I’m chagrined that a Roy Belmont comment got lost. I don’t censor comments unless the commenters are claiming to be other people, or they use scatological obscenity and namecalling.
Belmont writes:
I’m not a professional, but I write a lot and like most people who do
I have an affection for the things I make with words. Add in the
crucial nature of most of the stuff you’re talking about at
Mondoweiss, and there’s an investment in what gets put there that’s
pretty strong. Anything other than the shallow American consensus
around Jewish/Israeli issues is heavy with all kinds of tension, from
all kinds of corners. A lot of self-justified nastiness, a lot of, as
I’m sure you’re more than aware, threats and animosity from anonymous
and semi-anonymous individuals. Not to mention our beloved sekurity
personnel, here and elsewhere, official and covert.
So.
I put up a comment here:
link to tinyurl.com
it went away.
I mentioned its disappearance here:
http://www.philipweiss.org/2008/10/mailer-told-diana-trilling-ideas-couldnt-get-in-the-way-of-a-true-friendship.html?cid=134620507#comments
Martillo says it’s there but he doesn’t link it, and I think he’s
confused about which one I mean.
Weiss: I’m lookin for it…
thank you roy. i have also had comments disappear. i have assumed that they were taken down. i would be happy to know that that isn't the case. were they or not? i have written several times to ask.
thank you roy. i have also had comments disappear. i have assumed that they were taken down. i would be happy to know that that isn't the case. were they or not? i have written several times to ask.
Roy, I somehow doubt your comment disappeared is it this comment:
comments page 2:
Are we supposed to think it's just simple coincidence that Bernanke and Greenspan are Jews?
Are we supposed to be reassured that Paulson, former CEO of Goldman Sachs, isn't a Jew?
Wolfowitz jumping around between the US State Dept. and the IMF, coincidence? Chertoff, Mukasey, Negroponte, and who knows who else…
No connection. No pattern, nothing but that ancient irrational substanceless prejudice that says Jews will undermine with self-interest any state they prosper in – it's all irrational bigotry, nothing more.
The problem I have personally is no one defends this with reason and fact, there's only the hate sites and all that racist spew crashing against a stone wall of silence and disdain that wants it disappeared unexamined, unanswered.
So who will tell us?
Richard Witty with his calm assurances?
I'd listen more closely Richard but all you do is deny, and you never back up your assertions, and you do so in defense of things like Occupied Palestine that are provably morally indefensible.
I crawled through 4 years of vicious calumny and nasty behind the scenes response, some hurtful some damaging and all frightening in intensity, to my heartfelt and intellectually honest questions and eventual conclusions – that the Iraq invasion and occupation was greatly influenced by Jewish/Israeli interests – and never once saw that refuted competently and honestly and factually anywhere.
And eventually had it confirmed, not least here.
Nothing ever came from the other side but over-confident craziness and manipulative word games.
Just disdain, sarcasm, bitterness, and baseless assertions.
You, and people like you, Richard, have allowed the heat of anti-Semitism to burn, to become fire, by your arrogance and by your cowardice.
Posted by: Roy Belmont | October 06, 2008 at 05:18 PM
so what is the answer to this mystery? if phil isn't doing it, how is it happening? anyone else have this problem?
i kinda stopped bothering to post because of this.
so what is the answer to this mystery? if phil isn't doing it, how is it happening? anyone else have this problem?
i kinda stopped bothering to post because of this.
so what is the answer to this mystery? if phil isn't doing it, how is it happening? anyone else have this problem?
i kinda stopped bothering to post because of this.
The key is that tiny little minuscule infinitesimal arrow [«] at the bottom of the comments which leads to the unlableled as such page 2. Or 1 as the case may be. Which my elder ADD imprecise vision failed to scan as pertinent.
Like I said to Phil, better I should look like a fool than things should be disappearing.
Though I would have much preferred neither to be the case.
Peters, the problem seems to be on threads with many comments, which get broken up into multiple pages. Roy's link, for example, brings him in past the page he is looking for.
Look for the little ">>" and "<<" arrows at the bottom of the page.
Roy Belmont's comment copied here above remains as a comment to Phil's article beginning with JM's name and invoking Jewish bankers–in this blog's Oct Archive–if memory serves, there were at least 64 postings.
I think Witty began the posts, with something like, "Now you've done it."
Indeedy. Phil should get more into this topic considering history and the current economic crisis.
It took me quite a few weeks to discover second page of the comments.
You only get the illusion of things vanishing if you are merrily posting on the page 1 of comments, but by the time you have finished typing, somebody else posted just a fraction of time earlier than you, and those other people's posts pushed your post to the second page.
I remember feeling very happy when I worked it out!!
Looks like Peters also sings Kilted's venerable instructional mantra:
"tell them what you're going to tell them, tell them, and then tell them what you told them!"
It's a joke, Peters, that comment from Kilted was so funny I couldn't resist a little redux.
'It took me quite a few weeks to discover second page of the comments.'
Me too – don't worry about it Roy. I appreciate your comments, here and at Jon Schwartz' place.