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Wrong Turns

Yesterday, Middle Tennessee State professor of guitar and guitar-related activities (cf., “Intro to strumming”; “Advanced techniques in re-stringing”; “Tiny Tim: The semiotics of Tulip Tiptoeing as a critique of corporatism and running dog capitalism”) William Yelverton was so eager to find an example of how the bigotry of the hateful rightwingers — who evidently make up roughly 70% of the US electorate — was physically asserting itself as an offshoot of their opposition to the Ground Zero Mosque, that he haughtily dropped into the comment section here the story of an attack on a Muslim cab driver in New York.

To Yelverton, the obvious needn’t be stated: clearly, the cab driver was an innocent victim of reactionary right wing hatred — with the Ground Zero Mosque as the proximate ideological cause for the attack. And so those who oppose the building of a monument to Islamist triumphalism near the site of Islam’s greatest attack on the US were, to Yelverton, culpable — at least ideologically — for the attack on this innocent Other.

Except, well

[…] as often at the intersection of politics and violent crime, the story doesn’t appear to fit any easy stereotype: The alleged assailant, Michael Enright, is — according to his Facebook profile and the website of the left-leaning media organization Intersections International — a student at the School of Visual Arts and a volunteer for Intersections, which recently produced a statement of support for the Park51 project and is funded by the mainstream, liberal Collegiate Church of New York.

Naturally, the left (even those newly minted) will tell you this proves nothing: just because the attacker is a 21-year old filmmaker who associates with left-leaning media organizations doesn’t necessarily mean the attacker is himself guided by leftist principles.

— Of course, it doesn’t mean he’s guided by rightwing hatred, either — yet apparently that’s a far less noxious leap. But I digress.

Then there’s this little pebble in the shoe of the lefty narrative:

For one thing, the alleged attacker, Michael Enright, worked with an organization that very much favors the project. For another, the cabby, Ahmed Sharif, says he’s opposed to it […]

Is it possible that the attacker is a right wing nutjob?

Sure. And if he is, I’m certain that’ll be brought to light — just as I’m certain the right will condemn him for it, and the left will view this condemnation as “coded” approval.

But what gets lost in all this is that the cabby, a Muslim, is himself a hateful hater, a bigot, a self-loather, inauthentic — at least, if you go by the criterion the set out by the left: opposing the mosque is Islamophobia, period.

From the right, however, I’m inclined to say of this cab driver that he’s pretty much consonant in his opinion of the mosque with 70% of his fellow Americans.

That people like William Yelverton will be so disappointed to discover such apostasy tells you all you need to know about the two “sides” of this debate — as well as all you need to know about the current state of higher education, particularly in the Humanities.

(h/t dicentra; see also, Don Surber)

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update: As if to reinforce our assessment of him here as a sad, pseudo-intellectual poser, Middle Tennessee State University professor of Guitar and Lute William Yelverton shows up in the comments (again! — albeit this time under his own name, for once) to accuse me of “slander” and violations to the spirit of the First Amendment — all while using phrases like “Christian right wing teabaggers” (presumably without irony) to represent those 71% of Americans who simply don’t agree with Professor Guitar Hero’s view of the world. Which evidently amounts to this: he is goodly and tolerant; while 71% of Americans are intolerant haters whom he can’t stand and who he wishes would just shut their stupid fucking pie holes and listen to him, or else die die die die die!

Clearly, Yelverton’s “tolerance” and goodliness doesn’t extend to most of us here in the States. But then, we have it coming, being hateful haters and all.

And we have to be haters. Because to be anti-Yelverton is to be a hater. Q.E.D.

And we wonder why a “liberal” arts university education these days is hardly worth the effort…

Listen, Willy. You can pretend that your having mastered a string instrument makes you some sort of intellectual savant. So can Middle Tennessee State University, for all I care. But we know better. You’re a finger-plucking moron whose sole contribution to political discourse is that you provide the perfect emblem for the illiberal and emotive rhetorical style of left wing pseudo-intellectuals.

If you weren’t living in a society made prosperous because of the very classical liberal ideals you reject, you’d be playing Nickelback cover tunes at the birthday party of some blue blood’s eight-year-old daughter.

And deep down, you know it, too.

133 Replies to “Wrong Turns”

  1. JHoward says:

    Given the propensity of the left to publish it’s unimpeachable manifesto at every turn — I mean, just look; they’re everywhere — I’m surprised we wingers haven’t yet learned just how, um, unimpeachable the philosophy really is.

    Yeah, really! Check the documentation!

    Perhaps the next time they install The Right People™ the collective will work as intended. You know, by the published rules.

  2. happyfeet says:

    It would be nice to do something for the cabbie person I think cause that has to suck getting all stabbed on by a creepy unbalanced weirdo.

