Thursday, June 15, 2006

In the Hot Seat with Jeff Bargholz

This is aq rare opportunity to visit one of the contributors to Rocco Dipippo's excelllent site antiprotester.blogspot. This is actually the fourth member of that site I have interviewed Dr Yeagley, Freedomnow and OrangeDucks have sat for interviews. Many of us aspire to posting in front of a larger audience. Jeff, Orangeducks and Freedomnow have proven that sometimes high quality posts will be noticed by larger sites. I am very thankful to Dr Yeagley for posting a few of my posts. I hope someday Rocco will consider Possum as a possible addition to his site.

There is much ground to cover and this interview will be slightly different from the standard format.

Moonbat Central memories

1 I am a huge fan of Rocco's new site but I miss Richard Poe. Poe had a rare combination of wisdom and fortitude. He also was the best troll killer I ever saw.
What were your impressions of Richard Poe.
2 We have asked this question before. Which Moonbat Central poster would you want next to you in a foxhole?
3 Are there any Moonbat Central Posters who are still MIA that you wouldn't mind seeing. Nanc and I have excellent memories of Redbeard?

The transition from poster to columnist

4 I find that it is a different experience being a poster on a site like David Yeagley's on line Journal? When I am posting in my own site I expect a community of familiar friends and Ducky. However on a larger site there is more unpredictability.
If I am not mistaken there was some hostile feedback to your post on the Duke post.
Is defending your posts on a larger blog harder then you anticipated?
5 Is it fun to kick back as a regular poster and let someone else have the headache every so often.

Trolls

We have a wide array of pests that haunt cyberspace. We have the vulgar Socrates who I outed as Meathead with your help. Socrates was known for posting under dozens of aliases, predatory behavior and being a bore. John Brown is famous for spam and vulgarity. Uptown is just a clown act waiting to happen.

6 Who is the most vile out of the pack of trolls you encountered? Socrates would win hands downin my book.
7 Is there a troll you like to swat around? Dana from MZ's blog is tailor made for this type of abuse.
8 What are your thoughts on Ducky? I have limited respect for the Duck because he is original?
9 What do you think motivates these trolls? Warrens theory is they are modern obscene callers. I think some like Socrates are failed writers with mental defects and zero social skills. Others like Uptown are street punks who come looking for a fight.
10 I think Dana's last claim blaming the allies for the Holocaust is the prize winning most ignorant troll comment. She could top that by blaming slaves for not running fast enough to avoid capture. What is the most absurd troll comment you have seen?

Bonus question I am familiar with Socrates writing style and history. What tipped you off to the fake Professor Meathead saga? He ran that scam for years but lost it
as soon as he was outed.He can not provide details about his creations as one of us would trip him up in seconds?

Islam

11 Is there a larger conflict with Islam that extends beyond the Middle East? Why do some fail to see a larger picture?
12 Has the plight of Christians and other religious minorities living under Islamic hegemony been swept under the rug?
13 Are human rights in Muslim countries ignored by the left?
14 Some have complained that democratic movements would result in a more agressive facistic movements like Hammas and the Islamic Brotherhood gaining more power. Is the push towards Islamo democracy a possible mistake?
15 Should we tilt our policy and be more pro Indian? India is a reliable ally and a genuine democracy.

Profanity

16 I tend not to use it myself, however do people like Ducky, Brown and Veggitown deserve four letter salutes? All of the above use it frequently themselves.
17 Does the use of profanity make us seem undiciplined? Am I old fashioned?
18 There seems to be some dispute to the boundaries of free speech and sexual harassment. At work two men were told they had upset a coworker when they laughed at a tie in the newspaper? Uptown seems to think free speech includes the right to call Donal by her private parts or question La Shawn Barber about sex in motels with White Boys. Has the definition of what is objectionable become too broad?

