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Creative Ideas About Media Bias

Posted on | May 21, 2012 | 16 Comments

There are few things more boring than listening to conservatives complain about liberal bias in the media. We’ve heard it all before and nothing ever changes, because the people who run the media sincerely believe one of two things:

  1. Their coverage is actually objective and balanced; or
  2. Republicans are a dangerous menace — genuinely evil — so that publishing “news” slanted in favor of Democrats is a valuable public service, a sort of philanthropic humanitarian project.

Maybe it’s a little of both.

Discerning the motives for liberal media bias, however, is less important than teaching our fellow citizens to recognize such bias — which is often subtle enough that you don’t notice it unless you know what to look for — and doing what little we can to counteract it.

Trying to push back against media bias can be a frustrating endeavor. One suspects there are idle hours when RNC chairman Reince Priebus ponders the possibility of violent revenge on the bastards. At the wilder reaches of his imagination, for example, Reince might dream about hiring a production company to gin up a fake al-Qaeda video, with a masked actor portraying a fanatical jihadi guerrilla, issuing a new directive, ranting in Arabic about how those vicious infidels at the New York Times — owned by a notorious Zionist dog! — have incurred the righteous wrath of Mohammed’s servants by their heinous insults. The ranting jihadi would hold up a picture of Paul Krugman or Tom Friedman and explain how these willing tools of the Great Satan have abetted the schemes of Imperialist Aggressors. “Strike now! The Prophet must be Avenged!”

The chairman of the Republican National Committee would never actually try a devious scheme like that, for obvious reasons. You’d never be able to keep a  thing like that secret. Somebody would talk, or the CIA would spot the video as a fake. It might turn into a scandal or something.

All I’m saying is that we could understand — perhaps even sympathize — if that kind of crazy idea occasionally crossed Reince Priebus’s mind.

Instead of plotting twisted ways of striking back against those wretched liberal bastards, what Republicans end up doing is spending lots of money for TV ads in an effort to counteract the impact of the allegedly objective “news” that the media cranks out. Politico:

Obama super PAC slump continues
The pro-Barack Obama super PAC Priorities USA Action is still struggling to keep up with GOP super PACs preparing to unleash millions of dollars in independent advertisements. . . .

See? Republican super-PACs are out-raising Democrat super-PACs, and this development is worrying enough to the liberals at Politico that they turn it into a big headline that serves two purposes:

  1. It alerts Politico‘s liberal readership that Democrats need to raise lots of money to fight the (objectively evil) Republicans, thus to help encourage liberals to give generously next time they get a fundraising letter from the DNC or the Obama Campaign; and
  2. It helps lay the pretext of an excuse in case Mitt Romney manages to beat Obama, namely that those greedy evil rich Republicans stole the election by illegally spending their own money.

This is how bias works. Good news for Republicans is bad news for liberals, and so any success for the GOP must be A Very Bad Thing. Big headline from the New York Times Zionist Imperialist Dogs:

‘Super PACs’ Changing How Political Operatives Operate

This is Very Bad News, you see. Without even reading the story, you know that this article will leave liberal readers feeling a profound concern about the influence of Republican super-PACs, a concern these reader have never felt in regard to the influence of labor unions or MSNBC. And the next time the liberal gets a letter, phone call or e-mail from a Democratic fundraiser, they’ll be psychologically primed to give money, because they’ve been told repeatedly, by the New York Times and other media outlets they trust, that those evil Republicans are trying to use sneaky super-PACs to steal the election.

Reince Priebus does everything he can to fight back, short of inciting radical Islamists to blow up the New York Times office (620 Eighth Avenue) which would, however, only be a small (although not insignificant) step toward solving the media-bias problem. John Hinderaker spots this Associated Press headline today:

Is GOP trying to sabotage economy to hurt Obama?

Here’s a better question: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

Stunned disbelief is the only possible reaction to finding this kind of partisan accusation — quite literally a DNC talking point, as though reporter Charles Babington started with a press release from Debbie Wasserman-Schultz — being made in an Associated Press headline.

Imagine the reaction at GOP HQ this morning: How do you even find the will to keep on trying, when every day brings more and more examples of purposeful partisanship by the press? What can possibly be done, when the Associated Press, the New York Times and every other major media venue pushes out a constant flow of Democrat propaganda?

