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Monday, April 21, 2008
Mike Adams :: Townhall.com Columnist
Hate Mail 2008
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Dr. Adams:

It’s been a long time since you ran a column featuring your favorite hate mails. Why don’t you do so? Are you not getting enough? How about this: You’re an idiot, Dr. Adams … and a pansy!

David

Dear David:

All right, David, I get your point. I’ll run some in my next column.

Mike Adams

Dr. Adams,

I have read a lot of things that have made me angry but none so much as your column “one giant leap for person-kind.” Ho [sic] dare you ridicule feminists when I just graduated from college and make 30% less just because I am a woman?

Rebecca

Hi Rebecca. First of all, the research does not say that you make 30% less because you are a woman. Your figures are wrong. Furthermore, the discrepancies in male/female salaries are a function of years in the workforce. If a woman chooses to have children (and stay home) that is her choice. It is not patriarchal oppression. These variables are omitted in studies conducted at major American gyneversities [sic?] in order to keep you angry about oppression that is not actually happening. You should not be angry about something that is not happening to you. You should be angry because, although you got a college degree, you did not get a decent education. But that’s no reason to call me a “ho.”

Mike Adams

From: csm@cox.net
To: adams_mike@hotmail.com
Subject: embarrassing
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:20:58 -0700

Dear Mr. Adams,

Just finished listening to an interview with you on Thom Hartmann’s excellent web site. You help me understand why our college graduates fare so poorly in worldwide comparisons of academic excellence. Please revisit you [you] attempt at “schooling” Thom regarding your wacky assertions of no discrimination against women in the workforce. You assert equal opportunity but something funny like “no guaranteed outcomes.” Where in the world did you dream that one up and then try to back it up with saying that women after having children are behind men in pay? That logic doesn’t stand on any merit – check with a logician. Nor does it stand statistically.

Good grief man, I feel for your young impressionable students who mistakenly look up to you. Shameful, but representative of the dominant culture in this country responsible for bring the world to the brink of destruction. How you ever got your advanced degree is a perfect example of why the world is so messed up, run by mediocre, unsophisticated, juvenile, unintelligent men.

Did I mention that your ego was overstated and that you were absolutely no match for Thom who is one of the most eloquent and educated minds in America?

You didn’t even know it but you embarrassed yourself and your cOnSeVaTiVe “bowel” MoVeMeNt….. Although that’s par for the course.

Not surprising then that your book is a JOKE, too, just like you.

Warm regards, but I find you absolutely disgusting,

Chuck

Chuck, the misunderstanding seems to flow from your lack of familiarity with the term "statistical" control. Would you consider enrolling in a freshman statistics course at a local junior college? Assuming you pass - and you seem brilliant, really - we could resume this conversation after you have begun to grasp the central issue. And, of course, I will place the burden of proving gender discrimination on you.

Good luck, Chuck.

Mike S. Adams

What an ass!

Nora

Thanks, Nora. I’m sure you have a nice ass, too.

Mike S. Adams

From: david.appell@gmail.com on behalf of David Appell
Sent: Sun 1/13/2008
2:15 PM
Subject: Halperin

Noticed that you gave David Halperin's email address in your 1/9 Townhall.com article, but didn't even give your own. Classy.

David

It's right below the title.

Mike Adams

Well, a (purported) link to it is. Nicely hidden away from spammers. A courtesy you didn't extend to Halperin.

Like I said, classy.

Why was it journalistically necessary to include his email address, anyway?

David

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Mike Adams

Why don’t you answer my emails? Is it just me or do you ignore everyone?

Ted

It’s just you.

Mike Adams

I’ll bet you can’t look me in the eye and explain why Jesus would want you to own so many guns. The reason is you’re a hypocrite.

Guy

You’re right to bet I can’t look you in the eye and explain why Jesus would want me to own so many guns. The reason is you’re on the internet. You know, as opposed to standing in front of me.

Thanks for your insights and Happy New Year!

Mike Adams

You criticize the Vagina Monologues in every other column. Have you ever seen the Vagina Monologues?

