So who are the obscene, anti-semitic journalist harassers??

[bicentennial_baby]

Here's Milbank's view: "While you have been within your rights as ombudsman over the past five years to attempt to excise any trace of colorful or provocative writing from the Post, you are out of bounds in asserting that a columnist cannot identify as 'wingnuts' a group whose followers have long been harassing this and other reporters and their families with hateful, obscene and sometimes anti-Semitic speech."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/18/AR2005061800874.html

:crazy:

[Kipling]

1. As an ignorant Brit I have to ask...

Wingnut?

[dobegrrrl]

2. My kids RINFL when I say "wingnut" (I teach)

The antisemitic remarks are likely the rethugs.:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Moochy]

3. Wingnut

1) Wingnut: (right) wing nut. 2) It's also a nut for screws that has two wings, useful for tightening without a tool.

[Mythsaje]

4. It's unfortunate

that they insist on defining any 'speech' critical of Israeli policy as being "anti-semitic."

The left may be critical of Israel, but they're most unlikely to be 'anti-semitic' in the way that Milbanks means it.

[Jacobin]

5. It's not 'unfortunate'. Its an outrageous use of the deaths of

millions to attempt to justify your own illegal behavior.

[Mythsaje]

9. This is true

I used the word "unfortunate" as an understatement. I've been known to do that rather than 'pushing the envelope.'

[Frederik]

6. Freepers?

I suspect it's the same people who "impersonate" DUers on Conyer's blog, writing things like "Go Conyers! Down with the neocons/ZOG". America's very own little SturmAbteilung.

[bicentennial_baby]

7. but the implication

is that it's coming from the left, from the anti-war crowd...that's how I read it... :puke:

[Frederik]

10. The freepers posting on Conyer's blog

are trying to make anti-war leftists look like anti-semites, as that is apparently their talking point of the week. They're all so imaginative.

[Jade Fox]

8. More than one columnists has said the freeper-types are by far the worst..

Specifically, Paul Craig Roberts (conservative), Joel Connelly (moderate)
and Roger Ebert (who writes the occasional Liberal political column) have
all stated in print that the letters they get from self-described conservatives
are the vile, insulting, threatening, and semi-literate ones. Craig's column
called "The Brownshirting of America" describes this well:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts75.html