It’s enough to make a Republican want to denounce these dishonest biased weasels for what they really are . . .

Infidel dogs who blaspheme against Allah!

 


Category: Election 2012, Media Bias, New York Times, Reince Priebus, Republicans

LIVE AT FIVE – 05.21.12

Posted on | May 21, 2012 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Chicago PD Clashes With Summit Protesters

Protester about to discover why Chicago isn't Oakland

Black Bloc triggers baton-wielding crackdown, 45 arrested; #Occupods whine about brutality

Millions Watch Pacific “Ring Of Fire” Eclipse
Millions in Asia, Western U.S. get to watch rare solar event

Suspect Roomie In Tyler Clementi Suicide Convicted
Could face ten years in jail, deportation to India



POLITICS
Newark Mayor Cory Booker Supports Obama, But Hits Campaign For Bain Attack

Newark Mayor (and ex-financier) Cory Booker

“I have to just say, from a very personal level, I’m not about to sit here and indict private equity…”

Romney, GOP Could Beat Obama, Dems In Fundraising


Police Bag “Love Bomber” In New York

Wisconsin Democrats Worry About Recall’s Effects In November

Violence Against Women Act Hits Snag In Congress; House Balks At New Language Covering Illegals, LGBT, Native Americans

Axelrod: Romney’s Religion Off-Limits

Poll: Oklahoma Shuns Obama, 66-27

Americans Elect Fails To Field Candidate In NC

Ron Paul Wins Majority Of Minnesota Delegates



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Gains For First Time In Week As PRC Pledges To Boost Economy; NYMEX $92.34, Brent $107.75
Europe Shares Seen Lower As Debt Crisis Drags On
Alibaba BUys Back Half Of Yahoo! Stake
PRC Conglomerate Buys AMC Movie Theaters
No-Frills Ryanair Posts Record $715 Million Profit
DaVita, Healthcare Partners Announce Merger Agreement
Connecticut Ends Ban On Sunday Liquor Sales, NY Package Stores Hardest Hit
Lundberg Survery: US Gasoline Falls To Three-Month Low
Is Air Leaking From The Facebook Bubble?
PRC Signs Off On Google/Motorola Merger
Apple, Samsung CEOs Face Court-Ordered Mediation
Ultra-Orthodox Jews Rent Mets Stadium For Meeting On Dangers Of Internet
Google Chairman Challenges Grads To Turn Off (Their Devices) And Drop Out (Of The Internet)
Advertisers Still Fans Of Facebook



SPORTS
Finished: Spurs Edge Clippers, Complete Sweep
Spurs' Tim Duncan scores 21 with 9 rebounds in winning effort
Spurs win Game 4 102-99; Clippers rebound from Game 3 disaster but can’t stop San Antonio squad

James, Wade Combine For 70 Points To Keep Heat Alive



Kings Can’t Close In Desert; Coyotes Win 2-0

Rangers’ Prust Gets One-Game Suspension For Elbowing

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Extends His Reign At Iowa Speedway

Cueto’s Arm And Ludwick’s Bat Lift Reds Over Yankees

Bombs Away: Flores, Strasburg, Espinosa Homer In 9-3 Drubbing Of Birds



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Facebook’s Zuckerberg Gets Married

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chen

973,075 people like this

Robin Gibb “Started a Joke”, Left Us In Tears At 62

Ashton, Stepdaughter Rumer Spend Time Together Despite Pending Divorce From Demi

Nick Stahl Checks Into Rehab

“Avengers” Still #1, Now Disney’s Highest-Grossing Film

Mick Jagger Rocks The House On SNL Finale

Timothy Busfield Accused Of Sexual Battery

Woman Arrested At Corey Feldman’s Home For Violating Restraining Order

“Battleship” Sinking After $9.1 Million Friday Opener

Sandra Bullock, Melissa McCarthy Team Up For Cop Comedy



FOREIGNERS
Lockerbie Bomber Finally Dead
Pakistan Blocks Twitter Over Blasphemy
Aftershocks Rattle Northern Italy After Earthquake Kills Six
Clashes Erupt In Beirut Between Pro & Anti-
Syrian Groups
Car Bomb Hits Military Compound In Damascus, 9 Dead
NATO Missile Defense Shield “Up And Running”
Three Climbers Die On Everest, Two Still Missing
Taiwan’s Ma Plays It cool
Norks Release Seized PRC Fishermen
PM Cameron’s Meeting With Dalai Lama Brings Predictable PRC Whining



