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Legal Woes Mount for Alabama Anti-GOP Conspiracy Theory Blogger Roger Shuler

Posted on | October 26, 2013 | 60 Comments

Roger Shuler, Shelby County Jail inmate No. 288928

The arrest of “Legal Schnauzer” blogger Roger Shuler, which I reported Friday at The American Spectator and blogged about here in the wee hours, has tipped over quite an interesting row of dominoes.

As recently as Oct. 19, a certain “RogerS” was boasting of his expertise in RICO lawsuits and claiming that perjuring bomber Brett Kimberlin’s lawsuit against bloggers was a legal tour de force:

Oh, no! An anonymous Breitbart Unmasked commenter calling himself “Roger S” asserts that he has handled many many RICO lawsuits, and Brett Kimberlin’s is super awesome and is going to make him a lot of money! Honey, where did I put the checkbook? Looks like it’s time to write a big fat settlement check to Mr. Convicted Bomber, because he is going to kick my ass in court! Experienced RICO Lawsuit Expert “Roger S” says so!

If, as some have suggested today, “RogerS” is actually the self-same Roger Shuler (Shelby County Jail inmate No. 288928), then his comments at a pro-Kimberlin web site are what lawyers called “evidence.” Speaking of lawyers, an Alabama attorney today e-mailed Roger Shuler:

From: [Influential Montgomery Lawyer]
Date: Sat, Oct 26, 2013
Subject: Cease and Desist to Roger Shuler from Ali Akbar re: Karl Rove
To: [email protected]

Mr. Shuler:
Please see the attached correspondence. It is a demand from Mr. Ali Akbar that you cease and desist all false, defamatory, and reckless comments about Mr. Akbar, specifically with respect to your false allegations Mr. Akbar engaged in a gay love affair with Karl Rove. In addition, it is a demand you delete and retract all such false and defamatory allegations within 10 days or face swift and certain legal action.
Sincerely,
[Influential Montgomery Lawyer]

While it is contrary to my personal creed to file lawsuits, it appears that certain communications published by Roger Shuler may be material to my defense in both the state and federal lawsuits Brett Kimberlin has filed against me and other bloggers (it’s probably unfair to call Simon & Schuster a “blogger”), and I have politely requested access to specific information relevant to the case.

Do inmates in the Shelby County Jail have e-mail access? Probably not, and so it may take a while for Ali’s lawyer to get a reply.

“Swift and certain legal action” — truth and justice, baby.

 

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Category: Alabama, Bill Schmalfeldt, Conspiracy Theories, Roger Shuler, The Kimberlin Files

FMJRA 2.0: Floating

Posted on | October 26, 2013 | 14 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: Rubycon

Police State: Feds Raid Investigative Reporter @AudreyHudson, Seize Notes

How and Why #Shutuppery Works

The #JoinMiTeam Campaign

FMJRA 2.0: Day Late & A Dollar Short

Neal Rauhauser Uses @CatsRImportant to Spread His Evil Lies as ‘Hard Candy’

Pure Evil: Drug Addicted Parents Sell Their Daughters to Child Pornographers

Neal Rauhauser Uses @CatsRImportant to Discuss a Certain Address in Maryland

The World’s Worst Pro Se Litigant Gets the Complete @Popehat Treatment

Finally, Obama Creates Jobs — Hiring People to Fix Busted ObamaCare Site!

In The Mailbox: 10.21.13

BREAKING: Maryland Appeals Court Denies Certiorari for Schmalfeldt Appeal

Pro-Pedophile Author: ‘How Dare You Call Me a Pro-Pedophile Author?!’

Stein to the Drunken Lefties

We Call Him @PatteRICO Now …

In The Mailbox: 10.22.13

Bullies, Braggarts and Fools

Atheist Sex Offenders Are Dangerous

Brief Note for @LeftIsRight4U: Why I Never Argue Politics With Liberals

Col. Nathan Jessup, Tea Partier

“Not The Cruz Mask,” He Whimpered. “Yes. Bad Day At The Office,” She Said, As The Whip CRACKED. #50ShadesOfLiberal

Great Moments In Public Sector Accountability, Waxman Edition

Obama Claims Ignorance of Failure Despite IG’s Clear Warnings in August

White House Official = Twitter Troll?

