tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post2225837472465301472..comments2023-11-03T06:35:48.003-05:00Comments on Shark and Shepherd: Hate from a writer at SlateRick Esenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07280070509167910367noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-24418212440614908632012-03-09T17:56:25.633-06:002012-03-09T17:56:25.633-06:00George Mitchell--I have posted here, on several oc...George Mitchell--I have posted here, on several occasions, my dislike of the "anonymous" tag. I have explicitly cited Dad29 (who I know and respect and whose identity is hardly a secret) in arguing against anonymous postings.<br /><br />Maybe Dad29's identity is known by the "in-crowd" of conservatives. Regardless, who cares if he or I are anonymous? The CONTENT of the post is more important than anything else.<br /><br /><br />"Going forward, barring an obvious factual error by anonymous posters, I am going to pass on responding to them."<br /><br />Your choice, but then you are missing out on the exchange of ideas, which is the ultimate purpose of a blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-71545869655728162952012-03-08T12:08:13.738-06:002012-03-08T12:08:13.738-06:00Stop using my name. I'm the real George Mitch...Stop using my name. I'm the real George MitchellGeorge Mitchellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-80357710511928036082012-03-08T12:07:18.241-06:002012-03-08T12:07:18.241-06:00No I'm George MitchellNo I'm George MitchellGeorge Mitchellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-52899336374276839092012-03-08T12:06:46.403-06:002012-03-08T12:06:46.403-06:00I'm George MitchellI'm George MitchellGeorge Mitchellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-47682579736438083262012-03-08T07:53:05.799-06:002012-03-08T07:53:05.799-06:00Anon 11:11
I have posted here, on several occasio...Anon 11:11<br /><br />I have posted here, on several occasions, my dislike of the "anonymous" tag. I have explicitly cited Dad29 (who I know and respect and whose identity is hardly a secret) in arguing against anonymous postings. So, your "gotcha" on that one comes right back at you.<br /><br />Going forward, barring an obvious factual error by anonymous posters, I am going to pass on responding to them.George Mitchellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-48627424555375960302012-03-08T00:00:49.327-06:002012-03-08T00:00:49.327-06:00I agree with George. People should be man or woman...I agree with George. People should be man or woman enough to put their names to their opinions. Seems kind of gutless not to. I wish that Rick made it a requirement.Marc Eisenhttp://meisenstories.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-91402565818679688972012-03-07T23:11:45.668-06:002012-03-07T23:11:45.668-06:00So, George, you would have the same disdain for an...So, George, you would have the same disdain for anyone who posts "anonymously", say, Dad29, for example?<br /><br />There have been a number of posters here who have been anonymous and have made cogent remarks. Who cares if they CHOOSE to submit their comments as "anonymous", it is substance of that content that counts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-79054735368146663692012-03-07T20:27:48.550-06:002012-03-07T20:27:48.550-06:00anon 7:14
What I would find "embarrassing&qu...anon 7:14<br /><br />What I would find "embarrassing" is to post my opinions anonymously.George Mitchellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-32443401382618272812012-03-06T19:14:11.144-06:002012-03-06T19:14:11.144-06:00Unknown--The right AND the left engage in misdirec...Unknown--The right AND the left engage in misdirection equally. Get your facts straight.<br /><br /><br />George--Just. Stop. Now. Please. It's embarrassing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-76594302826066857992012-03-05T22:42:10.161-06:002012-03-05T22:42:10.161-06:00anon 6:26 says
"George, that is NOT the esse...anon 6:26 says<br /><br />"George, that is NOT the essence of Marc's remarks." <br /><br />Well, here is how Marc began his remarks:<br /><br />"One can express condolences for his family and wince at the loss his young children have experienced and still believe Breitbart was a SOB."George Mitchellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-2533780397819035792012-03-05T20:56:52.424-06:002012-03-05T20:56:52.424-06:00And who can forget how Brietbart then took to task...And who can forget how Brietbart then took to task Glenn Beck...<br /><br />-- Good point. The focus shifted from the NAACP's false accusations of racism against a political movement of millions of civic minded Americans to the speaker.<br /><br />Kind of like Rush's slightly over the top discussion of Fluke shifted the focus from the Left's pursuit of 'free' birth control for one-percenters attending the nation's most prestigious law school personalized as a 30 year old sexual rights fixated agitator. So now we are not talking about how religious people's first amendment rights are being trampled. Nor that gas is skyrocketing past 4 dollars per gallon.<br /><br />The left loves them this kind of misdirection.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17333132048552751053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-47887780698656354092012-03-05T20:16:08.692-06:002012-03-05T20:16:08.692-06:00In this corner, we have "Unknown" who ci...In this corner, we have "Unknown" who cites Legal Insurrection, among others, in defense of Breitbart<br /><br />In this corner, we have "Media Matters" who takes Breitbart to task...<br /><br />mediamatters.org/blog/201105100008<br /><br /><br />And who can forget how Brietbart then took to task Glenn Beck...<br /><br />www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/05/andrew-breitbart-blames-glenn-beck-for-shirley-sherrod-scandal/<br /><br /><br /><br />Isn't partisan rancor grand? Over Breitbart? Brietbart? Seriously, Brietbart? Breitbart? Really, Brietbart? (in the voice of former New Orleans Saints coach Jim Mora).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-82428917528876130002012-03-05T19:06:16.139-06:002012-03-05T19:06:16.139-06:00===That gets to my objection to Breitbart. He post...===That gets to my objection to Breitbart. He posted a video that destroyed Sherrod’s reputation. It was quickly revealed to have been edited with mendacity. He never apologized.===<br /><br />This is the continued propagation of a lie. <br /><br />When the unified lefty-party-media began its character assassination of the TEA party, the NAACP was the designated lead agency for that effort. <br /><br />Because Breitbart was a making a media rebuttal to the NAACP charges of racism against the TEA Party, he was careful to frame his introduction to Sherrod who was SPEAKING TO THE NAACP. He emphasized, rightly, the REACTION of the members to that moment of her story where she admits that she doesn’t do everything she can for him, because he is white. This organization, which is leading the smearing of the TEA party is cheering in racist identification with her revenge. Sherrod's further story reveals that she repented of this impulse and did help the man. <br /><br />Breitbart said "Eventually, her basic humanity informs that this white man is poor and needs help.But she decides that he should get help from “one of his own kind”<br /><br />So this editing and reputation nonsense is just another lefty-media-complex diversion to the righteous documentation by Breitbart that the left was once again using race-baiting. That members of the very organization taking the lead in calling TEA party racist has now become very comfortable with racism against whites in its formal meetings.<br /><br />"""A frame by frame analysis of Brietbart's posted video shows that """each of the elements of Sherrod’s story which legend has it was not on the “edited” tape in fact was on the tape.""""""<br /><br />I am relying on a blog by another blogging law professor at <br /><br />http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/03/saturday-night-card-game-repeat-after-me-the-shirley-sherrod-tape-was-not-misleading/<br /><br />It would have been really ugly for the left to admit what a phony, corrupt organization the NCAAP has become. What a force for good it could have been.<br /><br />http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2006/02/02/naacp-chairman-compares-gop-to-nazis/<br /><br />Chairman Bond recently said that Republicans "draw their most rabid supporters from the Taliban wing of American politics" and want to "write bigotry back into the Constitution." He has also compared conservatives to the KKK and the Bush administration to the Confederacy.<br /><br />Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/07/21/EDGRR7PRVE1.DTL#ixzz1oIIjDZk5Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17333132048552751053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-16158351909596756032012-03-05T18:26:34.082-06:002012-03-05T18:26:34.082-06:00George, that is NOT the essence of Marc's rema...George, that is NOT the essence of Marc's remarks. Now who is trying to be the phony?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-3245754759648565752012-03-05T09:04:18.742-06:002012-03-05T09:04:18.742-06:00My condolences to the SOB's family. Sincerely...My condolences to the SOB's family. Sincerely.George mitchellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-26324228706130440002012-03-05T08:15:37.768-06:002012-03-05T08:15:37.768-06:00Since no one has swung at the fastball down the mi...Since no one has swung at the fastball down the middle yet,<br /><br />"Well, what would you call someone who wants us to pay for her to have sex? What would you call that woman? You'd call 'em a slut, a prostitute or whatever."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-81685884483932528992012-03-04T19:29:04.430-06:002012-03-04T19:29:04.430-06:00George Mitchell--His condolences are phony...They ...George Mitchell--His condolences are phony...They offer gratuitous and, I believe, insincere "condolences."<br /><br />There is nothing that Marc wrote that one could reasonably infer he was being insincere. He said Breitbart was an SOB due to his actions. You cannot on one hand say that it is "fair game" for posters to criticize Breitbart's actions, then another hand take someone to task for explaining why he was offended by that behavior. Otherwise, you appear to be the phony for setting people up.<br /><br />The much larger question that no one is addressing is why the professor chose to label the writing by the Slate author as "hate" and the actions by Breitbart as "improper".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-47553235788869665992012-03-04T05:15:30.405-06:002012-03-04T05:15:30.405-06:00I was aware of the column. I read her regularly. S...I was aware of the column. I read her regularly. She references it in her column in the 3/3 WSJ piece. She chooses not to define Breitbart's life by the Sherrod matter.<br /><br />As his conduct in that case is not defensible, I did not choose to defend it.