  3. Slartibartfast says:

    Ouch. Note to self: don’t piss off Goldstein.

  4. JD says:

    happyfeet – Didn’t you point out an instance of an aggressive lie being pushed about Enright, something about his Facebook, that you debunked quite quickly?

    William the plagiarist Yelverton is just crying out for attention, since he hasn’t had a new comment on his site in almost a week.

  5. JD says:

    Well done, Jeff.

  6. Slartibartfast says:

    Guys like Yelverton are in short supply, although there are those who think little of him.

    /stolen

  7. Ernst Schreiber says:

    I feel so sorry for the cat.

  8. Silver Whistle says:

    …people like William Yelverton…

    It would really suck to be one of them. My 12 year old kid is better read, more cogent, logical and funny. If either of my kids had turned out like that bitter, bigoted little pipsqueak, I would be profoundly disappointed. I wonder if Willie’s parents shake their heads and wonder what went wrong with junior.

  9. JD says:

    Slarti – Given that he is a plagiarizing midget, one must think little of him.

  10. DarthRove says:

    I wonder if Willie’s parents shake their heads and wonder what went wrong with junior.

    Not since they abandoned him in that open field thirty-some years ago.

    “Go on, son! There’s a nice kittycat and a bowl of pie-ay-uh over there! We’ll wait!”

  11. Slartibartfast says:

    Oh. I see one of your links goes to Juan Cole, Jeff.

    Professor Cole has never been noted for his attention to factual detail. I hope that only applies to things he writes about that are outside of his purported area of expertise.

  12. eleven says:

    “I feel so sorry for the cat.”

    Yeah, I just saw that picture on the other thread…

    Heh.

  13. Slartibartfast says:

    For those unfamiliar with Juan Cole’s wishful-thinking approach to reporting, here‘s a case in point.

  14. Rick says:

    Could someone please put me the knowledge of the Yelverton-plagiarism matter? I really missed a Big One.

    Cordially…

  15. Jeff G. says:

    Cole is a cocksucker.

    But being a leftist cocksucker who’s almost always wrong is the best way to build a career, it turns out: Marcotte, Greenwald, Yglesias, Klein, etc.

    On the right, the key seems to be either go all extremist, or else be staid and milquetoast.

    Or maybe not. I’m still putting together a spreadsheet.

  16. cranky-d says:

    Can you actually be staid and milquetoast without eventually going crazy? I know I can’t.

  17. Walter Mitty says:

    Did someone call my name?

  18. JD says:

    Rick – When he comments, simply google them. He copies and pastes entire comments and others’ posts as his own, rarely linking them, nor quoting them. bh has nailed him about 20+ times doing so, and pointed it out to him.

  19. Drumwaster says:

    Yanno, this is why I come here. Bitch-slapping liberals with style

  20. cranky-d says:

    I’m guessing Willie’s life is chock full of drama, all of his own manufacture.

  21. Blake says:

    Then there’s that cute story about the firebombing of Rep. Russ Carnahan’s office that was initially blamed on those damned extremist bitter clinger Tea Partiers…until, oops, it turned out to have been done by a disgruntled progressive ex employee…. Michelle Malkin has the roundup: http://tinyurl.com/38lbthd

  22. KDF says:

    All of Bloomberg’s Quislings in the Obamedia who’ve demagogued this issue should apologize to the secular Muslim NY Cabbie and his family for inciting this Leftist pro-jihad mosque vigilantee to moby violence.

    It’s time to take a little ownership for your orchestrated Islamo-supremacist advocacy campaign.

    /chickens… roost!

  23. george smiley says:

    The sad thing is I read some of his early work, and it was sober and measured, then he joined the nutroots
    and it’s like online Tourettes

  24. Mikey NTH says:

    To the left it is all about feelings.

  25. Rick says:

    JD,

    Thanks…so I missed 20 Big Ones! I gotta read the comments more carefully.

    Cordially…

  26. William says:

    The fact is, this was a hate crime. Where did the hate come from? Who is spewing the hate? 99% – the Christian right wing teabaggers. I know. I’ve seen with my own eyes 400 white Christian teabaggers march up Main St. in Murfreesboro against building the local Islamic Center, carrying signs that read, “all you need to know about Islam is 9/11”.

    Goldstein is wrong again.