Bad Causes Attract Bad People: @MRC_43 and Other #FreeKate Freaks

In The Mailbox: 10.23.13

Contraceptive Culture: Normalizing the Abnormal and, Also, Vice-Versa

Must Have Been Stabbed or Strangled

Bill Schmalfeldt Proves Me Right

LIVE AT FIVE: 10.24.13

Media Can’t Spin ObamaCare ‘Debacle’

News of Brett Kimberlin’s RICO Suit Reaches a Certain Bunker in Berlin

Sexual Savagery and the New Abnormal

Bill Schmalfeldt’s Dishonest Denials (and Where the Trail of Evidence Leads)

LIVE AT FIVE: 10.25.13

Joan Walsh Thinks It’s All About Her

Celebrities Are the New Proletariat

Schocker: 26-Year-Old Guy Willing to Have Sex With Creepy Old Shep Smith

Top linkers for the week:

  1. Rick’s Crazed World (37, mostly the hard way)
  2. Regular Right Guy (18)
  3. EBL (5+8 Batshit Crazy News)
  4. DaleyGator (8)

Thanks to everyone for their links! Links for next week’s FMJRA are due by midnight Friday, November 1.


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Category: FMJRA Award

How @Elliott_Echols Won Twitter

Posted on | October 26, 2013 | 98 Comments

Ali Akbar called me Friday afternoon to tell me that the New York Times had mocked a young Republican operative:

Seven months after a report described the Republican Party’s image as “old and detached from pop culture,” it has hired Elliott Echols, 23, to serve as its first national youth director. . . .
Raffi Williams, the R.N.C. spokesman for youth media, said Mr. Echols was chosen because of his organizing and recruitment experience with College Republican groups. . . .
But hours after his announcement, the man who would be in charge of growing Republican support among the voting bloc most active on social media had fewer than 600 followers on Twitter. . . .

Ali decided to fix that problem. He went to work promoting Echols on Twitter, while also sending around e-mails urging others to join the crusade and demonstrate to the New York Times the effectiveness of conservative grassroots New Media activism on “Follow Friday.”

 

By 5 p.m. ET Friday, Elliot Echols had more than 1,500 Twitter followers. As of 9 a.m. ET today, Elliott had more than 2,500 followers.

Ashley Southall, the New York Times reporter who wrote that story?

Oh, she’s got 720 Twitter followers.

As a digital strategist, Ali likes to tell about the time a friend introduced him to someone at a conservative conference.

“This is Ali, he’s . . . He does . . . Ali, what do you do?”

This. He does this. #WINNING!

Ali is also being sued — along with 20 other defendants, including Michelle Malkin, Glenn Beck, Erick Erickson, and Simon & Schuster — by convicted bomber-turned-progressive activist Brett Kimberlin. Maybe the New York Times would be interested in that story, eh?

 

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Category: Blogging, New York Times

The Going Gets Weird: Alabama Liberal Blogger Arrested on Contempt Charge

Posted on | October 26, 2013 | 52 Comments

Roger Shuler, Shelby County Jail inmate No. 288928

I reported this Friday at The American Spectator:

Alabama attorney/blogger Roger Shuler was arrested Thursday in Shelby County and held without bond, charged with two counts of contempt of court in a case that has sparked conspiracy theories pointing the finger of blame at Republican officials, including the son of former Alabama Gov. Bob Riley.
Capt. Ken Burchfield of the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Friday that Shuler was being held in the county jail in Columbiana pending a hearing. Shuler was arrested “pursuant to a court order,” and was also charged with resisting arrest, Burchfield said. A jail mugshot showed Shuler, inmate No. 288928, with an apparent swollen bruise on his left eye.
Shuler is a liberal blogger who has been sued for defamation by Riley’s son Rob, by lobbyist Liberty Duke and by Republican lobbyist Jessica Garrison. At his Legal Schnauzer blog, Shuler has claimed that Rob Riley had an extramarital affair that led to Duke’s divorce. Schuler has also been sued by Garrison, a divorcee whom he accused of having a “long running affair” with Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange. . . .

You can read the whole thing. It has been reported elsewhere that Shuler was actually arrested Wednesday. The timing of Shuler’s arrest is relevant because I mentioned Thursday night that Shuler’s blog had been used in 2012 to spread the ridiculously false claim that Karl Rove was having a gay affair with Ali Akbar — a claim which originated with “a political operative on the left,” who I suspect to be Brett Kimberlin associate Neal Rauhauser. And, strange as it may seem, both Rauhauser and Bill Schmalfeldt tried Friday to claim that Schuler’s arrest had something to do with me. Ridiculous, right?

In fact, Shuler had refused to attend a court hearing on a contempt motion by the plaintiffs Riley and Duke, and had continued to publish a lot of conspiracy-theory crap about Karl Rove and Jack Abramoff (neither of whom have anything to do with this case), also alleging that the presiding judge was corrupt, et cetera.  It was kinda like the Barrett Brown case, without the YouTube meltdown.