Victimology group rights

19 Does it seem like every group is a member of an official far left victims mode except Jewish or Christian white males? How does a colonial people with a 1400 year history of Jim Crowe practices rise to the to of this victims pyramid.
20 Group rights and social Justice are antithetical to my vision of America. Is group rights a totalitarian concept?
21 What does the far left mean by Social Justice? I see this as a pretext of theft of resources via social engineering.

Random

22 What brands of beer and alcohol are you fond of?
23 Should students study the classic Greco-Roman writers of the past?
24 What films stand out in your mind as under rated classics and as over rated bores.
25 What type of music do you listen to?

Bonus questions

26 Who is the most annoying celebrity?
27 Is there one person you would like to drop on a remote Island so they could be out of the MSM news? Cindy Sheehan is my choice

68 comments:

Anonymous said...

I personally believe uppity is to stupid to be a clown wannabe! It takes brains and pathos to be able to get others to laugh at thier human condition.
Sick 'em Jeff!
Good morning and G*D bless!

tmw

Always On Watch said...

Beak,
I'm scheduled for an MRI early today, but will be back to check on the answers.

beakerkin said...

I hope all goes well. If you should see Pim's Ghost tell him to drop on bye. I would like to see if we can coax him into an interview.

Anonymous said...

AoW- I'll be praying!

tmw

Always On Watch said...

I'll notify Pim's Ghost (who is a "she," BTW).

FLORIAN said...

AOW what's wrong there dear? I hope all goes well. Will keep you in my prayers.

Always On Watch said...

Florian,
Back trouble. I got rear-ended by a cabbie last year. I had thought the back trouble had resolved, but I had a major relapse of sciatica on May 5. The pain and loss of function in my left leg are unrelenting and getting worse, though I thought that getting worse couldn't happen. I'm not looking too good for my anniversary and feel decades beyond my chronological years.

Now, the physical ailments have forced me to cut back on posting at my blog. I make blog rounds as I can.

I hope that I don't have to suffer all summer long! I can barely stand to ride in the Mustang convertible (my favorite nice-weather pastime), so I'm stuck with driving my old-lady car--when I'm up to any driving at all.

But I see a light at the end of the tunnel. Got a great ortho yesterday--at long last! I first had to get a lawyer to force my HMO not to block my diagnosis and treatment.

I started the steroids today to calm down that sciatic nerve, and I should be getting some relief in a few days. The MRI will show whether or not I have a herniated disc.

Sorry to whine here. I'm not myself these days! :(

Flo & TMW,
Yes, prayer-chain needed!!!

nanc said...

i hope to sit down to a cold one or five for this interview!

Always On Watch said...

Nanc,
I can't drink beer--allergic to hops. But sparkling wines and brandy are okay.

I'll be "ready" for the interview when responses are posted here.

(((Thought Criminal))) said...

Jeff Bargholz has an annoying habit of saying what I would have said if I had thought of it first.

Oh, I thought this was a roast...

Anonymous said...

AoW- Have had 2 attacks of sciatica in the past 26 yrs., dear me that is horrid! Can you sleep at night? I know before the shots I would be in tears because of pain. I don't usually cry, but groaning out loud upsets my 2 no end! Driving is no joy, mine is in the right leg! Prayer definatelly, and I am glad the shots are starting to work! Keep your knee above your hip, that seems to help.
Take care and let us know!

tmw

FLORIAN said...

How many of you think I should ban Uptown? He goes on his stupid continuous pointless rants and blames everything on race. We are riding the merry go round of circles in "debates" (if you can call it that). I don't want to be like a commie DU'er who bans folks for thinking opposite ideology, but he's making it very difficult to be civil.

Always On Watch said...

Beamish,
annoying habit of saying what I would have said if I had thought of it first.

Only recently have I discovered Jeff Bargholz and The Autonomist.

