Welcome to the first installment of Michael Fumento's hate mail. If you haven't already read the disclaimer, please do so.

Gulf War Syndrome (GWS) Hate

Death by Extreme Prostate Cancer

I find your coments [sic] to be well thought out rubish [sic].

In the old days a guy like you might be drawn and quartered. Im[sic] my opinion its[sic] much to[sic] easy to do that today. maybe one day you will have aids, or some unexplained illness that you will die from. Darn all the pain and suffering you will go threw [sic]. It pities me to know you might suffer. NOT!!!! BECAUSE I THINK YOUR [sic] A FUCKING COCK SUCKING ASSHOLE BABY WITH TO[sic] MUCH EDUCATION TO KNOW WHAT IS IN FRONT OF YOU. You are scum and I wish there were more fags like you around before this whole thing started so that you could have gone and served. BUT THEN AGAIN YOU ARE PROBABLY A CHICKENSHIT FUCK HEAD WITH A CONCIENCIOUS [sic] OBJECTOR STATUS!! Its[sic] so nice that you have the right to call me and my fellow vets a liar. YOU Should SHOW YOUR FUCKING FACE SOMETIME AND DO IT YOU PIECE OF SHIT. Well I have said what I wanted to so one last thing............, I HOPE YOU DIE A PAINFUL DEATH FROM EXTREME PROSTATE CANCER YOU FUCK!!!!! Good Day

The person means “conscientious objector,” a reference to people who would not serve in the military when drafted. The draft ended in 1973 when I was only 13, but I served four years in the Army of my own volition. Every piece I write on Gulf War Syndrome notes that I am a vet.

An Alien From Society

Subject: Are you OK.?

I am deeply concerned about your mental well being.

If you persist in attacking Veterans[sic] you stand to alienate yourself from society.
I am led to believe that you subscribe to some extreme right wing ideologies.!
The way in which you are writing indicates that you are unable to relate to your fellow man, do you really feel this way.?
If you are doing this just for the money, fine; if you are doing this because it is what you believe, fine; remember we are all human beings and we need each other.

DO YOU NEED TO BE DOING THIS IN THIS WAY.?
PLEASE RE-CONSIDER YOUR ACTIONS.
S/Maj UK

DO YOU REALLY NEED TO PUNCTUATE
YOUR SENTENCES TWICE.?

Damned by Don

Mr. Fumento:

I have had the pleasure to read some of your work regarding the Gulf War Illness and have read the responses your work has generated.
As a journalist who has been watching this scenario unfold as the biggest and most horrifying betrayal our government has perpetrated on the American people, and that only after a long line of horrifying betrayals, I find myself a little sickened to think that we are both members of the same profession.

An investigative journalist who could assemble all of the facts, come to the truth and decide not to tell it is a prostitute. An investigative journalist who could assemble all of the facts and still miss the story should be flipping burgers.

What is it with you? Are you as professionally intuitive as a high school student working at McDonald's, or are you a prostitute? How can you watch healthy men and their families and their pets die and watch babies be born with horribly disfiguring defects and take the stand that you do? How can you be confronted with the painful truth that the government you are protecting purposefully infected our nation with contagions against which we have no defenses and not be appalled?

How can you sleep at night?

What people like you seem to forget – and I can assume that you are not a Christian – is that this is not all there is. You are going to be held accountable for your actions. The rewards you may receive on this planet for selling out your fellow Americans may be pretty compelling. I hope they are worth an eternity in what I hear is a pretty uncomfortable place.

Damn you. Your country needs your skills and you have sold out to the people who are ruining the greatest country the world has ever seen while the people who trustingly went overseas to protect it are dying slow, agonizing and miserable deaths.

Damn you,

Don
The Idaho Observer

Gee Don, if I were as talented as you I, too, could work for the prestigious Idaho Observer. By the way, you ought seriously to consider entering that contest for writing the longest run-on sentences.

The Forked Tongue Award

Why don't you go fuck yourself! It's funny out here in Canada your reports and/or studies have been laughed at by our own military medical specialist.

You're a fucking joke! I too am a published writer mister high and mighty! Only one exception, my work is published in books that are worldwide and not an article here and there and simple little papers. Ever hear of the Golden Quill Award? Guess not, you're still stooping in the hopes something will fall into your lap. Nice try mister man. Check out past issues of NEJM [New England Journal of Medicine], as well as various other medical research books, then you'll be able to call me what you want.

Until then mister man, just sit on the porch and wag your tail and let the big dogs go out and do the proper and credible work.