Guess what? You can’t do that.

I mean, you can’t scoff at the court’s authority and denounce the judge as corrupt and not expect to get a contempt citation. You can’t do that even if you believe the court is violating your rights.

Lots of people feel they get screwed over in court — ask any divorced man ordered to pay child support to his no-good two-timing ex-wife — but they are still required to cooperate in ordinary court proceedings. And it doesn’t matter if you are a journalist or a blogger and the case is about politics, you’re still obligated to respect the court, even though competent authorities advise you that the court’s orders are an unconstitutional “prior restraint” on free speech.

I say this with full knowledge that Brett Kimberlin, The World’s Worst Pro Se Litigant™, is trying to use both Maryland and federal courts in an attempt to shut me up. Even if you’re being sued by a creepy perjuring bomber, you still have to respect the court.

Or move to Vanuatu, which I still haven’t ruled out.

Anyway, I had nothing to do with the arrest of Roger Shuler, but I’m not going to be suing Bill Schmalfeldt for defamation, because there’s no need to sue a lying scumbag when you can just expose the lying scumbag, and then double-dog dare him to sue you.

The burden of proof is always on the plaintiff, see? Good luck to anyone seeking to prove Bill Schmalfeldt is not a lying scumbag and, as far as Rob Riley’s alleged affair is concerned . . .

No, I’d better not tell you what Karl Rove told me about that.

Shhhh. It’s a conspiracy.

 

Category: Alabama, Bill Schmalfeldt, Conspiracy Theories, Roger Shuler, The Kimberlin Files

Schocker: 26-Year-Old Guy Willing to Have Sex With Creepy Old Shep Smith

Posted on | October 25, 2013 | 68 Comments

Supposedly the point of this big Gawker “exclusive” is that Shep Smith — who works at the eee-evil Fox News — is gay. But that is certainly not surprising to anyone who’s ever seen the Drama Queen of Afternoon News in action. Here’s a headline I ran in May 2012:

Fox News Closet Case (Who’s Not Fooling
Anybody) Declares GOP Opponents of Gay
Marriage ‘On the Wrong Side of History’

So, no, it’s not “news” that Shep Smith is gay.

What is news is that a reasonably attractive 26-year-old guy named Giovanni “Gio” Graziano was willing to have intimate contact with that scrawny orange-skinned 49-year-old anchor-thing.

All together now: Eee-eww, gross!

It’s not necessarily homophobia to feel an overpowering sense of nausea at the mental image of Shep’s squealing paroxysms of erotic ecstasy while getting sodomized by his studly boy toy.

Our deepest sympathy to the Graziano family.

 

Category: Fox News, Gays

Police State: Feds Raid Investigative Reporter @AudreyHudson, Seize Notes

Posted on | October 25, 2013 | 133 Comments

As soon as I saw the headline, I called Audrey, whom I worked with for years at The Washington Times. Audrey said she was “terrified” when she learned that police who raided her home in August — believe it or not, they had a search warrant for a potato launcher her husband had bought online — had taken notes containing information about sources for some of her reporting on TSA scandals.

By the way, you can blame Audrey for my career as a blogger. The day in January 2008 it was announced that the Times had hired a new executive editor from our hated rival — passing over veteran newspaperman Fran Coombs as replacement for retiring Wes Pruden — Audrey and I went outside for a smoke break. “If I had wanted to work for a Postie, I’d have applied at the f–king Post,” she said, and I resolved at that very moment to resign, which I did the next day.

While I hesitate to suggest a political motive for the raid on Audrey’s house, Alex Pappas’ report at the Daily Caller raises suspicions:

A veteran Washington D.C. investigative journalist says the Department of Homeland Security confiscated a stack of her confidential files during a raid of her home in August — leading her to fear that a number of her sources inside the federal government have now been exposed.
In an interview with The Daily Caller, journalist Audrey Hudson revealed that the Department of Homeland Security and Maryland State Police were involved in a predawn raid of her Shady Side, Md. home on Aug. 6. . . .
At about 4:30 a.m. on Aug. 6, Hudson said officers dressed in full body armor presented a search warrant to enter the home she shares on the bay with her husband. She estimates that at least seven officers took part in the raid.
After the search began, Hudson said she was asked by an investigator with the Coast Guard Investigative Service if she was the same Audrey Hudson who had written a series of critical stories about air marshals for The Washington Times over the last decade. The Coast Guard operates under the Department of Homeland Security. . . .