BLOGS & STUFF
Copious Gasser: Democrats Vote To Cut Government Spending
Power Line: The Long Shadow Of Barack Obama’s Identity Crisis
Ed Driscoll: Former NBC/CNN Anchor Rips Obama For Sexism
NewsBusters: George Will, Laura Ingraham Slam NYT For Romney SuperPAC Piece
Weasel Zippers: Pelosi Defends Using Rev. Wright To solicit Campaign Contributions
Jawa Report: 18 Men In Hoodies Attack Restaurant Patrons With Hammers & Nightsticks
Just One Minute: The Asbestos Will Remain In Altgeld GardensAfghanistan
Hugh Hewitt: The Week Of Walker – Big Labor’s Waterloo
Legal Insurrection: Obama On Verge Of His Grand Iranian Bargain

Category: Live at Five

Rule 5 Sunday: I Need To Know

Posted on | May 20, 2012 | 9 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


A View From The Beach was clever, and sent his linkagery in early, which is to say with last week’s, since he’s going on a cruise or some such lame excuse. Therefore, some warmed-over Carla Bruni, an overheated biermaedchen inexplicably appearing in a post about oyster beer, an extremely late model cavegirl with obligatory dinosaur*, some non-Amish gals, and more Julia Orayen.


WyBlog updates us on the career of Ashley Dupre, Randy’s Roundtable takes a break with Alexandra Kemp and Alina Vacariu, and POlitically Incorrect returns with Dana Hamm. Fishersville Mike goes country with Jennifer Nettles while Three Beers Later prefers Alannah Myles. Reaganite Republican skips the beauty queens this week in favor of Fox babe Michelle Fields, and Laughing Conservative goes with this Welsh lass. The Rio Norte Line has Thandie Newton (to continue with the UK gals), and First Street Journal features Women With Wheels this week.
At Dustbury, it’s singer/artist April March and the late Donna Summer.


Soylent Green kicked off the week with Monday Motivationer Bella, provided Tuesday Titillation with Indira, supplied Humpday Hawtness with Vivien Sandi, and became distracted on Thursday. Lynda supplies Friday’s corsetation fascination, and a fascinating website header before being tempted to run off and join the circus.


Proof Positive also paid tribute to la Bruni, as well as vintage babe Senta Berger. Also, Sex in Advertising! At The Camp of the Saints, Bob provided six days of cheesecake: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.


The DaleyGator’s DaleyBabes included Saya Tachibana, Lena Yada, Tara, Maki Fukumi, Britney Palmer, Rimu Himeno, Rachelle Leah (with more Rule 5 linkagery!), Risa Yoshiki, Ali Sonoma, Thea Trinidad, Shizuka Nakamura, Mercedes Terrell, Sayaka Isomura, and Claudia Varela with more linkagery! Also, ice bras!


Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Contributions to next week’s Rule 5 roundup are due by Saturday, May 26.


*I am well aware cavemen and dinosaurs did not co-exist, and anyone commenting on, or sending me e-mail correcting my presumed ignorance is going to get banned.

Category: Rule 5

Hawaiian Nativity Now Seemingly Clear

Posted on | May 20, 2012 | 21 Comments

by Smitty

I’ve always thought the Birther thing was a Red Herring. Now that someone has gone back and done the research, we may need a new category. Call it a deR Herring. Being born in Hawaii was to far from the vein of racial emotion that BHO was seeking to tap. So we have the the literary agent tart up the mundane Hawaiian origin into something that can be mined for racial cred.

But it’s a twofer. After deciding to run for POTUS, the fiction is shed. But the skin cluttering the area becomes a major distractor. The birth certificate becomes to Barack what WMD were to Saddam Hussein: a closely-held card that is really, really driving some among the opposition snaky. Barack has, at least for 2008, maximized the political value of a bogus Kenyan birth claim for support, while turning birth suspicion into a powerful weapon to discredit detractors.