TMW,
Right now, I'm taking the steroids by oral dosage. We have only one recliner here, and it's my husband's; I may have to invest in another recliner. Sleeping at night became problematic the past few nights--lots of groaning, as you mentioned. My husband had to move to the spare bedroom for a few nights; but that room has no AC, so he's back downstairs now. Sciatica in the left leg is nearly as bad for driving; when one puts the right foot onto the accelerator, some weight shifts onto the left hip. Ouch! But I already feel a bit better after only three steroid pills!

nanc said...

maybe i was talking about bloody mary's, aow...you never know...

nanc said...

beamish - perhaps you did think of it first and bargholz is just your puppet!

beakerkin said...

Florian

Here is my problem with Uptown. He camps on a blog all day as if it his blog and his right. If people haven't noticed race is not a topic we discuss here.

He posts more comments then the host. He is off topic and not interested in debate he wants a fight.

He doesn't have a clue about what he is talking about. He blamed the Contras for killing four nuns in El Salvador. The rest of the planet knows government death squads were the alleged suspects and this has zero to do with the Contras. I could add 100 other chapters.

He likes to demand quotes. Okay I gave him a book and a page number has he looked it up. He also likes to call people LIAR when they disagree.He claimed never to have called people JEW but I produced the quotes now he spins.

Ducky is original and civil and posts a few times. Dana is a moron posts once or twice. Uptown posts in the teens and Brown posts upwards of fifty times.

Moreover, have the courtesy to leave. Free speech is not hundreds of posts.

Anonymous said...

Florian- As I said at MadZ's, your site is like your home, if one of the guests insists on pooping in the middle of your livingroom, do you allow them back? I don't think so, but it is your site and you know your comfort level with the situation. uppity and jobro seem to be on a mission to defecate in as many places as possible. They are following us to other sites in the blogosphere to pollute more places! They are looking for attention, but consider that they may be part of a concerted effort to harrass the more patriotic, conservative and religious sites! Think about it.

tmw

nanc said...

i don't race anymore - bad knees. thank you, beak for not discussing race. it reminds me too much of my younger days.

elmers brother said...

I think that when jobro and uppity graduate from 6th grade next year that they may take to jr high antics instead of elementary ones.

John said...

We want Bargholz! We want Bargholz! We want Bargholz...!"

Dan Zaremba said...

Florian,
From my experince I can tell you that by allowing nasties to hijack your blog you eventually lose potential readers, who just wouldn't be bothered and don't like being hassled by idiots.
I mean you do not argue with idiots.
It is pointless.
In the end by allowing one type of 'audience' you ban some other types.
As The Merry Widow said: ".. your site is like your home" and banning your guests has nothing to do with censorship.
It is an issue of being able to socialize with guest you want to socialize.

It also all depends on what your blogging aims are.
It could be just a community where you have a nice chat on line on diffrent topics, it could be an issue you feel very strongly about and you wish to get you point of view across to as many people as you can.
It could be just a steam releaser, where you can rant and have a fist fight in the end.
It could be a feel good blog or a mud throwing competition blog.

And so the choice of your audience depends on what blog profile you wish to have.

My feelings about so called free speech are fairly simple:

Yes, full rights to freedom of speach but freedom of speech doesn't mean a freedom to be heard.

Will CNN give you a free forum to express your views over and over again?

AOW,
I hope you'll feel better soon.
And take care.

beakerkin said...

Welcome to the blog Tazzmax and John. I have been looking forward to this interview myself.

Uptown when I said you were banned I meant it. I am tired of word games, stupidity and sand box antics. The blogosphere is a big place you can go somewhere else.

nanc said...

oh elbro, sixth grade...the best nine years of their lives!

nanc said...

and to think i've been out inviting people to this party and the guest of honor hasn't even arrived - fashionably late.

nanc said...

pardon - i have a couple of more invites to personally present.

uptownseteve said...

But I LIKE you beaker.

Don't you know that?

uptownseteve said...

beaker

I'll make a deal with you.

Just let me debate bargholz for one day after his interview.

PUH-LEEZE.

I promise that I'll leave your blog forever after and never enter again.

I SWEAR ON MY SONS!!!!

nanc said...

tazz came all the way from california...

nanc said...