Rebecca

This morning, I was jogging near Wrightsville Beach. I saw a pile of dog manure in the path in front of me. I suppose I could have picked up the dog manure, smelled it, and even taken a bite out of it to determine with certainty that it was, in fact, dog manure. But, instead, I just went around it. I really don’t need to immerse myself in crap to know that it is crap any more than I need to go to a brothel to determine that fellowship with whores is not something to be desired. This is not to say that every feminist who performs in the Vagina Monologues is a whore.

I hope this helps.

Mike Adams

You really don’t know what you are talking about when you criticize ebonics. Why can’t you just shut your mouth?

Anonymous

What kind of drugs are you on?

Mike S. Adams

Dude, you cannot even speak English. You just ended a sentence with a preoposition [sic].

Anonymous

Is this better: What kind of drugs are you on, Jackass?

Mike S. Adams

Why can you not understand that a rape victim muct [sic] be allowed to abort the baby if she becomes pregnant? We were invaded on 911. We rataliated [sic]and killed many icconcent [sic] children. Why are you suddenly concerned with the killing of this child of a rapist. [sic] Is not the rapist a foreign invader?

Anonymous

Dear Anonymous:

There is a fundamental difference between the accidental an intentional killing of children. I do not know why you are confused. As Justice Holmes once said: "Even a dog knows the difference between being tripped over and being kicked." Think about it for awhile. If you cannot understand your logical error, I think you muct [sic] be less intelligent than a dog.

Mike S. Adams

From: obancameron@gmail.com yo, wtf do you have a gun in your hand for? it's in the pic on your fromt [sic] page. I was surfing the web and found your site, having no idea what it's about I would love to know why fire arms are on your front page.

oban cameron

Dear Oban:

I have a firearm on my home page for essentially the same reason a dog licks his genitals: Because he can and he enjoys it.

Like the dog, it is best to leave me alone to enjoy doing what I enjoy doing. I hope you understand. Your opinion means a lot to me.

Mike S. Adams

From: Nottelling@uncw.edu

You call yourself a Christian? Jesus Christ would never push people’s buttons the way you do.

Anonymous

Dear Anonymous:

You are right. Jesus never would have pushed people’s buttons. Had he pushed people’s buttons, they might have crucified him.

Mike S. Adams
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Reply # 1
Date: Apr 27, 2008 - 9:45 PM EST
The Hate that binds
In listening/reading to hate mail from the right, these lefty hate letters are pretty lightweight.
Righties send their fair share to Liberal pundits.
They also make threatening phone calls, because they feel it is their moral obligation.
Have any of you recieved threats against you or your family for having a difference of opinion?
I have, but it's never really bothered me, because they aren't percieved as a threat to me.
It's good to know your "enemy". It's better to have fourteen hard drives of all their personal information that they volunteered.
I wouldn't take the hate that binds us personally, would you?

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Reply # 2
Date: Apr 24, 2008 - 3:23 PM EST
Hate Mail For Mike
I just love reading how many people hate you . If people had hated Jesus as much they would have crucified him also . Priceless , and keep pushing those buttons .
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Reply # 3
Date: Apr 23, 2008 - 7:05 PM EST
Gray Ghost, Suh!
--I knew him:

"Gray Ghost is what they call me. John Moseby is my name . . ."


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Reply # 4
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 10:12 PM EST
Buck,,
No,I,am,a,principal,who,requires,students,to,write,things,that,are,punctuated,correctly.
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Reply # 5
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 7:10 PM EST
Oh, that was good
on an otherwise "progressives need a good killin'" kinda day.
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Reply # 6
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 7:02 PM EST
What more can I say . . .
Juseff said it all . . . priceless.
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Reply # 7
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 6:51 PM EST
your columns
I always enjoy your columns and especially your wit in replying to emails.
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Reply # 8
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 4:35 PM EST
I'm changing my opinion of .....
college degrees in subjects like feminist and AfricanAmerican studies. Mrs. Obama gots a degree in AfricanAmerican studies and now she has a part time PR job paying over $300,000. a year. Although she's really cute, she must have got the job because of the degree.
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Reply # 9
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 4:28 PM EST
Thank you David
I would like to thank David for making the suggestion for this column. I haven't laughed so much at a Mike Adams column in a while.
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Reply # 10
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 4:22 PM EST
ca
I believe Dr. Adams' point to be that there is no useful purpose to being "authoratative(sic)" about crap when any layperson can distinguish it as such. You, of course, have the right to your opinion and if you wish to lend even a modicum of credibility to something entitled "Vagina Monologues" then do so. As for "Hate Mail" I believe the quotes indicate a specific category of communication bearing the connotation of "so called." It was not my intention to imply directly that your email contained anything truly hateful.
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Reply # 11
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 4:21 PM EST
Adams and Christianity
Being sarcastic, having the proverbial comebacks, doesn't make Adams some big Christian to admire. The fact that he eagerly displays his smarty remarks here shows a weakness, not a strength. Often it takes more strength to restrain yourself.