    The attack was a hate crime by Enright, who was a white Christian who kept a personal diary filled with pages of “pretty strong anti-Muslim comments,” a police source said, (NY Daily News). He asked the driver if he was a Muslim and began slashing, saying “this is a checkpoint motherfucker … and I’m taking you out,” while the cabbie pleaded for his life. Pretty obvious who had been influencing Enright. Enright’s facebook page showed he was a big fan of Greg Ball, a right wing anti-immigrant tea party candidate. He was involved with Intersession International, which he apparently used as his ticket to go to Afghanistan to pursue a film project. Intersession International released this statement;

    The alleged perpetrator is not an employee and has never been an employee of Intersections. There is a person who fits the description of the alleged perpetrator who has worked with us as a volunteer…

    The Muslim hate crime is consistent with the characterization of this Mosque issue by conservative libertarians such as Phil Valentine and Ron Paul:

    the neo-conservatives who demand continual war in the Middle East and Central Asia and are compelled to constantly justify it. They never miss a chance to use hatred toward Muslims to rally support for the ill conceived preventative wars… If Islam is further discredited by making the building of the mosque the issue, then the false justification for our wars in the Middle East will continue to be acceptable. The justification to ban the mosque is no more rational than banning a soccer field in the same place because all the suicide bombers loved to play soccer. …

    It is repeatedly said that 64% of the people, after listening to the political demagogues, don’t want the mosque to be built. What would we do if 75% of the people insist that no more Catholic churches be built in New York City? The point being is that majorities can become oppressors of minority rights as well as individual dictators. Statistics of support (are) irrelevant when it comes to the purpose of government in a free society — protecting liberty.

    This is all about hate and Islamaphobia. … Political demagoguery rules when truth and liberty are ignored.

    This slanderous and pathetic post is not only disgusting, coming from Jeff Goldstein, who threatens to ‘call my University because he has nothing to lose’ but is a example of the right wing demagoguery that strives to demonize those who they see as the enemy, most often people who don’t think, look, or pray like they do. Further, Goldstein is no friend of the First Amendment, he routinely deletes comments, bans commenters, not because they are slanderous (as he is – mentioning full names and place of employment), but because they have well supported arguments, often documented with links and facts. He is a coward and obviously a bitter person, judging by his donation requests, not so successful.

    Read this comment quickly, for it won’t last long, knowing the cowardice of Jeff Goldstein. This is my final comment here. This blog doesn’t respect the First Amendment and is merely a pathetic like chat box for sandwich recipes and ideological masturbation among a small community of like minded ‘regulars’ who really don’t want to hear opposing view, and run from facts they don’t want to hear.

  27. The Monster says:

    It’s the next thing to check off on the list:
    [ ] Reichstagsbrand.
    [ ] Ermächtigungsgesetz.

  28. Abe Froman says:

    Wow. Yelverton actually used his own name for once. Jeff isn’t a coward. You were warned not to continue commenting under different names, you lunatic. It’s a pity that you don’t understand the First Amendment. But I suppose that sort of thing is inevitable when the extent of your education is a diploma from a fifth-rate high school.

  29. sdferr says:

    That’s a brilliant and novel definition of slander you’ve got there William. Name and place of employment: SLANDER!

  30. The Monster says:

    “Further, Goldstein is no friend of the First Amendment, he routinely deletes comments, bans commenters”

    My copy of the Constitution says “Congress shall make no law…”

    Does yours say “Goldstein” instead of “Congress”?

  31. bh says:

    Noted educator and plagiarist, William Yelverton, doesn’t know the difference between slander and libel or know that they’re impossible to achieve by telling the truth.

  32. Carin says:

    Ha. How wrong is our friend? That comment, because it has your name, will live long.

  33. Lamontyoubigdummy says:

    Slartibartfast quoted Shrek in this thread.

    I fucking love this place.

    That is all.

  34. DarthRove says:

    Oh boy. Let me get my popcorn. I have a feeling mushroom bruises are gonna be bloomin’…

  35. bh says:

    This is my final comment here.

    That’s interesting. Does that include your many plagiarizing sock-puppets?

  36. sdferr says:

    Ron Paul is an odd choice of authority for Mr William though, isn’t he? Not because Ron Paul is something of a nut as regards foreign policy or commentary on group hate, but because it hardly seems plausible that Mr. William would turn to Paul as an authority on any other political issue conceivable.

  37. Pablo says:

    Bye, willie!

  38. Carin says:

    The kid was drunk, and I bet you’re going to find out he has some sort of mental illness.

    None of this will matter to the left.

  39. Mikey NTH says:

    Willy, unless your going to get crucified or burned at the stake for your beliefs you aren’t a martyr, so knock it off, chump. Your posing would be laughable if it wasn’t so shopworn, now it’s just pathetic. You bring out all of the old tropes – bigot this, bigot that, bigot, bigot, bigot – in place of arguments because you can’t argue. You never learned to argue. All you got is old-style argue by accusation. The sort of tactics that have been done by tyrants petty and great through the ages (see: accusations of witchcraft, stalin and Mao’s show trials, Sen. McCarthy, etc.).

