Posted on 07/18/2006 8:56:18 PM PDT by Valin
Weblogs or blogs reveal the emotions churning beneath the surface of hard news. For example, journalists may report which legislation passed the House by what margin, but bloggers will lay bare the ideological brawls that underlie the news item.
Over the last two weeks, the blogosphere has buzzed about a bare-knuckled incident that provides a glimpse at how relations between left and right have deteriorated in some circles.
Right-wing blogger Jeff Goldstein maintains a well-respected site entitled Protein Wisdom. Left-wing Deborah Frisch maintains the south(west)paw blog. She prides herself on attacking 'right-wing nuts' -- or 'wingnuts' in blogspeak -- by posting insults on their websites. (Left-wingers are referred to as 'moonbats'.)
An exchange on Protein Wisdom between Goldstein and Frisch turned so nasty that it landed in the mainstream media. On July 12, Brit Hume of FOX News reported, "Deborah Frisch escalated a foreign policy argument with blogger Jeff Goldstein last week, writing that if 'someone shot you and your 'tyke' it wouldn't slow me down one iota.' She also wrote that she hopes 'no one Jon-Benets' the child -- a reference to the brutal murder of a young Colorado girl ten years ago -- and made disturbing sexual remarks about the boy."
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WOW.
I hadn't been paying attention to this drama.
What an idiot--Frish.
Sounds like she's another citizen of the Republic more fittingly home in Cuba, Siberia, Pol Pot's Cambodia . . .
And who invented "liberoid"?
Yea dodger.
Those were the days my friend . . . cue music . . .
The ASU job and what OTHER job?
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A small attempt at humor on my part...that went over like a lead balloon. Good thing I haven't quit my day job.
I know some leftist and and it seems to me that we inhabit two completly different world.
By the way, I first used the term 'liberoid' 33 years ago as college freshman (in discussion with the son of a future Eurosocialist PM & another mate who became a senior staffer to Teddy "The Swimmer" Kennedy.
I believe I made 'liberoid' up on the spot but it is one of those wonderful terms that enjoys recurrent invention!
Love it.
Love coining words and phrases.
I'm skeptical that I came up with ADMINISTRIVIA first but I thought of it and used it about 1971.
Don't remember others.
Though hereon, I'm scathing in my mangling of DIMRAT names. I think I came up with DIMRAT but I wouldn't sware to it. Certainly RATS from DemocRATS was first and not mine.
Lots of folks decry mangling DIMRAT names as grade schoolish. But I think the jerks earn it and it's mostly fun. I don't really give a rip when I'm just carrying on.
Besides, if it causes someone to be jolted enough to think a bit outside their normal box, it's worth it.
Thanks for your kind responses.
Demonic Rats
certainly fits. Especially Shrillery. Probably SKERRY, DEAN and several others . . . literally.
Sigh.
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