John McManus was leaked my e-mail and responded by sending me a personal e-mail lecturing me on the tenets of journalism.
You call yourself a professional journalist, he taunted. "You talk the talk..." he wrote.
This is all laughable to the innocent observer, sure, but this 50-something guy has actually taken it upon himself to try intimidate me! What a lost cause; I have experience combatting facists.
I gained special invisibility status at the Spartan Daily last term when my pro-Israel sentiment landed me in the hot-pot with certain opinion editors. My stories underwent special scrunity, and some were lost in the rush of things. At one point, when the worst facist editor was ready to print his 3,099th anti-Israel article the day after Yom HaShoah, I threatened to change one of my assignments (which had already been written and submitted) into a full-on pro-Israel piece. But they weren't having it, and instead appeased me by promising a future spot for a rebuttal. (A brief, but well-written response was printed the next week.)
My favorite was when I attended a anti-Zionist meeting, where I observed undetected until I asked the ring-leaders if their group had a name, and they finally caught on. They demanded I hand over my tape recorder and notes. I shot back with a shpiel on the First Amendment, but facists don't understand personal freedoms.
Then, after interviewing a Middle Eastern studies professor, she told a fellow professor (who was a favorite teacher of mine) that she was sure I was a Jewish Orthodox spy sent from Washington to infiltrate and sabotage her class. Oh? he asked, how can you tell? From her last name! the facist replied. (I might let the reader in on a little secret: my last name would have received a blessing from Hitler himself!)
Facists beware: You are right about one thing: Jews run the media. Mwahhhh haaa haaa!
