tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post2886939946745684255..comments2024-03-28T04:12:17.506-04:00Comments on the daily howler: The Times reports why Christine Quinn lost!<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-57850609960332746102013-09-16T17:45:53.156-04:002013-09-16T17:45:53.156-04:00Ah, you want links containing the words Steinem an...Ah, you want links containing the words Steinem and fetus-munching! <br /><br />Sorry, no can do. But the undisputed facts about Steinem are that she provided considerable support and promulgation of recovered memory movement bullshit. <br /><br />Thousands of lives were altered and families shattered by this "movement" lauded over and over again by Steinem. And I've never seen a single statement from her repudiating this corrosive evil. <br /><br />In her review of the appalling 'Secret Survivors', she wrote that the book "explores the constellation of symptoms that result from a crime too cruel for the memory to face. This book, like the truth it helps uncover, can set millions free." <br /><br />Proponents of recovered memory promoted a belief in satanic ritual abuse, skyrocketing levels of incest, and child molestation by daycare workers. For years, Steinem pushed the narrative of the Courage to Heal monstrosity. Foul beyond compare.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-5554542412532955262013-09-16T03:25:14.223-04:002013-09-16T03:25:14.223-04:00Anon at 4:20 "Foolish to deny these basic fac...<br /><br />Anon at 4:20 "Foolish to deny these basic facts." Foolish of you to type those words!<br /><br />First, the basic fact asserted was this:<br /><br />"During the early 1990s she promoted the belief that there was an an international Satanic conspiracy conducting human sacrifices and engaging in fetus munching."<br /><br />I didn't deny this as a fact. I asked its author to serve up a single link. None has been. You offer no links either. You simply suggest I google something and I will "get hundreds of links detailing...." <br /><br />Want a basic fact? If I google "Obama and Satan" I will get hundreds if not thousands of links detailing.....<br /><br />Support for the "recovered memory movement"<br />is hardly promotion in the 1990's of a fetus munching Satanic conspiracy.<br /><br />I do hope you will try hard, now that I have challenged you, and dredge up the infamous Ms. Magazine cover story from 1993. Hope you research Ms. Magazine's ownership before you try.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-18797062827880163402013-09-15T16:20:32.185-04:002013-09-15T16:20:32.185-04:00Anon 12:07 - google Steinem and satanic ritual abu...Anon 12:07 - google Steinem and satanic ritual abuse and be apprised of hundreds of links detailing Steinem's and MS magazine's support for the "recovered memory movement" and prosecution of the Buckleys et al. <br /><br />If you can't be bothered to do a simple google search, know that Steinem narrated a 1993 HBO documentary "Search for Deadly Memories", detailing the techniques used by recovered memory proponents.<br /><br />Foolish to deny these basic facts. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-37218039708911966642013-09-15T13:14:30.523-04:002013-09-15T13:14:30.523-04:00Shorter Ellen: anyone who criticizes the blogger f...Shorter Ellen: anyone who criticizes the blogger for any reason is a troll.<br /><br />Sound familiar?matty coopernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-20250000569274401352013-09-14T17:47:09.560-04:002013-09-14T17:47:09.560-04:00When I worked in a Wall Street brokerage firm, a c...When I worked in a Wall Street brokerage firm, a copy of that days WSJ appeared on everyone's desktop, and I mean a piece of furniture, not a terminal.<br /><br />Most of the recipients of these freebies only looked at the stock and bond prices. That's why the WSJ was put there.<br /><br />I don't know if this holds true today when a desktop is now on a computer screen, but it does leave room for thought. How many desks are there in New York's financial District?<br /><br />Circulation is not necessarily readership.gravymeisterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16075831177588700301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-66881736359117458502013-09-14T15:46:23.407-04:002013-09-14T15:46:23.407-04:00Yes, it is a shame it took 24 hours before any of ...Yes, it is a shame it took 24 hours before any of the many who admired its excellence thought to speak out, Ellen.<br /><br />So what showed the political consequences, the maps or the analysis? And who, pray tell, was the perpetrator?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-77070023674453609082013-09-14T15:40:22.835-04:002013-09-14T15:40:22.835-04:00"- is she employed by the Koch brothers? -- &..."