Blogcritics: Comments on There Is Something Rotten In The Website Of Blogcritics

Comment by Al Barger

Wed, 9 Feb 2005 17:51:43 EST

Oh yes, the Passion of the Jew rocks most righteously. Casting Gibson as a crazy masochistic version of Daffy Duck was inspired. Note that even in their unsympathetic portrayal of Gibson, he was not in fact promoting anti-Semitism. Cartman was determinedly inserting it himself, and had legions of Christians following him only because they didn't get his true intentions.

Comment by swingingpuss

Wed, 9 Feb 2005 17:00:38 EST

Seems like someone really read their bible or better still took the movie Passion of the Christ to heart. May I recommend Passion of Jew made by the South Park guys?

Comment by Al Barger

Wed, 9 Feb 2005 15:59:18 EST

Sorry Dawn, I missed that last comment at the time. And you seem to have missed the point of the column, and the whole God and Country thing. Again, it is written in character as a fundamentalist Christian- as is very clearly stated. But the point of it is NOT what I think about Jews, but rather what the Bible says. Read the column again, and leave ME out of it. The Bible itself seems to pretty strongly indicate that Jews who do not accept Jesus are wicked. According to the New Testament - not Al Barger or Mel Gibson in or out of character - it was the Jews who demanded Jesus' death. You can get pissy with ME, but that's just shooting the messenger.

Comment by Dawn

Tue, 14 Dec 2004 11:00:12 EST

Al, that article you point to about the "Jewish" problem reads like a steaming pile of horsecrap. Yes, those dirty Jews learned their lesson during the Holocaust didn't they? What a fucking nutjob thing to write. You are a sick, twisted person. Also, the JEWS didn't kill Christ - so quit spouting that shit already. Rejecting Jesus as their messiah fell in line with their own religious beliefs - it's creeps like you who perpetuate anti-Semitism.

Comment by Al Barger

Mon, 13 Dec 2004 19:38:26 EST

Yeah, but a lot of fun!

Comment by bhw

Mon, 13 Dec 2004 19:28:32 EST

He was impressed enough to hunt down a videotape to record the repeat with my ad a couple of hours later. That's a little creepy.

Comment by Al Barger

Mon, 13 Dec 2004 18:57:40 EST

Of course, Jim, I enjoy and encourage the Cartman comparisons. Indeed, one of the proudest moments of my senate campaign was seeing my commercial during exactly this douche vs turd episode of South Park, which aired the week before the election during the last game of the World Series. On Indianapolis cable, it cut directly from my copyright ad to Cartman in his suit and tie, going door to door urging the citizens to support the Turd Sandwich. I was highly pleased by this. Further, since the election I have corresponded with one supporter from Indianapolis who first heard of me specifically from seeing this specific airing of my ad. He was impressed enough to hunt down a videotape to record the repeat with my ad a couple of hours later.

Comment by Jim Carruthers

Mon, 13 Dec 2004 18:28:04 EST

Terrance and Philip went Hollywood, there's only so many times you can pull that finger. These days we're all about Ricky, Julian and Bubbles. Mostly because they know the real Xmas spirits.

Comment by Steve S

Mon, 13 Dec 2004 17:37:58 EST

Really, it doesn't take some involved S&M nonsense to understand this of course not. That is not what I said. I said I've seen all kinds of weird male bonding, thought I had seen it all, but you have shown me a new kind of weirdness.

Comment by Al Barger

Mon, 13 Dec 2004 17:28:06 EST

Steve, I apologize for the poor working of the internal search engine at morethings. Alternately, use Google. Just add morethings plus whatever terms you're searching for. I can see where you're getting the Jew thing, though. I might gently suggest, however, that this reflects not paying attention to the context. Here's the main page for my BSU college God and Country columns. Note that, as is clearly explained on the front page, the column was written in character as a fundamentalist Christian. You're looking for column #7, on Christians and Jews. They're all still right there, and not going anywhere. The rest of your criticisms, however, are really ill founded, particularly regarding Randy Weaver. I do not care that Randy Weaver has distasteful or bigtoted attitudes. He was not violent, and went away quietly from the people he didn't like. My simple and obvious point is that it was totally WRONG and unacceptable for federal agents to set him up for a petty and unconstitutional gun charge, and then murder half his family- regardless of any distasteful personal opinions. Indeed, I have been repeatedly criticized for saying anything in Weaver's defense on exactly these same grounds. How can you defend a racist? It's a perfect example of left wing fascism to see how some think that mere bad attitudes justify such a massacre. Criticizing the NAACP does not constitute saying anything about black people as a race. This specific organization has shown me nothing but demagoguery and cheap Democrat Party partisanship for some years now. I do not apologize for criticizing this corrupt organization. Also, I would bet that Carruthers does not take my Blogcritics-as-Big-Brother comments as an attempt at intimidation. Yes, Jim is a pinko peace-puke Canuck with beady little eyes and a head so full of lies, but we like him anyway and trust him to get a joke. After all, Canada IS the home of Terence and Philip. Really, it doesn't take some involved homosexual slave/master nonsense to understand this. Haven't you ever busted chops on your buddies, or played the dozens or anything?

Comment by Jim Carruthers

Mon, 13 Dec 2004 17:05:55 EST

Steve, around this household, we refer to it as "Pissed and Vinegar". I happen to think that when Jim isn't speaking vitrol Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Comment by Jim Carruthers

Mon, 13 Dec 2004 17:01:26 EST

I'd always thought Al sounded like Eric Cartman, and then I saw his video, and he looks like Eric Cartman. Now, he's behind a campaign to have us vote for either a Turd Sandwich or a Big Giant Douche, just like Eric Cartman on South Park. And so far, fat-ass has stayed on-message as Eric Cartman. So give him as much attention as you would any other card-board cartoon character. And for those taking notes, my reference to him being a Bolshevist was a reference to the assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico City by agents of Stalin, notice, he didn't deny his totalitarian tendencies. Next thing you know, he'll be doing surveillance of Iraq with his camera phone in the bath.