ODG - up's a fargin' fag, beak - he's just puttin' the make on you!

it's like first grade where the kid who likes you just pulls your hair or kick's you in the shin - only when you're our age, it's called s&m!

beakerkin said...

Uptown

I published this to show I have a sense of humor. Since you like me how about sending me a post card from wherever you go.

I do not wish you or anyone other then Socrates bad fortune. Good luck have a great time and see you in around twenty years.

nanc said...

beak asks bargholz:

"2 We have asked this question before. Which Moonbat Central poster would you want next to you in a foxhole?"

of course, he'd want a fox next to him in the foxhole!

beakerkin said...

As Warren didn't post much send in Beamish cause he is resourceful and has a razor sharp sense of humor.

uptownseteve said...

Where did we go wrong beak?

nanc said...

excuse me while i go wash my mind out with soap...

beakerkin said...

I will grant you something others do not. In your own way you have a sense of honor. You post under one name and are on the level what you see is what you get.

Here is the problem you want sources fine did you check. Anyone can make some of the mistakes you have. You got El Salvador and the Contas mixed up and I bothed Louima and Diallo. However when I mixed up the cases I said you are correct.

The big problem is quanity and tone. Nobody is opposed to two or three on topic non vulgar posts.

Hey Beak you are wrong because of XYZ. Fine and I respond no problem.

Race is not a major focus of mine never has been. Honor transcends race and either you have it or you don't.

uptownseteve said...

beak

I admitted that I was wrong about El Salvador/Nicaragua.

Why didn't you mention that?

uptownseteve said...

beak

I could easily hang out at Hank Snow's blog "donalandbeaksuck.com" and make fun of you but that's boring.

I want to commune with YOU beak.

You have so much to say.

And I have so much to dispute.

nanc said...

your arrogance is underwhelming, up.

beakerkin said...

Snow needs the readers. Lets see there is Ducky, John Brown and Aliases and Socrates pen names Layme, Beakerpoop and soon he will bring back Muster Quark.

Take a closer look at Snows writting and get back to me.Snow borders on the moronic you mispelled Forty but Snow can't comprehend the realities of Union Square, Bensonhurst, SI or Fort Greene for a reason other then that he is a bonehead.

beakerkin said...

Lets try this again I know the Commie Central America playbook quite well.

The four Marryknoll nuns were allegedy killed by Salvadoran Death Squads. Even in Commie fantasies they have zero to do with they Contas.

(((Thought Criminal))) said...

I remember back in the Moonbat Central Wars of 2005 Jeff Bargholz wielded a fiercely sharp keyboard.

Many stupid leftist (forgive the redundancy) arguments have been eviscerated by Mr. Bargholz.

FLORIAN said...

Hanks blog is a bore--he needs readership badly--like Brownie.
So where is Jeff Bargholz at?
Kicking back some Samuel Adams I presume?

Anonymous said...

I remember Muster Quark, shudder, confused that's all I can say, confused!

tmw

beakerkin said...

An amazing interview well worth the wait

Mad Zionist said...

Great job, JB. I agree...Choosing big hooters over MZ in that fox hole would make perfect sense. Question: No spirits? I'd have pegged you as a Scotch drinker for sure, or maybe a Jamesons whisky guy. How'd you not get into that segment of the drinking genre?

-MZ

beakerkin said...

Somehow if the idea is to get back alive out of that foxhole I would choose a quick nimble creative mind like Mr Beamish.

Kiddo said...

Hey Beak, I'm game. Let me know.

Kiddo said...

Hey Beak, I'm game. Just let me know!

beakerkin said...

Let me know what day you are available and I will prepare an interview.

beakerkin said...

Uptown I will grant your request but keep it civil. Please do not swear on your children. Just show some honor stay on point and focused.

Always On Watch said...

So this is where so many of my friends have been the past several hours? I should have known!

