Douche Bag of the Day: Jeff Goldstein

Jeff Goldstein accuses Obama of manufacturing "an environmental crisis." Was all the oil and workers killed on the Deep Horizen rig manufactured. I suppose Goldstein will blame Obama for threats and personal information about progressive bloggers posted on Protein Wisdom.

Actually, what the BP spill evidently taught you is that you could manufacture an environmental crisis, shake down a private company, cite false authority to get a drilling moratorium, withstand the consequences of having that massaging of the facts revealed to the public, and — after a “shellacking” at the polls — continue business as usual, depressing the economies of several states, keeping gas prices artificially high, and helping out international companies who are happy to fill the vacuum created by this cynical maneuvering disguised as environmental solicitousness.

Facts:

13 workers on the Deep Horizon rig were killed.

6,814 dead animals.

6,104 dead birds.

609 dead sea turtles.

100 dead dolphins.

The death caused by the spill was not manufactured by Obama. BP did not follow proper safety guidelines. Obama is not responsible for BP dumping sand to hide spills on beaches. None of this matters to Goldstein. There is no deep policy analysis to be found on Protein Wisdom. The blog is a place where Goldstein can safely attack others. If Goldstein behaved in a public establishment the way he behaved on the internet he would get his ass kicked. I tremble in fear at the prospect of Goldstein sicking the 101st Keyboard Brigade on me.

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Clark Stooksbury of the American Conservitive calls Glenn Reynolds out for his dishonest blogging on Al Gore. The Right is now dumping on Reynolds crappy blogging. It couldn't happen to a more deserving guy.

I responded to a comment by Jill Filipovic, at Feministe, about Reynolds playing the race card on Barack Obama. Jill wrote about Jeff Goldstein's racist fantasy of Shannon Elizabeth being raped by Marlon Wayans and Method Man. Goldstein is often linked on Reynolds' blog. Less than great minds think alike.

Here is my comment:

Be sure to mention that Al Sharpton, as Ambassador and Representative of All Black People Everywhere, is teh suck.

Glenn Reynolds plays the race card on Barack Obama by throwing out Al Sharpton and Jeremiah Wright.

UPDATE: Reader Edward Friedman emails: “This cannot help Obama or Hillary. The more anti-police, anti-white rhetoric, the more the unwashed bitter people flock to McCain in November.” That’s probably right. As with Jeremiah Wright, it’s almost as if Sharpton is trying to hurt Obama.

This reads like a post from a man that ceased being the most popular political blogger a long time ago. Reynolds shouldn’t talk about racism after his pro-genocide post against Muslims.

Civilized societies have found it harder, though, to beat the barbarians without killing all, or nearly all, of them. Were it really to become all-out war of the sort that Osama and his ilk want, the likely result would be genocide — unavoidable, and provoked, perhaps, but genocide nonetheless, akin to what Rome did to Carthage, or to what Americans did to American Indians. That’s what happens when two societies can’t live together, and the weaker one won’t stop fighting — especially when the weaker one targets the civilians and children of the stronger. This is why I think it’s important to pursue a vigorous military strategy now. Because if we don’t, the military strategy we’ll have to follow in five or ten years will be light-years beyond “vigorous.”

If that post isn’t racist than I don’t know what is.

Reynolds has made racist comments here and here. The Nutty Professor recommended the book 33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask by Thomas Woods. The author is a founding member of the League of the South. It is a white supremist group. The website operators won't come out and state their racist intentions. The board members even issued a statement that they aren't racist. They just want the South to succeed from the Union. And I have great swamp land to sell you.

Goldstein has made sport out of bashing feminists. He has a bizarre obsession with Amanda Marcotte. Goldstein is obsessed with Marcotte's appearance and vulgarly refered to her as a "misogynist raping godbag." How a misogynist like Goldstein can call a popular feminist a misogynist is mind-boggling.

Reynolds and Goldstein freely accuse Lefty bloggers of being intolerant. Their arguments would be taken more seriously if they didn't use the internet to preach their brand of xenophobia.

Update Jeff Goldstein correctly notes that he didn't write the two Protein Wisdom posts on Amanda Marcotte. That was my mistake. Jeff attacks my integrity in the comments. Jeff fails to realize that Protein Wisdom is his blog and he is responsible for the anti-Marcotte material on his site. Come on Jeff, do you agree with posts mocking Marcotte's appearance?

This is the same guy that left posts at the John Edwards campaign blog after Amanda was hired. Perfectly normal.