Still on his whirlwind tour in support of his latest single, “I Ain’t Your Scapegoat, Baby,” erstwhile FEMA chief and world record holder for Most Embarrassing Emails Sent in a Professional Capacity, Michael Brown, is in front of the cameras again, fighting fire with fire. Or, more accurately, emails with emails.
The former emergency management chief who quit amid widespread criticism over his handling of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina said he received an e-mail before his resignation stating President Bush was glad to see the Oval Office had dodged most of the criticism…
The e-mail stated that Bush was relieved that Brown -- and not Bush or Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff -- was bearing the brunt of the flak over the government's handling of Katrina.
The September 2005 e-mail reads: "I did hear of one reference to you, at the Cabinet meeting yesterday. I wasn't there, but I heard someone commented that the press was sure beating up on Mike Brown, to which the president replied, 'I'd rather they beat up on him than me or Chertoff.'"
The sender adds, "Congratulations on doing a great job of diverting hostile fire away from the leader."
The sender’s name has been redacted from the email, but Brown identified the sender as a "good friend of the president," who has been with the president "a long time." Okay, that could be a lot of people. Harriet Miers, for instance—but the glaring lack of enthusiasm about how
totally cool! George Bush is clearly rules her out. Could be Karen Hughes, but the quote seems too straightforward; we all know how much she likes to clean up his quotes. (Maybe we could get Tucker Carlson to talk to her about it.) That leaves a few other possibilities, but I’m thinking Rove. Why? Because “Congratulations on doing a great job of diverting hostile fire away from the leader” sounds like a line ripped from the dénouement of a
Star Trek film. And there’s no one I can more clearly imagine spending his free time at a Trekkie convention than Karl Rove.
Live long and prosper. Those tax cuts should help.
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If you were a superhero, what would your name and special powers be?
As I've mentioned before, Mr. Shakes, our friend Mickey Mouse, and I were going to play a Marvel Comics role-playing game (yes, we're huge geeks), and you could either be an existing superhero, or make up your own. For weeks beforehand, I insisted I wanted to be a superhero named Lactacia whose superpower was rendering her enemies useless by ripping open her bodice to reveal paralyzingly gorgeous breasts, from which she would then shoot deadly acid. They accused me of not taking the game seriously enough and refused to play, lol.
Finally, I gave up on Lactacia, due to the excessive pouting, and reinvented myself as Zoologica, whose superpower is her special relationship with animals, who do her bidding at her command. Mr. S and MM felt that was a much more acceptable selection.
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Shaker M left this in comments, but it’s so great, I wanted to post it so it wouldn’t get missed:
I actually did send Stephen Colbert a thank you card after the White House Correspondents’ dinner. I made him a pop-up card of an eagle. When the card opened, the beak opened, as if to let out a shriek. It was collaged like a mosaic out of bits of handmade paper. I spent almost four hours on it, because making pop up cards brings me joy and I tend to put a lot of work into them. I also made a envelope. I had to send it several times because it kept coming back to me in the mail. I thought about giving up, but my friends urged me to keep sending it. Today I got home from work, tired and grumpy after a crowded subway ride full of Yankees fans. In my mailbox I found a hand-written thank you from Stephen Colbert, telling me how beautiful my card was, and asking if I had any other art. (I do! I do!) He even spelled my name right, which few people do. What a treat on a Friday! Thanks for giving me the inspiration for sending a snail-mail thank you, to whoever came up with that idea and posted the address.
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Heh heh, I’ve already pitched a tent at
Camp Goliath, if you know what I mean.(“U.S. President George W. Bush walks from a joint news conference with Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen at Camp David in Maryland, June 9, 2006. REUTERS/Jason Reed.” Jason Reed gives me another good one. And, btw, Prime Minister Rasmussen
once had red paint poured on him at the Danish parliament for supporting the war in Iraq.)
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I guess in case that whole presidenting thing doesn’t work out for him, he’s started laying the groundwork for Plan B: Director of Strategic Operations for al-Qaida:
…if I were the al Qaeda people right now I would be planning a lot of attacks in the next few days and weeks to show that his removal really didn't affect them but it does affect them.
Nice one. John says, “With many right wingers saying that terrorists use Democrats and liberals as their guides and include them in their speeches, I wonder what they'll say now that John McCain has given terrorists a game plan on how they should react to Zarqawi's death.” They’ll probably say something about building a bigger fence along the border and how boys kissing is icky. What does that have to do with McCain? Nothing. But that’s the rightwing for ya.
(Thanks to Blogenfreude for passing that along.)
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I know we’ve got a few rabid John Cusack fans around here, so I thought this would be of interest:
John Cusack's motivation for his latest film grew out of something he did not see -- flag-draped caskets returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Pentagon policy bans media coverage of America's war dead as their remains are returned. The administration of U.S. President George Bush has strongly enforced the ban, something Cusack describes as "one of the most shameful, disgraceful, cowardly political acts that I've seen in my lifetime."
So the actor started looking for a project that would illustrate "what happens when the coffins come home."
The result is "Grace Is Gone," a small, independent film in which Cusack plays a man whose wife Grace is killed in service in Iraq.
Cusack is a good Chicago progressive, who also has
excellent taste in music. I’m looking forward to this one.
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Terrorism, conservative Christian-style. Maryland police have arrested Robert F. Weiler Jr. who, by his own admission, had made a pipe bomb to bomb an abortion clinic and stolen a .40-caliber handgun to "shoot doctors who provided abortions." A car outside his home bears a license plate frame reading “Choose Life” and “God is Pro-Life.”
While police were trying to dismantle the bomb, it exploded and burned the top floor of Weiler’s friend’s home, where it had been stashed, but no one was injured.
This incident comes on the heels of homemade chemical weaponry being employed to prevent the opening of an adult bookstore in Florida.
This is what happens when we, as a culture, tolerate eliminationist rhetoric and treat it as legitimate discourse. I wish liberals would get half as exercised about the steady stream of eliminationist speech directed at us as the wingnuts do about the phrase “Happy Holidays.” They’ve turned that into the foundation for a “War on Christmas” perpetrated by secular liberals, which is, year after year, discussed far and wide, successfully aligning us with a cultural shift rooted in language usage, in spite of the reality that their continual diarrheic stream of hate speech has fundamentally altered the landscape of acceptable discourse, thereby mainstreaming violent expressions of dissent with liberal ideals.
We malign the media for internalizing the charge that they have a liberal bias, and the Dems for internalizing the charge that they are too liberal, and yet many of us have internalized the negative associations of PC-ism so thoroughly that we reject any impulse to be resoundingly and uncompromisingly intolerant of eliminationist rhetoric directed at us, having lost all ability to acknowledge that language means something. We’re so keen to distance ourselves from the charge of being language police that we are too often reluctant to defend ourselves. Sure, we get mad about individual incidents, but we have yet to mount a sustained and steadfast campaign to reject these attacks on us. The martyrs of the Christian right who claim persecution for much less have already made headway with creating the illusion that there is a War on Christians (and that we’re already at war), and yet most Americans—including many liberals—would deny the existence of a “war” on liberals and liberalism, in spite of plenty of evidence to the contrary.
And now, as the extreme right gets agitated about their fading dreams of Dominionism, hopes for its realization once placed in President Bush now undermined by his lame duckitude, we are beginning to see the first signs that the violent suggestions, repeatedly espoused by the media shills who serve as conduit between extreme and mainstream, are being made reality by their devotees. The line between rhetoric and action is not some gossamer fantasy born of some unhinged alarmism on my part; history informs us that this result is inevitable. We must take this seriously—and we can’t close our eyes to it and trust that, eventually, they will just discredit themselves and we will take back Congress and then everything will be fine. People who use eliminationist language when they are winning are not going to become silent in the face of defeat. Something ugly has metastasized on the right in the past few years, and as we face the prospect of electoral gains, we’re going to have to be more vigilant about not allowing ourselves to be treated as targets by our opponents, not less.
(Hat tip to Ann at Feministing.)
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CNN host Glenn Beck, who has previously condoned the murder of Michael Moore and referred to Cindy Sheehan as “a pretty big prostitute” and a “tragedy pimp” (proving, if nothing else, that Ann Coulter is a derivative hack), was discussing Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth when he came out with this gem:
See, when you take a little bit of truth and then you mix it with untruth, or your theory, that's where you get people to believe. You know? It's like Hitler. Hitler said a little bit of truth, and then he mixed in "and it's the Jews' fault." That's where things get a little troublesome, and that's exactly what's happening.
I see his point. I did think it was a little weird when Gore said that gay marriage was threatening the sanctity of the earth’s atmosphere.
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Lo, for it has been prophesized in a dream by some obscure minister: the Rose City shall FALL. We in sinful Portland will be smote! On Father's Day of this year, the Christian deity will topple our buildings, cause earthquakes to suck us into the earth, flood the great valley, and send terrorists to finish off the survivors. All because we loves us some gay people. I shit thee not:
There was a big Gay Pride Parade going on in downtown Portland when the earthquake hit and buildings came tumbling down on all of those there. Portland was in total devastation. I’m not sure just how big the earthquake was but the number of 9.2 seems significant. There was also a major earthquake off the west coast that started a tsunami. Not too long after the quake in Portland, a wall of water from the collapse of the Bonneville Dam came rushing through Portland. A little while later another wall of water from the tsunami came up the Columbia River and it also came rushing through Portland.
Salem was also totally leveled by the earthquake. The loss of life in the whole Willamette Valley was enormous. As I looked around Salem, I saw a group of men. I think that there was about twenty of them. They all had large automatic weapons. I had the feeling that they were terrorists but I’m not sure. There were a few survivors wandering around, dazed from their injuries from the earthquake. Whenever this group of men came upon anyone wandering around, they would kill them. They seemed to be looking for anyone they could kill. There was no one to come against them. Finally, after a long while, some National Guard troops came on the scene but this gang had killed a lot of people by this time and when they saw the troops, they just faded into the rubble and escaped.
Obscure Minister has decided to flee and recommends:
So how can you prepare for June 18th? On Friday, the 16th, make sure that your vehicle is fully gassed up. Make sure that you have some cash on hand. If this earthquake actually happens, your bank will probably not be accessible for at least a week. Do not rely on Credit Cards. If the devastation was as complete as I saw in my dream, there won’t be anyone around that will accept a Credit Card.
Load up at least a weeks worth of food and water and a shelter and leave.
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Ampersand, who tipped me off to this, has a much different recommendation:
Well, I for one refuse to give in to God’s terror tactics and terrorist demands. I propose that on Father’s day, June 18th, every true-blooded American should have queer sex. And lots of it.. Do it whether you like it or not - because this isn’t about sexual pleasure, this is about standing up to the terrorists! If we don’t all have queer sex on Father’s day, then the terrorists will have won!!!
AMEN, my brother, amen.
If you'd like another way to say "SMITE YOU", the Pride festival will be held on Saturday and Sunday, June 17th-18th, at Waterfront Park. Festival hours will be from Noon-11:00pm on Saturday and Noon-6:00pm on Sunday. More info available
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Informed Consent Waived in Public Crisis:
In a public health emergency, suspected victims would no longer have to give permission before experimental tests could be run to determine why they're sick, under a federal rule published Wednesday. Privacy experts called the exception unnecessary, ripe for abuse and an override of state informed-consent laws.
Health care workers will be free to run experimental tests on blood and other samples taken from people who have fallen sick as a result of a bioterrorist attack, bird flu outbreak, detonation of a dirty bomb or any other life-threatening public health emergency, according to the rule issued by the Food and Drug Administration.
For a moment, let’s just consider the possibilities had this rule been in place 25 years ago when the first cases of “the gay cancer” started popping up. One of the reasons that AIDS did not become an even more disastrous epidemic in America than it did, according to the CDC, was the unprecedented willingness of its early victims to be brutally honest about and forthcoming with their sexual histories and other intricate details of their personal lives that quickly gave researchers an invaluable insight into the disease and its transmission. Imagine that instead of allowing people to volunteer information and samples in a spirit of goodwill and a collective determination to stem the tide, AIDS sufferers had been coerced and forced to submit to “experimental tests.” The face of AIDS today in this country might look very different indeed.
Frankly, I don’t trust this administration to honestly determine what is a “life-threatening public health emergency.” From the same people who have erroneously categorized gay marriage as a “threat,” knowing that my possible subjection to experimental tests based on their definition of a threat to public health makes my blood run cold.
(Note to the FDA: That’s just an expression. Put your needles away.)
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No, seriously, stop it.
NEW YORK (AFP) - "I think it's sexy," Donald Bradford, 26, says of the bushy growth that has adorned his upper lip for the past two months.
You are wrong. And you're not funny.
Largely shunned since the 1980s, moustaches are enjoying something of a renaissance among young New Yorkers, following a comeback trail blazed by such hip role models as actor Nicholas Cage and the ultra-trendy fashion photographer Terry Richardson.
You know what was the last big thing enjoying "something of a renaissance among young New Yorkers?" The mesh trucker hat. Great idea, dumbasses. I've got news for you: Just because someone in New York decides that something is cool,
doesn't make it cool."It's just cool, right?, and it's fun," said Bradford, a tall man with blonde highlights in his hair to match his silver jacket.
No, it's not cool. It's tacky and revolting. You have highlights in your hair that match your silver jacket. You are dumb. No one should listen to you.
Della Vale's devotion to facial hair prompted him to make a documentary "The Glorious Moustache Challenge" in which he persuaded 30 men to grow moustaches for a month to see what difference it made in their lives and the reactions of those around them.
"For the first month, everybody is against it, especially the women," he said. "They say, 'Please don't do that, you remind me of my father ... or a 70s porn star'."
Because you do. See example above. Just stop it.
Iconic images of movie stars and characters who championed the moustache -- Clark Gable, Sean Connery, Inspector Clouseau, Marlon Brando in "The Godfather" -- were projected onto a giant screen to appreciative applause.
But the real adulation was reserved for a photo of the contestants' main hero, Tom Selleck, who brought stache-style to the masses in the early 1980s with the television cop series "Magnum."
Oh,
Christ. Hey, you morons... notice something about Tom Selleck these days? He
shaved."It's a male accessory, just like highlights or make-up for women," said Vasseur. "I would feel naked without it."
It's
not a "male accessory." It's a dumbass trend that you think makes you hip and ironic. You would be wrong.
"It's almost like a tongue-in-cheek kind of style," said James Bassil, editor-in-chief of the male lifestyle website, AskMen.com.
"Look how cool I am! I'm ironic! Moustaches are stupid, but I'm wearing one, and I
know it's stupid, therefore I'm totally hip and cutting edge! Look at me! Loooook at meeeee!"
"The general impression that women have of moustaches is either they love them or they are absolutely repulsed by them, and there's no real middle ground," Bassil said.
Find me a woman that loves moustaches. No, really, I'll wait.
*plays solitare*
None? Not one? I rest my case.
"And there needs to be a middle ground for a fashion or a facial hair trend to be adopted en masse permanently," he added.
No, there doesn't.
Moustaches are abominations. The only good moustache is the
song "Moustache" by the Sparks.
Just. Stop. It.
(A lady gets a lot of things, she gets a twenty-carat cross-post...)
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The ultimate in sad sack hackitude:
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee has proposed legislation that would give President Bush the option of seeking a warrant from a special court for an electronic surveillance program such as the one being conducted by the National Security Agency.
…Another part of the Specter bill would grant blanket amnesty to anyone who authorized warrantless surveillance under presidential authority, a provision that seems to ensure that no one would be held criminally liable if the current program is found illegal under present law.
Oy. Truly, deeply, madly dismal. Glenn Greenwald, who’s got
an excellent post on this, says, “The idea that the President's allies in Congress would enact legislation which expressly shields government officials, including the President, from criminal liability for past lawbreaking is so reprehensible that it is difficult to describe.” He also raises a good point about its legality. As it is essentially a pardon, a power reserved exclusively for the President by the Constitution, “can Congress act as a court and simply exonerate citizens from criminal conduct?”
If there was ever a time for the Dems to put their collective foot down and raise hell, this is it. It’s partisanship in the extreme, so vastly outside the realm of propriety in its blatant acknowledgement that this president is above the law, that it is sincerely un-American.
And even considering Specter’s usual willingness to bend over and grin for the administration after promising the opposite, this proposal is inexplicable, coming as it does directly after his
very public complaint that Cheney “had cut him out of discussions with all the other Republicans on his own committee about oversight of the administration's eavesdropping programs.” It’s as if, within the last day, he has simply thrown up his hands and given up all remnant of even the mere appearance of principle, offering a shrug and a resigned sigh as he resolves himself, since he can’t beat them, to join them.
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Quick! What do you think this is:
If you said "the city of Des Moines' detention basin on Easton Blvd"--you are correct!
According to the Register (emphasis mine):
The nearly four-acre basin was constructed about two years ago and "took some of the load off of the pipe downstream" and helps prevent flooding, according to Des Moines City Engineer Jeb Brewer.
Took a load off, indeed.
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Noted by Bill Freivogel at his Law Talk blog at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon announced that he will drop the state's challenge of a lesbian woman's attempt to become a foster mother. This sets him squarely in opposition to Governor Matt Blunt, who has made a second career out of antipathy towards gays. The breakdown:
The state admitted that plaintiff Lisa Johnston - a woman in a monogamous lesbian relationship who has a bachelor's degree in human development and family with special emphasis on child development - was exceptionally qualified to be a foster parent...except that as a lesbian, she was a criminal under Missouri’s sodomy statute, RSMo § 566.090. The state's opposition rested solely upon that statute.
However, presiding judge Sandra Midkiff determined that the state's reliance on the statute was unconstitutional inasmuch as the Supreme Court had previously struck down a similar Texas law on sodomy in private settings, Lawrence v. Texas.
The state tried to appeal the decision, but Attorney General Nixon rightly concluded that the state no longer has grounds for opposing Johnston becoming a foster parent, and so dropped the appeal in its tracks.
Freivogel concludes:
The case illustrates the absurdity of turning down a highly capable gay person, especially when there are many foster children who can’t find homes.
It also illustrates the mean-spirited determination of the Blunt administration to ostricize gay men and lesbians from civil society. That hostility will certainly continue; a related AP story states that Blunt's Department of Social Services "isn't moving to allow other gay people to be foster parents."
A better day may come for Missouri; Jay Nixon will oppose Matt Blunt for the governorship in 2008.
(Cross-posted over yonder. Also, I forgot how to do the "Read more" thingie. Bleh.)
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Let's all give "The Hammer" a collective "The Finger." Haw, haw!
This is a great day for America... Tom DeLay is gone, gone, GONE from Congress. Now, I'm not completely naive; I realize that just because he's not in Congress doesn't mean he won't be trying to influence anything. But this is a step in the right direction, no?
Anyway. I'm just glad the fuck is gone.
Of course, he couldn't leave without a healthy amount of whinging and sour grapes:
DeLay leaves Congress with defense of Partisanship
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fallen Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas left the U.S. House of Representatives he once led on Thursday with a ringing defense of conservatism and his no-holds barred brand of partisanship.
"Partisanship ... properly understood is not a symptom of a democracy's weakness but of its health and strength, especially from the perspective of a political conservative," said the former Republican leader, who has been indicted on campaign finance charges in Texas.
So, Partisanship Is Okay If You're A Republican. Glad to hear Tommy vocalizing what we've all known for years now. Tom then went on to prove that he's a true Conservative, what with being completely blind to the orgy of money bloat that's been going on since his gaggle of slimeballs took over:
"Conservatives, especially, less enamored of government's lust for growth, must remember that our principles must always drive our agenda, and not the other way around."
Always leave 'em with a joke, eh Tom? But wait, get out the fainting couch:
DeLay excoriated liberal ideology as always wanting more government, more taxes but also said he recognized that liberals too had a "great tradition in this country" and were motivated by patriotism.
Zuh? Call me a cynic, but this sounds more like "Please stop attacking me" than any genuine compliment to liberals. Either that, or the editor cut the following sentence: "DeLay then laughed so hard that his rectum prolapsed."
After his indictment last September, he at first left his leadership post on a temporary basis and later made it permanent. In April he also announced his resignation from Congress, effective Friday, June 9, as more links emerged between his office and disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Two former aides have pleaded guilty to corruption charges.
DeLay has not been charged in the still-unfolding Abramoff investigation and he has repeatedly said the Texas indictment is politically motivated. He said he had served "at all times honorably and honestly" and that he was leaving Congress with few regrets and no doubts.
"Honorably and honestly." *cough* Uh, okay Tom... if you need that, I'll give it to you.
I love this:
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California said DeLay's legacy was "a culture of corruption." Asked if he had any parting words for DeLay, the number two Democratic leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland said: "Good-bye."
Heh. Less is more.
Update: Driftglass has a much better post on this topic, along with the BEST PICTURE EVER.
(Do you know the way to San Cross-post?)
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New Scientist:
New Scientist has discovered that Pentagon's National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks. And it could harness advances in internet technology - specifically the forthcoming "semantic web" championed by the web standards organisation W3C - to combine data from social networking websites with details such as banking, retail and property records, allowing the NSA to build extensive, all-embracing personal profiles of individuals.
…The [Disruptive Technology Office]’s interest in online social network analysis echoes the Pentagon's controversial post 9/11 Total Information Awareness (TIA) initiative. That programme, designed to collect, track and analyse online data trails, was suspended after a public furore over privacy in 2002. But elements of the TIA were incorporated into the Pentagon's classified programme in the September 2003 Defense Appropriations Act.
Disruptive Technology Office? Total Information Awareness? Doubleplusgood!
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U.S. President George W. Bush speaks at the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast in Washington June 8, 2006.Add this ridiculous image to the Messiah scrapbook thoughtfully compiled by our media over the past five years.
Meanwhile, can someone tell me what's going on with Laura in this picture?
Is her head tearing off? Is it about to rotate 360 degrees before she spews pea soup? Christ on a stick. That woman needs help.
And one bonus photo, for your captioning pleasure:
Yep...working hard. Making decidings. Presidenting.
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Yesterday, the rightwing National Review Online “outed” Daily Kos front-pager Armando. (Won’t link; you can head on over and search for it if you like. There’s the main post and then a follow-up.) They revealed his real name and employer, which happens to be a law firm that represents big corporate clients like Wal-Mart (also disclosed in the post). Armando has offered his swan song at dKos.
If you do a breeze-through of the various blogs (both right and left) talking about this, you’ll find that Armando wasn’t, perhaps, as particularly careful as he might have been about keeping his identity secret, but that’s decidedly not the point. The NRO made a decision to disclose information about Armando that was not generally known, and made public his having worked on behalf of a client that would, inevitably, raise the hackles of many lefties, which can be viewed as nothing less than an overt effort to discredit him.
(It appears to me he may have had a concerning conflict of interest, but I never read him enough to know how much or how little he disclosed, so I can’t speak on it with any authority and may be totally wrong. Nonetheless, even if he did, surely an altruistic impulse to protect dKos readers from being hornswaggled did not guide the NRO’s decision to publish this information.)
The truth is, I don’t like Armando. In fact, he was one of the reasons I had largely stopped reading dKos even before the infamous pie fight affair, because, in addition to oft-espousing an unappealing centrism, he was routinely unyielding, unnecessarily combative, and frequently downright rude toward commenters. A friend of mine refers to him as “Stalin,” which I always found rather amusing. Suffice it to say, I had no love for the guy.
Which is why I didn’t read him.
Exposing the real-life identity of a political blogger (knowing it will ruin them) strikes me as the same kind of ridiculous nonsense as people who can’t just shut off their TVs if there’s a show they don’t like; instead they must campaign to have the show taken off the air altogether. Don’t like a blogger? Then change the fucking channel (as it were). There are millions of us, after all. (Which also means there are plenty waiting—and capable—of filling the specific political space of any other; taking one person down is uselessly, futilely, stupid and cruel.)
I find it completely repellent that the idiot tool at the NRO decided to make public Armando’s personal information for no good reason, except as political retribution because he disagrees with him. I found it disgusting when Michelle Malkin did it, when people did it to her, when Jeff Goldstein did it to Thersites, and I find it disgusting now. It doesn’t matter a smidgeon whether I agree with someone’s politics; if someone seeks to retain their anonymity as a blogger, it’s the lowest form of retaliatory nastiness to undermine that wish.
The NRO should be ashamed. But in true conservative fashion, they probably won’t be.
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