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World’s Youngest Blogger: Won’t Someone In SC Run Against/Over Graham?

Posted on | March 8, 2013 | 19 Comments

Please, Lord, send someone to deliver the Palmetto state from that wretched squish.

via Todd Kincannon, who is strangely coy about this business:

http://primarygraham.com

Category: World's Youngest Blogger

I Got Nothing

Posted on | March 8, 2013 | 18 Comments

Sometimes you see an item and instantly think, “Wow, I gotta blog that, because this will be hilarious.” And so it was when I saw a weird bit of news from HuffPo, but then . . . blank.

Zilch. Zero. Nada. And I think the problem is that, once you’d read the item, there really isn’t anything you can add to it that would make it any funnier than it already is — that is to say, if you’re the kind of person who thinks it’s funny when a guy has to go to the hospital because he got a dildo wedged up inside his bunghole, then live-Tweets the process of having it extracted.

Did I mention there’s an X-ray?

UPDATE: OK, while I was caught jokeless, Ace of Spades was running a whole riff on Mister Bunghole’s Very Bad Day.

 

Category: humor

Shorter Juan Williams: I’m Sorry My Underpaid Assistant Plagiarized That Column With My Byline I Didn’t Write

Posted on | March 8, 2013 | 36 Comments

Who am I to judge, huh? Hasn’t it been my lifelong ambition to get paid big bucks without actually doing any work? But the rock star dream didn’t happen, so I was forced to resort to journalism, which requires me to sit in front of a laptop computer and at least pretend that this is “work.” Still, I cling to the hope that someday I might be successful enough to have an assistant — preferably one with ginormous boobies — who can take care of all the drudgery like transcribing audio, fetching coffee and booking my flights to conferences where I collect a couple thousand bucks for giving a 45-minute speech about whatever.

Nevertheless, I would require that my large-breasted assistant actually be competent, because otherwise bad things might happen:

A column by Fox News talking head Juan Williams published last month by the Hill was quietly updated last week to fix some pesky instances of plagiarism. The article, it turned out, featured entire paragraphs from a Center for American Progress report on immigration, with a few words changed here and there, as detailed by Salon. “I was writing a column about the immigration debate and had my researcher look around to see what data existed to pump up this argument and he sent back what I thought were his words and summaries of the data,” Williams told Alex Seitz-Wald without apologizing.

Wait — Juan Williams’s “researcher” is a he? What’s the point of having an incompetent assistant plagiarizing stuff for your ghost-written column, without titties?

Juan: You’re killing the dream here, buddy.

UPDATE: Oops. I fixed a typo — actually, I misspelled “incompetent” — which is why I need an assistant with keen eyes (and a nice rack) to spot typographical errors.

UPDATE II: Ace of Spades HQ:

I wonder how widespread this practice is. I wonder how many of these “writers” and “thinkers” have actually stopped writing and instead are now “Producers” of writing, the way a producer on a film hires the team and oversees the team but doesn’t actually take the concrete steps we usually think of in making a movie.

The problem is that there is a vast reserve army of underemployed writers who are happy to get paid to put words under the byline of some Famous Name. It’s a buyer’s market, really, which is why I insist on a competent assistant, with really massive yabbos.

UPDATE III: Just in case anyone thinks that I am being sexist in requiring my assistant to be stacked like the Great Pyramid of Giza, I’ll remind you of Instapundit’s discovery of scientific proof that larger-breasted women are more intelligent. And he’s a Yale-educated law professor, y’know. Certainly he wouldn’t dream of engaging in unfair discrimination.

 

Category: Journalism, Scandal

OK, Let’s Make This Quick

Posted on | March 8, 2013 | 11 Comments

Jimmie Bise Jr. called to my attention an article that Jon Ward of the Huffington Post had Tweeted out, in which Mark Judge complains about the lamentable dearth of writerly journalism by conservatives, under this provocative headline:

Standing Athwart Breitbart, Yelling Stop

Judge’s complaint is valid, so far as it goes. Conservative journalism was born fighting, and as the movement it spawned has increasingly become a day-to-day fight to control The Narrative — to win each day’s political battles — it has largely lost the high tone of intellectualism that marked the works of Richard Weaver, Friedrich Hayek, Russell Kirk and William F. Buckley Jr. back in the day. This problem is aggravated by the remorseless quest for Internet traffic as journalism (of all kinds) adapts to the inexorable economic exigencies of the New Media age. One might also point to an incentive structure that encourages conservatives to write Stuff That Moves the Needle, whereas regular journalists get to relax, have fun, and just cover whatever assignments they get.