Comment by Steve S

Mon, 13 Dec 2004 16:09:23 EST

Al, your search engine is not working, and the link to your writings as a college student seems to be missing. You did make a reference in those writings to how Christians should not be assisting/acknowledging Jews in any way, shape or form, do you remember your reasoning why and do you know to what I am referring? Could you point out that article to me here, since it seems to have disappeared? Your tribute to racist Randy Weaver, and your listing of the NAACP under 'Scoundrels and Damned Fools', in your sidebar are just two of the most immediate ones that come to mind in terms of what I am talking about. I haven't the time to go back and point out more. Yes, this thread has taken a turn into a direction neither of us cares to go, what I wanted to take issue with was your lumping in of 'pinkos' with all left wingers, your implication that BlogCritics is allied with your ideology, etc. If you are 'male bonding' with Carruthers, is he aware of that? If so, forgive me, I have never seen such an unusual male bonding before, and I thought I had seen the whole gamut, from heterosexual machismo to master/slave, but to each his own. We both do agree with the original sentiment of 'yea! BlogCritics' though.

Comment by Al Barger

Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:32:10 EST

Really, Steve, your shitty accusations of racism and comparisons to infamous bigots are not only completely unfounded, but particularly out of place in the light context of this article. It is particularly dishonest to accuse me of "ranting against African Americans." That's a particularly disingenuous tactic where anyone who takes issue with ANY black person, are then called a racist. Very clever "logic." Accusing ME of all people of ranting against Jews, however, is just plain nuts. If anything, I'm more pro-Jewish or at least more pro-Israeli than most Jews. Now, I'm sure I have my blind spots, and I'm certainly not above criticism. Really though, I'd prefer if the criticism were undertaken with a little more spirit of openess and fair mindedness. Thanks.

Comment by Steve S

Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:15:49 EST

Sorry Al, I guess a visit to your website, reading the things you have written in the past (not the website you link to here, but your Culpepper log), where you rant against Jews, African Americans, etc. was still fresh in my mind. Yes, I suppose Fred Phelps or David Duke has a sense of humor too, but I'm unlikely to be able to see it. Bias I guess.

Comment by Al Barger

Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:12:04 EST

Steve, are you perhaps just a WEE BIT humor impaired? How seriously do you think it's meant when someone wants to "kill 'em all" when talking about an internet poll? Also, I hate to have to be QUITE so obvious, but this stuff here with Carruthers is kind a a male bonding thing. Somehow I doubt that me busting chops on Jim will generate more terrorists. And if it does, we've got plenty of bullets. In short Steve, don't be such a humorless WUSSY.

Comment by Temple Stark

Mon, 13 Dec 2004 13:20:46 EST

Get drunk and party !!!

Comment by andy marsh

Mon, 13 Dec 2004 13:18:00 EST

Sorry I missed this, I was on vacation all last week. Away from a computer and a cell phone...man was it great!

Comment by Steve S

Mon, 13 Dec 2004 10:51:45 EST

Perhaps I should have worded it differently. The term "neo-con", when used above was meant to apply to a smaller group of people than the next paragraph, mentioning "conservatives/libertarians" was meant to apply to.

Comment by Eric Olsen

Mon, 13 Dec 2004 09:38:46 EST

"ask not what your blog can do for you ..."

Comment by Mike Kole

Mon, 13 Dec 2004 07:22:47 EST

Hey! Hey! Taking care while using the generalizations applies to you too, Steve. *This* libertarian is *not* a neo-con!

Comment by Steve S

Mon, 13 Dec 2004 01:51:43 EST

Al, you and Jim are both registered BlogCritics. You are implying that you speak for 'the team'. While I wanted us to win, and I did vote, I'm a lefty but not a pinko, I don't believe in such rubbish as 'let's kill them all and let Allah sort them out', and just about 99.99% of the other silliness that you type. What I'm taking issue with here is your insinuation that it's you AND BlogCritics 'keeping an eye on Jim'. Why don't you neo-cons realize that the rest of the world has their eye on you? I happen to think that when Jim isn't speaking vitrol, he happens to have some great reality based fact. And I don't dismiss his vitrol as nonsense like you and other conservatives/libertarians on this site do. If he was alone in his sentiment, I might, but he happens to be speaking what probably 4 or 5 hundred million other citizens of this planet ALSO tell us. Perhaps someday a lot of us will take our head out of the sand long enough to really listen. Until then I only think the sentiment that creates terrorists will increase. God knows the hatred will.

Comment by Al Barger

Sun, 12 Dec 2004 22:35:07 EST

An ice pick, Carruthers? Would that you should simply face assassination. No, I think not. You will first learn to LOVE Blogcritics, truly to love Blogcritics. You needn't try to fake it, hoping for the sweet release of death, for we will know, and it will be the worse for you. Blogcritics are watching you.

Comment by Jim Carruthers

Sun, 12 Dec 2004 22:04:05 EST

Al, a major signifier of sham systems (corporations, fraternal orders of friends of ours, republics, bridge clubs, high school glee clubs, marxist-leninist collectives and so on) is the relentless focus on process and procedure to the detriment of all else, especially outcome and consequences. You, sir, are nothing more than a Bolshevist. And if you send somebody after me with an ice-pick, I will not be in Mexico City.

Comment by Dawn

Sun, 12 Dec 2004 17:47:23 EST

Al, what in the friggin' hell are you talking about "red skies" and pinko babble shit? Are you losing your mind?