Nick Cohen Shocker: “It’s all been done by the reptiles, by the Jews.”
by Transmontanus, 11 February 2008
The funny headline is intended to attract the attention of our British readers, of whom I make this one, small, modest request: If the 9-11 Conspirazoids - those intellectual equivalents of Holocaust deniers - decide to make a habit of confronting and harassing our dear comrade Nick on the street, as they did recently (see a couple of minutes or so into this tube, although the first bits are instructive as well), please reciprocate by deciding that you will adopt a custom of similarly situating yourselves, with bells on, full of piss and vinegar, and filled with the resolve to give no quarter and show no mercy.
I’m about sick to the teeth of all the highbrow “free speech” debates that moral leprosy of this kind tends to set off ad nauseum ad infinitum. In matters like this, the role of “speech” exhausts its relevance with these words:
Do Not Fuck With Nick Cohen.
Monday 11 February 2008 at 20:51
Nick Cohen should have physically stomped that idiot’s guts out.
Monday 11 February 2008 at 21:21
“I’m about sick to the teeth of all the highbrow “free speech” debates that moral leprosy of this kind tends to set off ad nauseum ad infinitum.”
I like that formulation. Moral leprosy, however, doesn’t quite work as since the early 1980s the disease can be diagnosed and treated successfully within the community. These fuckers quite obviously can’t.
Perhaps something like ‘moral ebola’ — or perhaps some other retrovirus (all uncurable) would be more apt?
Monday 11 February 2008 at 21:26
Moral ebola then. Better.
Monday 11 February 2008 at 21:27
P.S. My affection for Nick is greater than my contempt for his detractors, even so.
Monday 11 February 2008 at 21:49
If I ever run into Nick Cohen, I’m going to kick him so hard there’ll be wee squitting out his nostrils for some of the shite he wrote in What’s Left–but he’s right about truthers.
Monday 11 February 2008 at 22:22
You know very well you wouldn’t, my dear Hak. And I am shocked and astonished you would use such intemperate language at this respectable web lodge.
Will shall ban you next. You know how sensitive he is.
Monday 11 February 2008 at 22:29
She would.
Monday 11 February 2008 at 22:31
But didn’t the Hitch praise Nick Cohen’s book? Does he deserve a punch?
Monday 11 February 2008 at 22:33
The Hitch is not the moral arbiter in this matter of kicking Cohen.
I am!
Monday 11 February 2008 at 23:00
Just like the anti-vaccine crowd, but even more loopy.
Monday 11 February 2008 at 23:06
Nick Cohen: Do not; Fuck with.
I shall now retire to compose a haiku.
T
Monday 11 February 2008 at 23:07
Would too–BNP my shiny metal tuches!
Monday 11 February 2008 at 23:25
Nick Cohen: A Haiku.
(Clears throat)
Soft though the snow falls,
Must I repeat: Do not fuck
with Nick? The cat sleeps.
(Exits left to delicate applause and murmurs of admiration; gets kicked in ass by Hak; recovers composure, stumbles through doors of neighboring pub, broods; within an hour, has forgotten everything).
Monday 11 February 2008 at 23:40
Digibox on blink.
Always missing turning point.
Tree falls in forest.
Monday 11 February 2008 at 23:53
Neither digibox,
Nor turning point, changes it:
Must not fuss with Nick.
Monday 11 February 2008 at 23:53
Please stop me before I harm myself.
Monday 11 February 2008 at 23:57
[glavin comment deleted for his own sake]
Tuesday 12 February 2008 at 0:45
Tuesday 12 February 2008 at 1:45
These pricks do get around.
More leprosy here:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=0gk9sABtJxM
Tuesday 12 February 2008 at 2:45
Yes but. Note quotation marks around “liberals,” my dear scary censor voice inside these [ ] things. And it depends on what you mean by “liberals,” which point I hope does not ignite a chain reaction of the sort following your recent great posts on fash.
Ben says he clapped for Cohen. Means he’s a friend.
Cohen, viz. fuck-with-do-not. Now ditto Ben.
Tuesday 12 February 2008 at 2:58
Ben is a dipshit who comments at HP Sauce and is therefore *very* fucking lucky that I don’t just delete his liberal arse away.
If Ben ever came within twenty yards of myself he better be ready to fucking run as a consequence of his proximity to HP Sauce scum. These people are my enemy (this is so). These people make me want to resort to violence.
I have a bat. My bat is bigger than their’s.
Bang.
Tuesday 12 February 2008 at 3:06
In fact — having a period of contemplation — Ben is deleted. I have no time nor patience for these ‘people’.
Fuck them all.
Harry’s Place filth.
Tuesday 12 February 2008 at 7:38
I guess another haiku won’t help much, then.
Tuesday 12 February 2008 at 9:40
please reciprocate by deciding that you will adopt a custom of similarly situating yourselves, with bells on, full of piss and vinegar, and filled with the resolve to give no quarter and show no mercy
Exercise your right to free speech in other words?
Tuesday 12 February 2008 at 20:13
[oh noes — not that crap again]