Bullying Floggers

Watching Brooks Simpson, his followers, and other floggers, I've slightly modified their designation and added, "bull flogs."

From a comment thread at Crossroads:

Michael Confoy
I believe Susan Hathaway’s description of what Tripp Lewis said to her was in better English than he actually used.

    Brooks D. Simpson
    So it would seem. For all their talk about “manhood,” these fellows seem to hide behind women in the movement … that is, when they aren’t exploiting their children.
   
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All WHAT talk about manhood?

ALL <----- Weasel word designed to imply there are many references to their own manhood made by men in the Heritage movement.  Well, do a sampling and see what it tells us.

A search of the VA Flaggers blog turns up zero instances of that word, manhood. What a surprise, huh.

Below are the results of a search of Backsass, followed by a search index of the SHPG using the search term manhood.

As you can see from my quick research, there isn't that much talk about manhood, and when there is, it virtually always refers to Confederate soldiers.

It's not a really important topic; I blog about it here just to show how Simpson once again puts his highly questionable integrity on display. 

What you have here is a desire to denigrate that is so strong, people ignore how it makes them look in order to take nasty digs at people.  Observing his calling into question the manhood of men beside whom he looks like a Charles Atlas "before" client, well, one has to assume Simpson prefers the role of the beach bully.  Oh, and "They" don't hide behind women, and "they" certainly don't "exploit" their children.


(I would just LOVE to know if Confoy knows what Tripp relayed to Susan about the Rob Walker incident, if he knows how it was relayed -- and how he knows.)

 -----FROM BACKSASS-----

Backsass: Backsass to Tim Wise
mybacksass.blogspot.com/2013/04/backsass-totim-wise.html‎
Apr 23, 2013 - Their willingness to carry out one of the responsibilities of manhood -- that of defender/ protector -- and their doing so despite horrific suffering, ...

Backsass: Backsassin' a Feminist
mybacksass.blogspot.com/2011/02/backsassin-feminist.html‎
Feb 23, 2011 - Patrick Swayze played some roles (including Confederate Orry Maine in North and South), which in my opinion demonstrated correct manhood ...

Backsass: Black Confederate Redux
mybacksass.blogspot.com/2011/07/black-confederate-redux.html‎
Jul 30, 2011 - a ringing call came to the manhood of the South. The world knows how the men of the South answered that call. Dropping everything, they ...

  -----FROM THE SHPG-----

Gary Adams
... strength of its manhood and full of its original spirit." This was the opening salvo. Within a few months, Webster's speech had been reprinted whole in newspapers across the country and published in pamphlets that ran through 20 ...   

Barney Otis Stratton
    ... safety, pride, manhood. It means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the War, will be impressed ...
       
    Eddie Inman
    ... outset of manhood prompts the question, `If he was such in the gristle, what would he not have been in the bone?' " His last words after sending a farewell to his parents and family were: "Tell the General my men never failed ...
    
    Wayne Carlson
    ... of Southern manhood was so great and yet so little appreciated by the general population today, that it steels the hearts of those few who are determined to honor them and right a great wrong. Thanks for reminding us Ann Youell....
   
    Maeve Magdalen
    ... THE SIMPLE MANHOOD OF THEIR LIVES, THE PATIENT ENDURANCE OF SUFFERING, AND THE HEROISM OF DEATH, AND WHO, IN THE DARK HOURS OF IMPRISONMENT, IN THE HOPELESSNESS OF THE HOSPITAL, IN THE SHORT, SHARP AGONY OF THE FIELD, FOUND SUPPORT AND CONSOLATION ...
   
    Eddie Inman
    ... the manhood to fight battles are cardinal elements of successful civilization. All peace and mental cultivation produce effeminate Greeks of the lower Empire. All war and physical development produce the Goth and the Hun. But when the martial ...
    
    Steve Robinson
    ... will grow to manhood, and lessons sink deep that are learned from the lips of widowed mothers." E.A. Pollard...
            
    Gary Adams
    ... self-respect and manhood of its people. A far broader, more truthful, and statesmanlike view was presented by the Hon. A. E. Stevenson, of Illinois, then Vice-President of the United States, in his opening remarks as presiding officer at the ...
           
    Robert Mestas
    ... future manhood of the South I protest. What are we to teach them? If we cannot teach them that their fathers were right, it follows that these Southern children must be taught that they were wrong. Are we ready for that? For one I am not ready! ...
               
    Jimmy L. Shirley Jr.
    ... and sterling manhood of all its sons--in the interest of all these I shall insist that, however great were the evils (and they were many) of negro slavery, it was far, very far, from being an unmitigated evil. Lamented by philanthropists, denounced ...
   
    Maeve Magdalen
    ... meritorious manhood. When he entered West Point he took the head of his class and held it until he was graduated in 1829, never having received a demerit or reprimand during his term there. He entered upon the duties of an army officer with ...