    The problem you got Willy me lad is that no one here is buying what you have to sell and no one here is scared by your accusations of bigotry. Without that you have no power to shut down debate and now have to face debate never having learned that feelings don’t substitute for a well-constructed argument.

    I would pity you if you weren’t such worthless backstabbing dishonorable pud. Instead its contempt – because you aren’t worth despising.

  40. serr8d says:

    William Yelverton is well know in the Middle Tennessee blogging community to be a narrow-minded hateful oaf who has unadulterated scorn for anyone not of his far-left political persuasions. He once posted a comment at TFree accusing me of sexual deviancy with my own daughter; it was only after great pressure that he apologized, and that apology was very weak sauce indeed.

    Even fellow leftists can’t stand him.

    He speaks of his fellow Rutherford County residents as dirt for under his feet.

    Not a man for to allow to teach young people, that’s for certain.

  41. Lamontyoubigdummy says:

    This blog doesn’t respect the First Amendment and is merely a pathetic like chat box for sandwich recipes and ideological masturbation…

    That should be an ad for this place!!!

    Why the hell wasn’t I told about this?

    Which hand do I use if it’s “ideological”?

    Are there Chakras involved?

    And which one of you fuckers has the sandwich recipes?

  42. mcgruder says:

    I think William Yelverton, who appears to have the addiction that so many do on the ‘net–that an ill-considered or illegal action on behalf of a partisan denies the validity of what he believes in–is probably a cut above Thor.

    I could be very wrong though.

  43. Pablo says:

    I wonder if Nonie Darwish is one of those Christian teabaggers, like this Goldstein fellow.

    I’d also like to note how awesome the “Click here to be a guitar god very fast” ad is.

  44. sdferr says:

    Oh sandwiches, we got a million.

  45. Pablo says:

    mcgruder, willie does seem to lack thor’s fecal obsession, so he’s got that going for him.

  46. DarthRove says:

    Mmmmm…. sandwiches.

  47. mcgruder says:

    I should note that the problem with playing Yelverton’s game, which is practiced by plenty of right-wing hacks as well, is that it virtually has to fire back on you.

    The RW is full of 21-year old chubby drunks who ride in cabs and try and murder cabbies (BTW, as an investigative reporter, I’m counting down till everyone has to admit that Enright’s “This is a checkpoint Motherfucker!” line is just a wee bit too good to be true)=The left is full of sweaty political canvassers who blog at TPM and firebomb senate headquarters where they work when they have a pay dispute.

    The stupid have no concept of the deep game.

  48. Silver Whistle says:

    Now Willie, what have I just got finished saying about cogent, logical and funny? It’s like you never read anything. Please, disassociate yourself from the straw men and non sequiturs, form an argument and reinforce it with some citations (some passing acquaintance with reality preferred), and throw in some witty bons mots.

  49. mcgruder says:

    Pablo, I clued in on the lack of semen/labial references, but yes, props to your point as well.

  50. bh says:

    I wonder how much of Willie’s comment even he believes.

    Half?

  51. Abe Froman says:

    If he’s a cut above thor it’s only in the sense that his psychotic behavior is driven by earnestness borne of stupidity rather than a deliberate effort to irritate people. But both will die alone, having left no mark on the world, so I think it’s a wash.

  52. sdferr says:

    He’s definitely down with the spittle parts I’m guessing.

  53. happyfeet says:

    sorry – stupid busy morning… here was the stupid weak lies about the guy’s facebook

  54. Rick says:

    “This is my final comment here.”

    Proof that God exists, and answers the prayers of the multitudes.

    Cordially…

  55. Slartibartfast says:

    This is my final comment here.

    Promises, promises.

    Enright, who was a white Christian

    I thought there were plenty of Christians on the left. Odd how this swings around so much, purely out of convenience.

    Pretty obvious who had been influencing Enright.

    Only in your cartoon reality.

    The Muslim hate crime

    Modifier fail.

    Further, Goldstein is no friend of the First Amendment, he routinely deletes comments, bans commenters

    Constitution fail.

    because they have well supported arguments

    Own intelligence estimation fail.

    often documented with links and facts

    This, from the guy whose links are more often own goals than not.

    He is a coward and obviously a bitter person, judging by his donation requests, not so successful.

    Ah. So, Jeff kicks your ass in rhetoric, and this is where you go next? Classic Little Man Syndrom.

    This blog doesn’t respect the First Amendment

    Said they guy who doesn’t understand any of the Constitution. Should we listen? I mean, do we really have to think about that?

    is merely a pathetic like chat box for sandwich recipes

    I’d ask whatever state that was responsible for your pre-college education to provide your parents with a full refund of all education expenses, as penalty for having failed you so gravely. You clearly have no ability to read and understand, and less ability to think critically.

    who really don’t want to hear opposing view

    They’re normally reasonably tolerant, provided you don’t make a jackass of yourself. Which you’d know, had you paid any attention at all.

