Blogcritics: Comments on InstaPundit Glenn Reynolds, paranoid

Comment by Eric Olsen

Fri, 18 Feb 2005 12:32:46 EST

we all have that going on

Comment by Mark Saleski

Fri, 18 Feb 2005 12:30:23 EST

hey, i am NOT lost or pathetically desperate! maybe, quietly desperate. yea, that's it.

Comment by Eric Olsen

Fri, 18 Feb 2005 12:19:02 EST

hey Gary, totally agree, but note that this was written in '03 and the writer is long gone from the site

Comment by Gary

Fri, 18 Feb 2005 11:46:01 EST

Glenn Reynolds actually provides relatively little commentary himself. He mostly provides links to other writers so that you can go and decide for yourself whether what is written adds up to anything. So what's the beef? If people don't click those links do you think they are going to remember Glenn's little comments about them? Give me a break. Get a life and stop worrying about what Glenn Reynolds is doing and start thinking about doing some real blogging yourselves. Maybe you can begin by deciding to stop hoping your core beliefs make any sense and start asking yourselves if they actually do. That's the source of your turmoil, not Glenn Reynolds or anyone else on the right. You people on the far left are so lost and pathetically desperate these days that I almost feel sorry for you.

Comment by Mac Diva

Fri, 2 Jan 2004 12:09:27 EST

Think about it, BB. An elite cadre communist who considers himself better than everyone else and entitled to lord over a society could be a fascist. Note I am not extending this to Reynolds, who I believe is mainly a reactionary, but it can happen. The 'Red kings and queens' of China could be designated as such from what I've read.

Comment by BB

Fri, 2 Jan 2004 06:57:26 EST

Hmmmm. I'm still trying to understand how somebody can be both a communist and a fascist.

Comment by Mac Diva

Thu, 1 Jan 2004 23:20:37 EST

Wow Nik! And people say I can do some very cold analysis of what sucks in the blogosphere.

Comment by Nik

Thu, 1 Jan 2004 22:56:07 EST

Glenn Reynolds is an asshat who pulls much of the same crap he blasts the media for pulling -- misrepresenting issues, not following up on stories when they take a turn he doesn't like, deliberately omitting information that he doesn't like, and generally being unaccountable. Whoever thought it was a good idea to have one person operate as a media organization should be slapped and sterilized. And let's not forget the Insta-anti-Catholicism. Glenn Reynolds is a freakin' technology lawyer, yet he sits there and regularly tells the Catholic Church how where to stand on moral issues. Two more reasons not to like him: he calls his wife the Instawife and his daughter Instadaughter, and he makes nauseating stabs at humor with fake editor's notes at the end of his posts. All that, and most of the guy's post consist of a link and "indeed". What a tool.

Comment by debbie

Tue, 30 Dec 2003 07:58:14 EST

"And, let's keep the record straight, Debbie. The federal officers were found to be justified in regard to shooting the two Weavers. Randy Weaver got away with murder but that in no way makes him a hero." Who said anything about being a 'hero'? I don't think that what Weaver did was right, but I also think that the Feds made some serious mistakes too. Personally I think that Weaver was loosing his grasp on reality, his charges were minor in nature and he had a clean record so the penality wouldn't have been much.

Comment by Jan Eggers

Mon, 29 Dec 2003 23:53:34 EST

I would just like to point out that Koresh was the second coming of Jesus, and we killed him again. Doh!

Comment by bhw

Mon, 29 Dec 2003 19:06:58 EST

Was Weaver smart to react as he did to the feds? No. When the feds come a knockin', you're supposed to open the door. Weaver put his family in danger ... deliberately. He used them as human shields. Doesn't that make him at least partly accountable for their deaths? That's not to say, however, that I think the gov't handled everything well. But Weaver's family members would be alive today if he'd have avoided the "you're going to have to take my gun from my cold dead hands" thing.

