Tuesday, February 7
The Daily Cougar: so very creative!
"But CBC is a creative enterprise, publicly-owned, whose creative employees deserve considerable creative control over what they produce."
She also can't remember what she's written the day before.
But wait: there's more!
In her print column, Zerb mentions me by name -- alas, without a hyperlink:
Who are the actual "heretic burners" around today? Me, for publishing some cartoons, or... a bunch of crazy Muslims demanding that cartoonists get their hands chopped off?
And yes, I really am morally superior to people like that, thanks muchly.
I don't miss an opportunity to insult Islam because, gosh darn it, so many of its followers just keep on giving me daily reasons to do so! I post about not liking the Amish, too, but they just don't fly enough planes into buildings...
The "every single Muslim every single minute" line is about the level of argumentation you'd expect from a kindergartener, not a professional journalist. I can just as easily and petulantly respond that I don't "blog about crazed Muslim terrorists and their welfare bum/crack dealer supporters every single minute of every single day" to prove her wrong. And that would be just as lame.
She -- and remember, this is a salaried journalist at Canada's largest paper, who, on every other issue, like allowing Al-Jazeera on Canadian tv, is all for free speech --- explains that publishing the cartoons in North American papers "was not necessary to understanding the story. As many editors have explained, merely describing the cartoons is sufficient for making the point."
What. A. Dumbass.
She goes on:
I can't tell: is Zerb disappointed that Manji wasn't beheaded on the street? Is any kind of speculation on future events based on past events (such as Van Gogh's murder, or the Salman Rushdie affair, or the thousands of Muslim-perpetrated acts of violence that have occured in the last 1400 years) off limits now? Isn't that how most normal people "muse" about pretty much every contingency?
And hang on: if Muslims are more likely to be victims, yet Manji, a Muslim, turned out NOT to be a victim...
Of course, normal kinds of musing are foreign to 9/11 conspiracists like Zerb Wasn't it Robert Fulford who called conspiracy theories "history for stupid people"?
Well, that would be on target, actually: about the "Spanish Inquisition": not all of us get our history lessons from Vincent Price movies (note: Zerb is the kind of liberal who thinks Dr. Strangelove is a documentary...). Lay off the twice-daily visits to the gym and read a book sometime.
Finally: did you notice Zerb's dig at Michelle Malkin: "like Ann Coulter but not as skinny." Hell, who is? Wow, Zerb, at least Michelle's had a baby or two -- what's your excuse?
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UPDATE: Instapundit et al on why Zerb is a spaz.
UPDATE: Thanks to the kindly American lady who just hit my PayPal collection plate and added: Just to spite Zerb, whoever she is, have a beer on me. . Yer on, but I'll make it a Coke. Can you imagine how I used to write when I actually drank?
UPDATE: Malkin responds to Zerb.
She also can't remember what she's written the day before.
But wait: there's more!
In her print column, Zerb mentions me by name -- alas, without a hyperlink:
Toronto-based blogger Kathy Shaidle (a.k.a. Relapsed Catholic) whose religious politics would have easily qualified her as chief judge and bonfire builder during the Spanish Inquisition. The woman never misses an opportunity to insult Islam. And so, it was hardly surprising that, not only did she publish the offending cartoons, she giddily took up the torch and ran with it.Funny for so many reasons.
On Sunday she posted a Tom McMahon cartoon claiming that when it comes to skyscrapers Muslims "destroy" them, and when it comes to cartoons Muslims "riot about them" -— as if this applies to every single Muslim every single minute.
Why she doesn't call her blog the Daily Auto Da Fe — for the public burning of heretics in Spain — is beyond me.
Who are the actual "heretic burners" around today? Me, for publishing some cartoons, or... a bunch of crazy Muslims demanding that cartoonists get their hands chopped off?
And yes, I really am morally superior to people like that, thanks muchly.
I don't miss an opportunity to insult Islam because, gosh darn it, so many of its followers just keep on giving me daily reasons to do so! I post about not liking the Amish, too, but they just don't fly enough planes into buildings...
The "every single Muslim every single minute" line is about the level of argumentation you'd expect from a kindergartener, not a professional journalist. I can just as easily and petulantly respond that I don't "blog about crazed Muslim terrorists and their welfare bum/crack dealer supporters every single minute of every single day" to prove her wrong. And that would be just as lame.
She -- and remember, this is a salaried journalist at Canada's largest paper, who, on every other issue, like allowing Al-Jazeera on Canadian tv, is all for free speech --- explains that publishing the cartoons in North American papers "was not necessary to understanding the story. As many editors have explained, merely describing the cartoons is sufficient for making the point."
What. A. Dumbass.
She goes on:
As for violence, I would guess that Muslims are more victims than perpetrators.Well, maybe no harm came to her because, unlike Theo Van Gogh, she travels with a bodyguard, had her windows replaced with bullet proof glass, and so forth. This is the same sensitive Zerb who, while recently chiding a commentor on her blog for daring to use the "offensive" phrase "WASP", once referred to Manji as a "professional lesbian."
After all, when Irshad Manji published her controversial "The Trouble With Islam: A Wake Up Call for Honesty and Change" in 2003, no harm ever came to her despite so many — again right-wing — bloggers' musings that it would. That said, their fears helped Manji move a lot of books around the world.
I can't tell: is Zerb disappointed that Manji wasn't beheaded on the street? Is any kind of speculation on future events based on past events (such as Van Gogh's murder, or the Salman Rushdie affair, or the thousands of Muslim-perpetrated acts of violence that have occured in the last 1400 years) off limits now? Isn't that how most normal people "muse" about pretty much every contingency?
And hang on: if Muslims are more likely to be victims, yet Manji, a Muslim, turned out NOT to be a victim...
Of course, normal kinds of musing are foreign to 9/11 conspiracists like Zerb Wasn't it Robert Fulford who called conspiracy theories "history for stupid people"?
Well, that would be on target, actually: about the "Spanish Inquisition": not all of us get our history lessons from Vincent Price movies (note: Zerb is the kind of liberal who thinks Dr. Strangelove is a documentary...). Lay off the twice-daily visits to the gym and read a book sometime.
Finally: did you notice Zerb's dig at Michelle Malkin: "like Ann Coulter but not as skinny." Hell, who is? Wow, Zerb, at least Michelle's had a baby or two -- what's your excuse?
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UPDATE: Instapundit et al on why Zerb is a spaz.
UPDATE: Thanks to the kindly American lady who just hit my PayPal collection plate and added: Just to spite Zerb, whoever she is, have a beer on me. . Yer on, but I'll make it a Coke. Can you imagine how I used to write when I actually drank?
UPDATE: Malkin responds to Zerb.
