Bump
Bump.
My deepest condolences to you, ma'am. I read a comment by Mr. Cole recently in which he declared that the war on terror was over, as it was nothing more than 4 more men hiding in a room (referring to the 4 captured London bombers).
I am a student at the Univ. of Pennsylvania, and I sent Mr. Cole a polite but firm e-mail refuting his statement. Instead of defending his words, he brushed me off and told me that he was merely using sarcasm, something that "perhaps" I had not learned about at Penn yet.
Mr. Cole was an asshole to me, so I responded in kind: No, I hadn't learned about sarcasm in college yet, I wrote, because Ivy Leaguers were expected to have learned this at an earlier age. This was, on my part, an immature insult against Mr. Cole, who has attended a number of fine universities, although none are among the Ivy League. Nevertheless, his reponse was snotty and arrogant, and provided no signs that he deserved a PhD, a position as president of a "middle east studies institute," or a taxpayer-funded professorship at Univ. of Michigan.
You know, after reading this I am more apt to beleive that this guy was smoothe than anything else.
He has his wife still shilling for him over his love for another woman he intended to marry in order to 'save.'
There is no woman I have ever been involved with, ever, who would go along with that, let alone shill for me over it after I have entered the great beyond.
I call em like I see em.
"gestures might be interpreted by the misogynistic cretins who surrounded her daily."
I have never heard the word 'misgynistic' before today. On FR, this word was used twice today. Not only is FR a great read, you can expand your vocabulary. ;)
I would think that after receiving Senora Ramaci-Vincent's ballistic missive, little boy Cole has learned a great deal about the Sicilian female temperment.
(And, btw, so did I.)
You go girl!!!!
Seriously, I can't think of a time when I have read a more eloquent or well-deserved "put down." It is just tragic that you - at this most awful time in your live (I too am a widow) - had to deal with such a pour excuse for pond-scum. God has a special place reserved for a$$h___s such as Cole.
Cole is the worst kind of human being.
Cole is a joke. I don't know anyone who actually respects his opinion (except for the terribly young and weak minded).
Sadly, Steve Vincent has not gotten the credit that he deserves for his courage and dedication and for his reporting, which was squarely based on immediate observation, was without detectable bias, and which ran in both the New York Times and National Review. Our country has lost a good man and a good reporter. Worse, he has been smeared by Leftists whose sympathies are with Islamic terrorists.
Stop insulting scum.