Goof!

Luc

Luc provided his full name. It was easy to verify he’d never won a Golden Quill or published in the New England Journal of Medicine or, apparently, anywhere or anything other than obscene e-mails. But his e-mail address indicates he does live in Canada.

Are You a Girly Man?

hey mike, we gulf [sic] war vets and vets of other conflicts think sissy momma's boys like you should never serve your country. whatever it is you think makes gulf [sic] war vets crazy would have busted a sniveling coward like you into a tear infested slobber fit, and you'd have ran [sic] home crying to mommy. I would dare you to pick up body parts of fellow soldiers, many of whom were no older than my own kids. my honor and love for country and fellow man prevent me from lying or dreaming up crap like you suggest. i still know a fellow who might be able to get his hands on the 'bromide tablets' like we took. if you are the man you think you are and not a sheman why don’t you volunteer to take these tablets and the innoculations [sic] like we did? i wish you would come to indiana and speak to my garden, after all chicken sh** is one of the best fertilizers i know, and you seem to be well endowed with chicken sh**.

Actually, tens of thousands of Americans take pyrodostigmine bromide pills every day for life, not a couple of weeks, and at much higher doses than Gulf vets did. And I did get most of the same inoculations when I was in the Army. And this “sissy momma’s boy” A) spent four years in elite paratrooper units, and B) knows where to find the “shift” key on his keyboard.

It's Obviuos

Subject: are you crazy?

i don't think you need to talking [sic] about GWS when obviuosly [sic] you don't know for sure what is going on ...if we don't i’m positive YOU don't thank you

Well, he did say “thank you”.

Subject of a Drug Experiment

to: mike fortunato [sic]

if america had to rely on whiny little weanies like you in the military, we would be speeking [sic] a forein [sic] language. you are not an authority in anything, you are a fraud. why dont [sic] you come to indiana [sic], i will provide you with some bromide pills, and we can arrange the shots we took, if you are the man you think you are. my wife has more guts than you. actually i get a kick out of your storys [sic], what an imagination.... what crap... if in his [sic] infinate [sic] wisdom God had not made breathing an automatic body function, wanna-bes [sic] like you would forget and fall over. you are the typical individual that witnessed the gulf war.... from behind his mommy. actually myself and many others are waiting until the truth about gws comes out, then we will expose you and others like you.

terry
disabled gulf war vet

After I replied, this is his next letter.

well if you aint [sic] a weanie, come on to indiana, [sic] lets [sic] fix you up with the innoculations [sic], and bromide pills. i spent 2 years at the end of nam [sic], in germany [sic] in the air force as a security specialist, worked for macsog and the dia doin [sic] recon in nam and other sh** holes. i was assigned with special forces marines, my brother is dying from agent orange from these recons. wanna-bes [sic] like you told all of us that agent orange was nonsence [sic] like your ignorence [sic] of gulf war syndrome. no one is whining, as you think. i do believe however that as a military volunteer, the government has no right to do drug experiments on us, and should live up to taking care of injuries. did you ever see combat, or did you get brave after the war?

terry
disabled gulf war vet

There was no war during my four years of service, however at least I actually served. Not so for Terry. There’s no such thing as “special forces marines.” The Marines’ elite unit is called “Force Recon” and anybody who’s been in it would remember that.

Calm, Rational Robert

I would like to know why you developed such a rabid view of the people who are trying to identify the various maladies suffered by many veterans of the Persian Gulf War. Are you an anti-military nut who thinks they should just fall on their swords and die? Your rabid hate for the well-being of the veterans of this country is very sick. I hope you get the psychiatric care that you clearly need. I think we owe it to people who serve out [sic] country to examine these things in a calm and rational tone. Your diatribes may sell magazines, but they are not good journalism. You did such a bad job of confirming your sources, you either have no interest in the truth or no professional ethics.

Robert

You’re right Robert. A calm and rational tone is so important. I’m so sorry.

Norman Wants to Go Straight

I was really dissapointed [sic] in your column, not sure if I'm more upset with the information or you.

I have seen a video tape on GWS and can't believe you would write a column without mentioning some of the facts brought out by Joyce Riley.

If you would like a copy of the video tape..please let me know..... if you would like to talk...please let me know...on my dime , of course !
I am a 54 year old [sic] who is also a Vet [sic] and is tired of being lied too [sic](?)
Let's talk about the federal reserve bank....the IRS...the CFR, the Olympians, the committee of 300.......

Sorry if I sound mad, I'm just real disgusted !