Comment by Al Barger

Mon, 29 Dec 2003 18:23:25 EST

Neither selling guns nor running from the law are inherently violent. What violence was Weaver even accused of? I would tend to regard use of deadly force against someone who has not specifically exhibited violent behavior to be wrong. Deadly force used against the family of someone not even accused of any actual violence seems pretty wrong to me. But maybe it's just cause I'm a dumb Kentuckian.

Comment by Mac Diva

Mon, 29 Dec 2003 18:03:40 EST

Why would a non-violent person be illegally selling arms and on the lam from the law? Both of which Randy Weaver was convicted of, by the way.

Comment by Al Barger

Mon, 29 Dec 2003 17:56:36 EST

Nope, didn't say or imply that Weaver is any HERO. I'm saying that he's a victim. Don't confuse the two. Just saying that he was broadly a loser or even a jerk with a bad attitude doesn't give the feds a right to come kill him, let alone his family. Private trade in guns should be regarded as a constitutional right. Unlike abortion, guns are actually mentioned in the constitution. Even if you regard these gun control laws as legitimate however, the feds conjured up a petty entrapment for a very minor infraction- then used that as the basis for coming in to kill his family. Was Weaver smart to react as he did to the feds? No. However, it was the feds who came in with guns after a non-violent person living peacably with his family- not the other way around.

Comment by Mac Diva

Mon, 29 Dec 2003 17:37:25 EST

Horsefeathers! At the time he refused to present himself to the authorities, Randy Weaver was out on bail after conspiring to illegally sell guns that he told informants he hoped would be used by blacks and Mexicans to kill other people of color. Moved out into the country? That's true. The Weavers resided in a leaky cabin without water, plumbing or electricity. Vickie Weaver, totally dominated by her paranoid spouse, was forced to give birth without medical care. Randy Weaver, who has never been gainfully employed and lived his entire life as a loser, is not the hero Barger wants him to be at all. Barger might as well give up trying to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse.

Comment by Al Barger

Mon, 29 Dec 2003 17:17:24 EST

Weaver has issues with minority groups, so that makes it ok to massacre his family apparently, in the constitution according to Diva. Note that his response to not wanting to play nice with others was to disengage and go out in the country. I know of no incident of Mr. Weaver harming anyone else. Undercover feds conned him into sawing the barrels off of a couple of common shotguns, thus justifying criminal charges and warrants. Again with Koresh and Waco, you simply assert that he was a "wacko cult leader and child molester" who deserved what he got. He was never ever charged with child molesting, let alone convicted. This had nothing to do with the warrants or murders committed by the feds- as if the proper response to an allegation of molestation would be to kill all the children in the neighborhood. As for "wacko cult leader," this shows pretty clearly just what level of respect you have for other people's religious beliefs. Heck, if they're in a wacko cult, let's just burn 'em out- even if they are non-violent and keep to themselves.

Comment by Mac Diva

Mon, 29 Dec 2003 16:49:01 EST

Since when is a white supremacist with a criminal record and an outstanding warrant an innocent person, pray tell? And, in addition you claim innocence for a wacko cult leader and child molester? It is your biases that are showing, batty boy. For anyone not familiar with the facts of the case, Weaver is way off the heezie. He even had little girls shooting at the feds that day. He now spends his time traveling from state to state urging other white supremacists to harm people. Barger will be inviting the "innocent" man to dinner at the farm, I reckon. And, let's keep the record straight, Debbie. The federal officers were found to be justified in regard to shooting the two Weavers. Randy Weaver got away with murder but that in no way makes him a hero.

Comment by Al Barger

Mon, 29 Dec 2003 16:30:47 EST

Your hypocrisy astounds, Diva. I can only imagine the hell you'd have been raising if any of these innocent victims had been black. Dumbass black dude in Cincy falls over with a heart attack while he's swinging at police, and you're ready to hang the cops. The federal government sends in an army with a tank to massacre a houseful of innocent people keeping to themselves, and it's THEIR fault. Ruby Ridge and Waco both involved federal officers making assaults on peaceful families in their homes. All those feds in both cases RICHLY deserved to die. It's damned unfortunate when a law enforcement officer gets murdered while he's trying to stop a robbery by some jackass thug. That's what most American law enforcement deaths are. However, when occassionally some officer goes off his beam, then a citizen is doing all of society a favor by putting them down. That's why God and Charlton Heston wrote the Second Ammendment.