Stipulating all that — and resisting the temptation to write another tedious essay about it, having recently held forth on the meaning of MalaysiaGate —  I detect in Judge’s complaint a distinct whiff of a recrudescent problem I call Dreherism.

In case you’ve forgotten who Rod Dreher is, back during the Bush years, he wrote a cover article for National Review that got turned into a book called Crunchy Cons: How Birkenstocked Burkeans, Gun-Loving Organic Gardeners, Evangelical Free-Range Farmers, Hip Homeschooling Mamas, Right-Wing Nature Lovers, and Their Diverse Tribe of Countercultural Conservatives Plan to Save America (or at Least the Republican Party).

Notice that I don’t link to the Amazon page of the book, because I don’t want to risk anyone accidentally being influenced by Dreher’s awful ideas, even if it would make me a profit. Jonah Goldberg famously ripped the wretched thing to tatters and flung the bits back in Dreher’s face, leaving me little to do except clean-up work in my Reason magazine review of that Very Bad Book. And in that controversy, I recognized a conflict that wasn’t really about politics, but about career ambition.

Dreher was (and is) what the magazine trade calls a “back of the book” writer — book reviews and so forth — rather than a guy who specialized in actual reporting, and his Moment of Glory on the cover of the National Review was the life’s dream of a thousand literary types who are forced to slum it in journalism.

This is not a problem unique to conservative journalism or political journalism. Hunter S. Thompson dreamed of being Fitzgerald or Hemingway. Instead, he went to South America as freelancer for the (now defunct) National Observer and, through a fluke of fate, was the guy The Nation assigned to do an article about the Hell’s Angels motorcycle gang. From there, the trip to Gonzo legend began.

In much of the world of journalism, the feature writer with an eye for color and an aptitude for elegant prose is a king among men. This is not true in Washington, D.C., where the top of Page A1 is always Urgent Updates of the Latest Crisis: Hard news with a short shelf life, extremely important today, but sure to be obsolete within 24 hours.

Get us the Big Facts now, damn it!

You’re never going to get a Drudge link on a book review, and of the six or seven stories that qualify for the front page of a newspaper, exactly one — and never more than that — is likely to be something you might call a “feature” that won’t be out of date tomorrow.

This was why, when it was my job to supervise interns at The Washington Times, I would sometimes caution the young women writers against any tendency toward writing “soft” stuff (as is all too common). No, you want to seek out a hard-news beat, and avoid getting stereotyped as a features writer, or else you’ll spend your career covering silly stuff like arts-and-crafts festivals.

The minute a newspaper editor finds out you can write a feature lead, you’re on the fast train to the Society section, ladies, and you can’t blame it on “sexism,” because it damned near happened to me, too. When our bosses at The Washington Times decided to re-assign Julia Duin from the Culture page to be strictly our religion reporter, I fought like hell against being assigned to that Culture page gig, although I did manage to make the most of it until it damned near drove me crazy.  But I digress . . .

Crunchy Cons was Dreher’s attempted escape from “back of the book” status, but it was a cul-de-sac as far as real politics was concerned — a gooey mess of stuff that did not amount to a fighting creed — and Goldberg saw that as clearly as did I. And so now we encounter the complaint of Mark Judge that conservative journalism does not give enough work to literary types:

Conservative journalism, which in many ways is stronger and better than it has ever been, is nonetheless missing something crucial. It is missing a literary voice.

Hey, fuck you, Mark Judge. You think you’re the only guy on the Right who knows how to write stylish prose? That you’re the only guy who might like a nice trip to some exotic locale to write colorful feature coverage that isn’t all about Moving the Needle?

It happens that I agree with Judge’s basic point, but nobody listens to a guy who’s Not Good Enough for BlogCon, so what I do is just write what I write — a critique by counter-example, you might say — and hope somebody appreciates it.

Ultimately, Judge is doing a variation of “Dougherty’s Law,” the habitual lament of disgruntled Republicans first described by Michael Brendan Dougherty: “If it were more like me, the Republican Party would be better off. It’s failing because it’s like you.”