Straighten me out....please !

regards,
Norman

Sorry Norman, I’m no miracle worker. By the way, I have written about Joyce Riley. She’s the lady who claims she has GWS, sometimes saying she caught it from a patient because she herself was never in the Gulf and sometimes saying she got it directly because she was in the Gulf. She also claims that AIDS was invented by the U.S. government and has documents dating 1970 ordering that it be developed. Problem: The first U.S. AIDS case has been traced back to 1969 and other countries have documented AIDS cases long before that.

Robert's Rules of Disorder

The following is my actual response to another of Robert's e-mails, now lost but the content of which is readily surmised.

Dear Robert,

I guess what you're trying to say is that it's somehow unfair to use epidemiological and toxicological studies and to quote medical experts to talk about Gulf Lore Syndrome. Only vets who say their vomit glows and their semen could start a forest fire are trustworthy. And those five expert national panels that all dismissed Gulf Lore Syndrome. Yeah, they're a bunch of loonies, too, huh? Only Robert is the Almighty Keeper of Truth. I'll be sure to keep that in mind.

Regards,
Michael Fumento

Robert responded:

In other words, you do not have a clue and do not give a damn about the facts. Casualties of war deserve to be treated with respect and compassion, not your kind of bureaucratic double-talk. Historically, governments that betray their own people do not survive.

I do not know any vets who claimed their body was expelling [sic] "glow-in-the dark" substances. I am sure you made that up. I wish you were capable of reasoned discussion. This is a deeply painful issue for those involved and your diatribes only add to the pain. Stop pretending to be a journalist.

Actually the vet with glow-in-the-dark vomit and burning semen has a name, Brian Martin (see "Gulf War Syndrome and the Press," by Michael Fumento in The Wall Street Journal, March 4, 1997) and he testified before Congress to having this brightly-shining barf five days a week for 10 months. He’s told several reporters about the scalding semen, and naturally they just lapped it up. (Um, not literally). I’ve got a pretty good imagination, but even I couldn’t make up things like that.

Subject: Re: You must be a homosexual

Why even respond with such gayety [sic]. You are worthless to all of us vets. You call me a liar? What Lie is that You wondrous piece of Dog Shit? At least have the balls to face your accusers!! I accuse you of being a Drag Queen Journalist or um I mean analist. God speed to you you worthless fuck
Dan

I am repeatedly accused of calling Gulf vets "liars," though I have explained time and again that most really are sick but that it's simply not from exposure to anything in the Gulf or that they suffer psychosomatic illness. That's a real sickness, but it originates in the mind–not from nerve gas, pills, injections, or the like. So having gotten the umpteenth letter saying I was calling "all vets liars" I responded, "Dear Dan, I'm not calling your fellow vets a liar – just you."

His response:

hey fucknuts I didnot [sic] serve in the gulf [sic] war. was in National gaurd [sic] army scout and guess what dumbass I tested positive to Mycoplasma Fermentans Incognitus. Grow up the DOD does not give a fly fuck about their troops.

Actually, the Mensa Society just sent me a letter inviting my butt to join. Unfortunately, it didn't want the rest of my body.

"Hmm . . ." There must be more than one Mensa Society. The infection he claims to have tested positive for is one some have claimed is the cause of GWS.

He must have contracted it from watching the war on CNN.

Hysterical? I'm Not Hysterical!!!!

You son of a bitch--- I am A Gulf war vet and I cannot Walk anymore. Why don’t you come to my house and tell me something. Hysteria? Bastards like you just don't know shit huh? Don't have anything better to do than to Fuck with a lagitamit [sic] problem? So how much do you get paid for your worthless opinions? I am proud to be an American so who in gods [sic] creation gives you the right to down [sic] us gulf [sic] vets? Let me guess you’re a yuppie that just don't know any better--- or your [sic] a sick twisted person who gets off on seeing people become crippled and then laugh at them. Please , Please come to my house and tell me to my face what you know about our syndrome. P.S. "your [sic] a real JACKASS"
SINCERELY DOUG

Doug forgot to give me his address. But at least he is sincere.