  56. Jeff G. says:

    Who is spewing the hate? 99% – the Christian right wing teabaggers.

    Wonder how many “Christian right wing teabaggers” make up the student body there at Middle Tennessee State University, where Willy Yelverton uses gentle strummings to poison the minds of young Americans hoping to get an education, but come away brainwashed by demagoging half-wits whose opinions of their own mental prowess far exceed their actual capabilities.

    This slanderous and pathetic post is not only disgusting, coming from Jeff Goldstein, who threatens to ‘call my University because he has nothing to lose’ but is a example of the right wing demagoguery that strives to demonize those who they see as the enemy, most often people who don’t think, look, or pray like they do.

    “Right wing demagoguery”? Yeah. Because pointing out the willingness of the left to demonize 70+% of the population as bigoted haters is itself a hate crime in your Orwellian world.

    Further, Goldstein is no friend of the First Amendment, he routinely deletes comments, bans commenters, not because they are slanderous (as he is – mentioning full names and place of employment), but because they have well supported arguments, often documented with links and facts. He is a coward and obviously a bitter person, judging by his donation requests, not so successful.

    Well, not as successful as a Middle Tennessee State guitar teacher who spends much of his time trolling the site of a bitter, unsuccessful First Amendment hater, maybe. But I get an A for effort!

    Read this comment quickly, for it won’t last long, knowing the cowardice of Jeff Goldstein. This is my final comment here. This blog doesn’t respect the First Amendment and is merely a pathetic like chat box for sandwich recipes and ideological masturbation among a small community of like minded ‘regulars’ who really don’t want to hear opposing view, and run from facts they don’t want to hear.

    Coming from a guy with a hole in his head for the piss to seep out, I find the righteous indignation humorous.

    Leave it to a leftist to pretend to give a shit about a First Amendment he neither understands or supports — all while demanding the right to urinate all over the private property of another, and to do so under as many names as he pleases.

    Here’s a bit of advice, douche: the only thing of mine you’re entitled to is my utter disdain. I post under my own name, and have for years. I comment under my own name, and have for years. That I don’t allow people who used multiple names to troll my site isn’t a function of cowardice. It’s a function of good judgment.

    And that’s precisely because it is the cowardice of people who take shots at others from the safety of their anonymity (and you, being so utterly feckless and unskilled, couldn’t even hide your own identity!) that brings nothing to any “discussion” — particularly when all they do is call people bigots, then drop some unattributed quote from some lefty hivemind site into the comments here.

    The dumbest person here, William, would run circles around you in any actual debate. Which is why you snipe under fake names. You are out of your depth. And you always will be.

    You can say what you want about me, you ignorant snatch. Because you don’t rate, I don’t really give a fuck.

  57. Silver Whistle says:

    My monkey isn’t dancing. Is my monkey broke?

  58. Lamontyoubigdummy says:

    The RW is full of 21-year old chubby drunks who ride in cabs and try and murder cabbies

    The RW has 21 year olds?

    AWESOME!

    Are any of them girls?

    And if so, hot ones?

    I’m only asking for purposes of tolerance & diversity & stuff.

    Because we shouldn’t discriminate.

  59. bh says:

    Oh, for the record, I don’t think you guys are sharing nearly enough sandwich recipes. Jerks.

  60. Carin says:

    e RW is full of 21-year old chubby drunks who ride in cabs and try and murder cabbies (BTW, as an investigative reporter, I’m counting down till everyone has to admit that Enright’s “This is a checkpoint Motherfucker!” line is just a wee bit too good to be true)=T

    Too good to be true, or an indication of his mental instability.

    just saying.

  61. sdferr says:

    “Oh, for the record, I don’t think you guys are sharing nearly enough sandwich recipes. Jerks.”

    Ha!

    Sandwiches we got. Recipes for sandwiches? Are you crazy? They make themselves outta the stuff we got. Like Willie with Slander, I’m making my own definitions today. Thank me. You’re welcome.

  62. Carin says:

    The dumbest person here, William, would run circles around you in any actual debate

    Way to identify me, Jeff. Why didn’t you just say barefoot run circles around him?

    [runs crying from computer]

  63. JHo says:

    You never learned to argue.

    True. Is this the music thread?

  64. Blake says:

    Lamont,

    I don’t really do sandwiches, but I do a mean roasted chicken stuffed with rosemary, onions and fresh garlic…

    Lunchtime is coming early as I just made myself hungry.

  65. Carin says:

    WHAT was that JHO?

  66. JHo says:

    Those who can, do. Those who cannot, teach music?

