We did a humorous post on what went down last week. You can read it in this edition. But we don't think it's funny.
We agree with Rebecca that Dopey needs to take a literacy course.
Long ago (and far away?), "Paul" began bragging about being able to see a visitor to his site composing an e-mail (to someone other than "Paul"). When Paul passed that on to C.I., C.I. blogged about it because privacy concerns are concerns of The Common Ills community. C.I. did not say, "Hey everyone, it was 'Paul!' What a creep, huh?"
Paul wants to act like that never happened. Except when he's screaming to Rebecca. The current excuse is "It might have been something they were posting at another site." Who cares?
It's not your fucking business what anyone does online.
We think you're inflating this tale, we've always thought that. But you claim it happened. So in the words of C.I., "get honest."
You seem to think it's fun to beat up on sick people and when your busy, Dopey appears to be dispatched.
Dopey, we've seen all your e-mails. (As had Rebecca before she ever posted on this matter.)
You've got some serious problems such as comprehension -- is it a problem for you in the spoken language or just when it comes to the written word?
You send two e-mails to C.I. on the day of the apology to the community. And you can't shut up about corporations but you can never say, "Could you please me quote me on the subject of counters to your community?" That's all it took, dumb ass. But you didn't know how to issue a statement. And in your second e-mail, you give the impression that you're okay with it.
Well, here's the first problem. The Common Ills isn't your blog. You have no say in it. Here's the second problem. All the issues you raised were covered months ago at that site. And there was even a post where people with counters were defended. But you don't know that or you can't read it and grasp it. There's some problem with the way your brain works.
Having acted like there's no personal problem, you then go on to your blog and trash The Common Ills community. Someone posts a response there. They never say they are a member.
But you're convinced they are and that it's Rebecca so you and "Paul" start in on that nonsense.
Rebecca's never gone to your site. None of us have. One person who has told us it was a third-rate copy of Eschaton. You're apparently so busy being a weak copy of Atrios that you're not saying anything worth hearing. We agree with C.I., Atrios does what Atrios does and he's famous for it. You're not going to get any traffic by trying to be Atrios. Why would anyone wanting Atrios settle for a weak-ass copy of him? Like C.I. said, if people want Johnny Depp, they'll hire Johnny Depp, not the knock-off Skeet Ulrich.
When not trying to copy Atrios, you are too busy calling C.I. a liar and demanding your readers write in to gripe. No one wrote, Dopey. Does that give you any indication of how little you're valued even by people who visit your dopey blog.
The way it stands, C.I. could be screaming, "Retract the liar!" The facts are on C.I.'s side. But instead, C.I. moves on.
You, on the other hand, feel the need to mock someone who's seriously ill and working on recovery. We'd use words like "appears to mock" but we've read your e-mail to Rebecca. You meant to mock. Hope you never try to get an endorsement from the American Cancer Society.
Hope you never dream of winning a humanitarian award.
We think most people would realize how disgusting your actions were. But we realize that you have a problem with comprehension. So let's put this very plain: YOU ARE DISGUSTING. WHAT YOU DID WAS DISGUSTING.
Dopey, you picked the wrong woman to boss around when you went after Rebecca. She won't back down. You've already attacked a friend of her's which was enough to set her off. Now you think you scream at her?
We realize no one reads your site. We also realize why. You don't seem to grasp why but we'll put that off as another comprehension problem on your part.
But to Dopey and Paul, keep up this crap and we'll really get pissed. Right now, we're grossly offended. Bill Bixby used to say on The Incredible Hulk something like, "Don't make me mad, you wouldn't like me when I'm angry."
We don't think your attacks on women or on sick ones are representative of what the left is supposed to stand for. You need to ask yourself if you're goal is to be the next Ann Coulter or the next Katrina vanden Heuvel. As it stands, you've now written your own little Slander. We seriously doubt that you've got the ability to go from that to the sort of inspiration and factual presentations of Katrina vanden Heuvel, but prove us wrong, please.
You and Paul have serious image problems now. We hear about it on campus, we read about it in e-mails. You might have thought this was another case where you could flame on and get away with it. But this time, you've burned yourself.
You've both created a name for yourself, finally, but it's not a good name.