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June 07, 2005

Greetings, Illiterate Trolls!

Via the MAWB, I see that I've been blessed by a Democrat Underground thread.

Anyone familiar with Minnesota blogger Mitch Berg knows what a thin-skinned blowhard the guy is.
Wow. I didn't know I had a reputation at all!

However, anyone who can work in the same room as Captain Ed and King Banaian can hardly be "thin-skinned" and still survive.

But he seems to have outdone himself recently with his admission that he actually changes peoples' comments to his blog and then reposts them under the original commenters' names, without ever revealing that the comments have been altered.
Riiiiight.

It was only a top-of-the-page post for a day or so.

Maybe some folks want to drop by Berg's blog and leave a few comments of their own about his policies.
I'm sure it'd be the highlight of their day.

I loved this part:

Anyone else ever heard of bloggers pulling this kind of stunt? A page right out of Karl Rove's playbook.
I'm...er...speechless.

Karl Rove commands me to edit half-literate insult comments.

Oy.

So, as an FAQ for your Underground Democrat edification:

  1. I love disagreement, and will never edit it in my comment section - but if all you're going to do is insult people and hide behind your anonymous handle, I'll reserve the right to delete your comment - or edit it for my amusement, purely to ridicule you. You may be able to poop on the floor at DU, but not in my blog, Chester.
  2. No, I'm not the guy who discovered Rathergate.
  3. I'm a former liberal. I know all your arguments better than you do.
  4. Given that you hang out on DU, I probably know more about hygiene, gainful employment and life outside Mom's basement (where I have not lived since I was 21), too.
  5. Conservatives may or may not be smarter than liberals as a group - I think the two are roughly equal, although they manifest intelligence in different ways - but conservatives and mainstream liberals are all smarter than DU regulars.I pity your attempts at pithy snarking (note to DU regulars: "Pithy" does not refer to "urinary") in advance.

    Posted by Mitch at June 7, 2005 12:10 AM | TrackBack
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Hey! Don't drag me into this fetid swamp! I ain't the one riding levels on my loud yap.

Got your back, brother. Your brolly for the poo-storm. (Too much damned Britpop while grading tonight.)

Bring forth the barbarians. That is all.

Posted by: kb at June 7, 2005 12:28 AM

I still think you should disclose on the comment when you are editing comments. Otherwise it's hard to figure out which comments have been edited and which have not.

But then I don't delete or edit comments except for spam.

Swiftee makes personal attacks on me regularly on my blog - and I've left them there. Sometimes I use a little resolve. I have an older cat that pukes on the rug all the time. It's just part of life.

Posted by: Eva Young at June 7, 2005 12:36 AM

Hint: The comments that read like someone edited them to sound absurd in a mocking way, probably were.

As to "Just part of life"...lots of onerous, dehumanizing things are "part of life". I find the more depraved people I run into via the blog to be perfectly depressing. I choose to have fun with the "parts of life" that deserve it. It's the blog equivalent of mashing a heckler. You wanna heckle my act? Accept the consequences.

Posted by: mitch at June 7, 2005 12:43 AM

To read a Mitch Berg classic, go here:

http://lloydletta.blogspot.com/2005/05/compromising-nuclear-option-whats.html

That's a post of your own that I believe you edited. I've got the uncensored earlier version.

Posted by: Eva Young at June 7, 2005 01:06 AM

Orin Judd says that all humor is conservative. If you can't figure out which comments are edited for humor, you need to either lighten up or change your political affiliation.

Posted by: Gideon at June 7, 2005 01:51 AM

Eva,

I'm trying to figure out if you're obsessive, bored or need seriously help.

Yes, I "edited" the Frist post. I took out an vulgarity that I regretted. I get to do that without your permission, or anyone else's.

If this is the best way you can use your time, I feel kinda sorry for you. Maybe you should spend more time checking your own facts and less time niggling over minutiae like this.

Posted by: mitch at June 7, 2005 07:36 AM

Here I was waiting for barbarians, and it's SSDD.

Posted by: kb at June 7, 2005 07:56 AM

SSDD?

"Schutzstaffel Division Daenemark?"

"Steam Ship Doris Drubnik?"

???

Posted by: Mitch at June 7, 2005 08:11 AM

Oh, you got seriously PWNED!!! You're a looser!!! All neo-cons can just go eat a fart!!! Something else with three exclamation points!!! Pfft!!!

That was my exercise in a DU-like argumentative exchange. Feel free to edit it as you see fit.

Posted by: Ryan at June 7, 2005 09:38 AM

SSDD - Same Shit, Different Day

I'd hate to be as predictable as some of those loons.

Posted by: bugz at June 7, 2005 11:02 AM

You have a person saving your blog posts, and cataloging them so she can compare versions later?

Wow.

You don't have any pet bunnies, do you?

Posted by: bobby b at June 7, 2005 11:07 AM

No bunnies. I'm tempted to hide the kids sometimes.

Posted by: mitch at June 7, 2005 12:03 PM
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