“Why Do You Hate White People?”: My Year in Donald Trump Supporter Fan Mail

Donald Trump fans are a special breed of American voter. To hear them tell it, they’re a disenfranchised silent majority who simply want to see America restored to its past glory. To hear everyone else tell it, they’re a violent mob of tempestuous racists. Either way, they really love sending me email.
'I Hope You Get Hit By a Bus': Readers Respond to Our Guide to Tim Tebow
Our new editor A.J. Daulerio—who would know—tells me that every time you write about Broncos quarterback and Filipino mohel Tim Tebow, you get a big response. He's right: after yesterday's "A Non Sports Fan's Guide to Tim Tebow," a lot of people in Colorado and Florida (and one guy in Australia) responded to let me…
Sarah Palin's Diehard Supporters Are Scaring Republican Pundits
Nobody wants Sarah Palin to run for president, except for every Democratic political operative and a persistent twenty-ish percent of the Republican electorate who only want her. Of course, she probably won't. But Republican pundits really want her to clarify that decision soon, if only to silence her supremely…
Ann Coulter Mistakenly Directs Comical Hate Mail to Author Michael Gross
Ann Coulter mistakenly raged against "Michael Gross" in a column yesterday, but she meant "Michael Joseph Gross," the author of a recent, damning Sarah Palin profile. Now author Michael Gross has been receiving insane hate mail, and isn't happy.
Buckley Ankles 'National Review'
So Christopher Buckley, the smart-ass novelist son of late conservative intellectual William F. Buckley, went and endorsed Barack Obama in the internet pages of Tina Brown's Daily Beast. He explained, in his endorsement, that he was writing for the Beast because he didn't want to read the hate mail he'd get if he…
On The Internet, Everyone Knows You Want to Kill Them
It's a fact of life on the internet that when you are mentioned (and linked to) unfavorably by certain high traffic right-wing bloggers, you promptly start receiving some of the most remarkable hate mail you've ever seen. It begins immediately, peaks overnight, and continues usually for about 72 hours or so. Then…
A Mother Responds to Palin Emailgate
Here is one of the many charming emails your editors have received since we reposted some emails that were hacked and originally posted by Anonymous earlier today, and then called a phone number. Now the "bloggers post their hate mail so you can point and laugh" routine is dead tired, but this one invokes your day…
