I have been doing a little social study with the recent influx of Tottenites that have infested the blog. Rotten Totten has made the claim--without providing any supporting evidence--that I was "terrorizing" his blog, and his army of armchair idiots simply accepted it at face value and swarmed over here like locusts. No proof, no details, just accusations. It reminds me of and is pertinent to the Iranian nuke issue: the US has put forth plentiful propositions of perfidy on the part of the Persians, but has proffered no proof of their presumptuously pernicious project. Yet as my blog entry of October 30 reminds us, 52% of Americans sampled in that particular poll believe the claims of the Bush regime that Iran has a nuclear weapons program, the same administration that promised us nine ways til Sunday that Saddam Hussein had re-constituted his WMD program and was months, nay WEEKS!, away from developing a nuclear weapon. The Tottenistas are representative of the 52% of sheep that bring shame on themselves for being fooled yet a second (third? fourth? fifth?) time.
It goes deeper than that. Demonization as a propaganda tool is effective only when you have an audience that is willing to abandon any rationality they may have had and simply default to the basest, most thuggish instincts of human emotion: sheer, raw hatred. And not rational hatred, but hatred based on fear and ignorance; a cowardly hatred. The comments that have been posted like so many chicken droppings are instructive to this end. A sampling:
It is your ilk that is behind the sweeping totalitarianism you have deluded yourself into believing is a reliegion. May Allah and the rest of you sand monkeys take a long needed dirt nap!
you are a toothless pork eating terrorist in a g-string and hooker boots.
YOU FUCKING COWARDS! YOU GODDAMNED SAND FUCKING NIGGERS! FUCK YOU RIGHT UP THE ASS WITH ALLAHS PRICK. YOU ARE THE BIGGEST FUCKING ASSHOLES THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN. AMERICA SHITS UP YOU MAMA'S NASTY CUNT HOLE. FUCK OFF AND DIE DICKHEADS!
FUCK YOU AND MOHAMED!!! I think was he gay anyway. Sheep loving bitch.
hehe, another GOATFUCKER opened a blog...
THere are no such people as the Paleo-stinkian
It is about nothing more than simple racism and bigotry, and Totten predictably attracts the worst of the bunch, which is to say the same cretins that inhabit the dens of intolerance of the likes of Little Green Footballs, as but one example. These people, their psyches irreversibly damaged by the 9/11 attacks, exploited that tragedy as an opportunity to express their true colors, which is an unadulterated and deep-seated intolerance for those that they don't understand and therefore ignorantly fear. We see them here in their full, cacophonous glory, braying like a pack of frightened jack-asses. These people are the true enemies of America. They are a cancer on our society. Oblivious to the ills that our disastrous foreign policy has sown for several decades through our support of brutally unjust and viciously dictatorial regimes, their reaction to the destruction we reaped in return could only be explained to them and subsequently understood in egregiously disinformative summations: they hate us because of our freedom.
Naturally, these people adopt as their champions those of a similar disposition and mentality (and of equally low intellect, since they fear even the slightest indication of erudition). Totten reminds me of the character of Dirk Diggler in the movie Boogie Nights: a legend in his own mind and surrounded by a cast of equally mediocre but fawning cohorts who constantly affirm their belief in his "talent", which consists of nothing more than shooting his wad, while in reality he's nothing but a doped-up loser from the suburbs.
I took some time to locate pertinent examples of Totten's total ignorance of Arabs and Islam, his topic of main focus, but fortunately didn't have to spend very much time since he produces gems of idiocy on a regular basis. The most recent is this:
Lots of Arabs drink coffee, but he's right that Iraqis do not. They have a tea culture here.
Right. Iraqis, the vast majority of them Arabs, do not drink coffee. You know, that drink whose name is derived from the Arabic word qahwa. Oh, Totten. I know you're on a "freelance observer's"* budget, but Wikipedia is free to use.
And here's a nugget:
Pelosi is a fool. She knows not what she does, as evidenced by the fact that she wore a headscarf to meet with the Alawite-Baathist regime. Alawites are not Muslims, and the Assad regime fears and loathes conservative Islam.
It's good to know that I, an Alawite, am not a Muslim. Perhaps I might finally gain acceptance from some of Totten's more bigoted fan base.
What a cretin. This is a gaffe that rivals that of Imam Charles Johnson. Next time, save yourself the embarrassment and just fucking Google it. Something as simple as a Wikipedia search would've given you a clue, if you'd had any sense at all. But of course, Totten seems to fancy himself an Orientalist, and like most who qualify themselves with that colonialist era title, his is a shallow understanding of Arab and Muslim culture and history, usually that which is picked up anecdotally from other Orientalists.
I can't be bothered to find more examples at the moment, but really, is it even necessary? With the above two glaring examples, I submit it is not.
Finally, "popinjay". Nope, sorry, I don't watch Bill O'Reilly (and I don't understand why anyone would think I would). I copped it from George Galloway, from whom O'Reilly likely cribbed it. It's appropriate, since Galloway invoked it in a debate with Christopher Hitchens, whom Totten apparently idolizes.
Anyway, you monkeys can leave now. There's nothing here of interest to you, and I'll only make you angrier every time I post something. Save your slander and bile for someone who gives a shit.
* That's how one of your fanboys described you
UPDATE:
A kind reader provided more examples of Tottenism:
