They write emails

A few choice bits from the hate mail that’s come today 9

A while back, I wrote this post. Senate Environment Committee attack dog Marc Morano highlighted it in a press release. Then it ended up on the front page of the Drudge Report.

Here are some excerpts from the emails I've received today (warning: explicit language):

We believe that the "fight against global warming" is nothing but a NWO [New World Order] ploy to justify a new, massive, globe-girdling, governmental bureaucracy, complete with police-state enforcement powers. Since the "developing" nations are exempt from Kyoto, despite India, China, etc., being the world's worst polluters, it is also designed to further cripple the West, and bring about the total collapse of the international monetary system. The resulting economic anarchy will allow the NWO to step in and establish their one-world government with a minimum of resistance. Remember the Masonic credo "Ordo ab Chao" (Order from Chaos), which fits this scenario to a tee.

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Who's the goddamn fascists? It's you motherfuckers. You're little different that these Muslim idiots out there screaming death to America because somebody else said it first. ... You're all screaming "The End Is Near!" in your pseudoscience techno-babble and have named Al Gore your Messiah. What a bunch of faggots. ... It just occurred to me that people like you have chronic PMS :) Always whining and bitching, never really happy because someone else has something you want or are happy for reasons unknown to you. You all are a bunch of little faggots

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You're such an asshole...perhaps you'll get cancer or AIDS or Ebola or something soon...sane people can only hope. Your rants are only pissing people off more and more.

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Maybe you could answer a question; what was all that human industry that caused the Medieval Warm Period? Were they driving SUVs back around 1000 AD, or more mundane family sedans? As the proud owner of a Hummer, I'm interested in your response.

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YOU'RE the one that ought to be on trial!

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David...you fuck!

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I actually took and passed a course in heat transfer and I know for a fact that the models are scams.

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If you're serious about this Nuremberg bullshit you pencil-dicks had better come to the party with a lot more firepower than your pissant magazine and your sniveling website.

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My first defense witness will be the planet Mars. If you think I am being sarcastic, I am not. Mars blows away the myth of human caused global warmng.

David Roberts is staff writer for Grist. You can follow his Twitter feed at twitter.com/drgrist.

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  1. jjwfmme Posted 10:03 am
    12 Oct 2006

    These emails speak for themselves.As for the very few coherent "arguments" they offer, this website answers all of them in layman's terms:
    http://illconsidered.blogspot.com/2006/02/how-to-talk-to-...
     
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    Tom Philpott Posted 1:27 pm
    12 Oct 2006

    That's not writing.......that's typing.
  3. caniscandida Posted 1:49 pm
    12 Oct 2006

    "I actually took and passed a course"Astonishing!  Very impressive!

    Chickens are our cousins!

    So are other sensitive animals!

    Enough is enough!

    No more factory farms!
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    TokyoTom Posted 3:44 pm
    12 Oct 2006

    Dave, send them all a Republican responseDave, each mail like that is an opportunity.  I suggest that you respond with a link to your apology, and quotes/links to what responsible Republicans in Congress and Bush have said and done.  This will let them see that this is not by its nature a partisan matter.
  5. ninshubur Posted 4:08 pm
    12 Oct 2006

    The Republicans have made you famous!I knew it had to happen. It's beautiful. It's like when Republican Senator Rudy Boschwitz of Minnesota put challenger Paul Wellstone's face on a dollar in a TV ad: He meant to suggest Wellstone would tax and spend; instead, he associated his opponent with George Washington -- and Wellstone win.
    This is hurting them way more than it's hurting you. We should all feel bad for them.
  6. amazingdrx Posted 8:41 pm
    12 Oct 2006

    Congratulations Dave!That's how you know you are really getting to them!  You made the sludge pit of the Drudge!!  Makin' the nut wing drool on their keyboards.
    Recently on MSNBC a commentator on the state of news pointed out that the main source of lead stories in most newsrooms in the US is..  tada!  The Drudge!!
    He claimed it's up on almost every newsroom computer screen. teevee, radio, print.  That's how the rovian propaganda machine has subverted our fledgling free state.  By invading the feeble minds of those in charge of newsrooms.
    Rank and file reporters know better, but as anyone who knows about how media outlets really work, only salesmen are appointed to management positions.  Limbaugh, drudge swilling mowrons ordering people who can be fired in a heartbeat around.
    Sounds familiar.  Remember that boy at NASA censoring climate scientists?
    Keep up the great work Dave!  You are approaching culture hero status.

    http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog
  7. kmp Posted 1:40 am
    13 Oct 2006

    And yet...You haven't yet made the Poor Man, David.
    Better luck next time. :)
  8. amazingdrx Posted 3:48 am
    13 Oct 2006

    Or this one Khttp://www.bushlies.com/
    Found the link on the poor man.  David corn's blog.  All the near conspiracies fit for blogging.

    http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog
  9. MilesDuvalier Posted 12:26 pm
    01 Jun 2007

    Perhaps a bit harshA bit harsh language, I would say.  
    I certainly hold nothing against anyone for believing the fairy tale of their choice.  Nor do I hold anything against people who believe in nonsense demanding that people who reject the fables be placed on "trial" for rejecting them.  
    The same reactions have been demonstrated throughout history by people who react viscerally to ideas that they want so badly to believe.  
    They will not tolerate rejection of their beliefs by anyone, and will take extreme measures to insure that voice would be silenced and ultimately be made to "pay" for the audacity of rejection.  
    There is a international group of scientists and mathematicians working together at this time to prepare a compendium of response to all arguments put forth so far toward the idea that the individual would exact punishment for.  
    The purpose is, to examine once and for all, the logic behind it.  It is easier to demolish a building by the foundation than it is to knock individual windows out, one by one.  
    Perhaps he will succeed at putting us all on trial.  
    It will be interesting to see what evidence he poses in favor of his position

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