Sure, Adams usually writes well and can make cogent points on some issues.

Other times, you see the little boy in Mikee.
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Reply # 12
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 3:36 PM EST
Sophomoric
This isn't "hate mail", just judgemental. What a sophomoric fool this Adams is! I continue to be amazed he gets publication ink.
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Reply # 13
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 3:27 PM EST
ca/Rebecca
I didn't read "Vagina Monologues" either. I also didn't read Dr. Adams' critical comments about the work. I can say with some assurance, though, that I agree with him wholeheartedly! You obviously missed his point in response to this "hate mail."
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Reply # 14
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 2:14 PM EST
Great guns ...
Mike, you're priceless. I've had the best giggle I've had in a long time. I don't know why I haven't seen you before. You're grrrrreat (as Tony would say). It's too bad you have to put up with such asinine un-intelligence.

But, it was well worth the read for me. Like I said, I've not laughed so hard (at most of them) in a long time. Great comebacks on your part, too.

Oh, I meant to mention ... pseudo-intelligence like those exhibited in your hate mail, always cracks me up. Where DO these people come from anyway?
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Reply # 15
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 1:29 PM EST
not really hate mail
You criticize the Vagina Monologues in every other column. Have you ever seen the Vagina Monologues?

Rebecca

-------------------------

This hardly seems to be hate mail. Further, it is a perfectly valid question to ask of someone that writes and publishes columns that criticize the work. Would you question the validity of the opinions of a film reviewer that doesn't watch the films she or he reviews? A lot can be gained by knowing the background of a work of art, but that doesn't replace the need to actually see (or hear or watch or read...) the work in question before forming and voicing a truly authoratative opinion. Now, choosing to never see a play or read a book or whatever is perfectly valid, but it necessarily excludes one from being any sort of authority on the subject.
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Reply # 16
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 1:27 PM EST
Buck
Please push your spacebar after a comma.
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Reply # 17
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 1:06 PM EST
AZPhil, the correct response to ...
Dr. Adams post would be thus:
"You will if you don't keep your fanny from Will! Heck you just may "end" up with a colostomy bag!"

See. Dr. Adams is just funnin'.
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Reply # 18
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 1:03 PM EST
At 11:26am, Buck writes:
"It's because I like to push the buttons of bores such as yourself.Was I addressing you? You lookin' for a problem? Hmmm?"

At 12:30pm, FROG writes: "Wooooo, it sounds like ... Buck's talkin some smack. Isn't that sweet."

At 12:45pm Buck writes: "Gee, Miss Frog !
Hey Sweetie Pie,Get Bent!"

Now FROG writes: Sounds like someone's had their buttons pushed. Must be the sissy button.
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Reply # 19
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 12:48 PM EST
Dr Seuss
"AZ, Frog!
With friends like you, who needs enemas!"

???????????????????????????
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Reply # 20
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 12:46 PM EST
what about consumption?
It is sadly funny how feminists frequently cite misleading data about income. They harp on the aggregate statistic that men tend to earn more than women. This misleading data is frequently refuted with fact that when like-for-like comparisons of male and female incomes are done, women do not earn less than men.

A powerful but never mentioned factor to consider is consumption. Women tend to consume more than men. Income is nice, but consumption is what matters. I would gladly give up my income for a woman if my income would remain the same.

These two factors actually point to discrimination and oppression in the opposite direction… but you do not hear the MSM shouting about men being oppressed. Heck, you almost never hear about men complaining about this.

