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"FASCIST SWINE"
NYC-based ER physician Kenneth Weinberg sends a friendly note to Mark Steyn:
I think that the best thing your moronic President has done for this country is show the total bankruptcy of the neo-con agenda. Keep up your nasty, hateful diatribes as the Republicans in Congress continue to drop out, your presidential candidates run campaigns that sound as if they have had their heads up the asses of deluded Christian conservatives for the last 50 years and your mean-spirited party goes down in flames next year. Maybe then you fascist swine will get a bit of insight about how much you have fucked this country.
Someone needs a blood-pressure check, stat! Meanwhile, here’s Swine ... er, Steyn on the indestructibility of clichés.
Geez, Mark is getting letters from a lot of crabby people. Do you think they would waterboard him if they had the chance?
Posted by Mystery Meat on 2007 11 03 at 11:24 AM • permalinkHmm. “Kenneth Weinberg is an emergency physician in a community hospital in the New York City suburbs and an instructor in The Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University . . .”
Well, if his “narrative” is anything like that temper tantrum in the post, I’m not sure that his students are learning anything that’s going to be much use in the ER. God help you if you happen to get wheeled into Weinberg’s ER wearing a Giuliani or Thompson button on your lapel. The good doctor probably interprets those as “Do Not Resuscitate”.
This is totally off topic, but I thought I would just stop by to let my old sparring partners know that I voted for them over at the “2007 Weblog Awards” as “Best Australia or New Zealand Blog”. And it was not just because you were the only Aussie blog that I recognized either. (Well maybe a little.)
So you guys keep up the good work(that I totally disagree with), and good luck on winning such a prestigious award.
G’day
I hope I never have to get treated by a doctor like that guy.
Steyn, as usual, is right. Much of the leftist rot inflicting supposedly sane, sensible people today came from a lifetime of movies about government conspiracies. You never see a movie where people in government are the good guys. They’re always super-competent, though boorish, usually cowardly, and completely evil liars. Unless they’re communists or Nazis, of course, and then they’re suave, sophisticated, and have hearts of gold.
Say, doctor, remember all those people wheeled into your ER? The drive-by shootings over turf wars, the tourist beaten up in Central Park by a gang of wilders, the drug overdoses, the hookers with 57 varieties of STDs, the 12 year old going into labor, the alcoholic who consumed too much Prestone, etc.
It’s all Bush’s fault.
And Christian conservatives.
Don’t forget the ugly, vicious mean-spirited Christians.This guy should tour with Ted Dalrymple…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 11 03 at 01:02 PM • permalinkFrankly, I think that anyone under Weinberg’s “care”, and not toeing the leftie party line, is in danger of losing life or limb, regardless of the Hippocratic Oath.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 11 03 at 01:03 PM • permalinkGreat photoshop on the guy Weinberg is probably supporting for President.
Don Surber has the perfect line to describe Kucinich: “The Big Cashew on Nutball island.”
I suspect the good doctor needs to get away for a long vacation. I understand that Wonderland and Promises are lovely this time of year.
Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2007 11 03 at 01:54 PM • permalink#17 Bruce: You’ve got the right idea. But surely, the good doctor would prefer one of those excellent Cuban facilities?
#20 Paco: Not a bad idea, but those facilities are strictly for the locals. Foreigners are sent to Villa El Cocal, Villa El Quinque, Villa El Colibrí and Punta Ventura.
Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2007 11 03 at 02:42 PM • permalink#19 paco,
Where’s Murtha? Or Pelosi? Or any other senior members of the House Democrat delegation?
I suspect the Nutroots are making a list, and checking it twice…
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 11 03 at 02:44 PM • permalinkIt’s good to see the young doctor is above name calling.
Posted by swassociates on 2007 11 03 at 02:48 PM • permalinkPaco
We have Baghdad Jim McDermott here in Seattle
Posted by swassociates on 2007 11 03 at 02:49 PM • permalinkLoved Mark’s reply:
Thanks for sharing, but you’re the one who seems to be “outraged” - shit, fucking, faggot, asses, fascist, blah blah blah. I only hope, for the sake of your patients, you don’t read my column just before going into the operating theater. As for the invitation to come to your ER and have a “talk”, what’s with the quote marks? Are you some scalpel-wielding Laurence Olivier and I’m Dustin Hoffman?