Judge is saying to the rest of us, “Conservative journalism would succeed if it was like me. It’s failing because it’s like you.”

What part of “fuck you” do I need to explain, Mark?

 

 

Category: Journalism

So, These Two Republican Senators Walk Into An Elevator. . . #StandWithRand

Posted on | March 8, 2013 | 27 Comments

by Smitty

 

I should probably take a moment to define “choadtzpah”:

Noun: whereas traditional chutzpah has a broad, general meaning of “gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, incredible ‘guts,’ presumption plus arrogance such as no other word and no other language can do justice to,” let’s narrow choadtzpah to capture the exquisitely “dick move” of rejecting transformational brilliance in the name of preserving a dying status quo.

For example, going out to dinner with the kind of President who is nothing if not a Constitutional wrecking ball, while a sincere, younger member of your party is laying it down, full-tilt boogie, on the Senate floor, defending that same Constitution “like a BOSS,” and then coming in the next day, trashing the brash young member of the party in some fit of geriatric pique.

Don’t know what rationale McCain and Graham have for their stunt, but I hope the blowback is instructive, and I hope that South Carolina rises up next spring and reveals Graham’s re-election war chest to be filled with so much potpourri. There needs to be some fear of the voters put into these Ruling Class Overlords, of both parties, insofar as the Progressive clowns on either side of the ‘aisle’ can be pried apart with less than a crowbar.

via Daily Caller

Category: humor

Just in Case New York Times Readers Don’t Feel Enough White Guilt Yet …

Posted on | March 8, 2013 | 41 Comments

. . . Ta-Nehisi Coates is there on the op-ed pages with a stern sermonette for them. It involves the fact that an employee of a New York deli didn’t recognize the actor Forest Whitaker and accused him of shoplifting. Coates offers a few more examples — including from before he was born — of a racism that “haunts black people with a kind of invisible violence.”

And also haunts them, we might add, with dramatic prose.

Far be it from me to say that New York deli employees aren’t in the thrall of atavistic ethnic prejudice, their minds crowded with ignorant racial stereotypes and hateful bigotry. But, on closer inspection, that doesn’t seem to be Coates’s point:

In modern America we believe racism to be the property of the uniquely villainous and morally deformed, the ideology of trolls, gorgons and orcs. We believe this even when we are actually being racist.

Who is this “we”? But never mind that. In fact, Coates is right, insofar as he is suspicious that the “good people” — even nice, well-meaning, liberal white people — are more guilty of racism than they would like to admit. How often, for example, have I given my opinion on the utter hopelessness of the public education system, only to have some parent explain to me that they live in a good district with good public schools. The suspicion that “good” is actually a synonym for “mostly white” is hard to avoid, but these parents don’t want to think of their personal choices in that context, and so I don’t bother to point this out.

Frankly, there are a lot of things about contemporary race relations I don’t bother to point out, because I am a white man who isn’t a liberal and one who has, indeed, often been called a racist.

There are no New York publishing houses offering me contracts to write The Complete NeoConfederate Guide to Better Race Relations, although it has occasionally occurred to me that problems which seem insoluble inside the margins of Political Correctness could most likely be improved by more truly radical thinking.

Here’s a radical thought: What if racism isn’t really the problem?

Ethnocentric attitudes are commonplace, a logical consequence of mankind’s innately tribal nature.

Everyone is self-interested and, insofar as he has any actual thought about race, is chiefly concerned about whether anything might affect the mental category of People Like Me.

Obviously, race is not the only such category. We might mentally categorize ourselves in any number of ways: Male, female, old, young, urban, rural, Crimson Tide fans, et cetera.

Man’s innate tribalism persists, but in a media-saturated consumer society one notices that there are many people who classify themselves by what they buy and what they watch on TV.

You see this especially among young people, where high school cliques are sometimes defined by certain fashionable clothing brands. But high schoolers denominate themselves by all kinds of crazy classifications that make no sense to sane adults, and which honestly never made sense to me even when I was a teenage dopehead. (“Teenage dopehead” being a rather large fraternity in the ’70s.)

 One category which young people are avidly encouraged to join nowadays is Not a Racist.

Membership in the Not a Racist Club is exclusive to white kids, because the same mentality that castigates whites as racist is also constantly telling non-white kids that the most important thing about them is their race. The result is that while the minority kids get their heads crammed full of ethnic chauvinism, white kids are taught — often quite explicitly — that being white is a source of shame.