Lies are purely tactical. The entropy they inject into human life requires increasing energy to maintain. At this point, anyone who believes Barack Obama on, well, any count (roughly 1 in 4 think he’s doing a boffo job, according to Rasmussen) is pretty much a fool.

Update: more at Scared Monkeys.

Category: Barack Obama

‘Other Computer Savvy Activists’

Posted on | May 20, 2012 | 42 Comments

From the “About” page at Brett Kimberlin’s “Justice Through Music Project” Web site:

Justice Through Music Project (“JTM”) is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization that uses famous musicians and bands to organize, educate and activate young people about the importance of civil rights, human rights and voting. . . .
Nationally known entertainment attorney Jeff Cohen and other computer savvy activists founded JTMP in 2003 in order to fill a particular need in today’s world — connecting with and giving a voice to youth by speaking a language they understand, music and freedom of expression.

They forgot to add: “Send money so we can pay a convicted terrorist to go around suing every blogger who says bad things about him, because — hey! — we’re all about democracy. Also, music.”

UPDATE: Popehat discusses “the astoundingly vile and terrifyingly sociopathic Brett Kimberlin, who for reasons that passeth understanding is still a darling to certain political activists despite the contemptible life he has led and continues to lead.” (Hat-tip: Patterico.)

Permit me to note that “sociopathic narcissism” is not a political ideology. Kimberlin seems to be under the impression that, if he just keeps doing the signifying jive — shout-outs on a behalf of progressivism, and attacks on various Republican bogeyman — this will justify all his wretched personal evil: Politics as a redeeming religion, as it were.

That kind of works for various successful and powerful Democrats, like the hideous drunken buffoon Ted Kennedy, whose stentorian voice, partisan ferocity and famous name seemed to have enshrouded him with secular sainthood in the eyes of many liberals.

But is Brett Kimberlin really such a progressive MVP that he can command the same worshipful reverence on the Left? I doubt it.

Maybe somebody should ask some of Kimberlin’s former BFFs — the liberals he may have screwed over and/or ripped off — if they think he’s an honest and worthwhile ally. Ask around, eh?

An award-winning reporter for the New Yorker, Mark Singer, wrote a book called Citizen K: The Deeply Weird American Journey of Brett Kimberlin. Singer is a total lefty — out there on the progressive fringe where MSNBC and Daily Kos are taken as gospel — and yet Singer recognized Kimberlin as a selfish scammer:

“After Garry Trudeau in ‘Doonesbury,’ the New Yorker’s Mark Singer was possibly the most prominent journalist to sympathetically report allegations that convict Brett Kimberlin had sold marijuana to Dan Quayle when the Vice-President was a law student. Indeed, Singer signed a contract with Kimberlin to write a book, but Kimberlin turns out to be a top-flight con man — as the author reveals with dismay and near admiration. So this picaresque detective story has a mea culpa at its heart, an effort to explain how certain things — such as former Harvard Law dean Erwin Griswold’s support for Kimberlin’s court appeal and Kimberlin’s muzzling by federal officials — helped build an edifice of sand. Singer conscientiously reconstructs Kimberlin’s history of crime — he was a drug smuggler and, mostly likely, the man behind some vicious bombings in Indianapolis. Some of this narrative gets tedious, yet it’s part of Singer’s effort to contrast facts with Kimberlin’s confident but ‘apparitional’ explanations. Leavening the story are Singer’s tales of Kimberlin’s charmed life behind bars: he wangled unlimited long-distance phone service, became the jailhouse lawyer for numerous Mafiosi and snared an impressive legal support group. Now free, the former dope smuggler helps ship commodities to Ukraine; but when Kimberlin (with Singer in tow) had a chance to meet Quayle at a book signing, he refused to confront him. Quayle, it now seems, deserves apologies.”
— Publisher’s Weekly, 1996

More recent coverage of Kimberlin activities — including a 2007 Time magazine article — makes clear that the scammer keeps on scamming.

 

Category: The Kimberlin Files

SNL Finale: Funniest Episode Of Season

Posted on | May 20, 2012 | 5 Comments

by Smitty

Mick Jagger was quite a pro, skewering his own career and pretty much everything else in sight. It looks as though Kristen Wiig is leaving, which is a shame, as she was frequently the ray of humor amidst a pile of dreck.

