"You're not heartless bastards, right?"

The magic pen voter writes a crazy letter to two local bloggers. This blogger shows no mercy. From: Amy Carlton Date: Feb 10, 2008 11:34 PM Subject: A request from your neighbor To: craiggernhardt@comcast.net, rogerparkbench@yahoo.com Cc: michaelharring@gmail.com, twestgard@gmail.com Tom and Craig, I just spent the weekend in a downstate hospital with my mother-in-law as she got her first chemo treatment for stage 4 lung cancer. As you can imagine, I have greater concerns than what a couple of local bloggers are saying -- repeatedly -- about me. But still. Why can't you let this go? It's pretty clear from your own comments pages that almost none of your readers support your inexplicable crusade against me, so why don't you please just knock it off? You've made your points (mostly by misrepresenting what I've said), you've had your fun at my expense, now leave me alone. And take down the wedding picture you took from my site. Thanks in advance (because you're going to stop bothering me, right? You're not heartless bastards, right?), Amy (PS: I've copied a few other neighbors on this message just in case you try to misrepresent what I wrote or use it to make further fun of me. But I'm sure you won't, because you are decent people, yes?) Dear Amy: Best wishes to your mother in law. Now, back to you. Allow me to quote from your own blog: "Anyway, for reasons ranging from being lied to to just not thinking clearly at 7 am, I got screwed yesterday, and I fought back. And now I'm an object of ridicule from the neighborhood jagoff's* blog (the execrable Morse Hellhole) to Wonkette. So the moral of the story is: Never try. No, wait! The moral of the story is: Who gives a rat's ass what people think?" Hmmm. So let's put this into context, sweetie. 1) YOU are not the one with lung cancer, so the pity act doesn't cut it here; 2) Funny how you never mentioned the cancer thing on your own blog (not recently, anyway); 3) After calling Craig a "jagoff" and spending considerable time and energy on lots of things OTHER THAN your mother in law, why this sudden oh-pity-me act, six days after the magic pen incident? 4) I was over you and the magic pen thing, really. So was Craig. I would have still been willing to let it go if you had done one incredibly stupid thing: You "copied a few other neighbors on this message just in case [I] try to misrepresent [you]." Trust but verify, Amy? Tsk tsk. Tell your neighbors that you were fully quoted (above). Remember that Craig and I both have copies of the same email. 5) Are you going to send the same sad email to Wonkette and hundreds upon hundreds of other web sites and newspapers across North America, Amy? No? Well, guess what: You don't need to. It's now out there. 6) Did you or your friends ever show the same compassion that you ask for to Dick Cheney when he accidentally shot a friend? How many dead baby jokes do make in month? You ask for sympathy, but the sympathy in fact is not for you but for your "mother in law." Last time I checked, nobody was picking on your mother in law. 7) I promise to never pick on your mother in law. 8) You remain fair game as long as you continue to (a) willingly remain in the public eye vis a vis your public writings and pronouncements and (b) do stupid things like write that email. 9) When you wrote, "But I'm sure you won't, because you are decent people, yes?" I nearly gagged. Are you shitting me? You and your crowd do not consider either Craig or me to be "decent." Frankly, I consider you to be indecent. Honestly. 10) Of Craig, you wrote on your blog, "I changed "drunk" to the all-purpose Chicago insult 'jagoff.'" How kind of you, Amy. Let me return the kindness. Instead of "media whore," I'll just refer to you with the all-purpose American insult "bitch." Now go away and maybe we'll ignore you for another week.