  67. The Monster says:

    BTW, The Bride of Monster was shopping for a new purse the other day, but I couldn’t find any of those Jew Bags for her to try out. Can I get a pointer, William?

  68. Lamontyoubigdummy says:

    Google Earth says Middle Tennessee State is nowhere near the middle of the state of Tennessee.

    Your damn near in Kentucky!

    Your a liar who works for a lie William.

    The dumbest person here, William, would run circles around you in any actual debate.

    (Lamont strums guitar, raises hand)

  69. Mikey NTH says:

    Comment by Jeff G. on 8/26 @ 11:38 am #

    I tried, but you sir are the master. That was a thing of beauty.

  70. Lamontyoubigdummy says:

    Crap. Carin beat me to the funny.

  71. sdferr says:

    heh. Wouldn’t that mean you win Lamont?

  72. Lamontyoubigdummy says:

    “Your” instead of “You’re” up there.

    x 2.

    Because I went to 70 Miles From Kentucky Middle Tennessee State U.

  73. Pablo says:

    Oh, no! Hatey Christian teabaggers are everywhere!

    Police say suspects planned bomb attacks in Ottawa

  74. Jeff G. says:

    You think Willy will enjoy my update?

    I do.

    Even though I’m a loser and a failure. And yet, Willy can’t quit me.

  75. bh says:

    Out of curiosity, I just checked how many other people were subscribed to Yelverton’s blog with Google Reader. Including myself? Two.

    Can the other person raise their hand so we can share an awkward bro-hug?

  76. bh says:

    If you weren’t living in a society made prosperous because of the very classical liberal ideals you reject, you’d be playing Nickelback cover tunes at the birthday party of some blue blood.

    Heh, Jeff, I only wish he was smarter so that could sting properly.

  77. Silver Whistle says:

    If Willie knew some Nickelback covers he might actually be in demand.

  78. LTC John says:

    “Professor Guitar Hero” that is, in the words of our former Governor, “effing golden”.

  79. Slartibartfast says:

    Your damn near in Kentucky!

    Eh? Murfreesboro is about halfway between Alabama and Kentucky.

    The smart people live in Huntsville, the rich in Nashville, and halfway between, there’s Bill, and those who have to grit their teeth because they have Bill periodically inflicted on them.

  80. Lamontyoubigdummy says:

    Dear Willy,

    I’ve heard there was a secret chord, that David played and it pleased the Lord.

    But you don’t really care for music do you?

  81. sdferr says:

    So far, the imam has rebuffed accusations of insensitivity. Yet he made those very accusations about the Danish cartoons of Prophet Muhammad. In a February 2006 press release, Imam Rauf announced that he was “appalled” by the drawings. He called it “willful fomentation” and “gratuitous” to republish them throughout Europe. In the following weeks, almost no U.S. newspaper printed the caricatures.

  82. JHo says:

    Professor William Yelverton reminds me of Professor Rick Caric. When a progg lost in the luxury of deep red security, bleat louder. Because overcompensation works so well.

  83. Lamontyoubigdummy says:

    Well then I’m confused Slarti (damn sure not the first time) but Murfreesboro looked about a 1/2 ” short of Nashville which is a rock chunk from Kentucky. Granted, I’m from Texas and we prolly judge distance differently (if it’s a two hour drive your pretty much there already).

  84. Jeff G. says:

    That’s SLANDEROUS, JHo!

    Don’t make me sue you on FIRST AMENDMENT GROUNDS!

  85. Alec Leamas says:

    I just came to hear William Yelverton play FREEEEEEEEEEBIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!

  86. JHo says:

    Probably there’s a new retract button coming out for Firefox, Jeff. At least there’s a huge market for it.

  87. Mikey NTH says:

    Yeah, LTC John. I am in awe of that one.

    I wonder how it feels to have a job as a Professor in a particular field when you know that – and lie awake in the deep watches of the night sweating in fear about – there is a stoned 20 year-old somewhere that can do exactly what you are being paid to do, but he’ll (a) do it better than you, and (b) he’ll do it for beer and weed.

  88. JD says:

    I am laughing so hard I almost peed myself. William the plagiarist yelverton crammed almost every one of his lies, distortions, caricatures, strawmen, and leftist memes into one grand and triumpant display of asshattery. He is too stupid to insult. And the bit about sammich recipes is simply too rich in irony, given he has whole pages devoted to festivals of veggie paella cooked by midgets with oddly bemused onlookers.

    Nor Laup !

  89. Obstreperous Infidel says:

    Because, I know he’s still lurking…willie, you just got your ass handed to you, son. My advice to you would be to skulk away quietly, lick your wounds and grow up. I have utter confidence that you can manage at least the first two of those three things.