Tony's Baloney

Subject: I'M READY ARE YOU

HELLO,

I'M THE STATE COMMANDER FOR THE DESERT STORM JUSTICE FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA. IT APPEARS YOU HAVE DOUBT TO [sic] THE VALIDITY OF THE GULF WAR ILLNESS AM I CORRECT??. I HAVE BEEN PRIVATE DOCTOR [sic] AND V.A. DOCTOR PROVEN TO BE CONTAMINATED BY THE NERVE AGENT SARIN. AND I HAVE A COCKTAIL OF OTHER DISEASE'S [sic] FROM THE WAR AREA, ALSO PROVEN IN DOCTORS [sic] OFFICES. I CAME HOME SICK AND WILL BE GLAD TO DONATE INTO YOUR BLOODSTREAM SOME OF MY BLOOD TO SEE IF YOU STILL THINK WE ARE A BUNCH OF FAKERS. I AM 100+% SC RETIRED [sic] AND WILL FLY TO YOUR LOCATION ON THE FAMILIES [sic] PRIVATE JET TO GIVE MY BLOOD TO YOU. WILL YOU ACCEPT THESE TERMS TO SEE HOW SICK YOU WILL BECOME AFTER THE BLOOD DONATION INTO YOUR BLOODSTREAM?.
SINCERELY,

TONY
DSJF STATE COMMANDER OKLAHOMA

In response, I told Tony that since he claims everything he says has been verified by his doctors, all he has to do is to fax me his medical records to prove his case, whereupon I will take back everything I ever wrote about people like him not having the bizarre illnesses he claims to have. By the way, he is trying to say he has a 100% disability rating. If he did, he would know how to write it.

Following is his response:

Subject: Re: I'M READY ARE YOU

i’m not giving you anything that i cannot give to you personnally [sic]. that way i can rubut [sic] any more lies you have placed on the facts of the gulf [sic] war. for the most part with my personal v.a. records. they will be availible [sic] to you only in person and in view of live t.v. camera [sic] to watch you [sic] face when you finally get slapped in the face with the truth.

tony

Translation: He has no medical records to back him up. But that didn’t stop a local newspaper from mentioning him in a story, this time with Tony claiming he’d been hit in the head with an artillery shell. Tony must have one hell of a strong head.

Second-Hand Smoke Hate

Inbred Jed

Your name use on the article [sic], the article was stupid! Tabacco [sic] is bad don't you understand. As for the inbreeding maybe so but also I have seen to [sic] many people die from cancer.

Responding to his previous missive, I had asked if he were perhaps the result of inbreeding. I was rather stunned when he admitted he was!

Subject: Second hand smoke?

You must be dumb as hell if you think second hand [sic] smoke is not harmful!!!! you have got to be one of those dumb ass smokers!! You stupid asshole!!!

Jeorg

I may have a dumb ass, but at least I know how to spell my own first name and don't smoke. And I don’t use up my exclamation mark quota in just three sentences.

The Fat of the Land Hate

Parrot Hater

I just have to say people like you disgust me. I can't believe you have the audacity to believe you are better than someone because of their weight. I do believe before someone as obviously uneducated as you are is allowed to publish a book you should certainly be required to do some research into the topic you feel you have the authority to write about (not just parrot research someone else claims to have done). I feel you are nothing but a narrow minded person who is contributing to the intolerance in our society. You are not any better than a fat person or a black person or an asian [sic] person or an ugly person or a gay person, you are just more accepted.

Cindy

I got it, Cindy. If I publish a book that relies on – and cites – several hundred obesity studies published in peer-reviewed medical and science journals, I’m “parroting” something “someone else claims to have done.” I suppose you’d be more sympathetic if I told you I’d arrived at my conclusions by doing all my own studies. And writing that fat people die younger, have more sickly lives and are less happy than thinner ones and then offering solutions to obesity is my between-the-lines way of saying I’m superior to them.

Grasping for Criticism

[Joan's original letter was lost, but obviously she has diabetes and didn't care for my obesity book.]

Dear Joan,

Joan’s response:

Dearest Michael,
I see you grasp criticism not well. A gypsy curse upon your body, you cock-sucking bastard.

1. I haven’t. 2. I’m not – my parents married four years before my birth. 3. I wonder why my spell-checker flagged both “cock” and “bastard”?

It Doesn't Take One to Know One

I'm not fat and I still think you are a pig. You have no baseline knowledge of what leads to obesity. You claim to be opening up minds to the real picture, but you have no idea what the real picture is. Your book is one huge testimonial of [sic] your ignorance.

“Baseline knowledge?” By the way, The Fat of the Land has six chapters that discuss in whole or in part what leads to obesity.

A Very Sick Individual

Subject: wondering who raised you

you must have had extrememly [sic] unloving and unaccepting [sic] parents to be so unaccepting [sic] of the differences in people...I feel sorry for you..and for any children you find acceptable to train in your extremely limited and bigoted ways....