- is she employed by the Koch brothers? -- "<br /><br />No, but close: The Satanic Fetus Munchers Consortium.CeceliaMchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16017255006204800193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-13149129624589287572013-09-14T15:39:54.477-04:002013-09-14T15:39:54.477-04:00Well Marcus, if stupid press did not do Quinn harm...Well Marcus, if stupid press did not do Quinn harm, or help deBlasio, then I guess<br />it had no impact on Gore either.<br /><br />KZAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-66174379345106134962013-09-14T13:34:47.452-04:002013-09-14T13:34:47.452-04:00This is a truly excellent analysis. The NYTs own m...This is a truly excellent analysis. The NYTs own maps of who voted for Quinn, a small concentration of upper Eastsiders -- and NO ONE else, spoke volumes. It also showed that turning Manhattan into a borough of semi-vacant corporate housing and luxury pied à terres for people who are registered to vote elsewhere had some political consequences for the perpetrator. Manhattan is on the way to morphing into a version of Short Hills or Palm Beach! Too bad this post, like many of Somerby's better ones, seems to have attracted an unusual number of trolls/ I do wish he would start to moderate the comments. --EllenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-2946264097665347362013-09-14T13:02:06.246-04:002013-09-14T13:02:06.246-04:00This was the worst attempt at forming an argument ...This was the worst attempt at forming an argument I have ever seen.Marcusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-83472452031463514852013-09-14T13:00:25.048-04:002013-09-14T13:00:25.048-04:00As usual, OMB deserves every double facepalm img g...As usual, OMB deserves every double facepalm img google has to offer. Marcusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-65996674135868790142013-09-14T10:11:36.615-04:002013-09-14T10:11:36.615-04:00A degenerate troll writing, really disgusting. I ...A degenerate troll writing, really disgusting. I do wish Somerby would stop trolling comments.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-29662542013860176222013-09-14T10:09:09.928-04:002013-09-14T10:09:09.928-04:00No.
King Zarkon. From Doom. Where paralysis
c...No. <br /><br />King Zarkon. From Doom. Where paralysis <br />comes from planetary gravity not press gravitas.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-24934866494455468642013-09-14T09:01:59.061-04:002013-09-14T09:01:59.061-04:00I'm curious, Is "KZ" short for "...I'm curious, Is "KZ" short for "Krazy"?AC / MAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-65892697473064731902013-09-14T02:50:56.924-04:002013-09-14T02:50:56.924-04:00I break my self-imposed exile from commenting to o...I break my self-imposed exile from commenting to offer the following:<br /><br />Non NYC'ers should refrain from trying to comment on NYC politics. (Questions welcome. Know-it-all comments, forget it.) To comment is beyond the folks in NYC to handle in any summary way and certainly not within the range of Mr. S or most of the commenters here. <br /><br />Please note that the NYT is not the main source of info for New Yorkers (in case Bob's ditto-heads think it is). (In fact, Cecilia-ditto-head-in-chief-and -an example of -the-source-of-our-nation's woes -- is she employed by the Koch brothers? -- may be interested to learn that the Wall Street Journal has wider readership in NYC than the NYT does. Even among many liberals! E.g., my high school best friend, a Jewish woman married to a black woman -- go figure!) So let's all pile on the Dowds and Collins, whom most New Yorkers either ignore or have never heard of. Feels good, I guess, to Bob and his ditto-heads, to go for the low-hanging Dowd and Collins fruit. (Question: why does he not go after the males more? Friedman, Brooks, Douthat.... Those guys who actually dominate the NYT pages?) And completely misses the point.<br /><br />Go after the NYT as a national (rather than local) newspaper, if you want. But please, stop identifying this corporatist (as it always has been) newspaper as particularly liberal or (god forbid! as left. The left i.d .is particularly offensive. The NYT? you gotta be kidding!) The paper is totally corporatist and always has been, as anyone who knows NYC knows -- as anyone who is seriously "liberal" to "left" has known certainly since my childhood (1950's). (God, my grandfather, born in 1890's NYC knew it! And he a Republican (of that era, I add in his defense), not some crazy lefty.) Really, don't try to pretend that the NYT is "the" NYC news and opinion source." <br /><br />God, give this great city, however much it over-boosters itself (yes, does so insanely), a little credit. mchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-45677115415190205862013-09-14T00:07:54.640-04:002013-09-14T00:07:54.640-04:00Steinem promoted belief in Statanic fetus munching...Steinem promoted belief in Statanic fetus munching in the earlky 90's? Not making it up!