The Shark looked up . . .

. . . And saw Warren Kinsella. Today has been one helluva of day for our heroic battler against old men and mouth-breathing trogs. First he posted about his disagreement with Jonathan Kay and his recent article, at the bottom of which he solicited responses, both supportive and not so much. Then he posted several of those responses, including Jason Cherniak's sad story of childhood woe. Soon after he posted a not-so-supportive e-mail from an anonymous person. So what does Warren do? He takes the e-mail of the sender, harvests the IP address, and tracks it back to the Privy Council Office. Now, before you let that bit of sleuthing impress you, any 14 year old script kiddie can do that. The real issue is that Warren just cannot accept that anyone can disagree with him and, well, still be human. This person had to be tracked down and exposed! And then he posts this:

from the blog of some rightist Einstein who labours under the appellation "Free Born Canuck," and declines to let anyone know his true identity (like most of them, because it means Mom and Dad will rescind their computer privileges), responding to my post that sent Messrs. Kay, Steyn, Levant and the Anti-Muslim Phalangists into spit-flecked apoplexy:

"Is there not some fearful symmetry here that the symbol that killed 600,000 jews is now an inverse symbol for the virtues of limited speech?"

There you go. Along with some wince-inducing purple prose, the latest Far Right Free Speech Poster Boy (FRFSPB, for short) informs us that: (a) "600,000 jews," quote unquote, were killed in the Holocaust, and (b) the swastika is the banner under which those of us who favour reasonable limitations on expression - say, hate propaganda and violent pornography - now march. ( The swastika. In Canada. On those who oppose hate ...oh, you get it.)

And people ask me why Liberals like me win elections so often.

Does anyone really wonder why people want to remain anonymous when dealing with Warren? Really? Because I have to wonder why anyone would want to conduct any discourse with him when he obviously cannot distinguish between private and public and has so little regard for other opinions. I mean, not only can you not disagree with Warren, Warren will go out of his way to mis-characterize your comments (see the misprint in the example above, 600,000 should be 6,000,000 which Warren kindly distorts to mean the guy is a holocaust denier instead of a bad "zero" counter. God forbid someone should make an error!). Good lord, if you criticize someone on Warren's side he will write the most flattering bit of fellatio and then condemn you to hell for uttering a bad word about them. See Warren's latest shot at Ezra Levant, or his vomit inducing support of Richard Warman. But most disgusting is his obvious hypocrisy. Warren must have an IQ above room temp yet he can't seem to tell the difference between an HRC witch hunt and a libel case. Somehow, if there is any way to write something with a bit of spin or distortion to make another look bad, Warren will do it. And that is the real answer to Warren's question, "And people ask me why Liberals like me win elections so often?" The Liberals win so often because they're a bunch of liars, crooks, hypocrites who will say, write, or do ANYTHING to win.

Me, I'd rather have my self-respect.