Al Sharpton was on the receiving end of a memorable beat-down:

via The Blaze

Category: humor

Deadline Loometh, and the Raven Is Croaking Brett Kimberlin’s Name

Posted on | May 20, 2012 | 93 Comments

THE KIMBERLIN FILES:

Three days of exposure — “The Army of Davids” effect that the Lonely Conservative cleverly invoked — looks like it was enough to push convicted terrorist Brett Kimberlin right over the edge. After nearly two years of Kimberlin apparently stalking and harassing his adversaries, the sudden burst of online publicity occasioned by Aaron Walker (aka Worthing) writing up a 28,000-word account of his own legal dispute with Kimberlin seems to have done the trick.

Remember that the “Breitbart Unmasked” Web site has denied — in a Twitter colloquy with me Thursday night — being run by Brett Kimberlin, which Worthing, Patterico and others long suspected.

OK, asked and answered — the denial is duly noted. Why, then, does that site exhibit such an obsessive interest in attacking those who tell the truth about Kimberlin? And why would the recent flurry of attention to Kimberlin’s activities cause Not Brett Kimberlin (as I’ve begun to think of “Breitbart Unmasked”) to post an unhinged 467-word rant on Saturday afternoon? Quoting that rant in its entirety:

Yes, This is Aaron Justin Walker Attorney at Law who blogs as Aaron Worthing @AaronWorthing and is a major Islamophobe who hates Muslims with a passion. He runs a blog called Everyonedrawmohammed.blogspot.com which is now set to private while he battles it out with the non profit Velvet Revolution, who had called him out on his Islamophobia. This is the face of dark evil. This is the man who would assume the mantel of launching a major assault on the institutional left, and with it a solid non-profit organization whose work has helped tens of thousands of people gain a better understanding of the process of voting and how that system has become corrupted by the influence of corporate money into the system. This is the man who has taken upon himself to launch an all out attack on everything that the left stands for. His lies are legend. His claims against Velvet Revolution and its foundations are nothing short of an attack on everything the left holds dear. Over the course of the next few weeks we will document everyone involved in this plot against this small non-profit organization that has taken everyone from Karl Rove, to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, to the out of control U.S. Chamber of Commerce to task. Yes, this small non-profit has called for massive investigations against these behemoths of the organized right to hold them accountable to the people. And because of that the right has responded with a full on outrageous assault on this non-profit in an effort to destroy everything they have accomplished. They call it #WAR. They call it #IAMANDREWBREITBART they call it a total commitment. OK, if its total commitment you want, it will be total commitment you will get.
Velvet Revolution has worked hard at dealing with this issue with the courts, and has contacted the FBI, the Attorney Generals Office, and everyone else that one can go to seek relief. The end result is that all of the parties that have been approached, contacted, or otherwise utilized, have all said that this is a battle they will not get involved in. So that is the way it will be. This will be a man to man knock down drag out fight for the hearts and minds, and a battle it will be. The message to the right wing extremists out there from BU is this: If you think we are going to be punked out and or bend over and let you stick it in then you are dead wrong. The rules you set up say that you and you only can attack people and get away with it, well, OK. Stand back and let loose the dogs of war then..
I hope you get that message loud and clear. Deal with it…

Oh, you are so frightened, aren’t you, Mr. Not Brett Kimberlin? Kind of externalizing and projecting your sociopathic habits on others, eh?

Horrified at the prospect of exposure, aren’t you? Trying to rally everybody around to protect your dishonest felonious self by conflating your own narrow interests with “the institutional left,” and exaggerating Aaron Walker into an all-powerful Right-Wing Ringleader, whom you accuse of orchestrating “all out attack on everything that the left stands for” and “everything the left holds dear” — like blowing up innocent people with bombs, for example?

Douchebag.

Your liberal buddies might be stupid, but I don’t think they’re so stupid they can’t recognize you as the selfish gutless weasel you are.

Let’s just state a fact that should be blindingly obvious: Stalking, harassing and attempting to intimidate bloggers who tell the truth about Brett Kimberlin’s notorious criminal history is not the kind of philanthropic activity for which federal law grants tax-exempt status.

