Friday, January 08, 2010
Alterman does O'Reilly
"And what happens when you write a sympathetic column about Israeli cinema two weeks later? You get attacked on a website called, I kid you not, "The Angry Arab" as "callous and insensitive toward the Palestinians" as " all his writings on the Palestinians and Arabs in general drip with racism and contempt for the natives." Tell Alterman to avoid trying to be cute because he is not funny. Tell him to not mimic my "kid-you-not" because it is trade-registered to Angry Arab name. And tell him that he does not appear smart when he resort to the dumb Bill O'Reilly trick: when he quotes people who attack him from the left and right every night to prove his "fairness and balance. Try harder, Alterman. And tell Alterman to not try to pretend that this is the first time he has heard of Angry Arab: because I have attacked him before and he responded.