    This was kind of an orca playing with a baby seal kind of moment, though. wee-willie had no chance, but unlike the baby seal, he did bring it upon himself.

  90. cranky-d says:

    That response to Willie’s comment, and the update, are things of beauty.

  91. […] “LIBEL!”* Posted by Jeff G. @ 12:34 pm Comments (1) | Trackback SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "If instead of […]

  92. JHo says:

    I wish that as a young man I had a nice safe haven to fall back onto. I could have lived the life of Riley, going all rustic and outdoorsey (between the hours of 9 and 5), playing piano without any need to actually compete at it, lambasting my host’s community and any strawmanned cartoons of it I cared to project, and generally impressing the heck out of myself at the renaissance man I was.

    All without a real care in the world. Because ease builds character and an inflated ego, reason.

  93. bh says:

    I sometimes wonder how Jeff has been able to gather so many intelligent and simply hilarious people to this blog.

    This post and update pretty much explains it, I think.

  94. ahem says:

    Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach. Those who can’t teach, teach music. Those who can’t teach music, teach guitar. Those who can’t teach guitar, teach guitar at Middle Tennessee State?

  95. Jeff G. says:

    Willy’s cat is getting really pissed at you people.

  96. LTC John says:

    Mikey – that was pretty darned good by you as well. This thread is goldenizing as we watch.

  97. Willy's Pussy says:

    Wriao!

  98. Slartibartfast says:

    Well then I’m confused Slarti

    By Texas standards, Tennessee is wafer-thin.

    Nashville is roughly a third of the way into the state, going due south, from Kentucky. Murfreesboro is almost exactly halfway: 55 miles from the Northern border, and 58 miles from the Southern.

    there is a stoned 20 year-old somewhere that can do exactly what you are being paid to do

    I’m sure that the market would select the stoned 20-year old, if that were the case. But I think it’s fair that Yelverton’s only skill be taken as a given. But let’s face it: he’s a professor of music at an obscure-ish mid-southern university, and not a major figure in performance art. So: decent level of talent at his art, which gains him no pass at all, here, when discussing politics.

    But clearly there is something lacking in his life, if the paella and the girlfriend and the running and the music and the boating are so unsatisfying that he has to show his ass (but sadly, precious little intellect) over here on a frequent, almost obsessive, basis.

  99. Rusty says:

    #26

    Whoa. Perfesser Bill gettin all emo on our ass.

  100. Jeff G. says:

    I do bring it out of them, don’t I?

  101. says:

    Let us not forget that willie the racist hilljack is also scared of brown people that can spell.

  102. ahem says:

    What about all that Latvian head he was getting?

  103. bh says:

    That’s thor, ahem. He’s the insanely misanthropic loser. This is William Yelverton, the unbelievably stupid loser.

  104. DarthRove says:

    …Nickelback cover tunes…

    To be fair, Nickelback only has one song, so it would be cover tune.

  105. JD says:

    I just love how the left and the plagiarizing yelverton ilk try to portray the right as violent xianists inciting mass hysteria with their rhetoric, while ignoring that the actual violence in the vast majority of the cases, comes from leftists. I guess the reichwing xianists know how to get the weak minded leftists to do their bidding.

  106. Mikey NTH says:

    That you do Jeff; that you do.

    And next thing you know they never go home, they eat all the salty snacks, and egg the armadillo on to newer atrocities.

  107. Lamontyoubigdummy says:

    Wafer-thin

    Gut. Busted. Been laughing for 5 minutes.

    Jeff Goldstein, who threatens to ‘call my University because he has nothing to lose’

    OUTLAW!!!

  108. Slartibartfast says:

    Gut. Busted.

    Do you need a bucket?

  109. Lamontyoubigdummy says:

    Nope. I only puke on the cleaning girl. Because I’m conservative & she’s probably Latino.

    “Wafer-thin” deserves a link I think.

    As it is a perfect analogy to our current liberal/ union/ progressive government.

  110. Slartibartfast says:

    I love that scene so much.

  111. Alec Leamas says:

    So, what is the canonical sine qua non for a degree in Guitar Studies? Classical Gas or something?

  112. Mal says:

    Big Noise From Yelverton Mountain; summary: “Doodyheads!”

  113. Silver Whistle says:

    So, what is the canonical sine qua non for a degree in Guitar Studies? Classical Gas or something?

    If Wee Willie has anything to do with it, probably this.

  114. Slartibartfast says:

    Yelverton Mountain

    Which will heretofore be known as “Skullcrusher Mountain“.