I'll be back later to check out the answers. Getting ready to go to the swimming pool. The steroids have kicked in, and I'm no pain-free enough to do some rehabilitation.

beakerkin said...

Educators on steroids may be a new trend. How it will impact students remains unclear. Steroids are used to promote healing. AOW is not going to challenge Barry Bonds to a homerun hitting contest, I hope.

elmers brother said...

Big Hooters? Cool. Jeff I am relatvely new to the community but I have enjoyed your comments. You're articulate and eloquent. I enjoyed your interview.

Anonymous said...

That was a great interview. Thanks Jeff and Beak!

Anonymous said...

Whew! Modem died, BellSouth came and replaced it. Tis the season for lightening!
Nice job Jeff, glad you showed! I agree withe Hitlary comment, but it might be too good for her! as for the profanity, agree with you there Jeff, gentlemen are a nice find!
AoW- Glad the steroids are kicking in, sciatica is best when avoided!
Good afternoon and G*D bless!

tmw

Always On Watch said...

EB,
I am relatvely new to the community

And a fine participant you are!

It was one lucky day when I found Beak and this little family here! No matter where I travel throughout the blogosphere, I always come back here--sort of my touchstone.

Always On Watch said...

Beak & Jeff,
Wow! This is an outstanding interview--both questions and answers.

I'm going to go back and read all of it more thoroughly.

nanc said...

excellent, j.b. - well worth the wait and remember this, big jugs usually go way south eventually. thank God for perkies!

Always On Watch said...

Beak,
Educators on steroids may be a new trend. How it will impact students remains unclear.

LOL.

School is out for the summer, but on a weekly bases I still have piano students and one or two students to tutor, when my back allows for my teaching schedule.

Steroids are used to promote healing.

I was suffering so badly on Thursday that if the doc had said, "Into surgery with you this minute," I'd have gone.

I get one week only of the steroids, just to settle down the sciatic nerve. I'm getting back to normal, as of today.

AOW is not going to challenge Barry Bonds to a homerun hitting contest, I hope.

At my age? Hardly! I certainly don't want to bulk up. I don't feel an edge, that's for sure.

I used to be fair with the bat at school. My father taught me how to play baseball, but back then girls playing baseball was frowned upon, and I never much cared for softball. BTW, back in his youth, around 1930, Dad was offered a job with the Yankess--control pitcher. A scout spotted Dad playing sandlot ball and thought he had promise.

But Dad preferred the simple life, at home in the country. He refused to go with the agent. Too bad!

beakerkin said...

Nanc

That equipment may not be the optimal resource for getting out of a foxhole. A sharp mind and an upbeat persona would be more optimal in that situation. Of course if I was stuck in a foxhole with Pam Anderson I could use her as a decoy and get away but little else.

John said...

Captain Kirk would beat Captain Picard in armwrestling.

nanc said...

ditto, john. but picard could talk him out of the event, i'd bet, if i were a betting woman.

nanc said...

bwaaaaaahhhhh - i call them "pant tuckers"!!!

(((Thought Criminal))) said...

Did someone say breasteses?

Anonymous said...

Nanc, Kirk was pretty straight forward, if you needed a right to the jaw you wouldn't be talking about anything! Picard needs to stay at the wine tasting, or be used to mop up the spills.
Beaker- Mitchner is a detail writer, so is Tom Clancy, that is why I like thier books, they really dig into how things work! That's why I enjoy history, so much there to chew on!
Good interview! If you ever do a bad interview, I'd probably keel over in shock!
Good morning and G*D bless all!

tmw

nanc said...

i never really liked history until i had a good one...

Freedomnow said...

JB,

You got a memory like a bionic cat. I forgot the names of all of those trolls that we used have long, drawn out battles with.

It makes me wonder if they started their own blogs too. The shutting down of MBC that left me with a large chunk of time available that was formerly reserved for hitting the MBC comments. I was 100% motivated to blog.

Heres to David H and Richard P. They started a fire....

(((Thought Criminal))) said...

Hell yeah they did.