<br /><br />OK. Link to any example of this promotion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-36366630140690578402013-09-13T23:27:40.088-04:002013-09-13T23:27:40.088-04:00Gloria Steinem is arguably America's most publ...Gloria Steinem is arguably America's most public yet bizarrely unrecognized crackpot. During the early 1990s she promoted the belief that there was an an international Satanic conspiracy conducting human sacrifices and engaging in fetus munching and notoriously praised the work of quack psychiatrist Bennett Braun who claimed that the leader was--and I swear I'm not making this up--a Jewish Nazi (cough, cough) named Dr. Green. Thankfully Braun eventually had his license to practice medicine revoked. Steinem's reputation, on the other hand, seems to have been completely unaffected by this episode, which by rights should have relegated her to the dust/loony bin of history. <br /><br />See how the patriarchy oppresses women? Hieronymus Braintreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05303938809800287873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-15067867248289409772013-09-13T17:57:20.348-04:002013-09-13T17:57:20.348-04:00It is only bad form when using R,S&G as libera...It is only bad form when using R,S&G as liberal ordinance in verbal or literary combat with other tribes. Clearly one can discuss R for example, when mentioning was the children at the one True Liberal Channel<br />(TLC) don't mention, for example.<br /><br />Beside that, nothing is verboten when dumping on DOWD. I shed all Imperial trappings and monarchial majesty and become a monotheist whenever our BOB in Howlerven<br />turns his wrath on her. Although I must point out he did not have the temerity and/or<br />snap to ask why Dowd never discussed if Quinn's teal toenails and her fingernails matched.<br /><br />KZ Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-1677490602227897622013-09-13T17:27:46.819-04:002013-09-13T17:27:46.819-04:00You miss the bigger picture, oh mighty emperor.
I...You miss the bigger picture, oh mighty emperor.<br /><br />It has long been verboten and in very bad form in Bobfan World to bring up race. It is now verboten and in very bad form to discuss sexuality and gender as well.<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-13751960817784900912013-09-13T17:00:58.542-04:002013-09-13T17:00:58.542-04:00OMB (Missing the obvious Edition)
Nobody seems to...OMB (Missing the obvious Edition)<br /><br />Nobody seems to give a rats aspic why Quinn lost in Bobfan world, so I will try and give his commentary thread a little nudge.<br /><br />For somebody who claims civilization is either ending or paralyzed due to the vast influence of the ladies populating the Op-Ed page of the Times, BOB spends way to much time on Collins and not enough on DOWD!<br /><br />Issues? Nobody discussed issues, so the people---the slobs who don't know squat from Squadooshy-doodle-doo, according to BOB--- they must have reacted to the press. No lady reporters at the NYTimes will go where BOB should have dared to go. Straight to the DOWDIAN Dump (not to be confused with the Colbert Bump, something created by an overpaid cable comedy hack).<br /><br />Quinn was firmly ahead in this race until early August, when the color of her toenails was revealed by Dowd in a major Sunday feature. She immediately began to crater.<br />Her collapse was cinched in late August, when Dowd attemted to trash deBlasio and wife, thus alerting clueless voters to deBlaisio's racial preferences and,<br />at the same time negating any advantage Quinn had by being married to a lesbian. deBlasio's lead jumpted to double digits and it was all over but the counting.<br /><br />Check the numbers if you doubt the great and magnificent<br />Zarkon. Real Clear Politics has a nice chart of the polls. <br /><br />http://realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2013/other/ny/new_york_city_mayor_democratic_primary-3741.html<br /><br />KZ (Pud Pulling Poll Pusher)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-13956327863302305202013-09-13T13:02:06.437-04:002013-09-13T13:02:06.437-04:00Yes, the aristocrats are certainly having a lot of...Yes, the aristocrats are certainly having a lot of trouble understanding us peasants these days.<br /><br />Hattiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13297404386730167834noreply@blogger.com