    Gary Adams
    ... self-respect and manhood of its people. A far broader, more truthful, and statesmanlike view was presented by the Hon. A. E. Stevenson, of Illinois, then Vice-President of the United States, in his opening remarks as presiding officer at the ...
   
    Eileen Parker Zoellner
    ... THE SIMPLE MANHOOD OF THEIR LIVES. BY THEIR STRICT ADHERENCE TO THE PRINCIPLES OF RIGHTS, BY THEIR SUBLIME COURAGE. AND UNSPEAKABLE SACRIFICE, EVEN TO THE HEROISM OF DEATH, HAVE PRESERVED FOR US, THROUGH THE GLOOM OF DEFEAT, A PRICELESS HERITAGE ...
   
    Gary Adams
    ... manhood of the century now hurrying to an end — the Confederate Soldier....
   
    David Tatum Jr
    ... came to the manhood of the South. The world knows how the men of the South answered that call. Dropping everything, they came from mountains, valleys and plains— from Maryland to Texas, they eagerly crowded to the front, and stood to arms. ...

 Gary Adams
    ... self-respect and manhood of its people. A far broader, more truthful, and statesmanlike view was presented by the Hon. A. E. Stevenson, of Illinois, then Vice-President of the United States, in his opening remarks as presiding officer at the ...

    Aaron Kidd
    ... still remained manhood to assert the truth, and a proud consciousness in the rectitude of our course. When I find myself reviled by Southern papers as one renewing 'dead issues,' the pain is not caused by the attack upon myself, but ...
   
    Jimmy L. Shirley Jr.
    ... strength, honor, manhood, safety, success; in separation, defeat, disgrace, disaster, extermination, death. I promise to remain with you until the end, to share your dangers, your trials, your exile, your destiny; your lot shall be my lot and ...

    Jimmy L. Shirley Jr.
    ... manhood to assert the truth, and a proud consciousness in the rectitude of our course. When I find myself reviled by Southern papers as one renewing 'dead issues,' the pain is not caused by the attack upon myself, but by its desecration ...

    Chris N Julie Maldonado
    ... embodiment of manhood; men whom neither toils and sufferings, nor the fact of death, nor disaster, nor hopelessness could bend from their resolve." Maj. Gen. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain US Army (won Medal of honor at Gettysburg for his ...

    Jimmy L. Shirley Jr.
    ... manhood to assert the truth, and a proud consciousness in the rectitude of our course. When I find myself reviled by Southern papers as one renewing 'dead issues,' the pain is not caused by the attack upon myself, but by its desecration ...
    
    David Chadwick
    ... safety, pride, manhood. It means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the War, will be ...
   
    David Wyatt
    ... pass into manhood in the eyes of your elders....
   
    Gary Adams
    ... strength of its manhood and full of its original spirit." This was the opening salvo. Within a few months, Webster's speech had been reprinted whole in newspapers across the country and published in pamphlets that ran through 20 ...

Note -- the only reference to manhood on this SHPG search list is this post by David Wyatt, which is a wonderful recollection of a fishing trip with his uncle, when David was twelve.  It's and great read.  As one commenter noted, "Happy memories." I don't think David would mind if I reposted it here. (Note, Brooks D. Simpson would never post this at his blog because he can't transmute it into a verbal club to beat Southern heritage folks with. Yet it is much a part of the SHPV as the stuff he brings over to Crossroads ...)

Recipe for the Best Southern Supper I ever ate

(Dinner is at noon yankees, dont show up at 6 pm and think your gonna eat dinner... its supper time)..

1. Be 12 years old and Catfish on the White river with uncle Winford Dean (AKA Flabby) all day, setting out limb lines and trot lines with shiners, blood bait, liver and hand picked catawba worms.

2. Motor up Green Briar Creek, Bring the boat up the bank and start a fire just before dark

3. Drink a coke and watch uncle Flabby peel taters and onions... Skip rocks on green briar creek with your older brother who is a dick and your best friend.

4. Watch uncle flabby open cans of treat (spam) and cut it into slices. He was a Sea Bee in Korea and a professional cook. We all said uncle Flabby was nuts, but looking back, he was the sane one. In the 60's He said we ought to get all them long hairs and put a stick on their necks like a coon.. and shear off their hair, and then maybe they would start to act right. Wisdom from the grave I would say.

5. Run through the Johnson grass kicking up bob white quails.. smelling something really good back towards the fire.

6. See a huge thunder head's golden crown in the fading lite as Winford calls you to supper..

7. Eat treat, taters and onions as the light faded by the coleman lantern.. Best meal I ever ate!!!

8. After Flabby falls asleep in his truck (cuz drank too much "cough medicine"), steal the boat and go out on a dangerous river, late at night, bringing back 12 big catfish with your brother and pass into manhood in the eyes of your elders.  

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