Dear Hussein Naboulsi,
I know you’re still monitoring my Web site. At least you kept monitoring me long after the two of us stopped talking – if "talking" is the right word. One of my colleagues said you told him I’m blacklisted because of what I wrote about you in the LA Weekly. You won’t give me quotes anymore. You won’t give him quotes anymore either because he’s tainted by his association with me.
What do you people expect? It’s one thing when you trot out your impotent Death to America slogans. It’s another thing altogether when you threaten and bully us personally. I’m not a wire agency reporter. When you talk to me you’re on the record. When you say “We know who you are, we read everything you write, and we know where you live,” you’re on the record. Of course I’m going to quote you. If you don’t want to look like an asshole in print, don’t act like an asshole in life.
That last line is damn funny.
Sounds like these guys watch too much Sopranos.
What I find facinating is Michael Totten's approach to reporting on Hezbollah which depicts them as the totalitarian thugs they really are . . .
Guess Who's Coming to Iftar
Open Letter
compared to Michael Ware's approach to reporting on Iraqi insurgents which glorifies known ex-tolalitarian thugs as "dishonered" and "[Iraq's] West Pointers, who are fighting what they see as a war of liberation " . . . - see radio interview