When Lefties Drop the Mask
Charles Johnson
Fri Aug 3, 2007 at 5:18 pm PDT • Views: 665
Isn’t that nice. Creepy Max Blumenthal’s smear job is now showing up at Yahoo News, via The Nation: The Weekly Standard’s Strange Sources.
Blumenthal can smell teh ghey all over this story, and in the course of figuring out that former TNR staffer ‘Throbert McGee’ is not heterosexual (hey, no kidding) Blumenthal smears LGF as an “overtly racist” blog.
‘Throbert McGee’ linked to LGF. Racists and homosexuals together! Eeewwww!
It’s always been a source of wonderment to see the same people who present themselves as paragons of morality resort to the most base, vile kinds of smears—homophobia, sexism, racism, you name it, they give themselves permission to use it—at the drop of a deadline.
The word for this tactic is “libel.” And Yahoo News really ought to re-examine the policies that are allowing this kind of irresponsible, ugly writing to appear on their service.
(But they won’t.)
UPDATE at 8/3/07 6:00:20 pm:
According to Zombie’s dictionary:
racist - A statement of surrender during an argument. When two people or disputants are engaged in an acrimonious debate, the side that first says “Racist!” has conceded defeat. Synonymous with saying “Resign” during a chess game, or “Uncle” during a schoolyard fight. Originally, the term was meant to indicate that one side was accusing the other of being racist, but once it was noticed that people only resorted to this tactic when all other arguments had been exhausted, it acquired its new meaning of “indicating one’s own concession of defeat.”
Frank says: