The Dumbing Down of Fighting Up

When Chris Matthews said, "You should always fight up" in regards to the Keith Olbermann-Bill O'Reilly feud, he was repeating a well-known tactic as old as the dinosaurs. I'm not talking about media ones. (SLAM, duh duh duh, duh duh duh, let the boys be boys!) I believe it was officially trademarked by David after slinging a stone at Goliath and the Philistine army turned more yellow than Floyd Landis's piss. Again, let's credit the Hebrews.

It's the law of the jungle, the Bronzed Rule, school yard wisdom, prison philosophy, underdog worship, and blogging's raison d'être. (Examples: here and here.) To that end, let's get back to basics, today YM declares war on James Wolcott. You might amuse us with genuinely hilarious lines like "Did you know, Charlie, that just before he left office, Woodrow Wilson was carried sideways through the White House like a log?" but that doesn't excuse the fact you're a raging leftist Anti-Semite. There, I said it. Just for kicks mostly. Sure, the nasty A-S tag gets trendily pinned at even the slightest criticism of Israel, but that's half the fun of being a Jew and getting to eat our latke.

We'd rather you just say Israel should be wiped off the map (which is at least an actual "solution") rather than dream about peaceful co-existence fantasies. You use the shield of innocent civilian casualties as much as the terrorists do; it's a lot easier to paint the Zionist Pigs with a palette of blood and vinegar that way. I know, some of your best friends are Jewish, right? Me too, I call them family. Coming from your kind, that defensive reasoning falls apart faster than my mom's Matzo balls. Anti-Semitism is this season's Scarlet Letter. Be honest with yourself, wear it with pride.

(I suggest matching it with this Dries Van Noten sequined scarf, as long as you're being unreasonable and all.)