Well, suddenly we have an influx of frothing jihadists who have apparently been steered our way courtesy of Michael Totten, pseudo-journalist and unprincipled jack-ass. I guess someone has been having fun with Totten's idiotic blog, which is so poorly designed that anyone can impersonate anyone they want, including Totten. So when someone takes advantage of Totten's lack of IT savvy, I somehow get the blame.
Excellent!
Totten just handed me an early Christmas gift, and I plan to take full advantage of it.
I spent some time on Totten's silly blog about a year ago when the Angry Arab linked to an article Totten had written about Lebanon. Totten thinks that because he spent 11 months in Lebanon that he somehow has become an honorary citizen and is now an expert on their culture, history and politics, notwithstanding the fact that he doesn't even have a tourist's understanding of Arabic. When I arrived at his blog I couldn't believe the nonsense he was proffering. Worse was the fact that his slavish readership, judging by the comments, thought they were reading the Gospel of Lebanon as handed down by the Prophet Totten. Nothing he said made any sense, and everything he wrote was biased by his utter contempt and hatred for Hizballah (which he can't even spell right, by the way). I tried to have a reasonable debate with him, but once you start pointing out how shallow and skewed his so-called "reporting" is and criticize his amateur conclusions, he gets upset and "bans" you, which means anytime you write something to his blog he manually deletes it. The fun starts when you reject his "ban" and keep him busy deleting your articles. It only serves to demonstrate what a craven hypocrite he is. Eventually I got bored with that and moved on. But apparently I delivered a sting that Totten couldn't shake, and now I'm implicated anytime someone visits his blog and points out how ridiculously peurile it is.
Has anyone even noticed that Totten is the only "liberal" that is part of the Pajamas Media network? For those of you who don't know, Pajamas Media was this failed attempt by rabid hate-monger and noted anti-Arab/Muslim bigot Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs and fellow rapscallion Roger Simon to capitalize on the right-wing blogosphere by offering advertisers a one-stop shop for getting their content blasted from all the anti-American neoconservative blogs that use impressive terms like "Islamofacist". Needless to say they floundered mightily. Anyway, Pajamas Media represents the worst of the people who hate freedom and equate dissent with treason; the kind of people who think Guantanamo Bay and waterboarding are too lenient; who want to install Bush as President for Life. Yet Roger Simon is proudly quoted on Totten's blog thusly: "A hard-headed liberal who thinks and writes superbly".
Rubbish.
Totten is like Thomas Friedman Lite. His analysis (if you can call it that) is even more inane and his assumptions are exceedingly asinine, but at least Friedman can write. Totten's articles are the intellectual equivalent of an 11th grade homework assignment: tedious and mediocre. Totten is nothing but a neoconservative in liberal panties. He takes advantage of the misery of the millions of Iraqis and Lebanese whose lives have been turned upside down and inside out by using their dismembered body parts as stepping stones to a paycheck. He breathlessly boasts about his travels to the Middle East where he plays out his juvenile Rambo fantasies, hyping up US "progress" in Iraq more fervently than any of the hyenas at the National Review. And his readers, apparently fans of poorly written fairy tales, lap it up like puppies at a milk bowl.
Fie, Michael Totten, you rotten scumbag. You're a callous, self-aggrandizing popinjay. How dare you trivialize the suffering of millions with your tawdry fiction. How dare you cynically capitalize on the death and destruction of occupation and imperialism. Every word you spew is refuse, a profane mockery of the millions of lives that have been prematurely snuffed out in these odious wars of greed and selfishness that you exalt and glorify so you can continue to profit from them.
I'm done, for now. Let's see what the Tottenites have to say.
"Hizballah (which he can't even spell write, by the way)."
How DO you spell right????