Sign Here, Please!
I think I’ve hit a nerve lately with some of the more hardcore partisans in this town. I know this because the “drive by” posts and hate e-mails have started showing up again.
They will attack me personally, but never challenge me on the issues at hand. They will attack my radio show, not knowing how ratings work. They will attack my friendship with Marion County GOP Chairman Tom John and my affiliation with his firm John, Lewis and Wilkins which anybody with half a brain knows has been the worst kept secret in this town for more than a year. They will call me a carpetbagger because I still have a home in Illinois, not knowing I am fortunate enough to have enough income to maintain two places in two different states. I have also been called the n-word and even had my sexual orientation questioned. Although I embrace my metrosexuality with manicured hands and open arms.
I’m a big boy so the attacks don’t get to me, but I do find two things disturbing. First, I would feel better if the detractors and drive-by posters would just debate the issue at hand. If they want to disagree, fine. I accept other points of view but come after me on the merits of the discussion.
Second, I could be like some bloggers, screen the posts and only let in the ones I agree with, but that defeats the purpose of the free flow of debate and exchange of ideas. But if you must go for the personal attack, at least have the attached manhood to sign your name. At least that way everyone can know you are devoid of any true synaptic activity.
June 14th, 2007 at 5:28 am
I think back to when I was a little girl and the phrase, “The truth hurts”. The childish attacks show the true color of your attackers and let us all know that you are hitting close to home! I expect nothing less from the Dems, because that is who is guilty of the neglect going on in the city, but there are those of us who stand with you.
Keep the faith Brother Abdul.
June 14th, 2007 at 6:01 am
Abdul, you are just awful!
Isn’t it great how anybody can use whatever name they wish? In fact, one person can post under a variety of names.
June 14th, 2007 at 6:05 am
Abdul is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful person I’ve ever known in my life!
June 14th, 2007 at 6:12 am
Abdul, I see it is time for the games to begin now! Oh yeah, Happy Flag Day!
June 14th, 2007 at 7:10 am
When you stand up for the right issues, the wicked world of Democrats will be against you always. They will attack the characters of anyone who does not support their agendas.
Keep on doing what you have been doing. There are more people listening to you than you realize and appreciate your objectivity.
June 14th, 2007 at 9:29 am
Abdul, I had a dream last night and realized that I have said some things over the course of the past few months (years) that have been untruthful. I have seen the err of my ways and apologize to any who may have been wrongfully afflicted by my agenda-laden diatribe. Just kidding, this isn’t really Wilson. I just wanted to get a rise out of you buddy!
June 14th, 2007 at 9:55 am
Well said Abdul
June 14th, 2007 at 10:00 am
I’m pretty sure there aren’t too many people in the local blogosphere who take as much heat as I do, Abdul.
Wear it as a badge of honor.
If you weren’t getting to people, they wouldn’t be calling you names.
June 14th, 2007 at 10:03 am
Jan who?
June 14th, 2007 at 10:26 am
It’s Jen not Jan. She is a democrap tool so she should be feel the heat. Too bad she sees that her party can DO NOT WRONG!
June 14th, 2007 at 10:58 am
If they’re playing that dirty it means that your getting to them. They hope to scare you off or make you so crazy you walk away. Fighting the good fight is never easy, but does define ones character. Watch yourself. Don’t give them any free shots because I sure they’re looking for dirt. In the absence of any leadership the poeple at least need a voice of truth.
June 14th, 2007 at 11:13 am
Keep in there. One cannot supress the truth.
BTW, Polis Politcs has a transcript and commentary today of the new Peterson ad.
http://www.polispolitics.com
June 14th, 2007 at 11:27 am
Sir Failstone, aka Mike Jeziersky, was offering a $250 bounty for “dirt” on the blogowner of progressive ‘Taking Down Words’. Abdul, you haven’t arrived as an effective blogger if some nutterball isn’t actively offering cash for derogatory info on you!
June 14th, 2007 at 11:53 am
Why pay when you Wilson will do it for free?
June 14th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
I thought name-calling was beneath you Wilson. You never hesitate to deride it when it’s directed towards you or one of your Democratic cohorts.
Shameful!
June 14th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
Abdul’s coterie has seemingly missed completely his lengthy remarks about anonymous nobodies making personal attacks while hiding behind false faces …
June 14th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
Ignore Wilson.
June 14th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Ignoramuses advocate ignorance. That’s why they call them “ignoramuses”!
June 14th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
Hey Wilson, let me crawl down to the gutter there and explain something to you, Stick and stones can break my bones but names will never hurt me.
Now grow up you idiot.
June 14th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
So that’s why you are so ashamed to use your name, Ms. Anonymous? Didn’t you read what Abdul actually wrote? Perhaps he needs to read it aloud on the radio since reading comprehension seems to be beyond you!
