great retort, Travis. This guy sounds like a typical media weasel looking to tag an “extremist”.
Well played, right down to the AMF. You were far more polite than I would have been. People like this alleged ‘journ-o-lister’ disgust me betond words.
“4) Do you feel that the Patriot movement has historically had a racist component? Do you think it needs to change in this respect? If so, why?”
Well, then...there ya go.
Nice job on the counter, T.M.
LMAO! and good for you. I have read the Turner Diaries and threw it in the garbage can after I read it. I paid a couple of bucks for it, used, and read it out of curiosity. I have all of your books and have read them. They are nothing like the Turner Diaries. Mr. Berger is a moron.
I’ve had a couple of similar episodes of people contacting me about my dragon’s Fury Series and its clear conservative, constitutional bent and trying to walk me into an interview where they could do all sorts of comparisons....I refuse them every time.
Good on ya, Matt! If people at this level are taking interest and seeking to put it down, it means you are having good success and they are feeling compelled to try sensor it...which of course will not work in any case...probably lead to all the more sales, hehehe.
God’s speed and BZ.
I don’t suppose this fool has taken the time to study the instances of cannibalism under totalitarian regimes and wartime/crisis situations. It was very common in the “worker’s paradise” of the USSR in the Ukraine during the collectivization famine, although it also persisted throughout WWII in that area. The Japanese Army devoured POWs as a matter or course during the last few years of WWII. It was used as a political tool of terror (and a way to show contempt for class enemies) during the Cultural Revolution in China. It was present during the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya (I wonder if O’s Daddy was partial to long pig?). Of course the Tshombe and the Simba’s in Katanga province of the Congo were avid practitioners. In more recent times, a SOF correspondent in Sierra Linne in the late 90’s was killed and a former Delta operator informed me that he was eaten.
If Berger doesn’t think that folks like the the NBPP would not condone or promote cannibalism, at least on a symbolic basis to tie their adherents to them by blood, especially in a crisis situation, he’s a fool.
Journalist, it’s what’s for dinner.
Any chance of getting the email address for Mr. Berger?
Would be fun to shoot him a note : “Heard you’re doing a story on Bracken. Can’t wait to check it out.”
do you remember the FReepmail i sent you a couple years ago saying the trilogy would prolly one day be compared to the TTD?well, here we go...
I got quite a chuckle at the way you ended that exchange! Thanks for the laugh!
I wondered about the obscure book the MSM kept harping on, and I guess I wanted to see what made the guy tick, though I never succeeded in that, nor did I see how TTD related to the bombing at OKC. I did my best to ignore the racist crap, much like tuning the MF word out of rap music. The TTD story line wasn't that bad, as TEOTWAWKI stories go (keep in mind my first two years of High School experience was two years of race riots.), but it was too heavily splattered with racist crap to be worth reading.
By contrast, you wrote clean novels, realistic projections of a possible future in the US, without racism, and I really have problems comparing the two unless it would be to contrast the two.
After recent events, anyone who doesn't think some battle lines, in extremis, in some areas, would be drawn crudely along racial lines isn't paying attention.
That isn't racism, it's reality, a reality people have been recently slapped in the face with.
I'd be suspicious as hell of anyone in the media who even brought up TTD in the same sentence as your books.
Good job ending the 'interview'.
I also noticed the 202 (Washington D.C.) area code, and that would have made me cautious as well.
This put a BIG smile on my face...well done! AMF indeed! Love it!
Is it this
J.M. Berger is editor of INTELWIRE.com and author of Jihad Joe: Americans Who Go to War in the Name of Islam, available in hardcover and on Kindle.
http://blogsofwar.com/2011/10/31/american-suicide/