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."
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Liberoids are MOONBATS & WING-NUTS!!!
What a shame the main guy at KOS didn't "Frisch" himself with his comments about the dead Americans hanging from that bridge.
I watched this nut lose her shite in real time, and let me tell you, what a show.
what's great about it? She's a raving kook moonbat and threatened his children.
Huh?
Interesting.
Bump
That was just satire
The framing context promises to be insightful about how blog wars reveal the raw emotion where ideology meets ideology. But McElroy spends most of the column reporting many details about the altercation between Frish and Goldstein. The reporting seems good, but the history of exchange between these two seems not very important to me. Then even the framing context doesn't deliver a big payoff.
<< a glimpse at how relations between left and right have deteriorated in some circles>>
I believe this was the point in documenting what happened. This case was probably not the best example to use, because it wasn't a situation that started off with L and R being cordial and devolving, but rather yet another instance of Frisch acting like a foul-mouthed bullying lunatic on someone's blog besides her own (where plenty of her bizarre rants were archived). She has made a habit of insulting and trolling the right--PW just did a good job of setting her up and busting her chops on it.
Well, shoot fire... I psuedoblogged this little stink in real time-- last ( hopefully! ) entry here- scroll back for the whole screwball affair:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1219250/posts?page=366#366
It all began here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1219250/posts?page=346#346
I first learned of it from your post here and I've been chuckling over it ever since.
Serves her right. I hope she can't get employed anywhere but a burger joint and only then under very close, personal supervision.
L
I refrained from commenting much about Doctor Deb, Perfessor by day, CyberPsycho by night, but after much pondering ( what is she? role-player? serious stalker? chain-jerker? did someone else hijacker her accounts? ) I do believe the woman is an honest-to-God psychopath-- a person with no concept of right or wrong, who cares only about her self.
Her long history of cyber-stalking, and using blackmail to get her way ( see links ) does her no credit, either.
You have to wonder how somebody with so much free-floating anger, anxiety, and rage could even function day to day in society. Let alone hold any kind of position of authority.
It's because the folks who have the authority over folks like her want people like her right where they are. It's only when one of them crosses the line into outright criminal activity or undeniably psychotic behavior they suffer any consequences at all.
One must wonder how many other folks this psychotic bitch has terrified into silence with her outright threats and intimidation. Fortunately the owner of proteinwisdom was smart enough to document this womans frighteningly looney ravings for the entire world to see and more importantly to remember.
I have a feeling she's going to be pretty much unemployable in her 'chosen field of endeavor' for a long while. This is a good thing.
As I said above maybe a couple of years in the food service or housekeeping industries under very close adult supervision will be just the thing to straighten her undeniably confused ass out.
L
Next, Frisch tried to elevate the incident into political significance, sending readers of her blog to a newspaper article in which her case was discussed as part of the larger issue of the public nature of private Internet activity. "For those interested in…the larger issues raised by the Goldstein incident (e.g., censorship, self-censorship, academic freedom, freedom of speech, blogging & professoring, etc.), here's a link to an article by Josh Brodesky in today's Arizona Daily Star." [punctuation corrected]
Finally, she converted the entire matter into a left-against-right struggle thus removing personal responsibility. "It is unbelievable that a comment saying I would not care if harm came to your child is such a crime to the rightwingnuts when they've been happy as clams to send American dupes to murder, maim, rape and torture…Iraqi children for four years."
She wasn't much of a "professor" either.
Deborah Frisch University of Arizona
City: Tucson, AZ
Department: Psychology
Deborah Frisch's Scorecard
No. of Ratings: 7
Average Easiness: 2.7
Average Helpfulness: 2.3
Average Clarity: 2.0
Hotness Total: 0
Overall Quality: 2.1
"If you go to class and study the practice exams shes posts on the course website you will pass with flying colors. SHe give you up to 20 points extra on YOUR TOTAL POINTS just for coming to class qhich almost gaurantee's you to pass. Just go to class and you will get at least a B."
Ditto that- you are right. Dammit.
1.) What is her DU screen name?
2.) How many times have the mods here zotted her?
L
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