Came in this morning. I almost thought it was fake, but then realized this gentleman is a known entity and it is all too real.
Major unhinged irrational outrageous vile disgusting hate mail
Came in this morning. I almost thought it was fake, but then realized this gentleman is a known entity and it is all too real.
This isn't a 'nice' e-mail, but where is the 'hate' exactly?
I presume the reason you're not talking about that stuff is because they are crazy alt-right conspiracy theories. :) Why do I picture this Charles dude with a cork-board and thumb-tacked pictures and newspaper articles, all connected with string?
Pretty hilarious. The name George Soros with an apostrophe S! You would think they would be able to spell the name of their favorite demon. :-D
Yeah the spelling and grammar is just something else
I thought a Georgeosaurus was a dinosaur, to be fair.
To be fair, it wasn't hateful or major unhinged. Death threats would be more like that. He didn't attack you, just questioned your show.
It's subjective, but you don't think putting five commas in a row is unhinged enough? That should really never happen. "look up the books"
Yeah, the erratic writing style is weird and unsettling. But it was most of all critique rather than hate.
'I feel sorry for you' is hate.
Hate is disdain for another; thinking someone is pitiful is pretty much the epitome of hate.
"I feel sorry for you" could just mean he genuinelyb feels sorry about David being "brainwashed".
It could. But not in the context of a sentence where he's calling Dave ignorant.
I'm more confused by the "disgusting vile" adjectives. I kept wondering when the mail would turn that way and it never did.
Treason, Antisemitism, and accusations of embezzlement on a national scale are vile. Much more so with no proof.
That's definitely hate mail.
I'll have what he's having.
I'm guessing it's uranium.
In what I have personally read from the DNC leaks, there are a lot of comments that I feel Hillary and the DNC have to answer for. Her staff's derogatory comments on lower class black voters should have been a much bigger talking point than they were. The emails that use verbiage found in pedophilia circles should raise some eyebrows outside of the more extreme pundits. I mean, the whole pizzagate thing does deserve some investigation by someone besides alex jones. For as bloodthirsty as Americans are to try and track down rapists, this seems grossly overlooked.
And at the very least, if there's nothing there, you could show the path you took to reach that conclusion. That would allay a lot of the questions from other, more well-reasoned people. I just don't know enough and can't be arsed to believe that everything I've found is all that exists. There's not enough info to make a definite conclusion, and the good info that exists has been turned into a cheap talking point to further some tinfoil hat conclusion.
Oof, politics have gotten weird lately...
That's not how logic works. You can't prove a negative. You can't prove that something doesn't exist.
Yep. Fun fact 'Truth' is a religious word, it means 'Faith'. As in: gospel truth.
Science doesn't prove the truth, it disproves falsehood.
I had a chemistry professor in college who started the semester with your second line. Wise man, both of you.
I'll make you eat those words! ;)
Pizzagate is a conspiracy about a child sex ring run out of a pizza parlor basement (in a restaurant with no basement). They were talking about pizza toppings, but "cheese" and "pepperoni" were secret pedo codewords. Is that right?
There's a good reason to not talk about it: It's completely loony. Sometimes Occam's Razor is the best policy.
More like almonds and cream sauce over pizza. Things that don't quite make sense in any normal context.
Conviniently, the pizzagate conspiracy came right before the election. I think it made a significant impact, at least among internet users.
Not really, to be honest. There wasn't enough decent investigation into it, and the investigation that was done wasn't particularly thorough and generally sensationalist.
interesting postings very good, I like
Apparently you have some requests😂
You've mentioned your family has backgrounds in psychology. Have you ever gotten a large enough glimpse into someone through their hate mail to get a reasonable diagnosis of someone? 'Sir, we've decided you're having seizures, please see a doctor!'
"It California."
It's generally a good practice to not diagnose from afar, or without consent. Some exceptions do happen though, I imagine.
this is generally correct, although one of the exceptions is Trump are narcissistic personality disorder, which many psychiatrists say they can reasonably assess through media, assuming Trump isn't merely playing a "character" every time he's in front of a camera or microphone
I'm sorry to beg more of your time, but at what point do we consider the persona taking over the personality. Trump may have started playing this character a long while ago, and it may be, if not ingrained, fully assimilated into the way he thinks and frames the world.
Just a thought, though.
Maybe he would like for you to explore the rumor's? Might not be a bad idea just to clear things up. Too bad he couldn't compose a professional email to relay his message better. Over the past couple of month's, there's been a "q-anon" thing circulating around the web, absolutely ridiculous speculation interpreted as fact no less. If you heard it and believed it, you would be shocked to find out who is taking up residency at Gitmo these days. ;)
@davidpakman, although being singled out as an individual journalist creates a chilling effect, the fact that this delusional conspiracist sent you a personal e-mail speaks to the quality of your work product. Keep bringing issues to the forefront, keep pushing buttons.