Such indoctrination produces effects consistent with Newton’s Third Law of Motion: Every teaching has an equal and opposite reaction. One occasionally encounters white people who have so entirely internalized ther anti-racism lessons that they run around all the time pointing fingers at other white people, yelling, “RAAAAACIST!”

That’s annoying, but it is not as troubling to me as the opposite reaction: White kids who, resisting the indoctrination, develop a profound resentment of the non-whites whom they are constantly told are their moral superiors (in the liberal calculus where victimhood is superiority).

Trust me, Ta-Nehisi: It ain’t the old-fashioned white racism you need to worry about, it’s this disturbing new racism of kids quietly embittered at being branded with a collective mark of racial shame for the sins of dead white guys hundreds of years ago. You can call it “backlash,” or you can call it “unintended consequences,” and you might even wonder if the accidental results of the White Guilt curriculum weren’t occasionally manifested as something that doesn’t look like racism, but rather an inchoate rage: Columbine, Tucson, Aurora and so forth.

Lot of really angry young white guys out there, eh?

“Racism” is a word that has been degraded by promiscuous overuse, and if we can still recognize racism at work in the unfair suspicion directed at Forest Whitaker by a deli employee, it’s almost a miracle, considering how often nowadays we are told that “racist” is effectively a synonym for “Republican.” (Was the deli employee Republican?)

In truth, however, actual racism — a generalized hostility toward other races — is a psychological defense mechanism, a rationalization of personal failure by resort to blaming the scapegoated Other.

We recognize this in the life of Adolf Hitler, the failed artist who became an eager acolyte of anti-Semitism after being rejected at the Vienna institute. And we see how the German people, humiliated by defeat in World War I, responded to Hitler’s blame-the-Jews message as an explanation for the collective insult to their pride.

Anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools, Bebel said (as if socialism itself weren’t foolish enough, we might add). And the interesting thing about the Third Reich is that it was the National Socialists who created it. The Nazis’ particular hybrid of socialism was disowned by other socialists, whose habit is always to dismiss any failed socialist experiment — from the Stalinist nightmare to Pol Pot’s murderous lunacy to Hugo Chavez’s sordid mess in Venezuela — as Not Really Socialism.

But Hitler’s socialism was Really Socialism in the sense that it was about the victimhood of the allegedly virtuous masses at the expense of the vicious Other. Just substitute “Jews” for “bourgeoisie,” and it’s the same thing as more orthodox socialism. It’s about scapegoating — externalizing the causes of failure — and it doesn’t really mattere who the chosen scapegoat is, or what elaborate ideological superstructure one erects to justify it, the Politics of Blame is always the same.

How about that One Percent, huh?

NYPD arrest Occupy Wall Street protesters, Oct. 1, 2011

“In the hands of a skillful indoctrinator, the average student not only thinks what the indoctrinator wants him to think . . . but is altogether positive that he has arrived at his position by independent intellectual exertion. This man is outraged by the suggestion that he is the flesh-and-blood tribute to the success of his indoctrinators.”
– William F. Buckley Jr., Up From Liberalism (1959)

Well, “Occupy” mobs raging against bankers may seem harmless enough, but I wasn’t the only one who noticed that those mobs were mostly a bunch of idiot white kids, and who knows where their victim mentality may lead? Not in my lifetime, of course.

As bad as schools are and as vicious as our politics have become, America isn’t likely to go through any violent revolution or totalitarian dystopia soon. We seem to be traveling The Road to Serfdom by baby steps. Yet the escalating ignorance of history, and the dying off of those who have any direct memory of fighting against dangerous “un-American” ideas, creates a genuine risk of future generations surrendering to Bad Ideas we thought we had long ago vanquished.

Pardon the long digression, Ta-Nehisi, and sorry to bust your hustle, but why does the New York Times only want a black man to write op-eds for them when the subject is racism? Why don’t the editors ever solicit your thoughts about the budget or foreign policy? Are the editors of the New York Times the sort of liberals who think black writers can’t write about anything except being black? Isn’t that attitude . . . racist?

That box you’re thinking inside? Throw it away.

You might be surprised what the world actually looks like, once you escape the indoctrination and begin thinking for yourself. 

