Some enemies I’m proud to make. Steve Bronfman is one of them. Out of the blue, he wrote to me complaining that he’d been ejected from Helena Cobban’s comment threads. I thought: “Ferchrissakes, what does he want from me? Helena is a QUAKER for godsakes. If you get banned from her blog you must be a real twit.”
I mistakenly exchanged a few e mails with Steve until I discovered that he was a prolific pro-Israel hasbarist with far too much time on his hands. And now I’ve made his enemies list, I’m proud to say. In addition, Steve has made the unmannerly decision to post my private e mails to him without asking my permission to do so. Needless to say, if I’d known he was a blogger I wouldn’t have given him the time of day. Thank God, Comcast has a decent spam filter which will send his future e mails where they belong.
The thing that really tickles me about Steve’s blogroll is that I’m right up there with Helena as the baddies. While the good guys are some of the most execrable Jewish racist characters on the web.
I do wonder though why Steve would want to include a link in his blogroll to sites he finds objectionable. Doesn’t he realize he’ll be sending me site traffic (not much, considering how small his audience is)? I just wish someone with some real site traffic would attack me and link me in their blogroll! Actually, I’m kidding. LGF once did that and the mail was especially vicious until the Lizards’ attention span was depleted after about half an hour.
And a note for my “friends” who scour my blog for alleged hypocrisy, I DO sometimes post comments sent to me via e mail without the author’s permission. But I only do so when the e mail is a particularly vicious smear. I don’t view such attacks as deserving the consideration of a request for permission. And I did not attack Bronfman in such fashion.
You make mention of Hasbarists, and I believe it is time to give much more publicity around the web to expose the agenda and the strategy of the Israeli Public Affairs Ministry that reportedly offers payments to pro-Israel bloggers in countries around the world, but particularly in the US and UK,to disseminate propaganda to persuade people that Israel does not kill civilians and is the ‘most moral army in the world and the only democracy in the Middle East’.
These Hasbarists apparently take instructions either directly from the Israeli Ministry or from AIPAC supporters in the US. Either way, they hide the fact that they are acting to promulgate and disseminate the agenda of a foreign state that has been accused of war crimes.
There can be no action that can stop Hasbara propaganda but it can be exposed.
As you know, if you are in any way associated with Helena, you are in the best possible company, so perhaps you should send Bronfman a thank you bouquet for elevating you to that level.
When I told Helena about this she wrote that she was proud to be in my company as I am proud to be in hers even if it is as “bad guys.”
I would have to agree, though if that gives you a big head, I will have to take steps to bring you down a bit. ;o} As for the bad guys part, that should be a point of pride for each of us.
Anyone who considers Melanie Philips a “good guy” is naturally full of sh*t. Angry guy she is, but good guy she most certainly is not.
RE: More from Richard…A philosopher he aint!
MY COMMENT: “I see London! I see France! I see somebody’s underpants (giggle, giggle)!”
Be careful. I smell a ‘borderline personality’. If he were from the South, he would probably know that ain’t is both a colloquialism and a contraction; thus necessitating the use of an apostrophe in place of the ‘o’ omitted from ‘not’. The use of ain’t is considered improper; whereas the use of aint is considered to be ‘just plain ignorant’.
“Hey boss, you want I should pay him a little visit?”
I like having readers at my beck & call like that. But let’s treat poor Steve gingerly. He’s a poor ignorant soul who doesn’t know any better.
Richard, u rock haha, i just googled steve’s name and found this article and can proudly join the club of his enemies. He really does have too much time on his hands as he tried on numerous occasions to create blogs to decry a simple group i created on facebook dealing with the jumanah albhari/david horowitz situation, which a friend and i were successful in taking down nearly everyone one of them.
Rock on…i realize this article is fairly old but i liked it