Why is anyone outraged?

Other people might have a different opinion on this than me. However, my feeling is, if the vast majority of acts of pedophilia worldwide had been traced back to Christians (as the vast majority of terrorist acts worldwide have been traced back to Muslims) then something like that might be o.k.

JadeNYU on February 9, 2007 at 4:01 PM

But only, to be truly fair, if those heinous acts were also supported by an enthusiastic doctrine, theology and practice stretching back over 1,000 years mandating such acts, supported by chapter after chapter of text delivered verbatim from God himself, devoted solely to the one issue, claiming those who didn’t support the molestation of children were going to suffer torment in this life and Hellfire in the next.

Then the comparison would be roughly equivalent.

Especially if (in our hypothetical) the only Christians that bothered speaking up said things like “Of course we don’t support pedophilia, but, in certain situations, it is justified.” or “It’s not pedophilia if they brought it on themselves.” or other manners of saying “We don’t agree with it *wink*, but, we’ve also defined it to not include everything that we do support (such as pedophilia).”

A-meen.

Blunder Twins: The hilarity continues

Blundertwins power activate!

Form of, a steaming POS.
Shape of a douchebag.

Do you find it odd that he would just tell a blatant lie like that?

A couple of his commenters seem to . . .

The idiots think they smell blood in the water. But the truth is, the world is slowly waking up, taking a good hard look at them, and going “WTF?”

What’s happening is a good thing. The ‘radical’ left is coming out of the shadows. They think it’s time for them to rise.

This is gonna be fun.

And for the record, I wouldn’t have given a rat’s *ss either if there’d been foundation money involved. It’s ridiculous for any liberal to make accusations like that anyway, considering how many left wing organizations are bought and paid for by George Soros one way or another.

I will follow your request and not comment on the matter further. However, as you have raised further points and declared me a “malicious” liar after publicly declaring the matter closed I will repond to them in my final comment.

For what it’s worth, there’s nothing wrong with taking foundation money if that’s how your site is run, as Media Matters and a lot of other sites are run,

I absolutely agree.

but Hot Air hasn’t taken any foundation money and none of us are paid by any foundation. We’re not owned or funded by any foundation. So what MKR and the sock puppet Sal Leno are spreading are malicious lies.

I never said anything of the sort, just as you never denied being paid for your work here.

What a loser.

Bryan on February 9, 2007 at 5:18 PM

Laser tag is a blast! Have fun.

I agree about foundation money. It wouldn’t bother me in the least if HotAir did receive funding from foundations. As long as the bills are paid and the good commentary is there when I type in the URL, I don’t have to know how the sausage is made. :)

Similarly, it doesn’t bother me that HotAir doesn’t receive foundation money.

I haven’t been bothered about HotAir and it’s finances since I learned how to turn off that blinking McCain ad.

See? A total dodge! CONSPRIACY!!!

This is so blatant; why are all of you stoopid godbags unable to see it?

I’m almost done feeding the trolls for the day.

Stop looking for conspiracies and threats where there are none.

All I read from Bryan’s comment was that you and Sal were edging towards being banned. His “we know who you are” comment seems directly related to Sal’s earlier comments about having been banned many times (“Bryan, Allah, and Michelle can ban us — but can they ban all our HotAir accounts?”) but this time being different because it is more ‘complex’ (Oh, he’s banned us about two dozen times before. I think this time it’s a little more complex.)

Those may have been things that Sal said and not you, but, at this point, I think it’s safe to say you’re both in the same boat in most of our minds.

That’s all, nothing more. Just a polite suggestion to stand down.

As to the banning. The above post is, after all, about the credibility of Digby and MyDD, not anything having to do with Hot Air or its finances. You have failed to stay on topic, and I’ve banned people for that alone. To go into allegations passed off by sock puppets and interpret everything as I say as some kind of dodge is also grounds for banning. I don’t allow commenters to come in here with bad faith accusations against other commenters, other blogs and certainly not our own blog. You are making bad faith insinuations about us that are off-topic and untrue. It’s our bandwidth that you are using here. We don’t have to continue to allow you to use it if your purpose here is to sling accusations against us.

So the choice is yours. Knock it off or get banned. There was never any physical threat implied or suggested in any way, ever.

2. It shows a strength of character, a moral courage that most people never know, to shrug off such attacks and continue to have empathy for your fellow man.

Freelancer on February 9, 2007 at 11:36 AM

True. Our adversaries know nothing about character or moral courage. They hide behind word games, innuendo, and carefully crafted half-truths. But just because we don’t attach back in kind doesn’t mean they are fooling anyone.

Of course you know who I am, my name is emblazoned on my comments. If your threat was an intention to ban me you would be foolishly under the impression that I believe my comments are anonymous.

No, you know that your comment was a veiled threat. I am fully aware that my IP address is logged with my comments which is why I am careful with what I say.

So Bryan, what exactly are you threatening me with, legal action for commenting on another poster’s comments about HotAir’s financing? What are your grounds? Do you have any?

Hot air indeed.

And we know who you are.

Are you threatening me Bryan?

Actually, there is no truth to “Sal Leno’s” contention that any foundation has paid a dime of Hot Air’s expenses in any way. So what we have are two commenters, “Sal Leno” and MKR, who are lying about Hot Air’s finances.

Again you continue to hide behind careful language.

I have not alleged that a foundation has paid *any* of HotAir expenses.