{"id":941,"date":"2007-06-18T06:21:33","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T12:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/06\/18\/the-petty-slander-of-the-tiny-mind\/"},"modified":"2007-06-18T08:09:30","modified_gmt":"2007-06-18T14:09:30","slug":"the-petty-slander-of-the-tiny-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=941","title":{"rendered":"South of “Stupid”, West of “Loathsome”"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Hinderaker at Powerline – my long-time NARN colleague – on the ironic “anti-killing” protests by Palestinians<\/a> – who’ve been raised in a culture that for 40 years has been entirely formed, with the active moral connivance and financial assistance of neighboring Arab governments (who could at any time in the past four decades have absorbed the Palestinians easily into their own societies, or urged them to accept Israel’s offers of peaceful assimilation) on the premise of killing Jews and extincting Israel:<\/p>\n

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It’s a little late in the day for Palestinians to decide they’re opposed to killing. They’ve been desperately trying to sow the wind of mass murder for a couple of generations now, and if they’re finally getting concerned about reaping the whirlwind, they’ll have to look somewhere else for sympathy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Put another way – Palestinian leadership has created a society based entirely on death (not only of Jews, mind you, but of any Palestinians who’ve espoused peace with Israel, who’ve been murdered or driven into exile).\u00a0 One might be forgiven for observing that fact<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Jeff Fecke – who is to “cartooning” and “writing” what he is to “Journalism” and “Feminism”, and who is unfit to carry Hinderaker’s gym bag as a writer, thinker, or human being – assumes Hinderaker’s voice to\u00a0“write<\/a>“:<\/p>\n

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I really hope that a whole bunch of Palestinian children die<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Amusing side note – he constantly calls Powerline “Hacks”.<\/p>\n

In a blogging “career” characterized by silly statements self-excused with a giggle and a wink as “snarking” (like his determination of guilt in the Duke rape case<\/a>, which he excused with perhaps the most juvenile abnegation of personal responsibilty I’ve read<\/a> this side of an eighth-grade TP raid, “some of us\u2013myself included\u2013jumped the gun in this case.\u00a0 It happens.\u00a0 Write enough, you\u2019ll be wrong sometimes<\/em>” – in other words, the dog ate my homework<\/em>), this may be his nadir.<\/p>\n

Anyone who can’t tell the difference between “I think a society that has trained itself to be a killing machine is ironically ill-advised to plead for peace” and “I hope the children die” needs to be sent to remedial moral grounding.<\/p>\n

The best news?\u00a0 Every dime of deep-pocketed-liberal-pressure-group money spent on Fecke’s “journalism” over at the Minnesota Monitor is a dime that won’t go toward anything remotely useful, and <\/em>will give the rest of us a wealth of material.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Moral: Carry on, moral carrion!<\/p>\n

UPDATE:\u00a0 Another <\/em>NARN colleague, Michael Brodkorb at MDE, notes that Jeff has moved from petty defamation (no, not in a legal sense, yadda yadda)\u00a0back to his usual turf, crummy reporting<\/a>:<\/p>\n

If you visited Minnesota Monitor in the last 24 hours, you would see a post on the front page titled “Bachmann Personal Financial Report Still Not Available.”\u00a0 The post, written by the notoriously sloppy and inaccurate blogger Jeff Fecke<\/a>, makes the claim that Congresswoman Michele Bachmann has not filed her legally required Personal Financial Disclosure Report (PFD).\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

“The Personal Financial Report for Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., was still unavailable Saturday morning<\/font>, one day after the House deadline for filing reports.<\/p>\n

B<\/font>achmann was not one of the 385 representatives to file a report<\/font>, nor was she one of the 52 to request an extension, according to Congressional Quarterly.” Source: Minnesota Monitor, June 16, 2007<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The reality is that Bachmann’s PFD is available online<\/a>.\u00a0 Contrary to the reporting of Minnesota Monitor, Bachmann’s PFD report has been filed.<\/font><\/p>\n

This is the second post that Fecke has written in the last 24 hours that will need to be corrected.\u00a0 Earlier today, Fecke wrote that Congressman Tim Walz’s PFD listed two credit card debts, when Walz’s PFD actually listed three credit card debts. Fecke’s oversight did move Walz’s debt below the level of Congressman Ramstad, who Fecke claimed had the most credit card debt.\u00a0 Fecke corrected the post after I pointed out his error.\u00a0\u00a0<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess when you write lots of stuff, you’re going to make mistakes – when your fundamental driving force is ideology, not accuracy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Or as Jeff himself might write, “Why Does Jeff Fecke Hate The Facts?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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