Read the whole thing by Alex Pappas. Discussing the story with me, Audrey praised Alex’s reporting — high praise, indeed.

UPDATE: Now a Memeorandum thread, with more commentary by Bryan Preston at PJ Tatler and Rick Moran at the American Thinker.

 

Category: Corruption, Crime, Journalism

Celebrities Are the New Proletariat

Posted on | October 25, 2013 | 57 Comments

Russell Brand has international fame and a net worth of $15 million, and also used to bang Katy Perry. Nevertheless, in his own mind, he is one of the downtrodden toilers struggling to overthrow the greedy oppressive parasitical regime of bourgeois capitalism:

“A socialist egalitarian system based on the massive redistribution of wealth, heavy taxation of corporations and massive responsibility for energy companies and any companies exploiting the environment. I think the very concept of profit should be hugely reduced.”

 

Spare me these pseudo-Bolshevik ravings from movie-star Marxists. Go read Friedrich Hayek’s “The Intellectuals and Socialism.”

 

Category: Celebrities

Joan Walsh Thinks It’s All About Her

Posted on | October 25, 2013 | 80 Comments

“Bitter partisanship has left this woman a hulking, steaming pile of radioactive filth. She just hates. No amount of Obama/Democrat failure will shake her from what is, for all intents and purposes, a psychotic obsession with the ‘evil’ right.”
— Donald Douglas, American Power

Sometimes it’s just your turn as scapegoat, and the best you can do in your hour of shame is to maintain your personal dignity.

Alas, nothing in Joan Walsh’s experience of marching lockstep in the liberal herd prepared her for the sudden and severe beatdown she got after Ezra Klein, leader of the “Juicebox Mafia,” decided to take a shot at her on Twitter. Walsh had gotten out of step with the “smart” liberal take on the ObamaCare roll-out debacle, and Klein’s tweet on Tuesday was the signal that started a dogpile reaction.

“And then all hell broke loose,” Walsh writes in a long, solipsistic whine of a column at Salon.com, that failed fossil of the 1990s Dot Com Bubble which has been losing $2 million a year forever.

Did I ever mention how much Andrew Breitbart despised Joan Walsh? Because he did, you know. Her name was always an epithet to Andrew.

Donald Douglas at American Power shares that loathing: “Wretched Joan Walsh Whines About How Everybody Hates Joan Walsh.”

Walsh’s reaction to her sudden ignominy among liberals is instructive for several reasons, including what it tells us about the herd instinct of liberal pundits. There is a creepy Soviet-style conformity at times: “Here is the Party line. This is all the truth you need.”

Joan Walsh is like one of those old Bolsheviks who, after decades of service to the cause of the Revolution, suddenly found themselves arrested and hauled before one of Stalin’s show-trial courts, accused of Crimes Against the People’s Republic: “Saboteur! Trotskyist!”

Public humiliation is the renegade’s reward, and there is a deep irony in Joan Walsh’s scapegoat moment, in that she has always been so compliantly eager to please her comrades. You got the idea at times she wanted to be Homecoming Queen of Liberal High School.

A pathetic craving for popularity is a weakness, and when Klein’s quick jab punctured Walsh’s balloon with shocking suddenness, she inevitably collapsed into self-pity, inviting others to join her, invoking the ritual totems of identity-politics tribalism:

You’re derided as a purveyor of “agitprop” (thanks, Andrew Sullivan) and you’re an “Obamabot” . . .
Oh, and if you’re a woman? You’re also a cunt, a bitch, a hag; you’re old, fat and ugly, with bad teeth, chicken arms, 12 cats and a big unrequited crush on Ezra Klein. . . .
The reaction to Klein’s mildly aggrieved tweet about it set off a shitstorm. Lots of people found it easy to misrepresent what I’d written. There was a little bit of dudebro-ism afoot, as I watched my young white male blogger friends high-fiving one another for their intellectual courage and honesty, as contrasted with my venal hackdom. . . .

There is much, much more in the same vein, but the way Saint Joan climbs up on her cross, declaring that she is being crucified by her “young white male blogger friends,” is the key point: Walsh thought her service to The Sacred Cause had earned her “friends,” when in fact those younger pundits were merely political allies, each selfishly pursuing their own paths of ascent on the ziggurat of ambition. If it served their interests to praise Joan Walsh, she would bask in the glow of admiration. But once it served their interests to shun her, then all her past glories were instantly forgotten: “Saboteur! Trotskyist!”

You might think she would learn a valuable lesson from this experience, but if Joan Walsh were capable of learning lessons from experience, she would not be a liberal, would she?

 


Category: Intellectuals, Journalism
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