Your're [sic] a very sick individual..you should see about getting some help..you seem to be bitter about something deep inside you..painting the evils of the earth as being at the feet of overwight [sic] people is a shame and a falacy [sic]

Deanna

Deanna, please start attending “Ellipses Overusers Anonymous” meetings right away.

Deanna's next letter:

You're [sic] parents should be horsewhipped..you're no better than any common biggot [sic] walking around looking for someone to be better than..it's sad that you'll never understand that kind of mentality comes from actually feeling inferior.

Deanna

Deanna, I never said anybody is inferior because they’re fatter. I’m not saying you’re inferior because you’re fatter. Why would I, when you obviously have so many REAL things to feel inferior about? And why does everybody pick on my parents? First, they are accused of having kids out of wedlock. Then they are unloving and "unaccepting." Now they deserve a horse-whipping? They are both old and gray. Pick on someone your own age.

"It's Good to be Thin" = "Kill all ze verdammt Jews!"

Sir,
I only wanted to say to you that if degrading people of size [a euphemism meaning "extremely overweight"] must be the only way you can feel good about yourself [sic]. Is your self-esteem that low that the only way to raise it is to degrade someone else's. How sad for you.

It matters not to me that you think Im [sic] the dregs of society, because i [sic] have a disease called morbid obesity. But then again it mattered not to Hitler that the people he murdered, he murdered only because of their religious affiliation.

I liken you to Hitler sir, because you both are bullies, and scared little men. I believe you are afraid that if the world took a hard look at you, you would be foud [sic] wanting. And Im [sic] taking a hard look at you and find more integrity and humanity in a maggot and I find you wanting. I pity you sir and will be praying to God that he shows you some kind of humanity before your time passes on this earth.
Sincerely
Lyorko

I've never degraded fat people; I've simply said they are more prone to health problems (or have you yet to figure out why “morbid obesity” is called “morbid”), more likely to die prematurely, that obesity is controllable, and despite what the louder-mouthed fat people claim (but don't actually believe), they desperately wish they were not fat. How having written a book to help these people puts me in the same category as someone who sent 12 million people to their deaths is hard to comprehend. But then, who am I to question so brilliant a critic?

By the way, scientific research reveals that maggots are paragons of virtue and honesty.

"Ouch!"

Sir??
and I use this title very losely [sic] If you aren't careful with what you say you could really piss this fat lady off and maybe I would sit on you. Or maybe I could drive the bus up your butt. Note I didn't sware [sic].
I am so sorry but the books that were [sic] send to the 3rd world [sic] countries [She means "your books."] were done so as a charity act. You see they needed paper to clean there postier [sic] and we thought that is where you [sic] book belongs. So very resorceful [sic] these Americians [sic].
Of all the differant [sic] groups of people in the world you were a very FOOLISH person to take on the ones with a weight problem. There are billions of us worldwide if I were you I would consider a new line of writting [sic] if you want to make any money at it. I can assure you I will NEVER purchase anything you write.

ONE VERY SECURE FAT LADY

Actually, there aren't billions worldwide. In the vast majority of countries, obesity is virtually unheard of. It's essentially a First World problem, which is another way of saying it's lifestyle and not the luck of the draw or "fat genes" or whatever. As for you, maybe it would help you if you DIDN'T feel quite so secure about yourself. Humility and a willingness to face up to one’s problems can be wonderful things. By the way, while most of my hate-mailers threaten me with eternal damnation, you threaten to sit on me. I am not sure which is worse.
–Michael Fumento, a proud Americian

If God Was One of Us, Just a Slob Like One of Us

Subject: Re: Idle threats - but then, you know all about being idle, don't you?

You moron, I eat fine, I exercise if and when I feel like it and I weight [sic] 114 lbs. Do not be so egotistical to think that the only ones who criticize you are obese. I am in the medical profession and I find you and what you stand for repugnant.

You are so judgemental [sic] of the overweight people in our society. Why should it matter to you. No one asked for your approval. You are a cruel individual who will pay for the hurt you cause others in the end. Wouldn't it be a kicker if God was obese!!!!!!!!

F. Davis

Well, it's back to eternal damnation. Here's Davis' follow-up letter:

Rot in hell you sick piece of work. You have no idea of what you are really up against – not 5000 people, you multiply that by everyone who cares for a fat person. Just look at the cruel words you wrote in your last message. I work in medicine and you have acquired quite a few people in my field who are embarrassed by you. You sir will pay the ultimate price in the end. If you do not believe in Hell, think again. That is where your eternity will be. You are cruel and sick and you do not even realize it. Let this be the end of our correspondence as your answers make me want to puke. You have inspired an animosity in my skinny little body that I have never felt before. One day you will have an obese child, a wife or lover who develops obesity as they get older. Or you yourself may become obese through no fault other than nature. May you then suffer the pain you have caused everyone else. You seem to think that there is something wrong with being obese. It is a lot less offensive then your cruelty. Being compassionless [sic] is also a lot more offensive then obesity.

