Are you going to vote for John Kerry even though you find him unpleasant, annoying, arrogant, waffling, misguided or just generally unappealing in some profound way? Then you've come to the right place! We're Kerry Haters for Kerry -- perhaps his largest constituency! No need to hide in the Kerry-hating closet anymore while you pretend to everyone that he'll be a great president. Here you are among friends. You can speak freely and honestly. You can admit: 'He's awful! And I'm for him!' via Wonkette, posted by psmealy.
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Klingons for Kerry
This dude auctioned off his head on ebay for the highest paying anti-Bush tatoo
and these tidbits from Tom Scocca at NY Observer on Iraq and Muslims going after Kerry the Jew :
This past Friday, New York Times deputy editorial-page editor Andrew Rosenthal decided to share an e-mail he?d gotten with his wife. The message, attributed to Wall Street Journal writer Farnaz Fassihi, described the deteriorating conditions in and around Baghdad: "A friend drove through the Shiite slum of Sadr City yesterday. He said young men were openly placing improvised explosive devices into the ground ?. Behind the walls sits an angry Iraqi ready to detonate them as soon as an American convoy gets near. This is in Shiite land, the population that was supposed to love America for liberating Iraq."
Off the Record was not able to confirm the authenticity of the original message with its purported author or The Wall Street Journal by press time. Mr. Rosenthal said that he hadn?t confirmed it either?it arrived, he said, with "about 40 e-mail addresses on it." But after his wife forwarded it along to a group of friends, the provenance became moot: The off-channel reportage now had the stamp of The Times and The Journal on it.
So the version Off the Record received had been sent to nearly three dozen more addresses, including one "graydon_carter." Mr. Rosenthal, when asked about the phenomenon, sounded a little put out and inquired whether Off the Record would care to publicize the contents of its own most recent family e-mail. (Sure! "Subject: Fight On ? ?At Manning fella got him 320 yards and 5 touchdowns ? ?n? a first half, hon.")
Despite his initial written endorsement of the message as "incredibly powerful," Mr. Rosenthal was nonplused by the message?s appeal. He did not mean it, he said, to be taken as some sort of samizdat, telling truths that the big newspapers don?t dare to tell directly. "That?s a false color that has been put on this thing?that there was some significance in my forwarding of it," he said.
Mr. Rosenthal added that the word that things are bad in Iraq has not exactly been suppressed by The Times. To anyone who?s read the editorial page, he said, the missive is "hardly the cri de coeur of some captive of the journalistic establishment."
From Off the Record correspondent Ben Smith:
Forget purportedly self-inflicted combat wounds. Muslims Weekly, a Queens broadsheet that calls itself the "Voice of Muslim America," offers readers an old-fashioned reason to hate John Kerry: He?s a Jew.
In a Sept. 24 front-page piece titled "?President? Kerry and Axis of Occupiers," columnist Jafar Syed argues that "the father of all flip-flopping is not flip-flopping on the destruction of the Muslim World." But before he gets to policy, he focuses on the candidate?s ethnicity: "He is Jewish-rooted ?Kohan? Kerry, crying baby."
Mr. Kerry?s paternal grandfather was born Jewish with the name Fritz Kohn. Mr. Syed restores the old name, invarious spellings, and appends it to Mr. Kerry?s name for effect: "[T]hisKohnKerry, democratic nominee for president, does not care what is in the best interests of US. What he cares is the Jewish leadership. What he care is Israel First and not America First," Mr. Syed writes.
Muslims Weekly?s editor in chief, Jawed Anwar, didn?t respond to a telephone message and an e-mail seeking comment on the article, nor did Mr. Syed, whose own Web site, www.muslimmediany.org, leads with an essay titled "Jewish Leadership and the Destruction of the Muslim World."
MuslimsWeekly doesn?t publish circulation figures, but its 16 pages are packed with advertising for lawyers, travel agents, Islamic events and a "Lady Doctor." The paper won six awards last year from the Independent Press Association of New York, though much of its content seems to come from the Internet. The Sept. 24 lead analysis of Iraq, for instance, appears to be borrowed from the World Socialist Web site.
Mr. Syed?s "Kohn Kerry" phrase, however, seems to have its roots on the right rather than the left. Most English-language instances of the name online are either typos by someone trying to write "John Kerry" or the product of white-supremacist sites.
Nabil Yousef, a Georgetown University senior and founder of Muslims for Kerry, said he hasn?t heard from any Muslims objecting to Mr. Kerry?s ethnicity. "Of all the hate e-mails we?ve gotten to our site?and there have been a lot of them?there?s only one that even mentioned Kerry?s Jewish ancestry," Mr. Yousef said. "It was from an evangelical Christian."