End Jane Crow!
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Reply # 21
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 12:42 PM EST
Actually Mike Adams
Although I don't agree with you some of the time, I have to give credit where credit is due. You are a fabulous smart *ss. I mean, I can be salty and sarcastic at times, but I truly bow to your prowess of come backs.

Seriously.
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Reply # 22
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 12:41 PM EST
AZ, Frog!
With friends like you, who needs enemas!

Mike S.(Sam) Adams
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Reply # 23
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 12:39 PM EST
Will, you thilly, thweet, thick thavage
Will writes: Monday, April, 21, 2008 12:54 AM
Mike:
If you are now promoting yourself as a comedian (something you seem more adept at than as surveyor of the cultural landscape), that is one thing. But you have selected letters for the sole intrinsic value of showing off your raucous wit, while ignoring the important "hate mail". The column, therefore, comes across as a vanity project.
__________________________________

will/Will: Do you not understand? You are nothing but a pathetic, filthy homosexual pervert and your opinions have no value.
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Reply # 24
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 12:34 PM EST
Dr. Adams
THanks for the laughs again.
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Reply # 25
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 12:31 PM EST
Buck
I'm not bragging about firearms...merely pointing out the correct part to pull.
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Reply # 26
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 12:30 PM EST
Wooooo, it sounds like ...
Buck's talkin some smack. Isn't that sweet.
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Reply # 27
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 12:30 PM EST
Sam
Be careful when you say "Will my fanny". He could take it as hey Will, my fanny!
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Reply # 28
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 12:29 PM EST
Careful SamIAm or he just might ...
Will your fanny! One musn't expose one's self to such behind the scene's extracurriculars. YOu never know what one might catch!
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Reply # 29
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 12:25 PM EST
Lolo-Primus-USMC-CFriar-AZPhil
Exposing Liberals as Stupid is like exposing Skunks as Foul Smelling!
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Reply # 30
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 12:16 PM EST
Will my fanny!
I am Sam I Am! I am not Will, too!

Mike S. Adams
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Reply # 31
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 12:13 PM EST
Satire
1. the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
2. a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule.
3. a literary genre comprising such compositions.

Dr. Adams, while no one can agree with another 100% of the time, I must say that you are the 21st century version of Will Rogers.
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Reply # 32
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 12:11 PM EST
Buck
The only thing I pull on my firearm is the trigger.

"Hey,Mikey said that you were dangling your participle"

If he said that, I guess I missed it.
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Reply # 33
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 11:49 AM EST
This column
ties in nicely with Burt's column and proves beyond all doubt the sheer and utter stupidity coming out of the universities. The left of this country has substituted 'demean' for 'debate' because they are so self absorbed they never developed any logic. They have been so busy pandering to their inner child that they are in fact still children.

Good column Dr. Adams. You certainly have your work cut out for you.
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Reply # 34
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 11:29 AM EST
Aww..
I like reading Mike's hate mail articles, but I was disappointed this round. Mike, half of these you put in this column have already been on your website for months. This is major old hat.

What's wrong, did you run up against the deadline with no inspiration?
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Reply # 35
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 11:28 AM EST
does anyone know
Why there are vagina monologues to begin with? I'm a guy, and have never attended "D|ck Dialgoues" or any such event.
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Reply # 36
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 11:26 AM EST
email vs blog comments
Will, I think you are confused about the difference between mail/email and blog comments. Mr. Adams was providing public insight to personal mail and emails he receives. The comments in this blog are typically retorted and ridiculed to the point where any additional statements would be redundant.
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Reply # 37
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 11:15 AM EST
AZPhil
I'm shocked, shocked I tell you! That was very funny.
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Reply # 38
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 11:12 AM EST
Another Great article!
I enjoy your articles very much, but my favorites are these featuring your hate mail. You are obviously hitting your target to elicit such a gutteral hatred of your message. We need more writers like you ---cutting through the crap and telling it like it is! Keep up the good work!
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Reply # 39
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 11:07 AM EST
Great Article Mike!
This is one of the funniest articles I have ever read! Just what I needed to read during an extremely stressful day. Thanx for lightening things up for me!!!
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Reply # 40
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 11:03 AM EST
Great Article Mike!
Please excuse a fellow Mississippi State University graduate (1973, BSEE) for not using your title (i.e., Dr.).

