Issue #309 of Birdman's Weekly Letter included an essay entitled 'Compassion'. Written in the Birdman's usual inflammatory style, it scorched liberals, knocked negroes, and altogether was extremely politically incorrect. But surprisingly to the Birdman, who has recently been sending his essays to be posted on Rense.com, the Rense folks posted this essay, altho they quickly removed it once the complaints began rolling in. Here is the dramatic post-removal correspondence.
[Birdman writes to Rense.com. Note from the profusion of angle-brackets that this letter was passed back and forth at least twice between The Boys and their secretary Ellen:]
> >>>Dear James and Jeff:
> >>>
> >>>Thanks for putting my 'Compassion' essay up. It
> took some
> >>>courage. I do not fault you for taking it down
--
> I got some hate
> >>>mail, and I am sure you got some. And maybe some
> pressure from
> >>>advertisers. As for me, I get hate mail all the
> time, but that's
> >>>just part of the job.
> >>>
> >>>I would be interested to know what the exact
> situation was that
> >>>prompted you to take the essay down, if you
don't
> mind saying. I
> >>>would also be interested to know if this is the
> first time you
> >>>have felt the need to take down something
already
> posted.
> >>>
> >>>Again, my thanks for posting my essay.
> >>>
> >>>-Birdman
> >>>--in a discussion on the stormfront (white
racist)
[Rense.com secretary Ellen responds to Birdman:]
Hi John,
Our problem is that we don't read every word
of every submission and story. It's a question of
time: we receive over 1,700 emails a day. We
went back through your story word-for-word
after receiving several complaints from incredulous
readers. We also checked around a bit on some
boards:
"Birdman's not too popular here because of his amoral
posture on other issues, such as advocating - or at
least condoning - child sex."
"...also has a hard-core picture of the day on his
site."
Here are (some of) the gratuitous and self-indulgent
quotes from the article in question:
"...most blacks are perfectly willing to accept the
poverty of welfare...because it allows them to do what
they really want to -- fuck, smoke crack, eat
watermelon, and watch television until their eyes are
covered with pottery glaze. With an occasional riot
for exercise, of course."
"The ugly fact is that this calamity [tsunami] was
good for whites and good for the world, because it
washed away 150,000 Turd- Worlders who were unlikely
to be able to appreciate Western culture, but whose
presence is a threat to that culture as they continue
their exponential breeding patterns and their spread
across the face of the earth like a fungal rot."
I trust we both know there are dozens of other
ways to state these viewpoints that will permit
a broader section of readers to give your writing
style a better look and a better grade...
And, no, this isn't the first time we've had to
delete an article after posting.
Our best wishes...on the run here, as always,
Ellen
[Birdman replies:]
To: James Neff (neff@tcworks.net), Jeff Rense
(jr@rense.com)
CC: Ellen (sightings@mindspring.com)
From: Birdman
Re: Ellen's letter
Dear Jimmie Jeff:
I see that you have chosen to hide your big masculine selves
behind Little Ellie's skirts. And I can understand that, really I
can, because the letter she sent me was a pretty sorry piece of
work. Here are a few points that stuck in my craw:
First, in justifying why you took down my essay after posting it
on your site, Little Ellie accused me of ungentleness. (Most
people would have called it 'racist language'.) But lemme tell
you Jimmie Jeff, I was using 'racist language' by the THIRD
PARAGRAPH. So either you approved my piece automatically because
my name was on it (not bloody likely, as you have rejected
numerous other pieces of mine), or else you read my piece and saw
it was pretty damn good and pretty damn funny, and decided you
would try it out and see what happened, knowing full well that it
might cause a stir, except that when you started getting hate
mail, particularly from advertisers, Jews, or other people that
you bow your head to, you decided to quickly dissociate yourself
from the piece, claiming that its posting was an 'accident', that
you never read it, and similar lies and bullshit. Am I right
Jimmie Jeff?
Now all the above would have been fine if you had just been
straight with me, instead of having Little Ellie accuse me of
some moral crime, or -- what is pretty much the same thing for a
writer of 40 books who has won the praise of Nobel laureates and
many other distinguished men -- poor choice of words. Lemme put
it this way, Jimmie Jeff: you may be a fine radio interviewer and
exposer of high crimes and misdemeanors, but there are not many
people in this world -- in fact, not any, as far as I know -- who
can hold a candle to my writing style. So when you get Little
Ellie all revved up to criticize my writing style, it just rubs
me a bit the wrong way. Knowmtalkinbout? And even worse was
trying to make it out that it was MY FAULT that your little
experiment didn't turn out right. Let's face it, Jimmie Jeff --
taking responsibility for what you did is the first step to being
a man. I take responsibility for my 'racist language' -- I put my
name right up front, along with my address. And now you want ME
to take responsibility for what YOU did? Grow up, Jimmie Jeff.
Lemme put it this way, Jimmie Jeff. If you had wanted to feed
your advertisers and your Jews the bullshit story about the
posting of my essay being a mistake, ok, fine. It's no skin off
my back. And I know you have to have your ad bucks to survive.
I'm not asking you to martyr yourself for my sake. I just don't
want Little Ellie criticizing my writing style or telling me how
gentle I should be, when her understanding of what I am doing
consists of approximately the same understanding my dog has of
Diophantine equations.
But that's not all, Jimmie Jeff. I would like to know what Little
Ellie is trying to prove by going around to apparently 'racist'
bulletin boards (Stormfront, I take it, in this case) in order to
get an assessment of my character, when it was my 'racism' that
she criticized in the first place, and when comments on 'racist'
bulletin boards (or ANY bulletin boards, for that matter) have
approximately the same moral force as a fingernail picking a
scab. I mean, in the first place, exactly what relevance does an
assessment of my character have ANYTHING WHATSOEVER to do with
the situation concerning my essay? That is, if you are going to
post articles on the basis of the strength of character of the
writers, it should be done BEFORE YOU POST THEM, not after. So
apparently all of Little Ellie's character investigation was
really a post hoc -- and extremely lame -- attempt to justify
your taking my essay down, right Jimmie Jeff? And in the second
place, if Little Ellie wants to find out about my character, why
doesn't she go to my website and observe the names of the many
distinguished men and women who have had nice things to say about
my (gasp!) writing? Or to put it another way, why is it that
pimply-faced spastic-armed hakenkreutzers have more authority in
assessing my character than men of genuine character and
accomplishment? Did you get Little Ellie to do this just to
irritate me, or is she really just as absolutely dumb as a post?
Now in conclusion, I just wanted to point out that the letter I
sent you -- the one that Little Ellie answered -- was written in
a very gentle fashion, when it would have been very easy for me
to denounce you for cowardice in turning tail when the liberals,
Jews and others started whining. I was careful to be gentle
because I wanted to give you credit for posting the article to
begin with -- I wanted to look at things in the most positive
light. And that is why (among other things) I feel like you sold
me out by having Little Ellie lambaste me -- not only was it
completely improper for her to do so, but you didn't even have
the character to employ good manners when you had received the
courtesy of same from me. Love it, Jimmie Jeff!
That's about it, Jimmie Jeff. Hope you were able to get my
message thru all my gratuitous and self-indulgent observations.
I'm just wondering whether you are going to get Little Ellie to
write me back and criticize my writing style. (Not sarcastic
enuf, perhaps?)
Have a nice day, Jimmie Jeff!
-Birdman
PS: I will be perfectly happy to receive an apology if you care
to offer me one -- if, that is, you are not too busy hiding
behind Little Ellie's skirts.
[Unsurprisingly, there was no response. Looks as if Rense will have to do without Birdman's essays.]
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