Comments on: Rundle’s Friday drive-bys http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/13/rundles-friday-drive-bys/ now with extra source Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:01:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dan http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/13/rundles-friday-drive-bys/#comment-9757 Dan Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-9757 Jesus, Guy, you are a sad, sad excuse for a columnist or pundit. I just can't believe somone I find so enthralling so often can be so childish and puerile. You don't want to continue what will only embrass you. Fair enough. But you need to do a lot of growing up. A lot. Yes, you skulked away then as you are doing now, because you can't handle anything but praise. That's what makes you childish. You are not a good newsman, but a poor newsman. A prat, really, who shoots from the hip but who cannot ever justify what you say. It's sad. I have quoted you approvingly so often in print. But now my head tells me you are barely worth it. Jesus, Guy, you are a sad, sad excuse for a columnist or pundit. I just can’t believe somone I find so enthralling so often can be so childish and puerile. You don’t want to continue what will only embrass you. Fair enough. But you need to do a lot of growing up. A lot. Yes, you skulked away then as you are doing now, because you can’t handle anything but praise. That’s what makes you childish. You are not a good newsman, but a poor newsman. A prat, really, who shoots from the hip but who cannot ever justify what you say. It’s sad. I have quoted you approvingly so often in print. But now my head tells me you are barely worth it.

]]> By: Dan http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/13/rundles-friday-drive-bys/#comment-9758 Dan Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-9758 As the object of one of your puerile tantrums where you tossed around Islamophobe with abandon, I think it is about time you defined your terms. Christopher Hitchens calls "The useless and meaningless term Islamophobia, now widely used as a bludgeon of moral blackmail, is testimony to its success".<br /><br />So it is time to accept that you are either an apologist for Islamofascism or a considered columnist who has something serious to say about Islam, religion and monotheism. <br /><br />Personally, I don't think you do. You have tossed the opprobrium at me as easily as a Zionist yelling anti-semitism, and only skulked away when I called you to count.<br /><br />I wonder what you would have done in the '80s: sided with the mad Ayatollah of Iran or Salman Rushdie in favour of free speech? You have displayed little civility or class to me, but I think you are better than that. Are you a David Remnick or a William Kristol, in terms of civility and decency in argument?<br /><br />Say it aint so that you are just a trash talker when cornered! Please, tell us you have any idea about Islamophobia, other than as an arse covering, throwaway line.<br /><br />Dan As the object of one of your puerile tantrums where you tossed around Islamophobe with abandon, I think it is about time you defined your terms. Christopher Hitchens calls “The useless and meaningless term Islamophobia, now widely used as a bludgeon of moral blackmail, is testimony to its success”.

So it is time to accept that you are either an apologist for Islamofascism or a considered columnist who has something serious to say about Islam, religion and monotheism.

Personally, I don’t think you do. You have tossed the opprobrium at me as easily as a Zionist yelling anti-semitism, and only skulked away when I called you to count.

I wonder what you would have done in the ’80s: sided with the mad Ayatollah of Iran or Salman Rushdie in favour of free speech? You have displayed little civility or class to me, but I think you are better than that. Are you a David Remnick or a William Kristol, in terms of civility and decency in argument?

Say it aint so that you are just a trash talker when cornered! Please, tell us you have any idea about Islamophobia, other than as an arse covering, throwaway line.

Dan

]]> By: guy rundle http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/13/rundles-friday-drive-bys/#comment-9759 guy rundle Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-9759 Dan<br /><br />I didn't skulk away - we had an exchange on the comments trail of an article that was 2 days old. adding to it further would have been pointless. Jesus, here's a hanky sweetheart, dry your tears.<br /><br />It's rich Hitchens whining about moral blackmail and bludgeoning language - if anyone wields the literary cosh, it's him. <br /><br />The term in pertinent to people like Steyn and Mad Mel who see some monlithic force overwhelming the west - where most of us see the multiple conflicts and forces of complex globalisation. <br /><br />I won't be replying to any reply dan so go for your life, anf then get one. Dan

I didn’t skulk away - we had an exchange on the comments trail of an article that was 2 days old. adding to it further would have been pointless. Jesus, here’s a hanky sweetheart, dry your tears.

It’s rich Hitchens whining about moral blackmail and bludgeoning language - if anyone wields the literary cosh, it’s him.

The term in pertinent to people like Steyn and Mad Mel who see some monlithic force overwhelming the west - where most of us see the multiple conflicts and forces of complex globalisation.

I won’t be replying to any reply dan so go for your life, anf then get one.

]]> By: kevin[don't take the piss!] http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/13/rundles-friday-drive-bys/#comment-9760 kevin[don't take the piss!] Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-9760 So what was your ol man up to at your conception 'GUY' . Good stuff , you never fail to brighten up my day So what was your ol man up to at your conception ‘GUY’ . Good stuff , you never fail to brighten up my day

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