“Mona” is still on the attack this morning at Reason Online, smearing for all she’s worth, and accusing anyone who disagrees with her of being either stupid or insane: Piling into Pelosi.

After several people confronted her with facts, she responds by putting her fingers in her virtual ears and yelling, “You’re crazy! Go away!” It’s absolutely childish behavior, dressed up in pseudo-intellectual clothing.

She really enjoys the work of the left’s most dishonest sock puppet/blogger, which explains a lot.

Mona | April 8, 2007, 9:20am | #

My final summary comment

Any reasonable person following this thread will have observed that it is, indeed, impossible to reason with the LGFers and their allies. That a Reason writer would commend LGF and its comments section remains very disturbing to me, and I would hope Mr. Young would reconsider what that says about him. It took me only a few months of participating at LGF and reading the vicious bilge in the comments section to grasp that Charles Johnson feeds these bloodthirsty authoritarians a steady diet of anti-Muslim read meat, and they obligingly spit out some of the filthiest, eliminationist sentiments to be found anywhere on the Internet. I am ashamed I participated there even as briefly as I did, but through personal experience I am now positioned to know how grotesque that site is.

Further, please note Pablo’s (gratuitous) reference to Glenn Greenwald as “GiGi.” Greenwald — a Salon blogger who has a book about the Bush presidency (and the type of people like LGFers who support it) coming out in June published by Random House-Crown — is openly gay, and his right-wing detractors often engage in the offensive practice of calling him by an effete, female French name. Not that they are bigots or anything. Greenwald has nothing to do with this discussion, but some of these people will contrive any excuse to attack him with their homophobic or other bile simply because Greenwald has emerged as a highly successful critic of Bush and his Movement. This they find intolerable.

Finally, I seldom engage these dwindling numbers of Bush supporters/neocons any longer because through experience and education I have concluded doing so is pointless. They are, most of them, psychologically incapable of understanding the authoritarian mindset in which they dwell and how actually antithetical it is to American values. Paul Rosenberg, drawing on the work of psychologist Bob Altemeyer puts it well in Pt 3 of his series Rightwing Authoritarianism and Conservative Identity Politics…