My oped in yesterday’s Hill, “Yes, the FBI is America’s Secret Police,” spurred accolades including kook, lunatic, Russian agent, sick, delusional, shill, complete idiot, propagandist, and “lonely in his bunker” with his Unabomber beard. Even worse, I’m guilty of “normalizing authoritarianism.” Here’s some screenshots of comments from people who at least glanced at the article headline –
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And here’s a few friendly comments…..
Thanks to Pixabay for the royalty-free image at the top.
Update: We’re having fun with this post on Facebook today. Click here to see….
And ‘s a jpeg from yesterday’s piece (thanks Canva)
What is it with people hating on your beard?
Dunno. But I refuse to take seriously any critic who misspells Unabomber.
But the transition from crayon to keyboard is HARD, man!!!!
You have to remember, The Hill has a large audience who are still store-bought, Bush/Cheney-era cheerleaders, phony ‘Tea Party Patriots’ (nothing more than anti-tax, store-bought conservatives), and an assortment of other flag-waving, military-worshiping drones who still tune in to FOX, CNN, HANNITY, O’REILLY, WASHINGTON POST, NY TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, RUSH LIMBAUGH, at al. Unfortunately, there will always be mindless true-believers with us who enjoy playing the role of cattle being led to the slaughter.
Obviously , the critic has not seen Ted’s beard. Your beard is far more Orthodox with rich long , Cryllic-like arabesques of curls. Like if Rasputin did not dye his beard, that would be the
reference, not the rather amateurish nature of Ted’s chin fringe. Don’t attempt any commentary outside the shtetls of Conventional wisdom because then buster, you will be violating the flat earth left-right axis.
Yep – and not only that, but GQ again turned down my Cover Boy application.
Maybe the FBI isn’t the secret police because we know about them. The secret police
are the guys we don’t even know about….yet. When the real secret police come, you
vanish and are never heard from again. Or maybe you just commit suicide by shooting
yourself in the back of the head 3 times. I better shut up before secret visitors come
and visit me. This is why I am using a secret identity.
Your secrets are safe with me – but I can’t resist putting in a plug for one of my fav political satire sites – https://www.flickr.com/photos/project2000/
I notice nobody refuted your facts Jim. They just hated your piece because it counters their “always-trust-the-government” worldview.
Anyone who hasn’t, should read the little article by the NY Times titled “Terror Plots Hatched by the F.B.I.” Beam me up.
Behold the people who squeal that the Russians are behind everything from the Trump election victory to the heartbreak of psoriasis: they have the nerve to accuse somebody else of being paranoid.
Jim, I enjoyed your contribution to Ron Paul’s show last week. I don’t know when it was recorded but I watched the entire Ron Paul Liberty Report and you did a fine job.
Thanks for keeping the people informed.
Those who are criticizing you are obviously not very well informed. Judging by the comments they indicate the level of ignorance by only attacking you and not the substance of your article.
Thanks very much, John! What the heck – it is fun to yank the critics’ chains and hear them howl.