Now @MikeElk Calls @betsyscribeindc a ‘Racist,’ Because … Journalism!

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My apology for treating you to more of this kook’s kookiness, but these nutjobs just fascinate me. Mike Elk responded to Betsy Rothstein’s Monday article with a series of typically bizarre e-mails:

[C]riticize him at your own peril — he’ll charge that you’re against people with conditions like Asperger’s and write your boss and insist on your termination. He wrote in 16 times today to tell me why I’m not a journalist and he is. . . .

11:53 a.m. Mike: Reporter with tact for saying racists things against asians [sic] writes story downplaying the racist behavior of Eli Lake – no wonder it was a hit piece. Betsy: I do hope you have a Happy Holidays. And p.s. go fuck yourself. . . .
11:54 a.m. Mike: Quite the solidarity of racists Betsy. Betsy: Okay Mike. You keep believing whatever stupid shit you want.
12 p.m. Mike: [sic] Its not just me. I mean Lee Fang other asians believe it, but you downplay serious life or death issues. People like Eli Lake a racist fascists not actual reporters. Betsy: Great, strangers believe something. I don’t give a shit, Elk. Your thinking is very twisted and weird and I’ll have no part of it. . . .
Mike: Hey Betsy, There is a difference here. The difference is that I am coming after you hard over what you do, you guys mock and make fun of people over how they were born – their race, neorological impairments etc. Learn what real journalism is Betsy. melk Betsy:  Interesting. You have the same pattern again and again with everyone. You are the king of journalism, of course. You are seriously demented. And no, that’s not a slam on your mental illness or your dyslexia, it’s a slam on you personally for being such an idiot. And you’re coming after me hard? Oh, also interesting. Thanks for sharing.
12:13 p.m. Mike: Betsy, You work at the Daily Caller enough said? melk Betsy: And your point is what? I’ve never read your magazine. You work at In These Times. Are we just going through our resumes now?  You’ve tried to disparage and get three reporters fired in about 7 weeks. Let me fill you in … you’re not some warrior. Your thoughts and accusations don’t add up. Enough said, Mike Elk. . . .

You can read the whole thing — yes, there’s lots more crazy where that came from — and keep this in mind: I have no especial reason to like Betsy Rothstein, or Eli Lake or Rosie Gray, for that matter. It’s not as though we’re all best buddies and ideological soul mates. The story here is quite simple: Mike Elk is dangerously crazy.

But you probably figured that out by now, you racists.

 


64 comments

  3. This guy was, like, made for Bill S. If only someone could convince one to attack the other, they could keep each other busy and leave the rest of us the hell alone.

  6. It’s adamantine brilliance: “I’m better than you because soldiers from the geographical region where I grew up won a war 150 years ago.”

  9. Stacy, what is it with you and crazy people? How do you find them, and why do they find you?

    It’s fascinating, don’t get me wrong, but even I don’t know this many completely off-their-rockers-and-into-the-weeds nuts as you do, and I practically define F.I.N.E.! In my case, the “I” stands for “irritable.”

  11. The Left is sensing that it may be on the verge of losing power just when it had come closer to turning America into a totalitarian state than they ever dreamed possible.

    And as we know, the Left is never crazier or more entertaining than when losing and/or out of power.

    Faster, please.

  20. ” The difference is that I am coming after you hard over what you do…”

    No, he is coming after us with a pool noodle shaped like a fish and wondering why nobody takes his “journalism” seriously.

  21. Better watch out – with all the attention you are giving this guy, Bill Schmalfeldt could get all jealous and butthurt about that.

  22. “Conservative,” Betsy? She sure did a great job of hiding it when she was attacking me a few years ago. Like I say , it’s not like we’re best buds.

  28. These people just keep popping up EVERYWHERE on the left. It is so bad that Obama and Biden and Reid and Pelosi start to almost seem rational BY COMPARISON to all these other left-wing EXTREME LUNATICS!

    How crazy can these people be? I keep asking that question and then I get introduced to people like Kaitlyn Hunt and Cabin Boy and Rauhauser and Kimberlin and the transvestite corps at Vassar and now this lunatic. There seems to be no end to the depths of lunacy on the left.

    Is mental illness and depravity required to be a leftist or does being leftist cause it? Seriously…

  29. Were you to give male hormone treatments to Debbie Wasserman Schultz, what do you suppose she would look like?

  30. You know they’re going to give the full-bore Bush treatment to the next Republican president, no matter who it is.

  31. I think it is, to a great extent, disappointment: They supported Obama, who gave them as much of what they wanted as he possibly could, and yet . . .

    Well, his success has not translated itself into their success. Their fundamental problems are not political, and are beyond the reach of policy, and so when they have had such large victories in terms of both politics and policy, yet they themselves are still so unhappy, they lash out at scapegoats: Racists! Sexists! Homophobes! Neocons! Fox News!

    Their hate is all they have to fall back on.

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