What goes around comes around you sick wimp.

F. Davis

I no longer have the “cruel words” F. Davis refers to, but judging by the letter I was responding to, it certainly seems that cruel words would have been in order! Incidentally, a good guess is that “F. Davis” neither “works” in medicine nor is “skinny,” considering the great pains he takes to assert he is.

Pesticide Hate

Someone in Desperate Need of Disruption

Your tirade against EPA officials who are making the firs [sic] meager steps to limit children's consumption of pesticides was especially ugly and transparent. Have you read Theo Colburn's "Our Stolen Future" or any of the rest of the overwhelming pile of data which proves that the endocrine disruptors present in the vast majority of pesticides are, indeed, especially harmful to the very young and unborn? If not, you are hopelessly uninformed – if you've read it and ignored it, you're just hideously committed to the chemical industries that you are trying so hard to defend.
So, who pays your salary – Monsanto or DuPont?
– an intelligent consumer

“Intelligent” is obviously a relative term, especially considering this person asked if I’d read “Our Stolen Future,” a book that I’ve alluded to in numerous articles posted on the website he had been reading that also includes a review of it.

Not Well Prepared

Mr, [sic] Fumento,

Upon reading your article about Alar, I was prepared to discuss some of the issues to which you had referred. However, not being familiar with the "Reason" publication, I thought I'd first take the opportunity to view the list of other correspondents whose articles also appear in this zine. Having done so, I know I may as well save my keystrokes. I see the literary company you keep. I guess when folks like you hang your hat on Limbaugh-logic and Schlafly-sophism there's no room for balanced debate based upon things factual. One [sic] the one hand I do find you [sic] title of Science Correspondent to be amusing, but on the other hand the danger with your brand of dogma is that the average, unsuspecting reader may find elements of credibility in your jaundiced journalism. Your biased agenda is obviously supported with a series of half-truths and lies. You do a disservice to the segments of our society who don't know better than to buy into your crap.
I believe that you are an anti-scientist, Mr. "Science Correspondent". It is only fitting that you write for a publication called "Reason". Just because your ilk uses opposite-vocabulary to help bolster credibility doesn't mean that you fool as many as you would like to. Was Hitler a "Puritan"?

I suspect you would have wanted to execute the likes of Galileo or even Columbus in their day; perhaps Darwin, as well?
Have a nice day.

Sincerely,
Richard

Execute Galileo, Columbus, or Darwin? Nah, just people named "Richard" who write rambling letters. (Two footnotes: I doubt if Phyllis Schafly or Rush Limbaugh have ever written for Reason Magazine; and Hitler actually was quite puritanical.)

Ethanol (Gasohol) Hate

Bad Chemistry

Subject: Ethanol & your internet publication

You sound like idiot, so maybe you are one. Forget Dole, as everyone else on the planet has, and learn some basic chemistry.

Terry

The reference is to ethanol supporter Bob "Viagra" Dole, but as is practically everyone who supports this worthless, heavily subsidized fuel is on the dole. That would include Terry.

Animal Research Hate

Stand Up for Rodents!

Subject: Big Bucks from Animal Researchers?

I am a strong supporter of PETA and you cannot fool me with your misinformation. I suspect you are getting big bucks from pro-animal research communities and that is why you are so busy spreading anti-animal rights propaganda.

Yes, it’s true. For every animal used in cruel experimentation, I receive a royalty of 50 cents. If the experiment is especially hideous and worthless in terms of gaining scientific knowledge, the royalty goes up to 75 cents.

General Hate

Mad as Hell

Subject: you are worthless

Listen to me you little bitch. you think you are so damn high and mighty because things like AIDS, church burnings, and damaging airbags don't affect you [sic] doesn't mean that you can go around pretending to be an expert and saying that they don't matter. So fuck you FUMENTO you sick cocksucker!

Satanboy

I asked “Satanboy” if he knew Superboy or Catwoman. As I recall, he didn’t appreciate my inquiry.

Introduction to Hate Mail and Other Hate Mail Volumes

A Review of Michael Fumento's Hate Mail

Fumento Flambé