tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4924392915564296358.post7202137943360768127..comments2023-08-21T02:29:21.326-05:00Comments on St. Louis Activist Hub: Drudge Bait BBQ: How BuzzFeed Perfectly Followed A Right-Wing Blogger's ScriptUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4924392915564296358.post-89208165119907021262012-05-27T17:35:35.045-05:002012-05-27T17:35:35.045-05:00Here's the rest of the story...
http://cannon...Here's the rest of the story...<br /><br />http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2012/05/buzzfeed-breitbart-or-cannon-gets.htmlJoseph Cannonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10574779960109698980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4924392915564296358.post-79170255554834879712012-05-27T00:12:23.338-05:002012-05-27T00:12:23.338-05:00Now that I've read your post, Adam, I think I ...Now that I've read your post, Adam, I think I should have avoided writing about this topic today.<br /><br />What you don't know is this: Rosie wrote to me earlier, asking if it was true that there were people out there who still think that Weiner's phone was hacked. I told her: Yeah. Me. I'm one. <br /><br />(Hell, she must have known that.) <br /><br />I also said that if she considers that view indefensible -- well, we live in a culture which allows Glenn Beck to get on national TV and spew hooey about Woodrow Wilson and god-knows-what-all. Compared to Beck's malarky, my own eccentricities are really quite modest.<br /><br />When I wrote back to Rosie, I had not yet read what Patterico had written. But the Memeorandum headlines indicated that something big was in the offing. It struck me as a little odd that she would write to me about Weiner ON THE SAME DAY that the all of the right-wing blogs had decided to focus on "all that stuff."<br /><br />Later, I read the Patterico piece. Some of it didn't make sense. I still see no real evidence that Kimberlin had anything to do with that disturbing police recording. Maybe he did. But as far as I know, the voice on that tape could be James O'Keefe or one of his buddies.<br /><br />Patterico claimed that Kimberlin and Ron Brynaert were conspiring together. I knew that this part, at least, had to be nonsense. Ron -- in his schizy screeds to me -- went on and on about how much he hated Kimberlin. <br /><br />(Frankly, I couldn't even understand why Brynaert insisted on bringing Kimberlin up. Much of what Brynaert had to say was just bizarre and impossible to follow.)<br /><br />So I published what I published, mostly because I thought that the right was attempting to create a huge conspiracy theory centering on Kimberlin and Brynaert. Any such theory is inane. Those two guys are thoroughly marginal characters, and they don't even like each other. <br /><br />And then Rosie wrote what she wrote, linking to my piece. It seems that she didn't understand my intent. <br /><br />I wrote a brief, polite correction. But -- and this is telling, perhaps -- Buzzfeed would not allow my comment to appear.<br /><br />I wrote to Rosie and asked her why my comment was barred from Buzzfeed. She said it was not her department, but she would try to do something.<br /><br />Right now, my paranoid side is starting to come to the fore. Maybe Rosie's outreach to me, coming as it did on the right's official "Let's Make Kimberlin Famous Day" -- was simply a way to draw me out. <br /><br />A lot of right-wingers treated me as a hate magnet during Weinergate. So maybe they were hoping that I would say something that would allow them to include me in their stupid, imaginary Kimberlin/Brynaert/Soros conspiracy theory.Joseph Cannonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10574779960109698980noreply@blogger.com