It is amazing what some people will say; and your emails prove it. I hope you do another article in the future using these somewhat "colorful" letters that you have received.

Keep up the good work!

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Reply # 41
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 10:59 AM EST
Will
Wait! You are gay? Wow, who knew?
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Reply # 42
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 10:56 AM EST
Buck
I think you misunderstood Mike's analogy. The dog licks himself because he can, and enjoys it. Mike owns guns because he can, and enjoys it. There's no reference, direct or indirect, to licking firearms.

Here, see if this helps:

Main Entry: anal·o·gy

Function: noun

1 a : resemblance in some details between things otherwise unlike : SIMILARITY b : comparison based on such resemblance

2 : similarity in function between bodily parts of different structure and origin
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Reply # 43
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 10:39 AM EST
Dr. Adams
My reply to Rebecca would have been more along the lines of if she majored in "Feminist Studies" or "Gender Studies" or whatever they are calling it at her school, then she's lucky to be getting 70% of someone else's pay.

With a worthless degree like that, she should be paying other people to listen to her!
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Reply # 44
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 10:38 AM EST
Will = Mike Adams ?
I think Will must really be Mike posting under a different name just to stir the pot a little. No one could be so consistantly contrary without intentionally lying about their beliefs and positions some of the time.
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Reply # 45
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 10:30 AM EST
Dear Mike,
Marry me?

***

It's a good thing I'm unemployed and at home right now. If I was in an office I'd draw too much attention to myself with all the laughing.
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Reply # 46
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 9:54 AM EST
Prof. Adams' Hate mail
The imbecility and indolent illogic of Prof. Adams' critics is staggering, stupefyingly, eye-poppingly crass and plebian. Brings to mind Veep John Nance Garner's notion about being worth less than that "bucket of warm spit," though recently it was averred the Veep did not say "spit" but another close-sounding, rhyming word.

Prof. Adams - in truth, in DC-speak, "He beese da cat's meOW"

Da GREATest! And funNY as he skewers the dimwits.

Well, you get the idea.

Traitors and sundry other riff-raff: beware of smart, straight, armed men.
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Reply # 47
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 9:29 AM EST
Well said, Gabe.
You beat me to it. I was going to say the same thing to inkling_revival.

I'm certain that Dr. Adams' point is not that he is being Christ-like because of his willingness to rip into people, but simply that being Christ-like does not preclude it. It's a great come-back for the simpletons who think they're making some great "you're a hypocrite!" point by naming Jesus in their posts.
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Reply # 48
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 9:14 AM EST
Irony
Dear Dr. Mike,
Here is my thought for the day!

Irony: The art of putting stuffed shirts in their place by forcing there backs against a wall, applying heat and weights energetically upon them, with precision.

cblythsr
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Reply # 49
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 9:09 AM EST
AynRandLives
On a recent Adams thread, Will described himself as a "young, gay man."

I know that I am not the same man I was when I was "young".

We can hope with age, Will will gain "wisdom".

That is, if his lifestyle doesn't shorten his life.
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Reply # 50
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 8:58 AM EST
Hey, Will
Okay, I tried to watch the Vagina Monologues with the author on HBO. I couldn't watch very long before I was sickened by the narcissism, pointlessness, and boredom engendered by this so-called work of art. As a former women's liberationist (before the movement was taken over by lesbians), how does this work help advance women's causes? Talking about one's genitals is not the act of a responsible adult. Just as I don't want to watch "art" about male homosexual sex acts or listen to them discuss their genitals. Get it?
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Reply # 51
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 8:54 AM EST
Will you're so vain
"You're so vain
You probably think this song is about you
You're so vain
I'll bet you think this song is about you
Don't you? Don't you? Don't you?" Carly Simon
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Reply # 52
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 8:53 AM EST
hate mail
I should like very much to read your autobiography. For an individual who is able to reason in a consistent fashion to survive the process of earning advanced degrees, then survive in the academic environment, IS statistically unlikely.
I am a mathematician and I do know about such things.
You put the issue of disparity of income on the basis of gender so simply and plainly that your audience understood perfectly what you were saying. Many of the responders, having no cogent counter-argument, did the usual thing: ad hominem attacks.
It is such a simple (almost linear) relationship: the more time one invests in a profession, the more compensation one receives. The notion of deserving compensation does not enter the equation; rather, the question is always what skills one brings to the party! I guess this is too obvious, or too mathematical, or too sensible.
What I enjoy the most about your columns is that your targets set themselves up for your remarks. The absurdity of the feminist mantra about discrimination, for instance, is tailor-made for your reasoned disassembly. More generally, your uncoverings of the absurdities of feminist studies have been delightful.
Please keep on; it is a pleasure to read your work.
My only regret is that, at the age of 68, I missed the chance to be one of your students.
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Reply # 53
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 8:49 AM EST
Funny
inkling_revival writes: This is correct, and relevant. However, Jesus pushed peoples' buttons rather deliberately on the last week of his life, specifically intending and expecting them to crucify him for it, because that was what the Father told him to do.

