In all the uproar – mostly from the right – about conservative Jessica McBride being booted from talk radio, this is perhaps the most fanatical. The “Texas Hold Em Blogger” goes as far as to call those who disagree with people like Don Imus “little fascists”.
While this level of fantasicm isn’t exactly new from right-wing bloggers in Wisconsin, it is ironic and worth noting that the same people who throw out the “fascist” label apparently don’t have a problem stiffling outside opinion on their own blogs. I tried to leave a comment on that persons weblog this morning and apparently it didn’t make it through the “moderation queue”. I can only imagine it’s because I wasn’t exactly reinforcing the authors paranoia and irrational ranting.
It’s their right of course to do what they want with their weblogs, but again the irony is what’s interesting here along with an increasing practice of deleting dissenting opinion from their sites, if they even allow comments from outsiders at all.
But if you’re going to solicit outside commentary on a weblog don’t delete the stuff you don’t like. Like I said in the comment that never got published, it just makes people take the right-wing weblogs in Wisconsin even less seriously than they already do.
For the record, I’ve never deleted comments from people I don’t agree with from my own weblog, and I personally think it’s a good thing to have rational debate among those who may not agree with what I have to say.
I live in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Milwaukee, WI with my wife Jen, our daughter Emerson, and sons Carter and Colton.
Peter’s now closed comments entirely, because I’ve proved him wrong on so many things he wrote in just that one post.
I am Not Surprised. When I first started to this blogging thing, I left a comment at Boots and Sabers back in late last November pointing out a factual error to this Blogger without knowing who he was. The very next comment he called be a name and made insinuations that I found to be very offensive. I will not repeat it here, but rest assure it was disgusting.
PS Thanks for not deleting my comment :)
It’s almost comical Jay, and I give you credit for trying to explain the difference between “facts” and “opinions”. It’s not too surprising the comments are shut off now either. That must be a result of “left” succeeding in our goal to “silence all dissent”.
OOPS, it should be “he called me a name.” Not, be a name. That’s what I get for typing to fast.
That Peter is nuts. He apparently now requires evidence from Kane that he was on vacation when he said he was?
Reading that blog debate was . . . well, it requires a transition back into the reality-based world once you leave his world, doesn’t it? Any recommendations for expediting the transition appreciated. I have a life to live in this world in which we really live. . . . So I’m going to steer clear of going to that blog again.
You just can’t make this stuff up. In another post tonight about McBride, he says this:
If I had known this guy had such high entertainment value I would have started reading his blog before this weekend.
Wow – you COMPLETELY misunderstood that part of his post.
I don’t know this dude, have never read his blog (nor will I), but you can’t spread misinformation. That quote you highlighted was him pointing out what someone else was saying. Read the last part of the blog again.
-joe