 

Category: Culture, History, Intellectuals, New York Times, Racism

LIVE AT FIVE: 03.08.13

Posted on | March 8, 2013 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Norks End Non-Aggression Pacts, Threaten U.S. & ROK With Nukes

Norks having a tantrum again

Military police at the Panmunjom crossing point in the DMZ

Announcement follows fresh round of UN sanctions


President Obama Does Lunch With Paul Ryan
Still no cure for cancerdebt crisis



Hugo Chavez Gets The Lenin Treatment
Corpse to be embalmed. put on public display



POLITICS
Rand’s Stand Draws Bipartisan Support

Awkwardness in a Senate elevator

Awkwardness in a Senate elevator

Graham, McCain accuse Rand of scaremongering as filibuster draws attention to domestic drone strike possibility


Markey Who? GOP: Poll “Speaks Volumes”


Oberlin College Asks FBI To Investigate Possible Racial Incidents On Campus

Hurricane Sandy Probe Looking At Homeowners

Sen. Levin (D-MI) Won’t Seek Re-Election In 2014

Interior Nominee’s Links To Environmentalists Draw Sharp Questions

Michigan Judge Delays Decision On Gay Marriage Ban

Will Arkansas’ Tough New Abortion Law Survive Court Challenges?



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Falls In Asian Trade As Concern Over U.S. Budget Deadlock Grows: NYMEX $91.31, Brent $110.75
Citibank Seeks Permission For $1.2 Billion Stock Buyback
PRC February Exports Surge 21.8% In Latest Sign Of Improving Global Demand
Dollar Surges To 3.5-Year High Against The Yen
Weekly Jobless Claims Unexpectedly Drop 7K
Justice Dept. Consulted Treasury On Economic Impact If HSBC Charged With Money Laundering
Navistar Appoints CEO To Cement Turnaround, Shares Jump
Pandora Shares rise On Higher Than Expected Earnings; CEO To Retire
Google Begins Another Round Of Layoffs At Motorola Mobility
Facebook Making Photos More Prominent
FTC Cracks Down On “Gift Card” Message Spammers
Cablevision: Viacom Made Billion-Dollar Threat Over Bundling
“You Are A Pimp”: How Google Glasses Will Make Dating Creepy
Apple Patent Would Let You Sell Your iTunes Content To Others
Layoffs Underway At T-Mobile
Microsoft Adds Kinect Gesture Support To Windows 8
“Tomb Raider” Reboot Goes Gun Crazy



SPORTS
Mariano Rivera To Retire After 2013 Season

One Yankee that doesn't suck

Mariano Rivera

Holds save record with 608

Bruins Never Make It Easy

Thunder Holds Off Knicks, 95-94

Dominican Opens WBC Pool C With Rout Of Venezuela


Hamlin Fined $25K For Criticizing Gen6 Car; Furious Driver Says He Won’t Pay

Players Association Signs Off On NHL Realignment

Nash, Gaborik Rally Rangers Past Islanders

Frustration After Wildcats Fall To Bulldogs

Short Stint For Gio Gonzalez Before WBC



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Sofia Vergara’s Bra Racks Up “Machete Kills” Body Count

Because some things have to be seen to be believed

Apparently not a Photoshop job

“Lifts, separates, and mows down rivals.”

Disney: No Place Like Another “Oz” Sequel

Joy Behar Leaving “The View”

Justin Bieber Collapses On Stage In London, Rushed To Hospital

Chris Brown Threatens Valet Over $10 Service Charge

Kelly Osbourne Rushed To Hospital After Seizure

No, Miley Cyrus Did Not Call Off Her Wedding To Liam Hemsworth


Demi Moore Files For Divorce, Wants Alimony & Lawyer Fees

Ford, Fisher & Hamill On Boar For “Star Wars VII”? George Lucas Says Yes

“Hangover Part III” Trailer Debuts

Snooki Loses 42 Pounds, Debuts Post-Baby Bikini Bod

“Game Of Thrones” Babe Emilia Clarke’s Nude Broadway Scene Triggers Flash Pic Frenzy



FOREIGNERS
Cuban, Iranian Leaders To Attend Chavez’ State Funeral
Kenya Election” Odinga Camp Says Vote “Doctored”
Syrian Rebels Abduct 20 UN Peacekeepers, Demand Loyalists Withdraw From Village
Arab League Discusses Giving Syria’s Seat To Rebels
Burma Opposition Holds First Party Congress
Ignored Sultan’s Borneo Invasion Risks The Peace
Morsi To Abide By Court Ruling Striking Down Election Decree
Berlusconi Gets One Year For Wiretapping
Bersani Seeks Way Out Of Vote Impasse, Rules Out Coalition With Berlusconi



