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Catholic Sensation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-13-05 01:01 PM
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So I got into an e-mail debate with John Podhoretz...
I can't post all of it because it'd be freaking huge, you can read everything on http://timetransfixed.blogspot.com. But here is the thing, when I met Ann Coulter at UNC Chapel Hill last year she at least TRIED to look intelligent when she made shit up. When I call Podhoretz on his Trotskyite bullshit, he acts like a child (and just for reference, I'm 22, I can act like a 22 year old :P)

Dear Mr. Podhoretz,

Which is more cowardly: advocating peace and rising up against the powers to be as loud and proud as one can, or advocating war and going with the flow while conveniently never fighting in one? You Mr. Podhoretz, the disappointing son of Norman, are a coward. And you seem to consider being against war cowardly; most people consider being pro-war monstrous just so you know.

The fact you complain about sci-fi movies on a blog underscores how you truly are a failure compared to your father (he started one of the most widely read and actually respected Neoconservative magazines ever, you write for probably the least respected newspaper in New York), and the fact you need to cover up your borderline insane fascination with what many would call "small dick syndrome" with this chest beating and calling for war is really sad. Get help.

Oh, how did your book "Bush Country" do? Not well from what I remember.

You should retire,
John


He replied in like five minutes to me with this brilliance:

blah blah blah. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz


You can read all the e-mails we sent back and forth at http://timetransfixed.blogspot.com
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Mojambo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-13-05 01:12 PM
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1. That's the most intelligent thing that guy has written in years n/t
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-13-05 01:20 PM
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2. In absolute fairness to Mr. Podhoretz
I probably wouldn't have replied to your initial email with much more substance. I didn't go to read the whole exchange, maybe it gets better.

Anyway, I suggest you cite the recent difficulties the military has had with recruiting for Mr. Podhoretz' exercise in imperialism, and suggest that this would be a perfect opportunity for him to back up his extravagant talk in favor of war-making and empire-building by joining up to get into the thick of the fray. Surely he wouldn't want to just sit back and suck up all the benefits of empire without doing some of the heavy lifting required to bring it into being?
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Catholic Sensation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-13-05 01:23 PM
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4. the other e-mails ask him to refute my charges he's a trotskyite
and monstrous war monger, he does neither but does sign off one of the e-mails with xxxooo.
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-13-05 01:22 PM
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3. Boy, you sure know how to
pee in someone's shoe.
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