Yikes!
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 11 03 at 03:06 PM • permalink"scoundrel” is far too kind, paco, and implies some degree of intelligence. I prefer “lazy, self centered narcissistic slob” myself, especially for McDermott (from my state, but not my part of the state, thank GOD). Although I admit that “scoundrel” is much shorter.
I imagine that Weinberg would love to be McDermott’s personal physician. Talk about two
peas in a podnuts in a shell!Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 11 03 at 04:27 PM • permalink#25: So, bad ass Doctor “Kid Twist” Weinberg gonna shank the Steyn with his bad ass scalpel in his bad ass ER, huh? I don’t think the doc is doin’ too well with that Hippocratic oath thing, but he be doin’ just fine with the Hypocritical oath.
The internet is amazing in its ability to flush out self-styled tough guys who think the “tappa-tap-tap” of their keyboards has the same effect as grabbing a guy by his lapels, or pulling a .45 from underneath one’s topcoat. Cyber courage isn’t even as convincing as Dutch courage.
Weinberg
Gee, wonder how long he’d last in an Isl-America? Jewish, isn’t it?
Maybe then you fascist swine will get a bit of insight about how much you have fucked this country.
Careful, Weinberg your words just may to haunt you....Idiot. Israel doesn’t even want your ilk. As a physician, you make a great typist.
Back in the day when I was training, I was treated to the following piece of medical wisdom:
“Everyone who works in the ER becomes a Republican.”
IIRC, I was told this in the ER just after sewing up an abusive drunk. I have always viewed it as one of the best pieces of life advice I ever got. Sadly, I guess the good Dr. Weinberg is the exception that proves the rule.
#31,
Let see; abusive, short tempered, foul mouthed, vindictive, cruel, greedy, mal-socialized, impertinent, snarky, and smug. Why, that sounds like the left’s ideal Republican.
Posted by mythusmage on 2007 11 03 at 06:18 PM • permalinkWhy do the muzzies hate us?
Because they think westerners are an amoral, licencious bunch of big-titted, whoring, hard drinking, drug snorting, consumeristic, hedonistic dilletants led by a devious and corrupt government that is in bed with criminal corporations.
Where do they get that opinion from?
Hollywood of course.
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 11 03 at 06:46 PM • permalink4. Here’s the long version. I especially like “antiwar 60s hippie” and “wife Ona, a psychoanalyst.” An expert on projection, hostility, inferiority complexes, and moonbat psychosis, I’m guessing.
Posted by arrowhead ripper on 2007 11 03 at 07:04 PM • permalinkI discovered the pernicious influence of Hollywood whilst traveling through Europe many years ago.
There were several occasions when I had young American women hook up with me for a week or two for the simple reason that they trusted me not to molest them, and to protect them from those that would. The Italians were particularly bad - they had this idea that all yanks were easy, and would simply walk up and ask them for a fuck, or grab their arse or tits and expect them to like it.
I had a rather nasty night on a train when a whole gang of wogs tried to get into our six person cabin in order to “chat up” the women. I spent the entire trip with my legs against the door to keep the amorous bastards out. They saw a yank woman with a backpack, and figured she was up for it.
If the Europeans could be convinced from watching movies and TV, I have no doubt that the muzzies could develop the same opinions.
The Italian men seemed to think that being easy was a great idea, and were all for reinforcing their delusions. I can see how fanatical muzzies could take umbrage at our supposedly amoral societies and believe that it is God’s will that we be destroyed. Sodom and Gomorrah and all that.
Don’t blame Canada. Blame Hollywood.
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 11 03 at 07:23 PM • permalinkRe #34, that’s an interesting read. Not Weinberg (paco in #38 has it right), but the rest of that board of directors.
