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Now that the New York Times<\/i> includes e-mail addresses for its op-ed writers, Michael Wolff shares some of the charming remarks forwarded to him by the teeming masses.<\/p>\n

You deserve to be hit by the next terrorist strike. And after we’re done with the Taliban it’s time to start on clearing out the real terrorist threat to America . . . the Left.
\nToo bad Osama doesn’t have a suitcase nuke to finish off the rest of New York. Hitting the NY Times would be a good start and one of the best things to happen for the good of the country.
\nIf there is another terrorist strike I hope it hits your home, your city, your children’s school, your families airplane, and not mine. (It would also be fine with me if they’d wipe out Berkley.)
<\/i>
\nThe subject lines fly by: Get over it . . . Pinko . . . I bet you loved Slick Willie . . . I guess having two skyscrapers fall on you isn’t enough . . . Bitter person . . . Watch out . . . You’re a jerk! . . . 89% approval rating, you lost, deal with it . . . Asshole!<\/i><\/p>\n

Ah. I love America. Even the most foul-mouthed yahoos can spew their venom without worrying (too much) about the FBI coming to their door. At least, as long as they only threaten journalists, not the President.<\/p>\n

Wolff notes that this is not a Right vs Left thing.<\/p>\n

But it is not just right-wingers; you also have people who think they agree with you — though the right-wing goons out-number the left-wing weirdos by probably four to one. The vilifying subject lines that sweep by are, actually, interspersed with their opposite number: Unmitigated bullshit . . . Incredible insights . . . You don’t know what you’re talking about . . . You are a mind-reader . . . Brilliant! . . . Dung!<\/i>
\nThe lefties certainly have their own tortured worldview. While the right wing’s fundamental analysis, or at least the analysis of right-wingers who send e-mails, is manhood-oriented — to be critical of the military is to be a homosexual, obviously — the left wing, as helpfully, continues to believe that all military-industrial-intelligence motivations are the product of conspiracies and, almost always, wants to send you further information (“I want to share with you some things that would give you the biggest story in the world. And it is all 100 percent true and I have the facts to prove it”).<\/p>\n

It’s a great article, and Wolff’s speculation about the causes behind such diatribes is interesting as well.<\/p>\n

(Via Cursor.org<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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