  115. Ernst Schreiber says:

    Re: Classical Gas

    I like the Mannheim Steamroller album

  116. Lamontyoubigdummy says:

    MTSU/Yelverton 101: Why Gordon Lightfoot Rocks The Democratic Underground

    MTSU/Yelverton 202: Jimi Hendrix Means Media Matters…Actually Matters

    MTSU/Yelverton 303: George Bush Shot Kurt Cobain for Voting Democrat

    MTSU/Yelverton 404: So You Want To Be a Progressive in the Key of “E”**

    **Masters in Jimmy Page & Finding Magical Bigotry in EVERYTHING.

  117. dicentra says:

    I couldn’t find any of those Jew Bags for her to try out. Can I get a pointer, William?

    No, no, NO!

    THOR is the go-to troll for Jew Bag tips. Yelvie is your one-stop shop for vegetarian paella recipies.

  118. ak4mc says:

    This is my final comment here under my own name.

    Made that more accurate for you.

  119. Rusty says:

    #100
    It’s what keeps us coming back.

  120. Squid says:

    For the benefit of those who may not be familiar with the standard tropes, what Willie teh Wacist Guitaw Pwofwessah engaged in here is known as a flounce. And for as tempted as I am to follow him back to his little Fortress of Solitude and poke him with a stick, I think I’ll just wait ’til he comes back.

    “I wish I knew how to quit you, Jeff.”

  121. SDN says:

    Jeff, “We’re not worthy!”

    The truly amazingly funny thing is that Willie dares to come on this blog and postulate that A) all right-wingers are natural born killers, B) everyone on the blog is a right-winger, yet C) he’s going to come here and issue gratuitous insults to instinctive killers who know where he works!

    One is forced to conclude that he doesn’t believe a single dishonest thing he writes.

    Every time I think I’ve seen the stupidest thing the planet has to offer, someone like Willie just has to yank open the trenchcoat and prove otherwise.

    MY EYESSSS!

  122. Patrick says:

    Holy. Shit. Batman.

    This thread is pure disembowelment gold. Evisceration 301 – Grad level stuff.

  123. Squid says:

    One is forced to conclude that he doesn’t believe a single dishonest thing he writes.

    That, or he realizes that he just ain’t worth our time. No wonder he’s eating himself up inside; even though we exist as cartoon characters in his reality, he still subconsciously knows that we’re bigger than him. That just can’t be healthy.

  124. cranky-d says:

    I think Squid has the right of it. We aren’t properly fawning with respect to his intellectual gifts and his words of wisdom, and that gnaws at his little psyche.

  125. Lamontyoubigdummy says:

    His webthingy. I didn’t link over. Feels kinda dirty.

    And I’ve been to Boys Town in Nuevo Laredo on purpose.

    Twice.

    Anyone commented over there?

    How deep is the crazy line? I wonder cause there’s no hit and run zombies here.

    Does anybody read him (apart from trying to learn “Stairway to Heaven” on a beat up Gibson obviously)?

  126. JD says:

    How does it feel to totally and completely beclown yourself, William “The Plagiarist” Yelverton?

  127. JD says:

    This thread is hysterical.

  128. What’s also hysterical is Willie – at his mess of a blog – accusing others of “knowing nothing” about academic scholarship. Irony alert.

  129. JD says:

    How does strumming a guitar give someone academic scholarship? That is especially ironic given his propensity for plagiarism. He would not know academic scholarship if it crawled out his weinerhole and cockslapped him.

  130. Mikey NTH says:

    #121 SDN:

    It can be explained – the belief that all here are rightwing killers ready to be set off and that he comes here trying to goad us – by the martyr-complex he has got going. If he can’t get it reallly (and he really doesn’t want it because he doesn’t prod those who will actually do it for free), then he will bask vicariously in the martyrdom of others, the muslims of Murfreesboro who were oppressed by a demonstration (or so he says) or any other official victim group whose pain and oppression he can latch onto and lamprously live off of.

    Next to ‘stolen valor’ there ought to be ‘stolen martyrdom’ as a contemptible behavior. And I think they both have the same roots in known personal inadequacy.

  131. […] I tried to make clear yesterday to Middle Tennessee State’s facile-minded Professor of Reverb, William Yelverton, his […]

  132. Heh. I find it truly amusing that William is complaining about Jeff G. “who threatens to ‘call my University because he has nothing to lose” when William actually did that to me over at what used to be TennesseeFree.com. He actually stated he wished I would be fired… for being a conservative.

    He even misidentified me as someone else, then went whole hog on trying to out me and then attempting to ruin my career, because you can’t have conservatives in higher education.

    Here’s the link to William’s blog where he “outed me”:

    http://loosetncanon.blogspot.com/2008/03/blogger-doc-at-autopsy-identity.html

    He copped to why he did in on what used to be TennesseFree. He wanted his fellow liberals to fire me for being conservative.. in the name of tolerance!

  133. benning says:

    Uhhmmmm … so where are the sandwich recipes? ;)

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