June 14th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
“They will attack me personally, but never challenge me on the issues at hand. They will attack my radio show, not knowing how ratings work. They will attack my friendship with Marion County GOP Chairman Tom John and my affiliation with his firm John, Lewis and Wilkins which anybody with half a brain knows has been the worst kept secret in this town for more than a year. They will call me a carpetbagger because I still have a home in Illinois, not knowing I am fortunate enough to have enough income to maintain two places in two different states. I have also been called the n-word and even had my sexual orientation questioned. Although I embrace my metrosexuality with manicured hands and open arms.
I’m a big boy so the attacks don’t get to me, but I do find two things disturbing. First, I would feel better if the detractors and drive-by posters would just debate the issue at hand. If they want to disagree, fine. I accept other points of view but come after me on the merits of the discussion.”
Hmm…reading these words that Abdul wrote, I don’t exactly see where “anonymous” posters make up his main objection. He seems to be complaining about people not staying on topic. He is upset about people not arguing the merits of the discussion.
Wait…wait..wait a minute, Wilson, hold on. You, Wilson, almost NEVER debate the merits of the discussion and you almost never stay on point. Usually you go for a cheap shot against the person who makes the point you disagree with, prattle on about the origins of the blog, and then invoke racial politics from the 1920′s. On Ruth Holladay’s blog, your response to a Greg Ballard editorial written by Andrea Neal was to make some pithy comment about D.C. Stephenson. In that fashion, you added NOTHING to the debate.
June 14th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
Second, I could be like some bloggers, screen the posts and only let in the ones I agree with, but that defeats the purpose of the free flow of debate and exchange of ideas. But if you must go for the personal attack, at least have the attached manhood to sign your name. At least that way everyone can know you are devoid of any true synaptic activity.
You conveniently edited out the above closing paragraph. At least Matty Groves used his own name — usually the nattering anonymous nobodies conceal themselves behind a variety of fake names while busily making personal attacks …
June 14th, 2007 at 4:21 pm
That was me at 4:05pm — my bad!
June 14th, 2007 at 4:34 pm
So, Wilson, what’s your take on Abdul’s frustration with Blog comments that routinely fail to discuss the main point? You know, sort of like a person who makes a D.C. Stephenson comment in response to an Andrea Neal column on Indianapolis crime rates?
June 14th, 2007 at 5:24 pm
Subtle humor on blogs sometimes goes over some folks heads. People were observing that the Star has tended to back Republican candidates. The KKK in Indiana in the 1920s was a GOP phenomenon and indeed the Star did back its candidates. I was being sarcastic about how the Star probably felt the Klan kleader, D.C. Stephenson, was treated unfairly. Madge Oberholzer was the woman bitten to death by Stephenson — I’m sure she was demonized by some partisan folk too…
June 14th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
There Wilson goes again, talking ancient history with the 1920s. *Yawn* Give up your feeble attempt at humor than Wilson, it flies as well as a lead balloon.
June 14th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
But if you must go for the personal attack, at least have the attached manhood to sign your name. At least that way everyone can know you are devoid of any true synaptic activity.
June 14th, 2007 at 7:40 pm
Wilson, you offer nothing of substance and you seem overly impressed by what passes as wit. I once was amused, it is less so now. Offer substance please.
June 15th, 2007 at 12:59 am
Do you kiss Mrs. 46201 with that mouth? Daggum, Wilson, you could make a sailor blush!
June 15th, 2007 at 5:53 am
Individual bloggers have a right to comment anonymously to avoid vicious attacks from snapping turtles like Wilson. They are not afraid to post their names. They don’t want to be drugged through the mud by unscrupulous Democrat nobodies.
June 15th, 2007 at 5:53 am
Individual bloggers have a right to comment anonymously to avoid vicious attacks from snapping turtles like Wilson. They are not afraid to post their names. They don’t want to be drugged through the mud by unscrupulous Democrat nobodies.
June 15th, 2007 at 5:54 am
Individual bloggers have a right to comment anonymously to avoid vicious attacks from snapping turtles like Wilson. They are not afraid to post their names. They don’t want to be drugged through the mud by unscrupulous Democrat nobodies.
June 15th, 2007 at 7:42 am
If I’m not entirely mistaken, the Star also supported Democratic Senator Jesse Bright when he was expelled from the US Senate for treason in 1862 (although the paper I believe was called the Sentinel then). By your D.C. Stephenson logic, that means the Star has a predisposition towards supporting Treason.
Seriously though, most people familiar with Indianapolis political history know the whole D.C. Stephenson story. However, something that happened 90 years has absolutely nothing to do with the long overdue discussion about the public safety issues in the *2007* version of Indianapolis. What you said wasn’t witty, wasn’t clever, and certainly wasn’t relevant. What it was was yet another diversionary, off-topic posting by the city’s favorite Dumpster Diver.