“Isn’t “Joe Doakes from Como Park” teh sock puppett?”: Yeah, right. Think about this for a second (let’s assume for a moment you’re capable of it); why would I, on a blog where I’ve written well over 16,000 posts over 11 years, all of them under my own name (unlike the majority of gutless pseudonymic leftybloggers who slander and defame their betters from behind pseudonyms) need to have a pseudonymic handle? To write more?
I’d say “stop being an idiot”, but the sentence includes a three syllable word, so you might have trouble with it…
“Hah hah, Merg! After a year or two of you saying Tom Bok and Paul Theeeessin would stonewall on Gay Marrege, they’re pushing it threw! Hah hah! You are teh looser!”: So hang on a minute – after starting the session setting the lowest expectations possible for gay marriage, and then having their first social policy initiative (the Martens/Latz gun grabs) go down in flames, the governor and Senate’s first tax and budget proposals arouse a firestorm of controversy, and enduring mocking from people like yours truly for their craven abandonment of the masses of low-information idealists who put them in office, you mean to say Tom Bakk and Paul Thissen did an about face and pushed hard for an easy short-term win to draw attention away from their failings on the budget, tax reform and, well, everything?
Huh. Go figure.
“Mitch, why do you portray people who disagree with you in these “FAQ” pieces as cretins who misspell and pretty much audibly pant and drool like prehensile obscene phone callers? Isn’t that a little prejudicial toward those who disagree with you?”: You haven’t met some of my critics, have you?
“You say you are teh conservative! Yet you write about Bruse Sprengstein, and you bike to werk! You are teh librel!”: Your what hurts?
“Why do you hate gay people?”: I don’t. Hate is a bad thing, and I don’t practice it. And I suspect I’ve put more on the line against genuine hatred of gay people than most people. Just saying; let it go.
“Never mind John Galt. Who is Joe Doakes?”
I had the impression Joe Doakes was character created to represent “everyman”.
To liberals, political is personal and dissent is hatred. Anyone who expresses conservative views is fair game to be crushed by every means, fair or foul.
Joe the Plumber was an example. More recently, conservative bloggers Patterico, Stacy McCain and Aaron Worthing have been SWATed, harassed and suffered financial loss at the hands of liberals. Hell, even the IRS admits its agents discriminate against conservative organizations.
No, Emery, Joe Doakes is not a character invented by Mitch, it’s a pseudonym adopted for protection from liberals. I send stuff to Mitch that I find interesting. He publishes what he chooses. I’m grateful to him for the opportunity to write and for shielding me from retribution.
Now, Emery, perhaps you’d like to clear up the sock puppet/plagiarizer issue?
Didn’t imply it was a character “invented” by Mitch. Just a character, or pseudonym or as you prefer to “characterize” it.
Emery,
Joe is a real person. People have met him. Like several of this comment section’s characters – you included – he’s got a pseudonym. I allow pseudonyms that don’t get abused.
I am Everyman. I don’t need a fake one.
Google “Joe Doakes”
You get: “everyman”, “Joe blow” or as “Doakes” prefers: “Joe the plumber”.
Why do you two so defensive about my comment?
“Why do you two so defensive about my comment?”
I “do” not. You’re projecting.
Just explaining, since you’re not the first person to suggest I write Joe’s “character”. I mean, think about it; I may be the most prolific blogger (who doesn’t get paid fo it) in town. I need a pseudonym?
Let’s be clear; I suggested that Joe Doakes was a character or as JD puts it; a “pseudonym” created by a commenter who wanted to represent “everyman”.
Sock-puppeting is pretending to be someone you’re not; it’s lying.
I am defensive because you have accused me of lying.
I am not a liar, Doug.
Mitch and I both have had run-ins with lefty stalkers, and keyboard commandos, Doug.
I had one show up, in person, to recieve a patented Swiftee slapdown; I had to hire a lawyer to deal with the libel of another one, and to this day have that same lawyer on “stand-by” for another.
But that doesn’t deter me from using my own name, or the nickname by which everyone knows me. Lefty’s don’t scare me, Doug.
But then again I don’t plagerize, I don’t write anything on the internet that I wouldn’t say in person and don’t write anything I regret.
Sockpuppet said what, Doug?
That’s funny, I thought “Emery”/Doug Grow was Mitch’s ‘teh’ sockpuppet. Mitch created a concern troll to show the Mitchkateers what he has to deal with from the low-information, useful-idiot sector of SitD’s audience.
But, as Mitch has noted, he writes enough not to need a sock puppet and even then Mitch is a good enough writer / researcher that he doesn’t have to cut and past direct from Google first page responses or Doug Grow’s column to have a lively comment section.
PS: “Emery”/Doug Grow- The other day you claimed that Hicks was merely disgruntled because he was ‘demoted’ post Benghazi for his poor response post attack. I asked where you read or saw that and you didn’t respond. The only place that there was even a whiff of what you claimed was an anonymously sourced piece at ThinkProgress.
Whoever you are who sockpuppeting “Emery”? I wish you’d up your game a bit.
Actually I find “I’m not sure” is usually the intelligent opinion. But that makes for boring rhetoric.