A lot of careless expositors -- joined by Dr. Adams, it seems -- like to take examples of Jesus' behavior from that last week of his life, and use it to justify pugnacious behavior every day.
=================================================

Must be one of those "Christians" that only goes to church on Easter (and thus explains his limited knowledge on the subject). Jesus pushed a lot of people's buttons over the course of his ministry- including some of his apostles. Why do you think the "high priests" decided it was time for him to go? From ministering to the sinners and the tax collectors to converting the Samaritans to pointing out the hypocrisy of the "elite"(is this what pisses you off?) he stepped on a lot of toes.
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Reply # 54
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 8:47 AM EST
inkling_revival
"However, Jesus pushed peoples' buttons rather deliberately on the last week of his life, specifically intending and expecting them to crucify him for it, because that was what the Father told him to do."

That's not right. Jesus confronted those who set themselves up as standard bearers of virture (Sadducees, Pharisees, etc.) all throughout his ministry. For instance, the episode where Christ clashes with the Pharisees over the Sabbath in Matthew 12 falls within the first year of his ministry. Even here, the Bible says they plotted to kill him. Your representation suggests that it was only in the last week of Jesus' life that he did anything to draw the ire of his ideological opponents, which is totally false.

Examining Christ's ministry, one cannot avoid the fact that in the face of the most staunch and unrepentent individuals, Jesus was decidely aggressive and, sometimes, even mocking.
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Reply # 55
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 8:41 AM EST
Will
Did you know that Dr. Adams regularly reads these comment threads?

Did you know that he writes the columns he does specifically to rile you up - to "get your goat"?

Did you know that it seems he does so quite successfully?

Are you narcissistic enough to believe this?
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Reply # 56
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 8:30 AM EST
Laughing the entire time . . .
. . . I was reading this.

I always enjoy your writing, Mike. It is obvious, based upon the amount of vitriol that your columns engender, that you are exposing truths that those on the left would prefer to keep hidden.
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Reply # 57
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 8:26 AM EST
God, I miss the fun
Mike;
My daughter (almost 18 now) is investigating a career in criminal justice. Words can't say how much I'd like for her to attend UNCW just to have you for a professor. Cathy would take to you like a fish to water. I must have done something right.
Your hate-mail columns are arguably my favorites. Your answers to the whimpering, whining masses befuddle me in that simple, offhand tome of yours which proves over and over that it doesn't require immense thought to snap an idiot. It's like you are swatting flies when you answer them.
I visit Townhall with bated breath, looking for your entries. When I don't find new ones, I dig through the archives. I look forward to a Mike Adams "fix" regularly.
You remind me that a college professor does not need to be an egghead or a mamby-pamby liberal. It is truly refreshing to know this, because it helps my faith that all is not lost yet.
God bless, sir.
MIKE
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Reply # 58
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 8:26 AM EST
TeeHall
TeeHall writes:

****For Feminists.....
Try this remark on a feminist. "Lady," go see if you can invent something new. Males -- 96. Females 4.****

I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Especially with the "Males -- 96. Females 4."

