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Does anyone else remember all the Republic torque coming from Instacracker (no, we don't link to trashy blogs like that one around here) about how Ward Churchill was the voice of the left? Just a typical liberal saying typical liberal things. Never mind that his piece written shortly after 9-11 was briefly mentioned in progressive blogs, his viewpoints were noted (as opposed to the distortion of them by the Hordes of Instacracker) and thought to be a little on the radical side of the progressive spectrum, and the left moved on. No big deal - his point was made a little more, um, intensely than most progressives (even those here on the Funny Farm News Burro staff) would have handled it. But not the sort of thing to go ballistic on - at least from this side of the blogsphere. We remember Jerry Falwell making much more incendiary comments blaming just about everyone for 9-11 except those who blindly followed his interpretation of the Invisible Cloud Being's message to its' creation. We don't recall Mr. Falwell being held up as the voice of the right at that time, or any other for that matter.
Anyways,... we do seem to recall certain (coughpowerlinecough) blogs (coughpowerlinecough) who seem to consider themselves (coughpowerlinecough) the standard for all of the blogsphere ('cause liberals don't count, don'cha know, and they got Time's coveted this is the first blog we found Blog Of The Year award). We're reasonably sure (cough) that they don't speak on our behalf, but we're also confident that won't stop them from claiming to if it suits their purposes.
So it was with great interest that we saw a link to this blog post over at Daily Kos. Apparently a Minnesota blogger (Powerline is at least partially run by a lawyer in that state) emailed Powerline and asked them,
Your recent post on the JD Guckert/Jeff Gannon story has to be one of the saddest examples of conservative head-in-sand syndrome I have ever seen. You claim that there are three issues being brought up by liberals: 1) He isn't a "real" journalist, 2) He was a Bush administration plant, and 3) He had something (?God knows what) ??to do with the Valerie Plame story. Of course, you blatantly ignore the most important issue, the one that is easily found on hundreds of blogs covering the story: how did a person using a fake name get access to the White House? If I applied for a pass to the White House using the name "Max Power", I would not get in unless I had some friends high up at the top. A closely-related issue is exactly what the links are between GOPUSA and Talon News. Now, you may think it perfectly acceptable for the President and press secretary to consistently call on a reporter who is working for what is essentially an arm of the Republican Party. If so, it would be nice if you would admit it. That doesn't mean that others aren't allowed to have a problem with that arrangement, however. You also take Americablog to task for "finding nude photos of Gannon and posting them online." He didn't "find" photos taken by some paparazzi at a secret party; he found websites where Guckert (let's use his real name, not his pretend name) posted his own photos. If you posted photos of your family on your web page and I posted a link to these photos, would that make me a low-life "outing" you? Come on. Guckert is not ashamed of these photos, otherwise he would not have put them on the web in the first place. If somebody else finds them and points them out to the world, they are doing nothing wrong. Just one, just once, it would be nice to see a conservative with the ability to find fault with other conservatives. I won't hold my breath, though. |
and received this lovely response:
[Warning: profanity has been altered but should be fairly obvious even to our younger viewers. Parental discretion is advised]
You dumb sh!t, he didn't get access using a fake name, he used his real name. You lefties' concern for White House security is really touching, but you know what, you stupid a$$hole, I think the Secret Service has it covered. Go crawl back into your hole, you stupid left-wing sh!thead. And don't bother us anymore. You have to have an IQ over 50 to correspond with us. You don't qualify, you stupid sh!t. |
Now we gots to ask you: have you ever seen such an awesome command of the Englitch language? And from a lawyer, no less. Wouldn't you love to have this guy defending you in court? Although we have to believe that farging iceholes like this would prefer to torture defame and insult prosecute others instead of defending them. Possibly defend corpo-weasels, but that's another kettle of fish altogether (coughcoughlotsofcoldcashcoughcough). We have also been reliably informed that someone writing for the Powerline blog has called former President Jimmy Carter a traitor. So we have to ask the (largely rhetorical) question: does the right blogsphere have no shame? Will any of them denounce these clowns and say that they do not speak for the right blogsphere, or conservatives in general? Will Instacracker recant from his obviously inaccurate statement that Ward Churchill is the spokesman for the left? Will Glenn disavow the statements made by Powerline, and ask for a public retraction and/or apology? Will Hugh Hewiit even notice that conservatives have made statements of this nature, and will he denounce either of Powerline's obscene email or their remark that a former president is a traitor to the United States? Just like the MN Politics Guru, we won't be holding our breath here at the Funny Farm waiting for any conservative to admit that any other conservative could possibly have said anything wrong at all.