Crossposted at Nitpicker.
If half of what right wing blogger BlackFive has posted on this matter is true, then University of Arizona professor Deborah Frisch is one crazy lady. She apparently threatened Jeff Goldstein's kids, but he's been down and I can't read the whole story. Of course, the right, smarting from the embarrassment of putting a jihad on the New York Times over something one of their heroes authorized, will try to say that this is an example of how [Limbaugh voice] "deranged the left has become," forgetting all about how their bloggers sicced the flying monkeys on the families of Times reporters and photographers.
Well, here's how it's different. This lady is clearly not a political blogger, with almost no political posts on her blog. She doesn't even understand how political blogging
works. For the record, honey,
they have "moonbats" and
we have "people who may have gone too far"--no matter which side of the political divide you claim as "we."
Second, I'm going to do something that the right has yet to do: Shun this crazy person. She doesn't represent me and has forfeited the right to my--or anyone else's attention (with the possible exception of the Arizona state police). I await with bated breath a similar statement from the right concerning the little bastard who wrote:
Go hunt them down and do America a favor. Get their photo, street address, where their kids go to school, anything you can dig up, and send it to the link above. This is your chance to be famous - grab for the golden ring.
and then disappeared back into the muck. And I can't wait for them to announce that they have turned their backs on Horowitz acolyte
Rocco DiPippo (who
posted the photographer's address), his fellow nutjob "
Ted" and, even,
Jeff Goldstein himself.
But while we're at it, can we point out that A) Goldstein's a professor; B) He's treated by the right as a credible source; and yet he C) seems to think threatening to slap guys in the face with his penis (in a strictly heterosexual manner, of course) is appropriate political dialogue. Hell, he's got a whole penis, thing, if you will. It is complete bullshit that anyone would threaten anyone's kids, but maybe Jeff would attract fewer nuts if he would quit talking about his own so much.