What does that mean? Of course, I am tired and have not had any coffee, so it could be my senses are dulled after a long, busy weekend, but I would appreciate it if you could explain a bit.
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Reply # 59
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 7:46 AM EST
That's more like it Will!
You came in #2 today (no pun intended)!

But I'll let you in on a little secret. Have you heard of a thing called projection? Obviously not or you wouldn't have written this about Dr. Adams:
"because he - ALLEDGEDLY! - mangles & twists & manipulates facts to make them fit a very limited worldview."

Irony, thy name is Will.
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Reply # 60
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 7:27 AM EST
For Feminists.....
Try this remark on a feminist. "Lady," go see if you can invent something new. Males -- 96. Females 4.
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Reply # 61
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 7:05 AM EST
USMC (Ret)
I enjoy these columns as well. I always make sure to not be drinking anything when I do, because they're often hilarious.

It's amazing that college nowadays can produce so many intelligent and witty students who are eager to display their smarts.

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Reply # 62
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 7:03 AM EST
A small corrective, hope you don't mind
Adams wrote:

"You are right. Jesus never would have pushed people’s buttons. Had he pushed people’s buttons, they might have crucified him."

This is correct, and relevant. However, Jesus pushed peoples' buttons rather deliberately on the last week of his life, specifically intending and expecting them to crucify him for it, because that was what the Father told him to do.

A lot of careless expositors -- joined by Dr. Adams, it seems -- like to take examples of Jesus' behavior from that last week of his life, and use it to justify pugnacious behavior every day. My question to them is: "Have you been instructed by God the Almighty to provoke others to the point of killing you?" If not, then perhaps they should take their example from earlier portions of Jesus' life, where he shows courtesy toward Saducees and Pharisees, visits them, eats with them, instructs them in terms that were polite for their culture, and so on.

This is not to say that I don't enjoy Dr. Adams' tweaking of political opponents -- which is, by the way, more or less the (unfortunate) norm in modern culture. It's just that if you allow Jesus' example from the last week of his life to guide your conduct, you should not complain if your results are similar to his.

(Unrelated to this topic, please visit my political blog, "Plumb Bob Blog: Squaring the Culture," at http://www.plumbbobblog.com. Thanks.)
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Reply # 63
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 6:54 AM EST
I always
like these columns from Dr. Adams.
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Reply # 64
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 6:30 AM EST
Buck
In your postings you continuously and without self-consciousness make a fool of yourself. It is because you are a lout, sir: there can be no other reason.
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Reply # 65
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 2:15 AM EST
Hate Mail
I discovered Mike Adams years ago, before Townhall, when I read his responses to liberal nitwits (redundant I know). Columns where he exposes feminist stupidity are my favorite. I'm no longer a huge Adams fan, but I still find his ability to harpoon liberal nonsense hysterical.
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Reply # 66
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 1:41 AM EST
Sorry Will
Your attempt to belittle the column (by saying it was a "vanity project") was read right after I had just finished enjoying and laughing with the column. Sorry but your point lost its girlish laughter before it ever began.
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Reply # 67
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 12:54 AM EST
Mike:
If you are now promoting yourself as a comedian (something you seem more adept at than as surveyor of the cultural landscape), that is one thing. But you have selected letters for the sole intrinsic value of showing off your raucous wit, while ignoring the important "hate mail". The column, therefore, comes across as a vanity project.

I have seen countless comments that take you to task for the shoddy "facts" you so promiscuously assemble to push your three-pronged agenda(feminists, gays, atheists; it has become a running joke, if you read your own threads, that one must always double-check Mike Adams' "facts", because he - ALLEDGEDLY! - mangles & twists & manipulates facts to make them fit a very limited worldview).


You say you don't need to read "The Vagina Monologues" to know that they're "crap", yet you've filled dozens of columns here referencing them. You also criticize Tony Kushner's brilliant Pulitzer-winning "Angels in America". This is a leitmotif running through your collected work, "doctor". Your Jesus saw fit to give you a decidedly mediocre, pedestrian intellect, then you brazenly criticize & dress down your betters (Kushner is your better, Mike).
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Reply # 68
Date: Apr 21, 2008 - 12:26 AM EST
PRICELESS
Dr. Mike, your answer to the question about Jesus pushing peoples' buttons was priceless.
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