Ken “Avidor” Weiner is apparently using the Strib’s “Buzz.mn” to carry on his obsession with trying to “smear” regional conservatives with the most tenuous possible “guilt” by association.
Let’s see how many times the former Screw Magazine “art director” bobbles the “facts”:
Time Magazine named Powerline Blog of the Year in 2004. Perhaps as an indicator of how low the GOP has sunk,
Well, there’s one. True North is utterly unconnected with the Minnesota GOP. Indeed, distance from the party is enshrined in the “Manifesto” I wrote for the site.
How long will the Strib allow Ken Weiner to use its publication to spread lies?
Powerline’s Scott Johnson has been reduced to blogging with Tom “Swiftee” Swift, one of the nastiest, sleaziest bloggers in Minnesota’s political blogosphere.
Tom is nasty – but as he’s never actually worked for Screw magazine, that accusation comes across as a bit…disingenuous?
How long will the Strib allow Ken Weiner to use its official blog to carry on his vendettas?
If you have spent any time surfing Minnesota’s political blogs, you will have come across the nasty comments of MOB troll Tom Swift, alias “Swiftee”. Swiftee’s modus operandi is to make the blogosphere as creepy and scary as this picture he posted of himself on his blog.
Weiner then goes on, essentially, to whinge about how sad Swiftee’s cartoons (along with the fact that Swiftee is generally regarded as a better cartoonist than Weiner) make him.
How long will the Strib allow Ken Weiner to use their house blog as his therapeutic sounding board?
That dude is off the charts when it comes to being cyber-creepy. He’s like Peev, except he knows how to start his own blog (or 19 blogs).
Yeesh. Nice that the MN blogosphere has its own Deb Frisch to help us learn about restraining orders. Next on the standard list of symptoms is “outings” of faux-anonymous MoBsters with their addresses. And then postings in several different places claiming it never occurred to him that such a post could be considered threatening. Let the fun begin…
Cut the little Weiner some slack. He just wants someone to actually read what he rights.
Since Mitch only pointed out one “bobbled” fact, and that one was dubious, it seems to me this was more screed than critique. Mitch doesn’t like Weiner, Weiner doesn’t like Swift (and who does) – so Mitch makes sarcastic comments and says that the original point was an error, when really, it wasn’t, Mitch just didn’t like it.
Swiftee is more offensive than Yoss, and that’s hard to do, really hard, so much so that the only person lower than Yoss, is Swift. Coincidence? I think not.
that one was dubious
Nope. There is no link between True North and theMNGOP. None. Zero. Zip.
How long will the Strib allow Ken Weiner to use their house blog as his therapeutic sounding board?”
Until he violates the TOS, ignores warnings, and violates them again, I’d say. As with anyone else. I did remove a picture he’d taken from Swiftee’s site of Swiftee flipping the bird, since that did violate the site’s standards.
Hey, we should really cut Weiner some slack.
It’s got to be hard out there these days for a guy whose artistic acknowledgements rise and fall on the ability of thirteen year old boys to get their hands on third rate smut magazines.
That being said, Weiner should have known about the Strib’s “no shirt, no service” policy…I guess maybe I should take a new “Hiya lefties!” picture while wearing a nice collar and tie 😉
“Swiftee is more offensive than Yoss” Heh….every time a moonbat writes that I gain the strength to face another day of ripping their their pointy little heads off (figuratively speaking, of course).
Heh. Even if you were in a tux, Swiftee, I’d have taken the picture down – swiping personal pictures from other people’s sites isn’t kosher.
Don’t worry Swiftee, I’m always working tirelessly to dig down that little bit deeper and be more offensive than you. It’ll happen. Some day. . . some day.
And again I am overlooked in the “who is most offensive” who’s who. I have to start writing with more spice, more verve, more gusto!
Oh no…I’m sure angryclown would accuse me of being just like Ann Coulter (I can just imagine him pointing at me like Chris’s closet monkey from Family Guy).
“no link between True North and theMNGOP”
The Link between True North and the MNGOP is stronger then any Soros link to MN Monitor you could ever make up. The Simple fact there is admitted current and/or former BPOU officers and/or MNGOP officials on the writers list is enough to prove that
However, I do believe there is no direct collaboration between the MNGOP and TN, at least not for now. Its still early in the campaign season.
As for your pissing contest with Avidor, you just make him more credible every time you post on him. Not following your strategy yet, but it is a soap opera in itself. I tend to simply ignore people I think nothing of, rather that trumpet multiple posts how they mean nothing. Seems kind of junior highish actually. But it does spike your hit meter and gets your loyalist all in a lather, so maybe there is something there for ya.
Flash
True North and the MNGOP is stronger then any Soros link to MN Monitor you could ever make up.
Really?
Did TrueNorth ever use GOP office space?
is admitted current and/or former BPOU officers and/or MNGOP officials on the writers list is enough to prove
OF COURSE there’s an ideological link! It’s a conservative blog with Republican tendencies! Most of us (not all) are open about our sympathies!
But there is NO financial, NO editorial, NO content connection between the two.
Whereas, as has been demonstrated, there is at least a credible suggestion of at least a financial connection between the CIM and Soros – a connection that nobody at the Monitor has given the faintest reason to deny.
Yes, members of TrueNorth have used GOP office space.
Please don’t ignore my statement:
“I do believe there is no direct collaboration between the MNGOP and TN”
I also know that MN Monitor is totally Independent, and you saying otherwise is not only blatantly false, but is simply ridiculous to assume.
I thought they were totally Democratic?
“I also know that MN Monitor is totally Independent”
Proof please. Otherwise, well, I just be over here laughing maniacally at that assertion.
I provide the same proof Mitch does, because I said so, and, well, in my case, its true! See, MItch is the same guy who will claim MDE is independent even after FEC reports came out showing he was on the dole of campaigns he was consistently writing about on his ‘personal’ blog.
All have ever asked is for someone, anyone, to pick a standard and apply it to both sides and see what shakes out. For now, the only standard Mitch uses is the ‘because I said so’ standard.
But coming from one of the members of ScaifeNet, what would you expect.
Flash
For now, the only standard Mitch uses is the ‘because I said so’ standard
Look, if you think you have something on Brodkorb, take it up with him. I’m not his keeper, and I have no stake in MDE (other than its contribution to the NARN – which is exceptional).
I AM a stakeholder in TN. You said TN had a connection to the GOP comparable to the stake Soros demonstrably has in MM4A and, as it would appear, in CIM/MinMon. Other than the fact that a bunch of Republicans write for a blog that is obstreporously conservative, you gots nothin’.
If I’m such a Scaifer, please tell Dick to start ponying up.
“”ther than the fact that a bunch of Republicans write for a blog that is obstreporously conservative, you gots nothin’.””
That right, the same nothing’ you have, using the same standard anyway.
And what I said was, the connection was no different and, in fact, using your standard, far more demonstrably provable than your connect the dot to dot to dot, etc.
I also have enough respect for the professionalism of TN to further state “I do believe there is no direct collaboration between the MNGOP and TN” as I have the same for MN Mon. You want one way without giving the other.
“If I’m such a Scaifer, please tell Dick to start ponying up.”
For starters, he built Town Hall for ya, what more do you want.
Flash
That right, the same nothing’ you have, using the same standard anyway.
Unless you can show that TN ever got material benefit from being associated with the GOP – as CIM most definitely did! – then it’s really just “cuz I say so”.
You want one way without giving the other.
Not at all. I merely have evidence of “the other”, evidence to which MNMon and CIM have never answered.
TN has been rigorously open about its finances (there are none!). MNMon can not say the same.