The journey from there to here
Published on May 17, 2005 By Gideon MacLeish In Blogging

I remember the appearance of one of our liberal bloggers on this site.

He came onto one of my threads and flamed me and was subsequently blacklisted. "FREE SPEECH!" He shouted, on his own blog and the blog of any who would listen. "Gid's censoring me on his blog and stifling my free speech". He then proceeded to plead his case to all of his buddies, who harassed me on my threads with pleas to lift the blacklist.

Eventually, the blogger earned my respect. But I came to realize the respect was misplaced. Everything the blogger put in front of me was part of his game, part of his act. There was, and is, NOTHING honest about the blogger in question. He is a fake, plain and simple.

I happened to notice that the once exiled blogger is now actively blogging on JU again. I went to his thread and prepared to comment only to find I was (guess what? BLACKLISTED). Now, to be fair, I HAD deleted a comment by said blogger on my sister blog, but because it was off topic to the article in question and because it contained the typical liberal flamethrowing without a shred of evidence to support his contradiction of my thesis. But mainly because it was off topic. I would have let the comment stand had it been addressed to the IDENTICAL ARTICLE posted on my sister site.

I will say, in closing, that any shred of respect I HAD for this man...totally lost due to his hypocrisy while he repeatedly accuses his opponents of the same. Poor form.


Comments
on May 17, 2005
Just kick that respect over to me there Gidman. You freed me from exile at one time.
on May 17, 2005
Hmmmmm.........I can only guess.
on May 17, 2005
Now don't get me wrong, Texas, I like Michael.

But understand, he knows CERTAIN INTERPRETATIONS of religion, history and politics. There are, as has so often been said, at LEAST two sides to every story, as a college history professor wisely pointed out to me many years ago.

I don't mind Michael milking sacred cows, really (remember, I'm the same person who wanted to buy a plastic Jesus statue and deck it out in Mariner's gear). But he so often expresses a contempt for any thought that opposes his own, and that is perhaps the biggest limitation to his intellectual growth.

NOBOBY, but nobody is "there" intellectually. Intelligence is a growth process that can proceed ONLY if we are willing to take in new ideas and concepts; Michael is QUITE limited in that regard.

As a friend, you would be wise to encourage him to grow in this area. He's too smart and good of a person to let his arrogance be his achille's heel. And I mean that sincerely.



For the record, the above is the post in question, in its entirety. Like I said, all I did was question his omniscience.
on May 17, 2005

For the record, the above is the post in question, in its entirety. Like I said, all I did was question his omniscience.

For your other article?  Cause this one does not fit in with the article of being blacklisted pre-emptorially.

on May 17, 2005
Yeah, Guy, wrong thread...but that post IS why he blacklisted me (that's why I posted it here in a rush!)
on May 17, 2005

Yeah, Guy, wrong thread...but that post IS why he blacklisted me (that's why I posted it here in a rush!)

Gotcha.  A rush has been how my day has been!