BLOGS & STUFF
Soylent Green: Best AGW Hoax Promotion EVAH!
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Allahpundit: Lindsey Graham Chides GOP Senators – Funny How You Didn’t Mind The Drones Under Bush
Weasel Zippers: Rand Paul Fires Back At McRINO And Lindsey Graham
Jihad Watch: Senators Cruz, Paul Introduce Bill To Restrict Drone Strikes In The U.S.
Stephen Kruiser: Even The NYT Can’t Find Much Bad To Say About Rand Paul Today
Jawa Report: Why Obama Won’t Admit He Can’t Assassinate Americans In America
Via Meadia: Rand Paul’s Tea Too Strong For The GOP?
Power Line: It’s Too Bad We Can’t Impeach Bill Clinton Again
Israel Matzav: Obama, Kerry To Honor Cheerleader Of Burgas Attack
Mark Steyn: Virgin On The Ridiculous
Weekly Standard Blog: Samira Ibrahim Speaks
Steve Sailer: Morningside Heights Deli Of White Racism Identified
Clayton Cramer: This New Study That Purports To Prove Strict Gun Control Laws Reduce Gun Deaths
Jammie Wearing Fools: In Mike Bloomberg’s New York, 80% Of High School Graduates Can’t Read
JustOneMinute: Who’s Asking?
Viking Pundit: A Popular Idea That’s Oh So Wrong


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Category: Live at Five

Brett Kimberlin Calls Blog Bash Venue, Vows to ‘Put You Guys Out of Business’

Posted on | March 7, 2013 | 33 Comments

Wednesday, Brett Kimberlin associate Neal Rauhauser contacted the venue where the National Bloggers Club is hosting the fourth annual Blog Bash. Now I can report that Thursday morning, Kimberlin himself contacted the venue and, according to sources, was “raving like a lunatic” on the phone and angrily told the venue manager that he would “put you guys out of business” for hosting Blog Bash.

What is interesting is how closely these reported contacts by Rauhauser and Kimberlin echoed comments posted on a pro-Kimberlin blog by someone using the alias “Texas Tim.”  Here are screen caps of two comments, which you may click to enlarge:


To save you eye-strain, I’ll tell you that Wednesday night, “Texas Tim” criticized “these dumbass blog awards lionizing and nominating the worst scum of the earth,” falsely claiming that Blog Bash was “not welcome at CPAC,” and making this interesting claim to advance knowledge:

“[W]e know that the new venue for BlogBash will be contacted by major Muslim organizations to cancel the BlogBash event because Ali and BlogBash supported Aaron Walker, the publisher of the Everyone Draw Mohammed blog.”

Question: How does “Texas Tim” know what “major Muslim organizations” will be doing?

While you ponder that assertion of prescient knowledge, look at what “Texas Tim” wrote on Thursday morning:

“So here are a few suggestions: call [the venue] and tell them about Ali and about who BlogBash has nominated for awards. . . .
“Call Muslim organizations and urge them to weigh in by calling [the venue] and joining the protest at annd boycott of [the venue]. . . .
“Let’s put [the venue] of business for hosting anti-American Islamophobes, felons, pimps and pornographers. . . . [The venue’s] assault on women and Islam will not be tolerated.”

Well, this is fascinating, isn’t it? On the same two days that the BlogBash venue is contacted by Rauhauser and Kimberlin, “Texas Tim” first predicts Muslim groups will contact the venue, and then urges readers to encourage such groups to contact the venue. And the threat to put a certain nightclub “out of business” is the exact same language used by Brett Kimberlin in his phone call to the venue manager.

Now, Lee Stranahan has been keeping an eye on “Texas Tim” for a while and Lee says it’s Brett Kimberlin. However, the source who tipped me to these comments says “Texas Tim” is “definitely” Neal Rauhauser. I trust my source, but Lee may be right. Either way, the larger point is that this harassment of Blog Bash is not coincidental.

In addition to the report at Twitchy — today is their first birthday, by the way — there is a long list of bloggers now on this story:

 

Category: The Kimberlin Files
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