Umm… not to doubt you Sam, but do you really consider Col a “lefty”? I can see he is liberal on some issues, but across the board he strikes me as more of a cynical, pragmatic realist than almost anyone else here. His knife edged cynicism about the true nature of man, God and society makes most of the self identified “conservative” posters, including yourself, look like happy little rosy cheeked babies by comparison.
Imputing drooling idiocy to a post is completely different from calling someone a drooling idiot. Those incapable of recognizing the difference need to grow a thicker hide.
I have declared the posts of others in my “The Abomination that is Original Sin” thread to be “puling inanity.” Did any mods pull me up short? Hell no, and I did not call the poster I was referring to a puling idiot or anything like it, even if he was proclaiming Stalin to be a great leader.
Drooling idiocy is a personal assessment or description of the value contained within another’s post. It has nothing to do with the personal character of the poster. After numerous posts that actually contain drooling and idiotic content, a sufficient number of us will reach our own decisions without the need for external input.
Gaudere, is this what you were saying?
If it is, here’s the five dollars I almost* bet on milroyj’s searching parameters that if she says yes, he’ll “read” that as Col getting special priviledges, and if she says no he’ll throw a hufe fit.
*Nobody took the bet.
Er, please disregard “if it is” in my post. I started it one way and ended up finishing it another, as is evident:)
Well what have we here? Milly wetting his diapers again. And the usual hangers on.
First, I find it charming that Milly chooses simply to regurgitate Sam’s tendentiously self serving whinging summary of my exchange with december, rather than the entire conversation.
I rather believe that is instructive. Let me reproduce, in total.
Beginning on 6 July:
No argument from our december, he does not claim knowledge of BBC nor of the system…. Nor anything relevant really. To which I replied
Interjection by Abe followed, which allowed december his sally:
Which followed by my response, which in its entirety was:
Now as we can see, the exchange was indeed about december’s lack of knowledge about the subject – he self-confessedly knows little to nothing about the BBC – but energetically adopts some random of no provenance website’s attacks on the BBC with his typical tenacity. Now, if you have followed december’s small obsession with the BBC, you would know that chief among the motivations is his dearly held belief that the BBC is anti-Israel. We can add France to the list of entities December takes interest in more or less on that ground. It is a point of considerable and self-confessed interest to our Dear Blog Spotter Extraordinaire.
However, neither does december know very much about. Indeed as you can see from the exchange, december makes no pretension about this – rather charmingly in a sense – and then moved on to try to shift the game in his habitual manner, like a punch drunk boxer. He tried to shift the ignorance off on to Abe with the implication that Abe was as ignorant of Coulter (in terms of body of work etc) as december is of BBC, and therefore my criticism of himself obviated I would expect. The ‘sinful’ reply was simply in response to that – and the reality is what it is.
Now my little ‘fans’ got all excited, thought there was blood in the water. Wouldn’t they be so happy to see me booted, on any excuse at all. Clearly they would.
However, as to the source of this tempest, Sam, well the issue arises from an exchange where I did get off point and somewhat gratuitously raised a series of points more germane to Sam’s blundering relationship with facts than the point on hand. Unlike my exchange with december. That’s been dealt with, I confessed my sin. Pity, it spoiled an opportunity to run through Sam’s claims and predictions regarding Iraq, the re-imagining of which is still in progress.
But my dear Sam loves to whinge on about complaints being unfair, he seems to have a troubled relationship with criticism and hard debate to begin with. I’m also amused Sam likes to play his usual straw man game (I believe we’re all familiar with his “You guys” responses wherein he selects the most atrocious and idiotic argument in the thread to rebut, or some straw man derivative thereof, and sets it up in a manner that implies all his opponents are arguing thus. Saves him the trouble of the full on engagement of the real criticisms.). Among the pack of harsh mean lefties on the Board.
Now of course I’m a leftist. A lefty! Oh that is very rich indeed. I suppose the justification is that I am to the Left of the National Review, closer to a minty green than some drooling pundit-blogger like Coulter. Standards indeed.
We do? Maybe on economics and trade.
Collounsbury
Your problem here is that your presentation is either too nuanced or too elliptical. Your “fan club” as you put it, is, apparently, uncomfortable with arguments that don’t look good on a bumber sticker. Allow me to translate.
With respect to your post regarding December and the BBC, the translation would be:
See, this is much more pithy. While it loses a bit of the subtlety, it is both hard to misinterpret and easier to remember. Know your audience!
It is also perfectly legitimate argument and not a personal attack on a poster by any stretch of the imagination, any more than calling for (or attacking) a cite is a personal attack on a poster’s integrity.
With respect to your post regarding lucwarm, remarking that he was “characteristically wrong” was too elliptical. Apparently, he thought that “characteristically” meant you were attacking his character! What you should have said was,
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What’s bothering many of you in the “fan club” is not that C has been overly aggressive and personally insulting – he’s actually been pretty relaxed from what I’ve seen since his return. What bothers you is that he has the patience – or perhaps the impatience – to butt heads with you over the same silliness that he’s already butted heads with you on a dozen times already. As for me, I’ve pretty much given up. My December tolerance, for example, is now quite high, especially since Coldfire posted his guide to December’s modus operandi. It was so spot on, that I recognized the futility of further argument. You should never try and teach a pig to sing. It won’t work and it annoys the pig. Collounsbury apparently hasn’t learned this valuable lesson. Maybe he should, 'cause it hasn’t worked and y’all are pretty annoyed.
Bull fucking shit Guadre. Insulting someones post is the exact damn thing as insulting them.
If one says that a post resembles the writing of a three year old technically he is attacking the post but he is more directly attacking the poster saying he has the writing ability of three year old. If the boards administration wants to put their hands over their eyes and pretend like Collunsbury isn’t attacking people and ignore them that is certainly their right. But don’t try to justify it with bullshit. Posters on this board are smarter than that.
Just to recap then: The people you agree with are paragons of virtue and unfailingly polite. Those you disagree with are abrasive and insulting.
Who the hell’s going to flame you after that? I’m not sure how I could begin to say something more insulting to your intelligence than your own post.
Your post is fucking moronic.
Coll
We all understand very well your delicate anti-Zionist sensibilities are the real source of whatever interest you have in all this.
Nice try, form isn’t bad but overall lacks in content.
Well, and the fact that you both do amazing impersonations of Marlene Dietrich.
Damnation! :eek: I couldn’t agree more! 
With you. When December stops or is held accountable for his trolling I expect C will lighten up.
Collounsbury was born in the wrong country and with the wrong nationality. A kid from New Jersey writing like he is a British foreign minister with an attitude. I spend most of my time vomiting and racked with pity when I read his sorry excuses for postings. I respect nothing what he says. And to those who look up to him: You can find better heroes.
What?! I’m afraid it’s not a talent of mine. I do believe we both look to coffee grounds for inspiration however.
Well it was thin material. I think the mistake is to go for the anti-Zionist part, which will it does have versimiltude lacks oomph, in my reading. But on the other hand it’s a hard one to substitute.
Ahem, I’m not from New Jersey. Really that’s hitting below the belt to level such an accusation. I have upon occasion had the misforture of driving through and occasionally visiting New Jersey, but only for periods of less than 72 hours.
Otherwise, perhaps you should seek medical treatment. I sounds like you may have giardia.
Perhaps he’s mistaking you for December? Fairly easy mistake to make, as you really do have similar views and posting styles.