MM, you just can't let go, can you? Since you keep bringing it up, I guess I am finally going to have to address that "insult" that apparently still rankles you so much, as the following indicates:
An opening dispute with Joan about bias in the media in which she stopped debating and clearly implied that I was drunk (not ad hominem, of course). I responded by referring to her as Missy Joanie Baloney or some such. I then fended off a personal attack or two from Joan defenders and an attempt by Joan to paint me as a roving hyena "spoiling for a fight."
Let's start from the beginning. I was having a debate with Christopher about the media. You appeared for the first time on the thread, and joined in the debate forthwith, directing some questions my way. Apparently dissatisfied with my responses, you made a remark about "Masters of Obfuscation." When I asked whether you meant I was one, you responded with a rather snotty (yes, it was snotty)post containing the following passage:
Should you care to know -- I have been around the block a number of times myself.
Enough to know conversations like this properly take place in small drab bars that stay open until everyone decides to go home (ha ha on the "home"). In the best cases, at least two contributors are clearly drunk and there is one person getting hammered so badly that they eventually want to fight someone.
My response was as follows:
Yeah, I figured you were drunk. But I was too polite to say so.
No doubt, to make sure that you didn't miss the point, I should have written: "Yeah, when we were in the bar together last night, the last two customers, I figured you were drunk, but I didn't say so, because I was too polite, hahahahaha."
As for my remark about roving hyenas, it had absolutely nothing to do with you at all. The reference was to the kind of people who rove the threads looking for arguments on subjects they are obsessed with. Far as I know, you are not a rover.
For someone who likes to needle other people, you have a remarkably thin skin. |
