On Oct 16, 2010, at 2:00 PM, Barrett Brown <
barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
> Regarding R.S. McCain, I've included here the manuscript of my upcoming book
> on American punditry, as there is an entire chapter on McCain, whom I've
> included alongside far more notable commentators because I think that whole
> affair is very telling - and I don't mean that it shows conservatives to be
> racist, which it doesn't, but rather shows the extraordinary intellectual
> dishonesty of a sizable portion of the movement conservative tendency. I do
> think there is quite a bit of overreaching by leftists who go after
> conservatives on the racism point, and those bumper stickers would not be
> proof of anyone's racism by themselves, but there is quite a bit that hasn't
> even gotten out about McCain yet that collectively drives home the point.
>
> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Patrick Frey <
patterico@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Again not for print:
>>
>> The R.S. McCain episode was a good example. I argued that the
>> "natural revulsion" comment was racist and saw my words twisted and
>> misrepresented by Goldstein. I was savaged over that but I was right.
>>
>> But the bumper sticker deal was not what Charles made it out to be.
>> You also overreached on that. I initially thought it was evidence of
>> racism but learned otherwise.
>>
>> Again, this is all on my site.
>>
>> I am about to leave for two weeks and will be mostly unreachable. If
>> I don't respond to any further e-mails it's nothing personal.
>>
>> P
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Oct 16, 2010, at 1:41 PM, Barrett Brown <
barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, Patterico-
>>>
>>> This is Barrett Brown; you may recall linking to my Vanity Fair piece on
>> Charles Johnson a while back, as well as disagreeing with it.
>>>
>>> I'm writing to you because I've noticed that a number of the conservative
>> blogosphere's less competent members have turned on you lately due to your
>> criticism of O'Donnell, and that the argument is quite demonstrably
>> one-sided insomuch as that you have been more than willing to address any
>> points made in her favor while those with whom you disagree have often
>> failed to even acknowledge several of your points, such as the suing of the
>> think tank as well as the bizarre claims about her education and her alleged
>> electoral victories. Rather, Dan Riehl, Jeff Goldstein, and other such
>> figures have generally responded by characterizing you in such a way as to
>> depict your points as somehow illegitimate for reasons that are never quite
>> spelled out, but which often involve you secretly being a Marxist.
>>>
>>> I wanted to ask you a question about all of this. In all honesty, can you
>> see how this situation is at least somewhat comparable to the situation
>> Charles Johnson has been in, and would you agree that Johnson himself may
>> very well have honest and sometimes legitimate reasons for disassociating
>> himself from some of these people, just as you do? I'm not asking this as a
>> gotcha question or even for print, although I'd be happy to use any quote
>> you'd like to give me for a piece I'm writing on this general fissure and
>> the nature of those on the other side of it. I'm just curious about what
>> your answer would be.
>>>
>>> At any rate, you may be aware that Johnson has been working with me a bit
>> on this thing I'm doing, Project PM, which will involve a loose network of
>> bloggers whose work will transfer around the network by way of a schematic
>> that's been designed to hypothetically ensure that the most important of
>> their posts (as determined by a sort of human-driven "logic gate") will
>> spread farther through the network. I've got a few bloggers who've agreed to
>> give it a shot when the software is ready, but only a couple of
>> conservatives such as E.D. Kain. In the unlikely event that you'd be willing
>> to participate in such a project, I'd be happy to have you on board as I do
>> think well of your work even if I disagree with a portion of it.
>>>
>>> Take it easy, yo.
>>> --
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Barrett Brown
>>> 512-560-2302
>>
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>
> Barrett Brown
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