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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on March 27, 2014, 07:30:10 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024738811
Oh my.
franksolich's good pal Manny.
<<<knows Manny, who's a great jokester. Don't take him seriously.
MannyGoldstein (25,963 posts) Thu Mar 27, 2014, 08:18 PM
In Support of a Great DUer
William Pitt and I don't always see eye to eye. And calling the President a "used care salesman" isn't my style.
But I will say:
1. Nobody on DU knows more about the Iraq War than Mr. Pitt. Nobody. When Mr. Pitt speaks, we should listen.
2. Mr. Pitt has done more than you or I to advance the Liberal cause. He's been in the trenches, fighting the good fight, since long before it was fashionable.
3. To call Mr. Pitt racist, or a right winger, is simply absurd and awful.
Look around: do you think things are getting better in America? Are the 99% better off than 30 years ago?
Many of us answer both of these questions with a thunderous NO!, and we want change, real change. No more one step forward and three back. We don't think that more hungry and homeless children, in exchange for the wealthiest still paying hyperlow taxes is shared sacrifice, or that ending Medicare is a serious proposal. We think these things are feeding a cancer.
We see deepening pain, and deepening desperation, on our streets and in our homes. We see a generation of children adrift, who've never known economic security. We see an America that's a sad shadow of the highly-imperfect but marvelous country we knew as children, an America that marched, day by day, towards a future of shared prosperity.
Sometimes we dreamers get emotional and say stupid things. Especially me. But to doubt the sincerity of our cause... particularly for a person who has done so much, so publicly, as Mr. Pitt... is a shame.
Please.
hrmjustin (31,946 posts) Thu Mar 27, 2014, 08:23 PM
4. Was he a war reporter? I don't know much about him.
nadinbrzezinski (131,886 posts) Thu Mar 27, 2014, 08:27 PM
20. He has been fighiting the good fight
since before DU became a site. He was one of the early critics of the Bush administration and started, with Ash, a little place called Truthout. He also researched all the lies the Bush administration pushed for war. He also did some significant research into Acorn.
I have significant differences with Mr. Pitt. But I will say this, he is a liberal, and walks the walk and talks the talk, unlike many here.
And I mean significant differences.
ProSense (114,042 posts) Thu Mar 27, 2014, 08:26 PM
15. No one
" To call Mr. Pitt racist, or a right winger, is simply absurd and awful. "
...called anyone a "racist."
As I said to him in that thread, my point ia that is a RW-style attack to pick a derogatory label and constantly repeat it. Why does anyone think that it should be acceptable? Why shouldn't it be denounced?
It's nothing more than despicable name calling. It is a tactic that cannot be justified.
The first time, the excuse was "lashing out" in the "heat of the moment."
Though, those attempts to justify the name calling were also ignored, and it continues.
Such despicable and gratuitous name calling should not be acceptable on DU.
I mean, all of a sudden some people are outraged that name calling that a lot of DUers find offensive is being labeled offensive.
As for this:
1. Nobody on DU knows more about the Iraq War than Mr. Pitt. Nobody. When Mr. Pitt speaks, we should listen.
He definitely has a selective memory.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024613725#post14
<<<suspects the ProSense primitive isn't fond of Bill.
Capt. Obvious (4,150 posts) Thu Mar 27, 2014, 08:27 PM
19. Not a surprise you showed up
Not taking it personal are you?
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Sides are being taken,lines are forming.
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Star Member hrmjustin (31,953 posts)
26. Thank you.
nadinbrzezinski (131,890 posts)
27. You welcome
I fear, and I mean it, the new DU has no place for people like Pitt or me.
Star Member hrmjustin (31,953 posts)
33. You always will with me.
Will nadins martyrdom also succeed in taking down Will Pitt?
Will hrmjustin ever stop causing me to throw up in my mouth a little bit?
Stay tuned, tomorrow this Gothic tragedy continues !
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Oh boy, Thursday night fights. :yahoo:
:catfight: :catfight: :catfight: :catfight:
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nadin puffed up with pride when she saw Manny's thread title.
You can imagine her horror when she opened it and found it wasn't about her.
So she hurried to group herself with the great Bill Pitt:
You welcome
I fear, and I mean it, the new DU has no place for people like Pitt or me.
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Thu Mar 27, 2014, 11:11 PM
Star Member SidDithers (31,773 posts)
226. Haven't heard much from Scott Ritter in a while...
what's he doing these days?
Thu Mar 27, 2014, 09:53 PM
nadinbrzezinski (131,913 posts)
184. It is not upmanship
the new DU really does not want those of us who have been in the front lines fighting the good fight.
I have been relentlessly attacked by conservadems here to the point that I do not feel welcomed.
