‘Very, Very Bad, Doug!’ More Journalism Ethics Lessons From Bill Schmalfeldt

Posted on | October 4, 2013 | 96 Comments

A few weeks ago, Bill Schmalfeldt and his digital associates (“Xenophon,” and other sock puppets) were doing their Happy Dance, claiming that Brett Kimberlin had served me with notice of a lawsuit in Maryland. Except that I don’t live in Maryland and haven’t since mid-2012, and I have not been served. Schmalfeldt went silent about that claim after it was suggested that he and his sockpuppet pals provide proof that I have been served, which of course they can’t, because I haven’t.

Here’s a question: Who told Bill Schmalfeldt that I had been served?

Who told Bill Schmalfeldt that I still live in Maryland? Why would Bill Schmalfeldt publish hearsay that he had no means of verifying?

Ethics! Bill Schmalfeldt has Journalism Ethics, you see, and nobody else has any ethics at all, especially not me. All I did was attend a court hearing in Maryland so that I could witness first-hand the courtroom proceedings between Brett Kimberlin and his estranged wife.

Because of that, Brett Kimberlin has accused me of “malicious prosecution, conspiracy to abuse process, defamation, false light invasion of privacy, harassment, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and stalking.” (Also, perhaps, “Mopery With Intent to Lurk.”)

Brett Kimberlin has accused me of these things, I say, although I haven’t been legally served, neither in Maryland (where I don’t live) nor anywhere else, and I would very much like Ethical Journalist Bill Schmalfeldt to explain who told him that I had been served.

Of course, my whereabouts are no more Bill Schmalfeldt’s business than the legal proceedings in Kimberlin v. Walker, et al., but from Bill Schmalfeldt’s occasional eruptions, you might get the impression that he believes that he will be vindicated by the success of Kimberlin’s pro se litigation against myself, Aaron Walker, John Hoge, Ali Akbar and the pseudonymous blogger “Kimberlin Unmasked.”

This lawsuit will fail, however, and perhaps Bill Schmalfeldt should contemplate the consequences of that failure.

Nevertheless, rather than provide Bill Schmalfeldt further clues to the truth (lest he should repent his sins, and escape the fires of Hell), let me remind you of the First Lesson in the Bill Schmalfeldt School of Journalism Ethics, i.e., threatening people named “Doug”:

Doug was someone who, Schmalfeldt evidently believed, knew the identity of someone named “Jerry Fletcher,” who was associated with the conservative blog Knot My Wisconsin. Doug didn’t tell Bill what he wanted to know, and instead forwarded Bill’s threat to Jerry, and that made Bill Schmalfeldt very, very angry:

Very, Very Bad, Doug! VERY Bad
That was a private message for YOU, Doug. But you gave it to your little palsy-walsies at the Knothead group. You violated my trust, Dougie, and posted information that was meant for your eyes. I guess that gives ME permission to post personal information about YOU now … doesn’t it?
I think so.
Yes. I think so.
Bill

So, who is “Doug”? Where is all this “personal information” about Doug that Bill Schmalfeldt published in retaliation for having “violated my trust”? On what planet, in what alternative universe, is it “ethical” for a journalist (or anyone else) to threaten people this way? What kind of story is so important that “ethics” excuses such behavior?

Of course, it doesn’t, and Bill Schmalfeldt can’t explain or justify any of this, and if you try to hold him accountable for his behavior it’s “STALKING AND HARASSMENT,” and Bill’s a victim.

By the way, thanks to “Jerry Fletcher” for the tip.

It’s all a vast conspiracy, see?

One meeel-lion dollars!

Category: Bill Schmalfeldt

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96 Responses to “‘Very, Very Bad, Doug!’ More Journalism Ethics Lessons From Bill Schmalfeldt”

Kimberlinunmask
October 5th, 2013 @ 9:23 am

MT @rsmccain: MAOR JOURNALISM ETHICS LESSONS from Bill Schmalfeldt! http://t.co/MlOEEjdo4b #WhyWeCantHaveNiceThings
robertstacymccain
October 5th, 2013 @ 9:25 am

What you want, Bill, is for me to turn off the light, so you can do your evil in the dark.

You don’t deceive me, nor should you imagine that any intelligent person is deceived by your lies.

You have not answered — because honesty would expose the truth you wish to conceal — why it is that you thought I still lived in Maryland, and had been served notice of a lawsuit there. Nor have you ever explained why you relentlessly harassed me last November, threatening to call my wife.

And why, Bill Schmalfeldt, did you harass Lee Stranahan so viciously that he flew to Baltimore to file criminal charges against you? Why did you create that awful, tasteless “Dead Breitbart” smear? Why did you write that disgusting rant about Patrick Frey and Ken White? Why did you photoshop the faces of people you hate onto pornographic images?

Why do you seem to crave attention so desperately that you are willing to resort to all these vile acts to attract notice, but then when you receive the only kind of attention you deserve — the exposure of your heinous deeds — you complain that you are a helpless pitiful victim who is being unfairly harassed?

Finally, why do you come over here and leave comments at my blog — where you are not now, nor will you ever be — a welcome presence? This question I can answer myself: Because you know that the readership of my blog is vastly larger than anything you have ever created, and you want your childish insults and unjust harassment to reach a wider audience.

You are a disgusting hate-filled failure, Bill.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

And I think, deep down inside, you are.
Becca Lower
October 5th, 2013 @ 9:34 am

*crickets*
BeccaJLower
October 5th, 2013 @ 9:38 am

First Lesson of the #BillSchmalfeldt School of Journalism Ethics http://t.co/q8MdGfDT6m /#.UlAVupYhDEA.twitter via @rsmccain #tcot
archonix
October 5th, 2013 @ 9:39 am

Hey Bill, tell us again how you’re going to bring a libel suit against everyone in the world for the temerity of daring to exist.
rsmccain
October 5th, 2013 @ 9:39 am

RT @BeccaJLower: First Lesson of the #BillSchmalfeldt School of Journalism Ethics http://t.co/q8MdGfDT6m /#.UlAVupYhDEA.twitter via @rsmcca…
Jerry Fletcher
October 5th, 2013 @ 10:24 am

if you search long enough there is more . Well before the Knot My Wisconsin crew. Bill Looman is another he harassed right before us. There is others besides that as well. Yeah Bill has been doing this type of crap for a long time.
Jerry Fletcher
October 5th, 2013 @ 10:32 am

Did you want to try that again? That is a flat out lie.
Jerry Fletcher
October 5th, 2013 @ 10:34 am

You should ask him how his civil suit against Facebook turned out. They nuked a bunch of his accounts on facebook (for harassing people of course) and he went into postal mode.
rmnixondeceased
October 5th, 2013 @ 10:39 am

You go to someone else’s blog and tell them to shoo? Your delusions of adequacy and APD are reaching all time highs …
Kyle Kiernan
October 5th, 2013 @ 10:46 am

Quick show of hands, everybody who has more readers than CBBS. thought so.

And Mccain clearly does research and writes news, You sit in your swivel and regurge the left wing talking points and desperately repeat claims to the title of journalist while waving cheap membership cards purporting to credential you as a human being. Know who doesn’t have to go around claiming to be a journalist? A journalist. It’s like Harlan Ellison said “A writer writes. The failures talk about it.”

Your talk of Journalist status will last 10 milliiseconds beyond the rejection of your appeal to modify the peace order based on pseudo-journalist claims.

Bob looks down from heaven and whispers “who’s the tard now bub?”
Kyle Kiernan
October 5th, 2013 @ 10:48 am

Prove it, lying sack.
Demonstrably your contact with him was all online text. Produce it. You won’t because you can’t, because you’re a lying sack of swill.
Kyle Kiernan
October 5th, 2013 @ 10:57 am

Are there so few on your page that you need to come here to declare people trolls?
Couldn’t you just stay home and scream at the corners for being such squares?
Jerry Fletcher
October 5th, 2013 @ 11:19 am

Right now Bill is saying ” I would have gotten away with it,too, if it hadn’t been for you meddling Knot kids!”
Kyle Kiernan
October 5th, 2013 @ 11:33 am

I always think that holiday is a little hard on Dan.
rmnixondeceased
October 5th, 2013 @ 11:42 am

At least any Dan that I know …
rustypaladin
October 5th, 2013 @ 12:09 pm

Unfortunately, I think his vileness predates his Parkinson’s Disease. His kids won’t talk to him and his only friends are other deranged internet trolls.
Mm
October 5th, 2013 @ 1:09 pm

Except that he is on record, as recently as this week, stating that he has not been diagnosed with PD dementia.
Doug Kirby
October 5th, 2013 @ 1:42 pm

IANAL but couldn’t this threatening to disclose private information be considered extortion?
sarah wells
October 5th, 2013 @ 2:11 pm

True. That said, He’s at least at present not the most reliable historian I know.
hkk
October 5th, 2013 @ 2:42 pm

Cabin Boy Bill Schmalfeldt: Perhaps not inherently evil, but decidedly evil. And, pathetic. Don’t forget pathetic. I’d almost feel sorry for him if he weren’t such a smug, self-righteous (deludedly so), no-talent sack of goo.

I’m sure he has a long history of being this way, thus the multiple ex-wives and the kids that won’t acknowledge his existence, so let’s not blame PD. I’m sure he hates himself more than anyone else does, which is why he is the way he is and he does the things he does. Death will be sweet relief for this troubled soul.
Jerry Fletcher
October 5th, 2013 @ 3:10 pm

Where? Please show us. 🙂 Um hummmmmmm this is what he wrote on Dec 5th 2011 . This guy can’t even keep all of his lies straight.;
Jerry Fletcher
October 5th, 2013 @ 3:10 pm

Where? Please show us. 🙂 Um hummmmmmm this is what he wrote on Dec 5th 2011 . This guy can’t even keep all of his lies straight.;
Quartermaster
October 5th, 2013 @ 5:12 pm

Until he reaches the stop at the end of the long drop. Then his problems here will seem like a stay at a resort by comparison. Where he is headed is ghastly beyond human comprehension. I don’t wish it on Satan himself.
SPQR9
October 5th, 2013 @ 5:44 pm

Since you write it about it so much, Bill, evidently you are correctly classifying yourself as a “troll”.

Most truthful thing you’ve ever written.
rsmccain
October 5th, 2013 @ 6:25 pm

ICYMI: Bill Schmalfeldt’s journalism “ethics” http://t.co/SLkG3CHE5N @ali @asideofbacon @wjjhoge
ElliottBobert
October 5th, 2013 @ 6:26 pm

RT @rsmccain: ICYMI: Bill Schmalfeldt’s journalism “ethics” http://t.co/SLkG3CHE5N @ali @asideofbacon @wjjhoge
asideofbacon
October 5th, 2013 @ 6:38 pm

RT @rsmccain: ICYMI: Bill Schmalfeldt’s journalism “ethics” http://t.co/SLkG3CHE5N @ali @asideofbacon @wjjhoge
BredRightAndTrue
October 5th, 2013 @ 7:29 pm

*psst* (January 4th)
wjjhoge
October 5th, 2013 @ 9:29 pm

RT @rsmccain: ICYMI: Bill Schmalfeldt’s journalism “ethics” http://t.co/SLkG3CHE5N @ali @asideofbacon @wjjhoge
rsmccain
October 5th, 2013 @ 9:35 pm

Bill Schmalfeldt, famed reporter of Jerry FletcherGate! http://t.co/SLkG3CHE5N @guntotingteabag @ali @asideofbacon @wjjhoge @kylekiernan
wjjhoge
October 5th, 2013 @ 9:35 pm

RT @rsmccain: Bill Schmalfeldt, famed reporter of Jerry FletcherGate! http://t.co/SLkG3CHE5N @guntotingteabag @ali @asideofbacon @wjjhoge @…
Frankie
October 5th, 2013 @ 10:59 pm

The man lies so much he can’t keep them straight.
Frankie
October 5th, 2013 @ 11:03 pm

The video he made was a train wreck. Amusing in a painfully stupid kind of way
Kyle Kiernan
October 6th, 2013 @ 2:55 pm

Excuse me, but I thought we established previously that he is, in fact, to be precise “a fucking psycho”. Calling things by their correct names is important.
Kyle Kiernan
October 6th, 2013 @ 2:58 pm

There’s an old saying that applies. “He’s so screwy that when he dies they’re gonna have to twist him into the ground like a corkscrew.

Hope he’s right hand threaded but I’m not holding my breath on it.
alpacaherder
October 6th, 2013 @ 4:06 pm

‘Very, Very Bad, Doug!’ More Journalism Ethics Lessons From Bill Schmalfeldt http://t.co/pXbM03MwKW
rsmccain
October 6th, 2013 @ 4:37 pm

Comment @kylekiernan: “I thought we established previously that he is, in fact, to be precise ‘a fucking psycho’” http://t.co/SLkG3CHE5N
gds44
October 6th, 2013 @ 4:38 pm

RT @rsmccain: Comment @kylekiernan: “I thought we established previously that he is, in fact, to be precise ‘a fucking psycho’” http://t.co…
rmnixondeceased
October 6th, 2013 @ 5:27 pm

Heh. You wouldn’t hold the opinion stated in your final sentence if you knew where he is going …
rmnixondeceased
October 6th, 2013 @ 5:34 pm

Don’t forget pedophiles and Pedo-Pals …
screwtape1a12
October 6th, 2013 @ 6:00 pm

RT @rsmccain: Comment @kylekiernan: “I thought we established previously that he is, in fact, to be precise ‘a fucking psycho’” http://t.co…
robcrawford2
October 6th, 2013 @ 7:38 pm

That’s unfair to trolls. They may be slimy, loathesome, and degenerate, but they’re better than CBBS.
rsmccain
October 6th, 2013 @ 10:29 pm

RT @alpacaherder: ‘Very, Very Bad, Doug!’ More Journalism Ethics Lessons From Bill Schmalfeldt http://t.co/pXbM03MwKW
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