| My Departure from Jewcy | |
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by Michael Weiss, December 19, 2007
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I've been with Jewcy since April, 2006 -- before there was a Jewcy, and before the worst stain that you could attach to the name Michael Weiss was that he landed on his ass at the Winter Olympics, or made an unconvincing Pretender on NBC.
I'll be leaving these parts in mid-January to become Pajamas Media's new New York and D.C. editor. Rollicking Peloponnesian days with Victor Davis Hanson, wild Dylanesque nights with Ron Rosenbaum. Or so I'm told.
One wants to avoid sentimentality at times like these ("I'll miss you all terribly. Except you, Craig. I never liked you and your lunches always smelled.") but it's an uphill battle, really. I've had the privilege to work with some of the funniest, most talented people in journalism -- not ghettoized Jewish journalism, mind you, but journalism. We will all answer to Izzy Grinspan in a matter of years. Tahl Raz took a vague idea, borne of the hash and decadence of Amsterdam, and made it material. And I'm actually sticking around another couple of weeks because I want to see Joey's unkept mug one last time in person before I hop it. At the very least, Leinoff needs more schooling at Ping-Pong.
I don't plan to be a complete stranger to Jewcy or to the Cabal. I'll still post my glowering neocon screeds from time to time. And I hope friendly antagonists like Ismail, and not-so-friendly ones like that creepy asshole who keeps telling me I'm not a real Jew because my mother isn't, follow me wherever I go. I could use the comic relief.
It's been real. Now here's a picture of my English Cocker Spaniel in front of the Christmas Tree. Just for you, creepy Jewish chauvinist commenter (my squeeze is Korean, too, just like Noah Feldman's. Viva la intermarriage!):
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Michael is a contributing editor of Jewcy and the New York editor of Pajamas Media. His work has appeared in Slate, New York, Democratiya, The New Criterion and The Weekly Standard. His blog is More... |
David Kelsey
Congrats
Hey, Michael, this sounds like a really great opportunity. I would like, at this time, to note that I actually do enjoy reading your posts, even if you are wrong about many things.
Adam Shprintzen
Congratulations Michael, you
Congratulations Michael, you and your writing will definitely be missed 'round these parts. But it sounds like a fantastic opportunity. I hope this doesn't mean you're leaving NYC for DC? It's good knowing that the city is in good hands in my absence...
shriber1
Good luck Mr. Weiss
"...and not-so-friendly ones like that creepy asshole who keeps telling me I'm not a real Jew because my mother isn't, follow me wherever I go. I could use the comic relief."
This is disgusting. I am a Halachically speaking 100 per cent Jewish and I find such thoroughly un-Jewish.
To my mind and child of a Jew who stands with the Jewish people is a Jew and people who would deny that do more harm to the Jewish community than overt antisemites.
Anonymous
Down with intermarriage!
You're not Jewish and your kids won't be either. Real Jews don't celebrate Christmas or support intermarriage which is bad for the Jews. Creepy little Goy!
Anonymous
Frankly, y'all fellas need to
have your heads examined with all this Jewish/non-Jewish idiotic nonsense.
Why not try to be decent human beings - that's the largest tribe there is and there's no OTHERs to despise. Try it, you can't lose.
Anonymous
"Why not try to be decent
"Why not try to be decent human beings - that's the largest tribe there is..."
What a moron. Decent human beings are the smallest tribe in the galaxy. Big mouths like you and the previous poster constitute the largest tribe.
Anonymous
Well, fella,
it's certainly larger than than the 'Jews' tribe. If you would like to belong, first step is to identify yourself as a human being first and foremost, the other stuff is just an illusion. Try it sometime.
Andy Hume
"Creepy little goy"
Wow, the anons are out in force today. The terrible thought occurs to me that, to adapt a Seinfeldism, Mike's only Jewish for the extra holidays...
Best of luck in the new job. We'll make a Tory of you yet.
Ismail
'nshallah, they won't make you worse
You're decamping from Jewcy to join the ranks of Michael Ledeen, Jeff Jacoby and....Phyllis fucking CHESLER?! This is very troubling, since that squadron of lunatics will not provide the mitigation of your more sinister notions that the more lucid Jewcoids over here supply. Without such leavening, I fear your beliefs will calcify into a brittle Straussian matzoh of full-on apologetics for imperialism. Very sad.
I will miss reading your posts here. On the plus side, I'll probably wind up with a fuller thatch of hair, what with one less reason to pull it out by the handful.
Very nice tree, by the way, though I don't much care for the tasteful, Pottery-Barn-endorsed white lights. If it ain't tacky, it ain't a Christmas tree, although how could you know that, hobbled as you are by your diluted pedigree?
Oh, and lay off Craig, who's always been nothing less than entirely Christian in his dealings with me.
Adam LeBor
Good luck!
Good luck in your new job, Michael and thanks for bringing me into Jewcy. You will continue to shine, I am sure!
And as for those nasty comments by Mr/Ms Anonymous, why not be a real man or woman and put your name up there? We do.
visit: adamlebor.com
Anonymous
Hey jerk
"Down with intermarriage!"
Make it easier for the non Jewish spouse to become Jewish and stop attacking people who will protect you when the Islamoids and the Cossacks come into your neighborhood.
Anonymous
Fricking Ismail says
"You're decamping from Jewcy to join the ranks of Michael Ledeen, Jeff Jacoby and....Phyllis fucking CHESLER?! "
Hey Islamoid jerk Phyllis Chesler has got your number which is why you hate her.
You are a pampered male Islamoboy who hates competition from women.
Anonymous
It's curious how
Islamoboy
islamophobia is virtually indistinguishable from jew-hatred. Same template exactly, just replace a syllable - and vuala!
Anonymous
"Pampered male
"Pampered male Islamoboy"....hey, I like it! Finally, someone who understands the real me!
PS: Michael, get used to being surrounded by troglodytes like anon 1:30pm at your new workplace. Pity.
Anonymous
Michael Weiss
Sorry to see ya go. Perhaps I'm a tad late in offering my wishes, but its too bad you're leaving this site and contrary to popular opinion I actually *enjoyed* your writing.
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