As you posted a quote from Weiss, I thought you might want to look at his style.
You have to admit your post was ridiculous, trying to paint Byrne as an anti-Semite. At least post his response. Are you that desperate to defend the actions of Naked Short Scammers?
<<Hi. This is Patrick.
There is an awful lot of “Chewbacca Defense” stuff these days, and I have to wonder if this is part of it. However, I am going to take your blog as sincere but naive, because (ironically enough) I have been here before and thought you were pretty good. So I will reply this once, but if this turns into Chewbacca Defense (i.e., trying to flood reasonable argument with meaningless responses containing half-baked and false assumptions) I’ll just ignore it, but ask my supporters to just quote from this should they choose to respond themselves.
I do not think I have ever commented publicly on the Israel-Arab dispute. What I did in one blog was say that, regarding that dispute, Tom Friedman makes a habit of pretending to weigh the evidence, then always takes Israel’s side. I have not said that he is wrongto take Israel’s side, just that the “Let’s see, Arabs, israel, Arabs, Israel…. OK, this time I gotta go with Israel!” routine gets a little old. (As a matter of fact, I think he is sometimes insufficiently pro-Israel for my taste, but that is a logically unrelated point.)
I brought this issue up in the conext of discussing Jim Cramer’s and Herb Greenberg’s endless discussions of me. They run more or less like this (in paraphrase):
Jim: “Byrne might be a good guy!”
Herb: “No he’s a bad guy.”
Jim: “Are you sure? I thought he might be a good guy.”
Herb: “No he’s a bad guy.”
Jim: “OK, you win, he’s a bad guy.”
Over and over every time they discussed me. it reminded me of Friedman. That’s all.
Now another point someone made about this observation of mine was that everyone in it was Jewish: Friedman, Cramer, and Herb. Well…. I honestly never thought about that, nor would have cared if I had. For the record, the guys I am suing are not only Rocker, but a guy named Cohodes (sounds Greek), Bettis (sounds Dutch), Vickrey (British of some sort) and Klieber (German).
Now about the postings on Yahoo: again, you sound sincere, so I will respond sincerely.
Yes, there was one guy in this anti-naked shorting movement who started trying to make it into Christian Main Street versus Jewish Wall Street: I told him I never wanted to hear from him nor see any of that stuff again. Some guy brought it up on a Christian radio show and I told him, on air, that I had no truck with any of that stuff. And to the extent I ahve any influence with them, I have told the whole Pajamahadeen that I would tolerate none of that crapola.
That said, a funny thing started happening in mid-February. A bunch of strangers started showing up on message boards, apparently agreeing with us, but then within a few days, posting anti-Semitic comments. None of them are coming from anyone known to us old-timers in the anti-naked shorting movement. Our collective hunch is that these are agents provocateurs sent by the miscreants to post such stuff, so that innocent viewers might start thinking that the people in the anti-NSS crowd are bigots and loonies, when in fact, that is all simply being planted there. Again, none of the people posting that stuff are known to any of the rest of us as legitimate collaborators, which strengthens our hunch that they are shills sent by the bad guys to try to discredit us.
I hope this response suffices. Again, I took the time to write it because I think you are sincere. If this turns into another Chewbacca Defense thing, at least this will be in the record form which others may quote.
Sincerely,
Patrick >> |