You may reach Tom Scocca via email at: tscocca@observer.com.
link here to Kerry Haters for Kerry
This, and all links here I found at Metafilter
Klingons for Kerry
This dude auctioned off his head on ebay for the highest paying anti-Bush tatoo
and these tidbits from Tom Scocca at NY Observer on Iraq and Muslims going after Kerry the Jew :
This past Friday, New York Times deputy editorial-page editor Andrew Rosenthal decided to share an e-mail he?d gotten with his wife. The message, attributed to Wall Street Journal writer Farnaz Fassihi, described the deteriorating conditions in and around Baghdad: "A friend drove through the Shiite slum of Sadr City yesterday. He said young men were openly placing improvised explosive devices into the ground ?. Behind the walls sits an angry Iraqi ready to detonate them as soon as an American convoy gets near. This is in Shiite land, the population that was supposed to love America for liberating Iraq."
Off the Record was not able to confirm the authenticity of the original message with its purported author or The Wall Street Journal by press time. Mr. Rosenthal said that he hadn?t confirmed it either?it arrived, he said, with "about 40 e-mail addresses on it." But after his wife forwarded it along to a group of friends, the provenance became moot: The off-channel reportage now had the stamp of The Times and The Journal on it.
So the version Off the Record received had been sent to nearly three dozen more addresses, including one "graydon_carter." Mr. Rosenthal, when asked about the phenomenon, sounded a little put out and inquired whether Off the Record would care to publicize the contents of its own most recent family e-mail. (Sure! "Subject: Fight On ? ?At Manning fella got him 320 yards and 5 touchdowns ? ?n? a first half, hon.")
Despite his initial written endorsement of the message as "incredibly powerful," Mr. Rosenthal was nonplused by the message?s appeal. He did not mean it, he said, to be taken as some sort of samizdat, telling truths that the big newspapers don?t dare to tell directly. "That?s a false color that has been put on this thing?that there was some significance in my forwarding of it," he said.
Mr. Rosenthal added that the word that things are bad in Iraq has not exactly been suppressed by The Times. To anyone who?s read the editorial page, he said, the missive is "hardly the cri de coeur of some captive of the journalistic establishment."
From Off the Record correspondent Ben Smith:
Forget purportedly self-inflicted combat wounds. Muslims Weekly, a Queens broadsheet that calls itself the "Voice of Muslim America," offers readers an old-fashioned reason to hate John Kerry: He?s a Jew.
In a Sept. 24 front-page piece titled "?President? Kerry and Axis of Occupiers," columnist Jafar Syed argues that "the father of all flip-flopping is not flip-flopping on the destruction of the Muslim World." But before he gets to policy, he focuses on the candidate?s ethnicity: "He is Jewish-rooted ?Kohan? Kerry, crying baby."
Mr. Kerry?s paternal grandfather was born Jewish with the name Fritz Kohn. Mr. Syed restores the old name, invarious spellings, and appends it to Mr. Kerry?s name for effect: "[T]hisKohnKerry, democratic nominee for president, does not care what is in the best interests of US. What he cares is the Jewish leadership. What he care is Israel First and not America First," Mr. Syed writes.
Muslims Weekly?s editor in chief, Jawed Anwar, didn?t respond to a telephone message and an e-mail seeking comment on the article, nor did Mr. Syed, whose own Web site, www.muslimmediany.org, leads with an essay titled "Jewish Leadership and the Destruction of the Muslim World."
MuslimsWeekly doesn?t publish circulation figures, but its 16 pages are packed with advertising for lawyers, travel agents, Islamic events and a "Lady Doctor." The paper won six awards last year from the Independent Press Association of New York, though much of its content seems to come from the Internet. The Sept. 24 lead analysis of Iraq, for instance, appears to be borrowed from the World Socialist Web site.
Mr. Syed?s "Kohn Kerry" phrase, however, seems to have its roots on the right rather than the left. Most English-language instances of the name online are either typos by someone trying to write "John Kerry" or the product of white-supremacist sites.
Nabil Yousef, a Georgetown University senior and founder of Muslims for Kerry, said he hasn?t heard from any Muslims objecting to Mr. Kerry?s ethnicity. "Of all the hate e-mails we?ve gotten to our site?and there have been a lot of them?there?s only one that even mentioned Kerry?s Jewish ancestry," Mr. Yousef said. "It was from an evangelical Christian."
You may reach Tom Scocca via email at: tscocca@observer.com.
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