Yesterday I posted links to the two most recent IRS Form 990’s for Kimberlin’s 501(c)3 organization, the Justice Through Music Project (JTMP), for which Kimberlin has collected $1.8 million since 2005, reporting $223,739 in contributions for 2010. If you’ll go to Page 7 of JTMP’s 2010 IRS filing (link is to PDF document), you will see that Kimberlin reported a salary of $19,500 for his full-time 40-hour-a-week job as JTMP’s director.

Forty hours a week. Full-time. Says so right there on the IRS Form 990 signed by Kimberlin “under penalty of law,” etc.

While thus serving as full-time director of a 501(c)3 non-profit, however, Kimberlin is also an “interested party” in the 501(c)4 non-profit Velvet Revolution, the director of which is Brad “Bradblog” Friedman. Now, if you will look at the IRS 2010 filing for Velvet Revolution (PDF), you’ll see that on line 38, they answer “yes” to this question:

“Did the organization borrow from, or make any loans to, any officer, director, trustee, or key employee or were any such loans made in a prior year and still outstanding at the end of the tax year covered by this return?”

Answering “yes” to question 38 required Velvet Revolution to attach Schedule L, “Transactions With Interested Persons,” wherein we discover that this 501(c)4 received a $4,500 loan from — OK, you guessed, didn’t you? — Brett Kimberlin. For the purpose of “paying bills.”

(CORRECTION: Dianna Deeley in the comments tells me I got this wrong, mistaking a loan from Kimberlin to Velvet Revolution for a loan from VR to Kimberlin. Fixed now. — RSM.)

So, riddle me this, Batman: How was it that Brett Kimberlin was serving as full-time director of the 501(c)3 Justice Through Music Project in 2010, while simultaneously serving as an “officer, director, trustee, or key employee” of the 501(c)4 Velvet Revolution. And why did he give them a $4,500 loan for “paying bills”?

Three words: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

Stipulate that there may be an entirely innocent explanation for this, and that we have no reason to believe that this apparent double-dipping by Kimberlin violated any actual law or regulation. But to cite noted legal scholar Ricky Ricardo, “You got some ‘splain’ to do, Lucy.”

Furthermore, the stated non-profit purpose of these organizations — the work which justifies their tax-exempt status — has no apparent relationship to the stuff they are accused of doing.

For example, why was Brett Kimberlin suing a blogger named Seth Allen? It was Kimberlin’s suit against Allen, remember, which led to the January courthouse encounter between Aaron Walker and Kimberlin that finally blew the lid off this mess. How is it that Kimberlin, while supposedly toiling 40 hours a week as director of JTMP and also being an “officer, director, trustee, or key employee” of Velvet Revolution, finds himself with enough spare time to go around suing measly bloggers nobody ever heard of before?

Who was Seth Allen until tort-happy Kimberlin decided to engage in an evident campaign of “lawfare” harassment against him?

Swear to God: I’ve been a full-time conservative blogger since March 2008 and never heard of Seth Allen until his name turned up in Aaron Worthing’s post Thursday. Exactly what did this hitherto unknown blogger do, that he became the object of this legal blitzkrieg by Kimberlin, who tells the IRS he’s working 40 hours a week as full-time director of a 501(c)3 tax-exempt non-profit, and who is also somehow simultaneously doing quite valuable work for 501(c)4 tax-exempt non-profit Velvet Revolution, yet finds time out of his busy day to go chasing after Seth Allen and declaring Aaron Worthing “The Face of Evil”?

Something is not adding up here, OK? Frankly, it reeks to high heaven, and I sure as hell ain’t the only one noticing the putrid stench emanating from the general direction of Brett Kimberlin. It smells a lot like the acrid odor of desperate crazed fear, don’t you think?

Aaron Worthing writes today about the “Streisand Effect,” by which Kimberlin’s attempt to suppress the truth has had the opposite effect.

More to come in a bit, but meanwhile, think about something a little birdie told me: When Democrat political operative Neal Rauhauser made an appearance in a New Jersey court Tuesday for a proceeding related to a criminal harassment complaint, guess who showed up at the courthouse with the defendant Rauhauser?

Yeah: Convicted terrorist Brett Kimberlin — or at least that’s what the little birdie says, and we have not yet seen any denial of that claim from “Breitbart Unmasked” Not Brett Kimberlin.