Taking the write up at face value, there’s quite a bit of prestige and credibility, with links to major corporations like Merrill Lynch. Not as much as I’m sure they would have us believe, but still, there are some connections there.
Were I a member of this board, I would not be happy that one of my peers wrote the sort of letter Weinberg sent Steyn. It impugns upon the dignity of the board.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 11 03 at 08:29 PM • permalinkWhat is it with lefties calling anyone who doesn’t agree with them a Nazi? Ken old son, Hitler was a socialist - he and his henchmen believed in the absolute primacy of the State over the individual. Collectivism was their creed. Ken, it’s you and your ilk who are the kissin’ cousins to Adolf; Mark Steyn is at the opposite end of the spectrum.Hitler was a socialist
For fascist
dogs,swine,pigs...Noooo.... that’s not it.
Hmm.
Wolf, wolves, that’s it, fascist wolves[/], you shoulda seen Naomi Wolf on Sunday this AMApparently, from the demented stew of delusion and arrant moonbattery she vomited forth to a bemused interviewer, she has been searched when returning to the US in case she was an Arab splodeydope (she does not support ‘racial profiling’ either).
This is apparently incontrovertible proof that Bush is planning to ditch the US constitution, take over as the dictator of the USA and impose totalitarianism. The obvuous answer for Naomi
whackjob,erm,moonbat, WOLF, yes, that’s it, has been to write a book about Bush’s eeeevvviiill plan. And call for his impeachment, of course.And to make some dosh.
Oh, and this brain-dead bimbo has never spoken to anyone who likes Bush or has voted for him, and is apparently unable to understand that this means she must move in a very small bubble indeed.
When even the Sunday team were incredulous, it’s bad.
I nearly split my sides laughing.
MarkL
canberraThe Emergency Room of Doctor
MoreauWeinbergWith apologies to H.G. Wells
An ambulance pulls up to the doors of the Emergency Room of Doctor Weinberg.The paramedics lift a gurney out of the ambulance and wheel a patient inside: a modestly-dressed man who has been seriously injured in an automobile accident.
Dr. Weinberg is sitting in a chair in the back of the receiving room, smoking a joint and reading the latest edition of Mother Jones. Nearby, the ER personnel are bustling to and fro; a collection of repulsive creatures - half human, half Republican – they are the results of Dr. Weinberg’s attempts to upgrade those who were not fortunate enough to share his political beliefs.
Dr. Weinberg notices that a patient has been brought in, and curses under his breath. The pot has given him a serious case of “the munchies”, and he was thinking of running over to the cafeteria for a veggie burrito. Now he must wait.
Dr. Weinberg: “Ok, what’s this guy’s problem?”
Nurse (a humpbacked female with cat whiskers and long nails): “Him hurt; run over by car, Doctor. You want me prepare him for x-rays?”
Dr. Weinberg (unhooking bullwhip from his belt and cracking it loudly): “What is the law?”
Nurse (cringing): “Law is . . . before treatment . . . first discover political . . .political . . . affiliation!”
Dr. Weinberg: “Right! Now, let’s look him over.”Dr. Weinberg fingers the man’s lapels, and then suddenly withdraws his hand, as if bitten, swearing and sucking on his index finger. He grabs the patient’s lapel, and turns it back, discovering a “Giuliani for President” button. He smiles with evil glee. “This man is a Republican! Take him . . . to the Room of Pain!” A frightened murmur rises from the assistants and nurses. Dr. Weinberg cracks his whip.
“What is the law?”
An intern (eyeglasses poised on a pig-like snoot), mutters: “Law is . . .grunt, grunt . . . turn Republicans from beasts . . . into men.”
A large male nurse (with pointed, Doberman ears and sharp teeth) growls. “Wait! Dr. Weinberg. You say you turn Republicans into men. But look at us! Not men. Not Republicans. Just . . .undecided voters!” The ER personnel variously bark, growl, grunt, squeak, howl and neigh assent.
