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This is, hands down, the lamest attempt to smear someone as anti-Semitic as I have ever seen. Just pathetic.
December 31, 2011 6:10 pm
Posted in: Assholes, Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, Clown Shoes, Seriously
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25 Responses
LT - December 31, 2011 | 6:13 pm · Link
Saw that. That’s Human Events level stupid. Hopefully it’s such powerful stupid some of their followers will be awoken by it.
Nah. Who am I kidding?
eemom - December 31, 2011 | 6:17 pm · Link
That SN smackdown is pretty awesome, though.
LT - December 31, 2011 | 6:26 pm · Link
And since I’m across the line – the start of 2012 looks just as shitty as most years.
Happy New Year.
MikeBoyScout - December 31, 2011 | 6:31 pm · Link
So, by wingnut logic Dr. Paul Krugman is an anti-Semite????
eemom - December 31, 2011 | 6:37 pm · Link
@LT:
Happy New Year.
Jay C - December 31, 2011 | 6:41 pm · Link
@MikeBoyScout:
Naaah, Krugman is Jewish; so by wingnut logic, anything he says that they don’t like is attributable to his being a “self-hating Jew“: a separate-but-equal dismissal…
Mark S. - December 31, 2011 | 6:41 pm · Link
@MikeBoyScout:
Of course. Also, anyone who disagrees with supply side economics is anti-Semitic.
different-church-lady - December 31, 2011 | 6:48 pm · Link
Wait… polar bears ate the ship?
SiubhanDuinne - December 31, 2011 | 6:49 pm · Link
@LT:
HNY backatcha!
AA+ Bonds - December 31, 2011 | 6:57 pm · Link
Jesus, the little Nazi they quote calls it “Porkulus”, Powerline is some sort of time-warping event horizon, I haven’t read that spectacular loser of a phrase in right-wing media in years and I read a lot of blah blah blah
LT - December 31, 2011 | 7:04 pm · Link
@eemom:
You’re very nice. Happy New Year to you, too.
LT - December 31, 2011 | 7:09 pm · Link
@SiubhanDuinne: It took a full minute to figure out what HNY meant.
Good god.
HNY to you, too.
Professor - December 31, 2011 | 7:13 pm · Link
Do these idiots realise that SEMITES include Hebrews and ARABS?
MikeJ - December 31, 2011 | 7:25 pm · Link
@Professor: Yes, but the word anti-semitic was first used for self description by people who only applied it to Jews.
Just as the teabaggers were the first to call themselves teabaggers, anti-semites were the first to call themselves anti-semites.
In addition to being bigots they’re stupid too.
Which has nothing to do with how silly it is to call Paul Krugman an anti-semite.
carpeduum - December 31, 2011 | 7:28 pm · Link
Thanks for wasting my time Bed Shitter Cole.
I don’t know what was more pathetic. The Guy that blogger was quoting whoever the fuk the unknown blogger is or the guy who was trying to make fun of him whoever the fuk that unknown blogger is.
gbear - December 31, 2011 | 8:06 pm · Link
@carpeduum: You might want to check your irony meter there, sport.
MonkeyBoy - December 31, 2011 | 8:07 pm · Link
Some people at age 17 have ideas that as they mature realize that they were badly formed, unknowledgeable, or naive.
Other people (cough Randians) act like they have the intellect of a 17 year old their whole life.
DH - December 31, 2011 | 8:56 pm · Link
From John Maynard Keynes: The Economist as Savior, by Robert Skidelsky:
On 25 August 1933, he wrote to Professor Spiethhoff, who was arranging the publication of a German translation of “National Self-Suffiency:
Some Anti-Semite, there.
cynn - December 31, 2011 | 9:46 pm · Link
Should I be pissed or amused?! Help me out because it depends on whether I wear my cruel shoes or my kitten heels.
wilfred - December 31, 2011 | 11:11 pm · Link
“Cause hey, if Darwin was a racist then that totally would mean evolution was false, right?”
Sadly, yes. Or it would mean that anything he said would be drowned out by cries that he was a racist, thus discrediting any ideas he might have had.
Just look at blogs.
The Fat Kate Middleton - December 31, 2011 | 11:29 pm · Link
@LT: Sent the same acronym to my college professor sister tonight – she couldn’t figure it out either. So don’t feel bad.
LT - December 31, 2011 | 11:56 pm · Link
@The Fat Kate Middleton: You’re very kind to tell me that…
Hob - January 1, 2012 | 2:11 am · Link
@carpeduum: What the fuck, strange dude. You’re constantly going on about how much you hate this blog and everything Cole writes. If you not only keep reading this blog, but you then click on all his links and read those blogs too... looks like no one’s wasting your time but you.
Comrade Baron Elmo - January 1, 2012 | 5:25 am · Link
Dunno, John. That’s pretty pathetic, but for sheer head-scrambling idiocy in Anti-Semite baiting, no one will ever, ever, ever beat Donald Douglas and his flip-out at the kid carrying this sign, reading SASQUATCH IS REAL, whereupon he wrote:
Even better, Mr. Douglas only doubles down on his analysis of the Jew-hating left when called on this idiocy:
“Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I’m dumb. I stand by what I wrote, either way.”
Priceless, man. Priceless.
Brutusettu - January 1, 2012 | 11:37 am · Link
Let’s say Krugman likes landscape paintings. Do you know who else loved landscape paintings? Hitler.
It would seem that by Steven Hayward logic, Krugman hates Jews on that fact alone.