“The Daily Implosion” sounds like a great name for a Kerry paper.

Do you think there may actually be a co-ordinated troll corps?

That thought has passed through my mind several times. It is the way these folks seem to show up in pairs. I suppose it could be because Roger gets a link on Instapundit or some other site these people visit, but I like to think of an underground cave, lit in red, where the commander watches the detector screen and sends out his minions to conduct harrassing raids.

No offense, please. I wasn’t sure. I thought you might have implied that I wrote Finkelstein off (in another blog), with your description of him. Which, in terms of brevity, is perfect, although Jimbo would disagree.

I did not have a clue about who or what this guy is. I just thought he was another troll that’s all.

So I guese I must be the next Sigmund Freud….

Well I am an Intel officer anyway.

I’m not altogether sure about your post; whether it might be either sarcasm or a dead-on description of Jim Finkelstein.

On Moore’s blog, yes, I mentioned to Jim that he sounded like Chomsky and pretended to be Adam Smith, which on more than one occasion, he did. He claimed that any identification of himself with Leftism is foolish, and that he hopes his “hard left” cadres (irony, no?) don’t find out that he owns spec real estate and is an investor. This after a lot of leftist boilerplate.

I replied that all hard left cadres are drawn from that very class rather than the proletariat, that his views are an upper class conceit, the pacifism of the comfortable. He didn’t reply, but earlier he established his creds as “Ivy League”, as an insipid demonstration of conservative ideas, but also bizarre. It got very confusing, like my post here.

I never mentioned Jewishness, although Gannymede opined that Finkelstein was probably a Red Diaper Baby, so that might be the same thing.

He’s a failed contestant for the Dem nomination in the Georgia Senate Primary, a sometimes local TV commentator and something like an ego without a corporeal container. His posts were interminable, consisting of pages and pages of quoted material with a few fragments of commentary.

His ideas, if they qualify for that, are derivative and shallow. I challenge him here to answer this post. He’ll hate to see my name again.

Who is the Finkelstein guy? Another self-hating Jewish Chomskyite radical?

I’m a recovering Finkelstein combatant myself, with a few small wounds to show for it. You really need to do battle with him directly to get an unscripted remark – he lapses sometimes from the meme, and goes off on “old white men”, “warrior wannabes”, which he called us (VN vets) and “dummies”; he also mocks with working class idioms to insult you, and much more.

I directly suggested he visit Roger’s blog, where I told him he “wouldn’t last five minutes”. He took the charge, I guess.

I was in Newport three weeks ago. God, it’s changed. Greetings from the precious and overly gentrified Connecticut River of Connecticut.

I did blog battle with this fool over on John Moore’s blogsite for over three weeks. To say the man is credulous is to avoid the necessary conclusion that me might be off his rocker. Let’s say he’s credulous.

To make matters worse, he will ask you to refute his arguments, and when you do, and expect a continuation of the issue, he’s reflexively off on another concern in his next post.

It became clear to me that the blogosphere is a continuation of Finkelstein’s failed campaign to win a Senate seat, or to project himself on the public screen. It’s a very troubling pathology, and I, for one, don’t think it has much to do with ideology.

“In consideration of the fact that Iraq has viciously attacked two of its neighbors- Iran and Kuwait- in the last 25 years, we should absolutely prohibit the new government of Iraq from having an army or any military force other than the police necessary for keeping order.”

Mother of god, are you insane ? Seriously? Iraq borders fugging Iran and Syria, two hostile and extremely agressive regimes- do you think either country would think twice about invading Iraq, who under your plan (and I”m using that term extremely charitably) would have no standing army ???? And your reasoning for no standing army is because Iraq “viciously attacked two of its neigbors..” ? Are you high ? You do understand that the attacks on Iraqs neighbors were carried out under the orders of a sociopathetic power hungry dictator, right ? My 9 year old niece knows that much. And yet you blame the Iraqi people for these aggressive acts and advocate punishing them for Hussein’s mad acts by giving them no standing army ?

Seriously, I am frightened that anyone this mentally challenged is running for office anywhere, let alone Georgia, where my parents live. By the way, how did those primaries work out for you ??