Comment by debbie

Mon, 29 Dec 2003 15:04:57 EST

"Strangely, the murder of a federal officer and Weaver's other crimes are never mentioned in accounts of the episode by the far Right." Probably because he was aquitted of those charges. According to the Summary Statement (Lexus Nexus) http://www.byington.org/Carl/ruby/ruby3.htm "After deliberation for 20 days, on July 8, 1993, the jury acquitted Weaver and Harris of the murder of Deputy Marshal Degan, the conspiracy charge, and the significant remaining charges. Weaver was convicted on charges of failure to appear for trial and committing an offense while on release. On October 26, 1993, Weaver was sentenced to 18 months incarceration, three years probation and a $10,000 fine. The court issued an Order fining the FBI and criticizing it for its failure to produce discovery materials, its failure to obey orders and admonitions of the court, and its indifference to the rights of the defendant and to the administration of justice."

Comment by Mac Diva

Mon, 29 Dec 2003 09:53:30 EST

Everyone in white supremacist scum Randy Weaver's household used a firearm that day, including the two Weavers killed. Vickie Weaver was shot while opening the door to let Randy Weaver in as he retreated after firing at federal officers. The boy was running away after shooting at the feds, too. The dog, as I said before, may have been innocent. Strangely, the murder of a federal officer and Weaver's other crimes are never mentioned in accounts of the episode by the far Right.

Comment by debbie

Mon, 29 Dec 2003 09:45:46 EST

"No innocents, other than a federal officer and a dog, died at Ruby Ridge." Oh please, I'm pretty conservative but even I think that Ruby Ridge was botched by the FBI. Let a local law enforcement agency shoot a 13 year old boy in the back as he was running away from him and the shouting would be so loud you wouldn't be able to hear yourself think. Let alone an unarmed woman holding a baby standing in the doorway being shot in the head and killed. The FBI totally screwed that one up. They should have announced who they were up front and demanded that they come outside the house. Waco was just a sad situation all around. It makes me want to cry just thinking about it. They had many opportunities to give themeselves up to the authorities.

Comment by Mac Diva

Sun, 28 Dec 2003 08:44:05 EST

Barger, Brian will be busy. I'm sure other women think he is just as hot as I do. Nor does it behoove (a rather appropriate word when referring to Barger) you to hold the current administration up as a paragon of respect for civil liberities. Having thousands of people needlessly imprisoned suggests otherwise. Furthermore, the only innocents to die at Waco were those used as fodder by the cultists. No innocents, other than a federal officer and a dog, died at Ruby Ridge.

Comment by Al Barger

Sun, 28 Dec 2003 02:35:17 EST

JR, if the Bush administration murdered a hundredish innocent men, women and children, burned their home down on them or anything equivalent- I think we'd have heard about it. Perhaps you and Jan and I could get together in California and have some male bonding pissing on Richard Nixon's grave together. Hell, we could make a tour of it. Where's J Edgar Hoover buried, anyway? Why, we might even invite Brian.

Comment by Jan Eggers

Sat, 27 Dec 2003 18:53:09 EST

Come to think of it, I haven't seen my friend Frank lately. The last time I saw him, he was pissing on the big "M" that is embedded in the sidewalk in the middle of the U of M's campus, shouting, "Down with the institutional oppressors."

Comment by JR

Sat, 27 Dec 2003 18:06:44 EST

"And yes, feds murdering peaceful civillians in Ruby Ridge and Waco strikes me as exponentially worse than any civil liberties violations of the current administration." ...that you know about.