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Antony Loewenstein, March 26:

I want this blog to be, soon enough, an essential stop for news and views you won’t find anywhere else, a challenge to the mainstream media’s primary reliance on US sources and a community who believes that people of conscience need to be more active in disseminating dissenting viewpoints.

Antony Loewenstein, October 10:

I just write about what interests, not really too fussed about the response from readers.

Posted by Tim B. on 10/10/2005 at 07:48 AM

  1. One down, one to go.

    Posted by Nic on 2005 10 10 at 08:58 AM • permalink

  2. Well he seemed pretty “fussed” about Sandy.

    Posted by captain on 2005 10 10 at 09:01 AM • permalink

  3. Here’s a presenter of msm who is disseminating dissenting viewpoints…
    S.B.S.News presenter Mary Kostakidis tonight speaking about the earthquake in Pakistan and India…
    “EARLIER I SPOKE TO CHRIS HAMMER and I asked HER to tell me….”
    Then followed an “interview ” between Mary and Chris Hammer with footage.
    Chris turns out to be a bloke.Looks like one,sounds like one IS one.

    Posted by crash on 2005 10 10 at 09:02 AM • permalink

  4. Oh?  Did Margo crush Antony’s dissent?

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 10 10 at 09:14 AM • permalink

  5. Hey, where else but Loewenstein’s can you find reliable information like this, about two geriatric former Gitmo detainees?

    Two other men released after a year of captivity were, by their own reports, 99 and 105 years old.

    Yeah, right.

    Posted by J F Beck on 2005 10 10 at 09:24 AM • permalink

  6. A man’s got to know his limitations.

    Posted by scott crawford on 2005 10 10 at 10:02 AM • permalink

  7. You know what the main difference between rightie and leftie blogs is?  Leftie blogs start out by making a grandiose statement of intent which can only come back to embarass them.  (Rightie blogs just get on with doing the bidding of their evil masters.)

    See: Margo, Air America, etc.

    Posted by Mike G on 2005 10 10 at 10:02 AM • permalink

  8. I once called Antony a total dickhead and a jumped up nobody who is an embarassing disgrace and too much of a bloody idiot to know what a galah he’s making of himself. Or something very similar. In Yiddish. At WD on the Danby MUP thread(Sept).

    They didn’t publish it of course but he was kicking around that thread at the time so it is entirely possible they showed it to him if only to get a translation. Which is all I really wanted.

    Could it be? Nah… just flattering myself.

    Posted by geoff on 2005 10 10 at 11:20 AM • permalink

  9. Considering the responses are overwhelmingly negative (or, if by lefties, overwhelmingly embarrassing), his supposed indifference to those responses is to be expected.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2005 10 10 at 02:49 PM • permalink

  10. Antony Loewenstein, March 26:

      I want this blog to be, soon enough, an essential stop for news and views you won’t find anywhere else, a challenge to the mainstream media’s primary reliance on US sources and a community who believes that people of conscience need to be more active in disseminating dissenting viewpoints.

    Antony Loewenstein, October 10:

      I just write about what interests, not really too fussed about the response from readers.

    Antony Lowenstein, December 15:

    Why doesn’t anyone like me? I have a VELOUR JACKET, YOU UNGRATEFUL SWINE!

    Posted by Dave S. on 2005 10 10 at 03:23 PM • permalink

  11. News and views you won’t find anywhere else?
    I guess we will not be hearing from him on this or the report on News Radio today that nose jobs are going gangbusters in Baghdad. It seems all those people who (according to the BBC) are afraid to leave their homes are simply embarassed about their noses not looking like those of the MTV stars.

    Posted by blogstrop on 2005 10 10 at 06:21 PM • permalink

  12. Quite predictable for someone who regularly has his flawed arguments exposed and demolished by other readers. But ya dont need to be a freakin rocket scientist to do that to one of his arguments.

    He could just save himself the trouble and get rid of the “comments section.”

    Posted by Kidon on 2005 10 10 at 07:38 PM • permalink

  13. #11 haha. Ya gotta love the indomitable human spirit, even when it manifests itself as vanity. Islamists force them under the burqua, but Muslim women still find a way to display their sexuality. Islamists rant and rave about the evils of the west, while their own women pursue western ideals. Who do you think will win out, Osama bin Laden or the women of Iraq and Iran? My money is on the latter.

    PS I bet toe nail painting is all the rage, too. Hey, if you’ve got ‘em flaunt ‘em

    Posted by larrikin on 2005 10 10 at 09:46 PM • permalink

  14. That’s true, Kidon.

    Loewenstein is such a loose cannon that he usually does more damage to his own cause that the one he’s attacking.

    It’s so hilariously bad that I sometimes wonder whether he’s a right-wing plant/pisstake.

    Tim Blair, are you Antony Loewenstein? The blogosphere deserves an answer!

    Posted by James Waterton on 2005 10 11 at 07:38 AM • permalink

  15. Flavius Antonius knowing how to translate Yiddish?  With his degree of self-loathing, I’d be gobsmacked.

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 10 11 at 07:52 PM • permalink

  16. Point taken richard mcenroe. But he must have a mother or a great uncle or a friend’s grandfather or somebody who is still talking to him?

    Maybe not.

    Posted by geoff on 2005 10 12 at 08:37 AM • permalink

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