UPDATE: This is a huge story, and the problem — the reason it’s been fought out almost unnoticed in the blogosphere and on Twitter — is that it has so many different aspects that any attempt to tell the whole story all at once is nearly impossible.

As I’ve said before in trying to explain complicated weird stuff like this, when crazy things start happening, any person who tries to tell the story may sound crazy, because it’s hard to believe stuff like this really happens: Barbra Streisand gives money to a convicted terrorist? Crazy. Aforesaid terrorist starts getting his fingers into all kinds of pies, including WeinerGate and sundry lurid accusations against James O’Keefe? Crazy. Terrorist joins forces with Democrat campaign operative, pushing bogus legal hassles against a Los Angeles County deputy district attorney? Crazy.

Here I have just touched a few points on the tip of a vast submerged iceberg of craziness in this story. Yesterday’s 2,800-word “Joe Friday”-style report attempting to summarize clearly the main thread of the saga took me 13 hours to write and edit. And I was so busy yesterday, I didn’t even have time to do linkbacks to most of our many blogger friends who’ve linked that story.

Meanwhile, several bloggers who’ve been pushing on this Kimberlin/Rauhauser angle for months are kind of peeved at me for not having linked the work they’ve done. My apologies:

  1. There’s a crapload of this stuff scattered all over the place;
  2. Sources inform me of all kinds of internecine rivalries and mistrust among these bloggers, some of whom have said nasty stuff about Breitbart or other of my friends; and
  3. Kimberlin/Rauhauser have thrown up a lot of smear stuff about some of these bloggers, which I don’t have time to vet.

Most of (3), I’m sure, is just the usual smear stuff, but especially on yesterday’s main “Joe Friday” article, I didn’t want to muck it up with links to people whom I haven’t had an opportunity to vet, which might have given Kimberlin & Co. a chance to say, “A-ha! You cited so-and-so, who has three DUIs, two bankruptcies and a divorce” — you see what I’m saying, eh?

So, I’m not trying to glory-hog or ignore work done by others. I was just trying to boil down the main Kimberlin story into a tight narrative, so that the average reader could understand it and perceive the newsworthy relevance. Meanwhile, just for a sample of some of the stuff that’s being going on for months, here’s Dave in Queens from Feb. 7:

Ron Brynaert recently became a frontpaged blogger at BradBlog. Brad Friedman is a co-founder of Velvet Revolution. Hmmm. . . .
According to a court document from my case, it appears, imho, that by no later than December 21st, Neal Rauhauser had already obtained Aaron’s real full name.

What does this mean? I don’t know. Somebody sent it to me and said it was significant. Brynaert is a journalist who spent several years as an editor at Raw Story, and who might be grateful nowadays for paid work as a front-pager at BradBlog. My own personal hunch — and this is nothing but a hunch, mind you — is the Brad Friedman might be ready to throw Brett Kimberlin under the BradBus, and nobody in the progressive blogosphere would blame him.

There was evidently some point in time where Kimberlin appeared to have been an asset to Friedman, helping publicize and raise money for his blog, but put yourself in Friedman’s shoes now: Aren’t Kimberlin’s increasingly deranged antics making him a liability? Wouldn’t you hate to have your name continually linked with Mr. Perjury McTerrorist?

I think you would.

My hunch, then, is that at some point Friedman will weigh his options and tell Kimberlin, “Sorry, pal. Been nice working with you, but there’s only so much of your sociopathic crap I can deal with and still be an effective voice for the progressive cause. Bye, now.”

And by the way: One of those little birdies tells me there may be a connection between the “Anonymous”/”LulzSec” international hacker conspiracy and Brett Kimberlin. I know: Crazy.

UPDATE II: One of the pro-Kimberlin Twitter-troll accounts is now mocking me for having linked the awful nasty “Dave From Queens” blog, saying that “Dave” is actually Seth Allen, who has allegedly made himself a nuisance online but who — so far as I can tell — has never gone on a weeklong bombing spree in Indiana.

Which kinda matters, I think.

My point is that I’m trying to get at the facts of the case, rather than trying to judge the moral character of the people who are providing the facts. If Charles Johnson were to come up with something truly useful (and I’m told that Neal Rauhauser has now drifted into the LGF orbit), I might even be forced to quote CJ.

