Comments on: Psycopath Commenters

By: fd10801

fd10801 — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 20:06:04 +0000

If I’m wrong, you’ve done nothing to point it out.
N G: Now you’re being stubborn (silly?).

Barnett (an individual) referred to Gore (an individual).

Krauthammer (an individual) referred to — in ONE instance — Gore (an individual); and, in ANOTHER instance, to Pres. Clinton (an individual).

I will skip the explanation of how groups (e.g., political parties and / or their constituencies) differ from individuals.

By: fd10801

fd10801 — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:11:23 +0000

Dr AGH: Isn’t it possible that Hofstadter was a liberal, and thus not entirely familiar with, and perhaps hostile to conservative thought?

He also wrote “Social Darwinism in American Thought”, which claimed that it was American businessmen who thought that democracy and humanitarianism ran afoul of the laws of the nature.

He was considered to be one of the Columbia U. postwar intellectuals, a clique whose world view was synonymous with conventional modern liberalism.

By: Dr. Anatole Gavage-Huskanoy

Dr. Anatole Gavage-Huskanoy — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:39:29 +0000

I think that right wing politics often play to paranoid individuals. Hence Hofstaedter’s essay “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” — written largely in response to the rise of the father of the modern conservative movement, Barry Goldwater. Where would our contemporary conservatives be without their belief that the Democrats and George Soros are selling out America’s defenses so that terrorists can reestablish the caliphate first over first Europe, then America?

By: Nimrod Gently

Nimrod Gently — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 11:54:54 +0000

If I’m wrong, you’ve done nothing to point it out.

By: fd10801

fd10801 — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 04:14:19 +0000

Shorter S : s

By: S

Thu, 21 Dec 2006 03:40:55 +0000

Shorter Fwank: urnotalone.com

By: fd10801

fd10801 — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:35:01 +0000

Shorter Nimrod: Stop showing everyone I’m wrong…

By: Nimrod Gently

Nimrod Gently — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:03:25 +0000

Shorter Frank: It’s okay if it’s my side that’s doing it.

By: fd10801

fd10801 — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 23:52:46 +0000

I repeat: That is an individual talking about an individual.
Perhaps Mr. Gore does have mental problems; perhaps President Clinton is a sex addict (that would be my bet), but that was not a generalized statement by a casual right wing observer (Dr. Krauthammer is a trained psychiatrist), nor is it a blanket condemnation of most liberals.

By: Dr. Anatole Gavage-Huskanoy

Dr. Anatole Gavage-Huskanoy — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 23:33:08 +0000

Remember when Charles Krauthammer used to regularly diagnose Gore’s mental problems? Remember when the entirety of the right-wing “intelligentsia” used to analyze Bill Clinton’s sociopathic sex addictions? Just curious…

By: Nimrod Gently

Nimrod Gently — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 23:25:10 +0000

No. No I do not. What a stupid question.

You know what the point I made was. In both cases. Faking ignorance doesn’t help your case much.

I never said your link did point to a comment of yours. It points to something that seems to put

I find it interesting that it is only the left that accuses the right of psychological disturbances, never the other way ’round.

into doubt, at the very least.

By: fd10801

fd10801 — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 23:24:53 +0000

Oh, I get it. Barnett says “Gore is almost mentally ill,” and that somehow remotely resembles the left’s consistent and monotonous framing of the right as psychopathic.

It is downright foolish to suggest that there is something pathological about having conservative political beliefs.

Notice that, originally, I didn’t even bother to contest so foolish an idea.

My point was, and is, that it is regularly a leftist failing to accuse the right of holding a pathological view of the world, Mr. Barnett’s lone condemnation of Mr. Gore notwithstanding.

By: fd10801

fd10801 — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:57:16 +0000

N G: Surely you don’t mean to imply that the Communists who ran the Soviet Union were not leftists?

And your link doesn’t point to a comment of mine. Do you have a point, or did you just make a mistake?

By: Nimrod Gently

Nimrod Gently — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:53:09 +0000

By the way, Frank - for the sake of my own sanity, I'm assuming you don't believe what you just said: http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/12/dean_barnett_me.html

By: Nimrod Gently

Nimrod Gently — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:37:51 +0000

Left wing = SOVIET UNION HULAGHALGHAL

You see what I what I was saying earlier about Frank’s integrity.

By: fd10801

fd10801 — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:23:34 +0000

I find it interesting that it is only the left that accuses the right of psychological disturbances, never the other way 'round. See here here here

By: Nimrod Gently

Nimrod Gently — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:21:48 +0000

Frank, you should understand, is a paragon of reasonable and rational discourse, as he has proved so often on this website.

By: legion

legion — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:02:31 +0000

Ah yes, but how many commenters ignore social conventions and generally act like total asshats because they’re psychologically incapable of doing otherwise, and how many do it just because they’ve spent the last few years living in mom’s basement, are bored, & just looking for a reaction of some kind?

By: fd10801

fd10801 — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 04:29:32 +0000

Perhaps “RedBastardGod”?

By: RedBastardGod

RedBastardGod — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 02:50:25 +0000

Dugger fer sure. Jay too. And Marty. Pedro as well. Based on the post above you can add fd1081 to the mix.

OW’s blog attracts freepers like gnats to a sweaty face.