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

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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!

 





 

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  3. Yeah, I’m sure his doctor is gonna testify for him after seeing this crap. Just so everyone knows…no physician would EVER tell a patient to stay on the internet if it was causing them this much stress. And no doctor would agree to testify on a patient’s behalf without advising that patient to cease communications with someone they believed was causing harm to their patient.

  9. Is this clown MORE EVIL or MORE MORONIC?

    How does someone who behaves in these incredibly evil, stupid and ultimately self-destructive ways make it to this point in life?

    Frankly, it is nothing less than a miracle that the many, deranged, lunatic radicals this clown associates with haven’t responded to his “Schmalfeldian-self” with extreme prejudice.

    Mind you, I am not recommending or encouraging such action. I am simply stunned that his lunatic associates can possibly manage that level of self-control.

  11. I need to find out when his birthday is. He could probably use some cheering up since he has been having such a hard time lately what with everyone pointing out all his lies

  13. The stuff Bill did in the Wisconsin recall wars established a pattern, and it is simple to demonstrate that what he has done since June 2012 (when he started in on Aaron Walker, et al) is a repetition of the same pattern.

    Everything is personal with Schmalfeldt. There are no boundaries, no rules, no ethics. Schmalfeldt decides that his enemies are evil, and believes he is going to become a hero by “exposing” them as such, and … fails.

    Because they aren’t evil. I’ve met Aaron Walker and John Hoge and Lee Stranahan and others targeted by Schmalfeldt. I’ve communicated with several other of his targets by phone, Twitter or email. They’re just human beings interested in politics, and then one day, Bill Schmalfeldt decided they were EVIL and he was going to INVESTIGATE them. The guy’s psycho.

  14. I was wondering if his horribleness had a history that goes back even further. Not that it particularly matters as he is bad enough right now. His words and work have been so vile and repulsive, you have to think that even if once he kept it in check the monster was always in there.

    I saw a few minutes ago, one of his old blogs where he describes the day of his official PD diagnosis from a distance of ten years, and his progress since, and was curious to see how well it matched up with his recent tweets.

    I had a pang of real pity here: “… the onset of dementia that I feel is
    beginning to insidiously creep into my frontal lobes…”

    Imagine what it is like to lose your sense and conscience, and to, at least at first, feel it, and know its going. That blackness and cruelty that rages in him has no check now, except in consequences that affect him in unpleasant ways, there is no consideration for others left.

  15. Some classic movie quotes for CBBS:

    “The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.”

    “If it was anybody else, I’d say what’s going to happen to you would be a lesson to you. Only you’re going to need more than one lesson. And you’re going to get more than one lesson.”

    “This life’s hard man, but it’s harder if you’re stupid!”

  18. The saddest part of the whole thing is that Billy is hardly the only batshit crazy leftist trolling and harassing normal people on the internet. And they are never discouraged by the “mainstream” leftists because they do their dirty work for free. They are a tangible asset to the likes of Obama, if only by diverting the attentions of the opposition.

  22. Now, “Journalist” McCain. Go write some “news” instead of hashing out already re-hashed and settled shit that only you trolls give a shit about. Shoo!

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