<br /><br />My observation re Marc Eisen dealt with the approach he and many others have taken re the death. They offer gratuitous and, I believe, insincere "condolences."George Mitchellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-37245176727518983712012-03-04T01:32:08.179-06:002012-03-04T01:32:08.179-06:00George, thanks for bringing up Peggy Noonan. Her W...George, thanks for bringing up Peggy Noonan. Her Wall Street Journal column of July 22, 2010, does a marvelous job of summing up the injustice visited upon Shirley Sherrod. First she was smeared by Andrew Breitbart's website, then she was forced from her job with the U.S. Department of Agriculture by a panicked Obama administration that was snookered by Breitbart's contention that Sherrod was prejudiced against white people. Supposedly she had failed to help a white farm couple named Roger and Eloise Spooner. who were losing their farm in a foreclosure.<br /><br />As Noonan explains in her column, Sherrod's speech to a NAACP chapter in Georgia recounted the prejudice and violence her own family faced in the pre-Civil Rights South, including the murder of her father. After praying for direction, Sherrod decided to stay in the South and help her people succeed. Whites could take care of their own.<br /><br />Noonan continues<br />: <br />"She said that 45 years ago she couldn't say what she will say tonight: "I've come a long way. I knew that I couldn't live with hate, you know. As my mother has said to so many, 'If we had tried to live with hate in my heart, we probably be dead now.'" She said it was "sad" that the room was not "full of whites and blacks." She quoted Toni Morrison: We have to get to a point where "race exists but it doesn't matter."<br />'There is beauty in the speech, and bravery too. It was brave because her subject wasn't the nation's failures and your failures but her failures. The beauty is that it deals with the great subject of our lives: how to be better, how to make the world better. It's not a perfect speech—she's tendentious in her support for health care and takes cheap shots at Republicans. And it's not the poor versus the rich, it's the powerful helping the powerless. But it's good.<br />"You know what happened this week. Someone cut the 45-minute speech down to less than two minutes, to the part in which she talked about not wanting to help white people. Andrew Breitbart ran it on one of his websites and made Ms. Sherrod look like a race-game-playing government bully.<br />"It was trumpeted all over conservative media. The Obama administration panicked and forced her to resign. She wasn't even given a chance to explain.<br />And then the Spooners stepped in, and this time they saved her. Is Ms. Sherrod a racist, they were asked. 'No way in the world,' said Roger Spooner. "She stuck with us.' Eloise: 'She helped us, so we're helping her.'"<br /><br />George, you should read the column. It's called: "The Power of Redemption: Shirley Sherrod's speech, and her story, has lessons for us all."http://meisenstories.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-19272149205193111182012-03-03T13:42:14.670-06:002012-03-03T13:42:14.670-06:00I m sure the funeral home handling the arrangement...I m sure the funeral home handling the arrangements has an online link where classy "condolences" can be posted. Go for it, Marc. <br /><br />Peggy noonan's WSJ column today has a somewhat different take on Breitbart.Geo mitchellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-91665038931628783652012-03-03T11:19:06.881-06:002012-03-03T11:19:06.881-06:00George, a measure of hypocrisy is required to main...George, a measure of hypocrisy is required to maintain civility in society. That gets to my objection to Breitbart. He posted a video that destroyed Sherrod’s reputation. It was quickly revealed to have been edited with mendacity. He never apologized. That puts him in the SOB category.Marc Eisenhttp://meisenstories.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-72462309081899029762012-03-03T09:37:15.057-06:002012-03-03T09:37:15.057-06:00In the same sentence that Marc expresses condolenc...In the same sentence that Marc expresses condolences he calls Brietbart an SOB.<br /><br />His condolences are phony.George Mitchellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-90001479221933580012012-03-03T06:54:58.880-06:002012-03-03T06:54:58.880-06:00Anony 6:59 p.m. here.
George, may I remind you of...Anony 6:59 p.m. here.<br /><br />George, may I remind you of your own words...<br /><br />"I think it's fair game for someone to weigh in with the view that Breitbart "coarsened" the public debate. Breitbart likely would not expect or be surprised at such a reaction."<br /><br />That is exactly what Marc did...then you criticize him for it!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-10470411940839557272012-03-03T01:54:08.232-06:002012-03-03T01:54:08.232-06:00Self-absorbed, George? The man tried to destroy a ...Self-absorbed, George? The man tried to destroy a woman's reputation to make a cheap political point. He was a SOB.Marc Eisenhttp://meisenstories.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20692053.post-15392835259427876432012-03-03T01:34:37.732-06:002012-03-03T01:34:37.732-06:00Oh Marc, please.
Yes, you can believe he was an S...Oh Marc, please.<br /><br />Yes, you can believe he was an SOB. But, do you need to call attention to yourself as to that belief simultaneous with his death? <br /><br />Or is it not a better course to simply shut up?<br /><br />To use the death of someone with whom you disagree as an occasion for trumpeting that disagreement is<br />self-absorption.George Mitchellnoreply@blogger.com