Mirror, Mirror
Aussie Dave | Nov 07, 2006 | 6 comments
Be sure to check out this great video from Israellycool reader Guringo, which shows his take on the Iranian Holocaust cartoon contest and how the Daily Kos moonbats appraised it.
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An Australian immigrant to Israel, Aussie Dave has been blogging since early 2003.Filed Under: General
Great video, guy. My only complaint was that I couldn’t read the DailyKos posts because they went by too fast. I did get the general idea, though, and I am ashamed of my fellow lefties sometimes. Especially when it comes to their attitudes towards Israel and their tolerance and outright support of those who harbor hatred towards Israel.
Keep up the great work on this site, AussieDave. You’re doing important work here (and it’s entertaining, too).
Jim from Iowa
There are hundreds of diaries at any one time on dailykos. So if a diarist gets a bunch of people to recommend, it makes the front page. Unfortunately, there are some posters who can write any tripe that they want and it makes the recommended list. Jerome a Paris is one of those posters.
On balance, most of the commentors found the diary disgusting and called Jerome on it. Markos himself was baffled why Jerome would, in his words, assist the Ayatollah’s in dispensing their antisemitic propaganda. He demanded that the diary be taken off the rec list. It fell off because some of Jerome’s groupies realized that the post was in poor taste. There was no need to erase or ban it.
In this sense, the dailkos compares quite favorably to right wing hate sites, such as little green footballs. When racism rears its ugly head on the left (and it most definitely exists there), there was enough pressure, both from the grass roots and the site owner, to knock it off without actual censorship. By contrast, Charles Johnson allows a steady barrage of bigoted rantings in his comments section, and then shrugs his shoulders and says “gee, it’s not like I endorse it…necessarily”
Kos didn’t do anything about “A World Without Israel”. That was the day he and his blog lost my respect.
Anon,
I don’t entirely agree, though you have a point. Markos and the majority of those who complained did so over the poor timing, you’re disregarding his “wait till next Wednesday” quip and all that it implies -things you won’t find in Charles.
And while some ‘commentors’ addressed the real issue, particularly George Allen, who had me feeling bad for rip-quoting him, the question remains, how would Jerome’s diary fair had it actually been posted the following Wednesday? Can we use Markos’ own “Imagine a world without Israel” as a stand-in? Did that not make the recommended list?
I also find it disingenuous to prop up LGF as a right-wing hate site, you obviously haven’t visited such sites, you may find they resonate more with Markos than with Charles, and then again, if you care to compare the #1 liberal *democratic* activist site to right-wing hate-sites, please, do so, you may just be the wiser for it.
And for the chuckle it’s worth, I was a moonbat myself, as recently as a year ago, secured in my cogni-egocentric belief that we all are the same in our intentions and desires vis-à-vis the rest. Thank-you for watching my video clip, I hope it shows how that is regrettably, tragically and alarmingly, not the case with the Islamic world or present-day left-wing activists.
Guringo!
It was not written by kos. And it was roundly condemned and tagged as a troll diary and antisemitic.
And no, the main complaint about Jerome’s diary was not the timing, although some people remarked that it could not have been worse. Most people, kos included, called out the diary for what it was, antisemitic drivel.
Had it been posted today or later, you would have had the same comments, minus the questions about timing. In other words, it would have just been comments pertaining to antisemitic drivel.
Again, there are some diarists who, by reputation, will get any crap published. Jerome a Paris once wrote some creepy soft-core romance diary about meeting another diarist at the yearlykos convention. It remarkably got recommended. I and several others still scratch my heads over that oe.
I stand corrected on the authorship and the reaction. Jerome may be a creep but how long will you and others scratch your head over the popularity of such contributors?