... and the horse you rode in on, and the dog that followed you

[zingerella]

Dear Michael Coren,

Fuck you you sanctimonious, condescending coward.

Dave said it best:

I can't recall when I've read anything so sexist and so wrong in this century.

Last week a young girl dressed up as a soldier died in the increasingly futile and pointless war in Afghanistan. She was 21 years old, had been in the country for two weeks

Comments

[curgoth]

People are still pretending that Coren is a journalist?

[zingerella]

Well, I never said he was! I think I said somewhere upthread that this sucked by the standards of the "conservatroll editorial," which I suppose would make him a "conservatroll editorialist," or maybe just a "conservatroll."

Or just an assberet, really.

[zingerella]

And I find it appalling that anyone paid him to write that garbage.

[sabotabby]

Christ, what an asshole. How does he still have a job? Does anyone read him?

I bet he was for the war before it turned into a quagmire, too.

[captainmushroom]

Not many people read him. If memory serves, he's been fired from just about everywhere. I think he'd like to be Canada's Rush Limbaugh, but fancies himself smarter.

I once interviewed for a job as a book publicist. After talking books for a while, the head of marketing said "Michael Coren is on our list. He has a book coming out. How would you feel about promoting it and driving him around on his tour?" The pregnancy of the pause suggested quints. They didn't hire me.

[dendritejungle]

Please, please tell me you are actually sending this. *enables you liek woah*

[zingerella]

If I do, I might have to strip out the profanity.

[krinndnz]

I made rock hands at my monitor after reading this. ^^;;

Also echoing "christ, what an asshole."

[caprinus]

Holy shit this was rage-inducing. *waits for blood circulation to return to normal*

[zingerella]

Srsly. I was all "Grrrr ... zing smash!" for most of the rest of yesterday.

[pecunium]

I spent about three hours in sputtering, fuming, rage. It ate the evening. Even veting my spleen wasn't enough to mellow me out.

[zingerella]

Hmmm ... I feel like I should probably apologise for ruining your evening in that way. Except of course that I didn't-that's not my writing. But when I posted, I did wonder if maybe such garbage might be best avoided isolated far, far away from thinking people who might also have their day ruined.

I'm not at all sorry that you wrote such an excellent response to him, so, I guess on balance, I should probably not apologise.

I am sorry that it ruined your evening, though.