Keep in mind that if Rauhauser realizes his connection to Brett Kimberlin is exposing him (Rauhauser) to jeopardy, then Brett might also go under the wheels of the NealBus as well as the BradBus.

If my hunch about how this story plays out is correct — and hey, it’s just a hunch — then the Kimberlin/Friedman/Rauhauser nexus could explode into a frenzy of backstabbing and finger-pointing, as each tries to make his colleagues the fall guys for whatever evil craziness gets exposed, with no one wanting to become the scapegoat for the whole busted enterprise.

UPDATE III: One guy who did a lot to expose Neal Rauhauser’s “Beandogs” gang in the so-called 2010 “TwitterGate” episode is Patrick Read at Swift Read, who last month put up a post detailing the background on Rauhauser’s modus operandi, for anyone who might want to understand what a left-wing “hacktivist” can do.

Category: Aaron Worthing, Corruption, Crime, Progressivism, Terrorism, The Kimberlin Files

Page & Plant Interview In Strolling Drone

Posted on | May 20, 2012 | 10 Comments

Strolling Drone’s intrepid correspondent, Sissypuss, was finally able to score a brief, joint interview with Jimmy Page and Robert Plant for its June 15, 2013 edition.

Sissypuss: One of the interesting things about the 2012 campaign was the sudden revelation of Barack Obama’s historical activities. That included being a heretofore unknown 5th member of Led Zeppelin, a sort of political Pete Best, if you will.

Nowadays, the media are attached to him like males to an anglerfish.

Page: That’s really how politicians are, isn’t it? Various biographical details are kept mum, unless it proves to be of some political advantage to trot them out. He’s an inside-out character, rather than the usual musical outside-in.

Sissypuss: So, what was it like, working with him?

Plant: Absolutely Jeckyll & Hyde from what you have today. Nowadays, the media are attached to him like males to an anglerfish. Back then, he really wasn’t so much about the limelight, which is why so few people know about his musical phase.

He really thought himself gifted, a sort of Jimi Hendrix meets Louis Armstrong, with a shot of Bob Marley and that twist of Al Green. And yet, he gave up all of the trappings of music for the trap of power. Truly a self-sacrificing individual, is Barack Obama. He could have been living the good life with us, and yet now he sits, desperately trying to make his country a better place, only to get savaged in this obnoxious conservative blogs. Who knew the American people could be so disrespectful of such a visionary?

Sissypuss: He sounded fine on that bit of Al Green those months ago. Are you going to trot Obama out for any further work with you?

Page: We’re in talks to have him on a cover of Poor, Poor Pitiful Me, by the late great Warren Zevon. The Administration wants to alter the lyrics a bit to blame George W. Bush, but the question is: How much blame is too much?

He really thought himself gifted, a sort of Jimi Hendrix meets Louis Armstrong, with a shot of Bob Marley and that twist of Al Green.

Sissypuss: And so it’s true you’ve resurrected some of the only available audiotape of Obama for your new #Occupy tribute release, Outhouses of the Unholy. . .

Plant: Yes, we were working on Led Zeppelin III, and somebody had a directional microphone accidentally pointed at the portaloo after a particularly stirring curry lunch. I don’t want to give away too much, as did your President that day.

Sissypuss: What are the tour plans? Are the rumors of Axelrod’s new band, Confiscated Guns & Subsidized Roses opening up for at least some of the dates going to come true?

Page: Well, we’re still a trifle upset with him about the Physical Grafitti reference on Appetite for Taxation. “Fiscal Graft Party” makes us out to be thieves and chiselers. He claims it was all some kind of a joke, but the only one laughing is Bill Maher. Those hyena-like sounds coming out of Chris Matthews might also be laughter, come to think of it.

We’re in talks to have him on a cover of ‘Poor, Poor Pitiful Me’

Sissypuss: And an Obama cameo? You know that, even after going down hard in the 2012 election, there are those interest groups that somehow still can’t get enough of him.

Plant: Oh, Barack may drop in for a Jazz Odyssey somewhere.

Much love to Political Clown Parade for the great ‘shop work.

Update: linked at The Conservatory

Category: Barack Obama, Farce, Sissypuss the Blog Kitty
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