Crack!, goes the whip. Dr. Weinberg shouts hysterically, “What is the law?” His assistants crowd around him, no longer afraid, emboldened by Doberman’s true talk, and the sudden realization of the superiority of their numbers. They rush Dr. Weinberg and carry him off to the Room of Pain.
A few days letter, Mark Steyn sat in his office, puzzling over a crudely-worded letter he had received in the mail (the return address was the New York Animal Shelter):
Deer Misstur Stine:
Too late for us. But Doktur Wineburg, him not bodder you no more. Down with Hilarie!
Woof, woof !
Hee-hee.
There’s a reason why paco’s called the “Comment Czar”.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 11 04 at 12:00 AM • permalink#37 mr creosote
If the Europeans could be convinced from watching movies and TV, I have no doubt that the muzzies could develop the same opinions.
The Italian men seemed to think that being easy was a great idea, and were all for reinforcing their delusions. I can see how fanatical muzzies could take umbrage at our supposedly amoral societies and believe that it is God’s will that we be destroyed. Sodom and Gomorrah and all that.
Don’t blame Canada. Blame Hollywood.
We do.. oh believe me, we do.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 11 04 at 12:05 AM • permalink#4 Paco,
WTF is “Narrative Medicine”? Does it consist of having the physicians and nurses sitting around discussing post-existential angst while the patients expire on the ER gurneys?Silly me; from Wikipedia:
“Since the 1970s western medicine has fallen victim to the professionalism movement. Many medical schools and residency programs train physicians as objects. As of late 1990s physians like Rachael Niomi Remen, and Rita Charon have emphasized that medical practice should be structured around the narraive.”Run for your lives. Next thing they’ll be bringing back the Four Humours, since those are obviously more authentic than wretched, modern, scientific medicine.
Wikipedia: Narrative MedicinePosted by Michael Lonie on 2007 11 04 at 12:15 AM • permalink#55 Michael: Oh, swell. Medical deconstructionism.
Patient: Doctor, some gang banger cut me with a knife and I’m bleeding to death!
Doctor: Tut, tut, Mr. Smith. You’ve just been conditioned to see a causal relationship between an edged instrument and exsanguination; probably a racial prejudice based on notions you picked up as a result of living in a predominantly white neighborhood.
Patient: Utters death rattle and expires
Doctor: Nurse! Get this one into the diversity-training ward, immediately!
Columbia University’s Narrative Medicine mission statement sounds more gruesome than the average emergency room case:
“Narrative Medicine fortifies clinical practice with the narrative competence to recognize, absorb, metabolize, interpret, and be moved by the stories of illness. Through narrative training, the Program in Narrative Medicine helps doctors, nurses, social workers, and therapists to improve the effectiveness of care by developing the capacity for attention, reflection, representation, and affiliation with patients and colleagues. Our research and outreach missions are conceptualizing, evaluating, and spear-heading these ideas and practices nationally and internationally.”
They’re metabolizing their patients! Steyn was right to be worried.
They need Greg House as a resident. ("I know you’re in there! I can hear you caring!")
Posted by Ernst Blofeld on 2007 11 04 at 01:58 AM • permalinkDoes the Program in Narrative Medicine have a class in.... penmanship, per chance? Given the large number of deaths caused by this circumstance, it might be the most helpful class they could offer!
I really don’t want to see the good doctor “metabolize” on duty, thank you very much. Overarching gibberish.
Perfect resume booster-antiwar 60’s hippie.
Provided medical support for the slackjaws at the 2004 Republican Convention. Probably too young to be metabolizing in 1968. They could have used all that medical support at the Democratic Convention. Probably would have blamed Nixon(not elected yet-you’e just being arbitrary).
Has any board ever attained a higher percentage of nutjobs and fruitloops as that one? Some of those bios are bizarre.
Re the wankfest, one does get the impression that the program is set up by MDs with artistic pretensions but without the skill to actually make it in the publishing world. Since they’ve got money, they went out and bought their own venue. Call it the New York Review of Each Other’s Medical Stories.
Posted by Ernst Blofeld on 2007 11 04 at 12:50 PM • permalink
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