I always thought that what made "us better than them" was that we always cared and they, hardly ever.......I am not saying that you need to mourn him, but just that you say nothing at all....I found his writing nasty and vile, but I will not rejoice in the death of any man woman or child...this reminds me of the all-too-vile scenes at executions where people express joy that someone has died.....fuck that!
"W. Kiernan" <wkiernan at ij.net> wrote:Ian Murray wrote:
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> Would you have wanted Kelly to cheer your death?
He would have! You read any of his stuff the last year and a half? Every time I picked up the paper and saw his byline in the editorials he was ranting about how you and I are unspeakably eee-vil traitors.
Max Sawicky says Kelly was a fine battlefield reporter back in 1991. I don't know because I didn't read too much of his war-reportage stuff. The last few years though, he's been an editorialist and his output was genuinely imbecilic McCarthyite rubbish, down there in the muck with the likes of Coulter and O'Reilly.
But all that's besides the point anyway. I get paid by the hour, he was an influential, rich right-winger. Do you think he'd have given a shit if I got killed?
Fuck the rich. Especially the right-wing rich. I start caring if they live or die the day after any of them start caring if I live or die. If I feel an urge to get all weepy over this incident, maybe I'll mourn the nameless, faceless dead grunt who was driving the truck when it crashed. Who unlike Kelly didn't have the option to say "I'm off to the Hilton" any time he felt like it.
Yours WDK - WKiernan at concentric.net ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk
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