In fact, some of them make me make all kinds of unsafe, and I mean that.
nadin gives an update on her meat:
Fri Mar 28, 2014, 12:05 AM
nadinbrzezinski (131,913 posts)
256. I have my own blog
and I am a working reporter in my local area, for which I have been attacked too, so I no longer post any meat here, or anything I happen to get published either.
I just got an assignment on water desalination plans. So time to reach for contacts. Time to go ask a professor about hydrology in the back country. I know, fun stuff.
Response to MannyGoldstein (Original post)
Thu Mar 27, 2014, 08:42 PM
Star Member randome (19,714 posts)
55. WilliamPitt is no more 'great' than anyone else on DU.
This is an anonymous message board and your hero worship is embarrassing.
Thu Mar 27, 2014, 09:19 PM
Star Member Hissyspit (42,594 posts)
150. Actually he is...
He is demonstrably a much greater wordsmith than I am, he wrote a book exposing the Bush lies before the start of the war spending his own money, and I didn't.
Actually it was DUmmy Raven's money that paid the vanity publisher and then bought the books.
Don't forget about ME!!
Fri Mar 28, 2014, 12:31 AM
nadinbrzezinski (131,913 posts)
Oh and one last thing. I am dealing with facts on the ground, not hypotheticals.
Now if I were writing fiction... which I do from time to time.
Now off to read a wonderful EIR. I told you the other day I spend a lot of time reading policy papers these days.It's late. Should I brew some coffee though? IT IS an environmental impact report after all, they can be a tad on the dry side.
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ProSense is copy pasting that same paragraph over and over. It's verbatim, literally copy pasting. How freakin lazy can you get? And yeah, they'll call that a dog whistle, and no, I don't give a shit. Tiresome and insufferable. I think people are getting sick of her.
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Fri Mar 28, 2014, 12:05 AM
nadinbrzezinski (131,913 posts)
256. I have my own blog
and I am a working reporter in my local area, for which I have been attacked too, so I no longer post any meat here, or anything I happen to get published either.
I just got an assignment on water desalination plans. So time to reach for contacts. Time to go ask a professor about hydrology in the back country. I know, fun stuff.
Followed by....
Response to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #30)
Thu Mar 27, 2014, 09:15 PM
Star Member pbmus (27 posts)
146. it seems to be a lot of one upmanship around here lately
My new mole? You decide.
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I don't think I've ever seen a person with such an over-inflated ego as gNads. She truly believes that she's needed more than air.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder
Symptoms of this disorder, as defined by the DSM-IV-TR, include:[1]
Expects to be recognized as superior and special, without superior accomplishments
Expects constant attention, admiration and positive reinforcement from others
Envies others and believes others envy him/her
Is preoccupied with thoughts and fantasies of great success, enormous attractiveness, power, intelligence
Lacks the ability to empathize with the feelings or desires of others
Is arrogant in attitudes and behavior
Has expectations of special treatment that are unrealistic
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Can you consider yourself a "working" reporter if you don't get paid?
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I don't think I've ever seen a person with such an over-inflated ego as gNads. She truly believes that she's needed more than air.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder
Yeah, that's the cousin, to a tee.
Never in the history of the world has Reality been so separated from Fantasy.
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Fri Mar 28, 2014, 12:05 AM
nadinbrzezinski (131,913 posts)
256. I have my own blog
and I am a working reporter in my local area, for which I have been attacked too, so I no longer post any meat here
If anyone wants to check out nadin's meat:
http://nadinabbottblog.wordpress.com/
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MannyGoldstein (25,963 posts) Thu Mar 27, 2014, 08:18 PM
blah... blah... blah...
...Nobody on DU knows more about the Iraq War than Mr. Pitt. Nobody.
And this is something to be PROUD of, Manny? That the perpetually inebriated, disgraced ex-middle school pedophile is the LEAST STUPID of the whole sorry lot of you on some subject? Any subject? :thatsright:
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I'm afraid Manny's cult of personality here is going to jeopardize his future at the DUmp.
If he were my mole, I'd go dark for a while.
And that's not a racist comment.
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I think gNads should give Scientology a go.
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I'm afraid Manny's cult of personality here is going to jeopardize his future at the DUmp.
If he were my mole, I'd go dark for a while.
And that's not a racist comment.
Here you go. From this thread::
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024747008
randome
83. When a DUer acquires a cult following on Conservative Cave, it's a good sign to dial it back.
http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,95576.0.html
This remark is especially pertinent: "If he were my mole, I'd go dark for a while."
Autumn
88. He's not the only one who has a following on CC. I did learn of two high profile posters who were posting there and outed. One is gone ( cough, sorry choked on a pretzel ) and the other is still posting here at DU demanding all non Democrats be gone. It's amazing the links one is sent by other DUers when you are on MIRT.
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Oh my.
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It's amazing the links one is sent by other DUers when you are on MIRT.
<<<bets grasswire Judy sends half of them.